malay's fear

last week we have a very 3 days outing at cameron highlands. actually my wife having a workshop there and my parents and i join in to be the babysitter. my parent is a typical malay family living in a FELDA area with minimal or no education background. my father is a very fierce malay right advocator and typically he is also umno member and also the leader in our kampung. before we go up to cameron highlands, we went to our uncle's house at tapah perak and here the interesting story begin..

i overheard discussion regarding the malay people post election. i, as usual will be the silent listener coz whatever they are discussing is totally against what i believe and practice. a good discussion actually for us to hear. the fear, the anger, the deceitful, plain arrogant, typical umno leaders point of discussion that i can easily find what is actually wrong and what is actually right. i know my family members too. their selective hearing for everything is the massive wall that i cant breach. how can you speak to someone who dont want to hear anything that is against what they believe is true?

interestingly this kind of attitude is not only involv a small portion of our society but many of them especially at the kampung and rural areas who has never get a chance to hear any othr source of information except from the mainstream media. pity them coz someone up there actually successfully deceiving them into believing in what is not the truth. the typical fear of loosing the power and all the privileges if umno is not up there is utter stupidity but of course what can you do to change something that has been force into their mind day in day out for the past 50 years?

i realized how difficult for us actually to allay this fear. how actually we want to convince them that a islamic party is better than race base party? how actually we want to tell them that regardless of race and religion, islam will be fair to all. how actually we want to convince them islamic law is the best?

long journey ahead i think