'Colouring' up a mobile phone!

The Low Yat incident, correctly and wisely downplayed by the police as just an alleged snatch & run theft of a mobile phone from a shop followed by (not alleged but real) thuggery revenge, and thus not a racial issue, has now dangerously expanded into precisely what the police has been worried about, an escalating acrimonious spat with racial hue.

Malay Mail Online reported: News agency Bernama yesterday reported that the police had arrested a 22-year-old local man believed to be involved in a brawl that happened at 7.38pm in the mall.

According to the report, the suspect was caught by security guards at the complex for allegedly stealing a mobile phone and handed to the police.

However, the youth later contacted his friends who reacted by heading to the store where the attempted theft allegedly happened and assaulting the shop workers and damaging the store with losses estimated at RM70,000, Bernama reported.

Earlier today, police arrested three more people following fresh fights that broke out after midnight outside Low Yat Plaza here that reportedly left five people injured — three of them believed to be journalists.

Sadly, it's likely opportunists will grasp hold of the toxic brawl to make political hay, even unto presenting it into a racial incident which BTW it has become. TMI's Low Yat brawl a reminder to vote out extremist leaders, says group has now revealed that the youths 'seeking revenge' were Malays while the mobile phone retailer a Chinese.

News report of Pekida members being involved in the revenge thuggery has added "colour" to the increasingly dangerous situation.

An earlier TMI reported: Yesterday, however, a group said to be the suspect's friends barged into the plaza and attacked the store whose workers apprehended the suspect. They were overpowered and thrown out of the plaza, but in the evening, about 200 people, some of them said to be from Malay rights group Pekida, congregated outside the building.

They were heard screaming derogatory and unsavoury remarks and appeared ready to charge into the premises, forcing police to order businesses at the premises to close early. Police later cordoned off the area and prevented the group from entering the building, but this did not prevent violence to flare up again just after midnight, resulting in five people reported injured, including two media photographers.

The sad irony has been that the alleged bashing of the youth who attempted to scoot off with the phone was not by said retailer but other shop owners in the plaza who caught the absconding alleged culprit. And the alleged bashing has not even been confirmed by police.

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UPDATE @ 1800 KL time

Star Online reported IGP: Clear-cut theft led to Low Yat brawl (extracts):

Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar ... said two men were arrested at 7.50pm on Saturday - one suspected of stealing a phone at a kiosk inside the mall and the other his accomplice.

He said the two were caught by staff of the phone shop, Oppo Malaysia, and handed to the security guards who later called the police.Khalid said the suspected thief was detained in the lock-up while the accomplice was released at the discretion of the investigating officer who did not refer the matter to his superior.

"This suspect (accomplice) then made up stories to his friends and said that Oppo (staff) cheated them but, in truth, they stole the phone from another kiosk and not Oppo," Khalid told reporters at Low Yat Plaza after visiting the mall on Monday.

"According to the accomplice, he has a receipt of the purchase but when we checked, it was not true.

"He also claimed that he filed a report with us but when we checked our system, there is none. He is a cheat! So please stop spreading false news."

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For more about Pekida, read Sophie Lemiere's doctoral thesis on Pekida titled Gangsta to the roots; gangsta through the years. An extract of her work tells us (with my comments there and there, wakakaka):

... the story shared by most members is the version in which Pekida was created in the aftermath of the violent events of May 1969 as a way to prevent a repeat and when all else fails, to protect the Malays in the event of another racial riot.

[kaytee's comment: Hello there, weren't the Chinese generally the ones who were victimised on May 13, and thus the ones requiring 'protecting' (lamentably missing during that sad day), but then, why spoil a damn good Pekida story]

This narrative of Pekida’s history by its members bears four elements: the temporality, the secrecy, the exclusivity and the ultimate mission. Pekida would be an organisation entrenched in the history of the Malay world and a heritage of the Malay community that has transcended time; created by “warriors”, and “heroes” joining the group is like an act of bravery; the organisation has transcend generations and maintain its existence and activity in secrecy whatever its form or its name or umbrella; finally Pekida exists to defend Islam and the Malays, as a member would say “It is for Allah, and Allah’s will”.

[kaytee's comments: Dangerously not unlike the so-called Illuminati or allegedly the more secret conclave of Freemasonry - influenced by Jews? wakakaka]

While yet another popular narrative is that the evolution of the organisation has followed the political path of the country where the defence and safety of the Malays has become a necessity, reinforced by the events of May 1969.

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LATEST: @ 1500 hr KL time

TMI reported that Jalaluddin Yusof, president of Pekida, has said that Pekida will not hesitate to act if its members were involved in the brawl that took place in the vicinity of the Low Yat Plaza last night, which injured five people. [...]

Jalaluddin said Pekida, despite being a Muslim charitable body, has always been made the scapegoat whenever incidents like the Low Yat Plaza brawl took place. "Pekida do not like to fight, we prefer that peace be maintained. It would appear that once again, Pekida has been made the scapegoat.”

Good on you, Jalaluddin. This is what we want to hear.

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It seems the rioting mob had been so arrogant that they refused to disperse until they spoke with city police chief Datuk Tajudin Md Isa. DAP complained that police did nothing as the mob hurled racist insults and racist taunts, but look, I won't fault the police on this as sometimes it would be wiser for the cops to let the mob vent their anger verbally so as to take the pressure off their more physical inclinations.

Then what we feared most happened, with the Malay Mail also reporting:

KUALA LUMPUR, July 13 — The People’s Welfare Party (KITA) demanded today the Domestic Trade, Co-operatives and Consumerism Ministry conduct a search of all handphone shops in Low Yat Plaza in the next 48 hours as a move to protect the Malay consumer after fights broke out at the gadget mall yesterday.

Party leader Zamil Ibrahim also held its minister Datuk Seri Hasan Malek responsible for the incident that sparked the brawls that have resulted in four arrests and left at least five injured even as police dismiss the brouhahaha as racially-tinged.

“We are waiting for Dato Hassan Malek’s team to raid the handphone shops in Low Yat… if the raids are not conducted within 48 hours...might as well resign… you only shame the Malay race… A Malay minister… the ones who are cheated when buying handphones are Malays!” Zamil wrote in Malay on his Facebook page.

Zamil Ibrahim was the bloke who took over KITA, a party founded by our dear Zaid Ibrahim but then shortly after, dissolved by him. Zamil refused to accept that KITA had tutup kedai and went about running it on his own, initially together with former Gerakan and former PKR member, Tan Tee Beng (the son of Gerakan stalwart Tan Gim Hwa), although Tan might have eventually left KITA.

Zamil's recent attempt to promote himself from kutu-ness into a more Perkasa-like prominence was seen in a 02 May 2015 FMT news report Kita asks how Mahathir’s sons became billionaires - extract as follows:

SUNGAI PETANI: The People’s Welfare Party, Kita, has urged former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad to explain how his sons Mokhzani and Mirzan had become billionaires “overnight”.

Party leader Zamil Ibrahim said Mokhzani had been named the ninth richest man in Malaysia by the Malaysian Business magazine in 2014.

As a Kedahan, he said, he knew that Dr Mahathir’s father was merely a school headmaster, while Mahathir himself had operated a simple clinic in Alor Setar before becoming the top politician in the country.

Malaysians were thus curious to know how Mokhzani and Mirzan became billionaires and among the richest Malaysians.

“We humbly request Tun Dr Mahathir to clarify. Zamil described as a “world record” that sons of a former premier could own billions in past three years..

“You can’t get this world record in any part of the world. Only Dr Mahathir can explain,” said Zamil.

While it has been a relevant question, Zamil would be seen as (like kaytee has been accused of, wakakaka) taking sides with Ah Jib Gor wakakaka in the current Mahathir campaign to depose Najib.

But Zamil's latest antic is to be frowned on in his seditious "colouring" of an alleged theft to an extent where now it requires the Domestic Trade, Co-operatives and Consumerism Ministry to bloody well conduct a search of all handphone shops in Low Yat Plaza in the next 48 hours as a move to protect the Malay consumer.

In his selfish eagerness to boost himself upwards from his current nonentity kutu-ness, he has virtually twisted the incident of mob thuggery into the necessity of a witch hunt of McCarthyism proportion on mobile phone retailers, or far more frighteningly, exploiting and hijacking Pekida's touted defence of Malays whatever the root cause leading to the incident might have been.

This man has intruded on very very very dangerous grounds. Will the IGP put him under arrest for seditious incitement?

I think not as said Domestic Trade, Co-operatives and Consumerism Ministry has just announced it will launch Ops Tulen, thus pampering to what has been seditious incitement.

You know what? The Ministry may be launching Ops Tulen, but I feel like launching Ops TuLan. F* the ministry and their ridiculous pampering of a$$h*le$.

But then I suppose we could argue it's necessary to protect those Malays who have been the mob at Low Yat Plaza, as they have been so well protected for over 22 years by their godfather, from being cheated by those f* bloody Chinamen like kaytee, who as everyone including every Chinamen and Chinawomen in the world knows, are downright cheats, wakakaka.

To be truthful, what with my Ops TuLan in full swing by now, the ministry's moronic and unacceptable pampering of seditious opportunists has sorely tempted me to tell you an old Malayan racist story, about a Chinese car salesman selling a Volkswagen (the old/original beetle type) to a Malay in the Heartland.

It's a double edge racist story, with its double barbs telling us about (a) the Malay impression of cheating Chinese and (b) the Chinese impression of stupid Malays.

But then, I guess I better not as I, being only a f* bloody Chinaman and not like KITA's Zamil Ibrahim, may be hauled in for sedition.

Oh, and I love this new Mail report. Obviously ISMA wasn't going to allow KITA to steal all the "colourful" thunder, wakakaka. Extracts of the Mail report as follows:

KUALA LUMPUR, July 13 — The melee and vandalism at Low Yat Plaza this weekend was the angry response towards “diaspora chauvinists” who insulted and ridiculed Islam and the Malay community, Islamist group Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia (Isma) claimed yesterday.

Isma asserted that it is only natural for Malay youths to release their anger on the Chinese traders in the popular tech mall as the Malays are known for running amok, and they would not have done so if they were not provoked by what the Muslim group claimed to be chauvinists.

“This diaspora chauvinists have day by day done their provocation; belittling Islamic teachings, ridiculing the Malay culture, questioning the position of Islam, Malays and the monarchy institution in the country, inciting Malays to hate their mufti and ulama,” said Isma information chief Mohd Hazizi Ab Rahman in a statement.

Thus we see ISMA in the above 3rd paragraph casting an even wider net than mere Malay consumer protection, wakakaka, presumably to outdo KITA's demand. I wonder how or what Allah swt would be thinking of ISMA members?

But then, for them to explain away the mob violence at the Plaza as it is only natural for Malay youths to release their anger on the Chinese traders in the popular tech mall as the Malays are known for running amok seems like excusing Hitler for his mass murder of European Jews as Austrians (and Germans) were known for their baking inclination.

However we should be thankful for small mercy that ISMA didn't use a horribly hideous hackneyed term like 'ultra kiasu', but instead a fresh new term 'diaspora chauvinists', wakakaka.

Hmmm, 'diaspora chauvinists', you know, I kinda like it. Wakakaka.

There are in general 3 races associated with the word 'diaspora', namely, Jews, Chinese and Indians. Don't worry lah Aneh, we know who they meant, don't we?

Will the Low Yat brawl turn into something bigger, as May 13 did to enable a coup d'etat? Is it a portent of worse things to come, an evil omen?

Aiyah, Malaysia is never short of such attention-diverting bullshit.