the Malay race: Shattering the myth !!!!

"Never expect yourself to be given a good value........
create a value of your own !"

So the million Dollar Question. Is there really a race called the
"Malays"? All anthropologists DO NOT SEEM TO THINK SO.

Neither do the "Malays" who live on the West Coast of Johor. They'd
rather be called Javanese. What about the west coast Kedah inhabitants
who prefer to be known as "Achenese"? Or the Ibans who simply want to
be known as IBANS. Try calling a Kelabit a "Malay" and see what
response you get. you'll be so glad that their Head-Hunting days are
over.

The definition of "Malay" is therefore simply a collection of people's
who speak a similar type language. With what is meant by a similar
type language does not mean that the words are similar. Linguists call
this the "Lego-type" language, where words are added on to the root

word to make meaning and give tenses and such. Somehow, the
Indonesians disagree with this classification. They refuse to be
called Malay. Anyhow you may define it.. Watch "Malays in Africa"; a
Museum Negara produced DVD. Also, the "Champa Malays" by the same.

With this classification, they MUST also include the Phillipinos, the
Papua New Guineans, the Australian Aboroginies, as well as the
Polynesian Aboroginies. These are of the Australo Melanesians who
migrated out of Africa 60,000yrs ago.

Getting interesting? Read on.

"Malay" should also include the Taiwanese singer "Ah Mei" who is
Alisan as her tribe are the anscestors of the "Malays". And finally,
you will need to define the Southern Chinese (Funan Province) as Malay
also, since they are from the same stock 6,000yrs ago. Try calling the
Bugis a "Malay". Interestingly, the Bugis, who predominantly live on
Sulawesi are not even Indonesians. Neither do they fall into the same
group as the migrating Southern Chinese of 6,000yrs ago nor the
Australo Melanesian group from Africa.

Ready for this?

The Bugis are the cross-breed between the Chinese and the Arabs. (FYI,
a runaway Ming Dynasty official whom Cheng Ho was sent to hunt down)
Interestingly, the Bugis were career Pirates in the Johor-Riau Island
areas. Now the nephew of Daeng Kemboja was appointed the First Sultan
of Selangor. That makes the entire Selangor Sultanate part Arab, part
Chinese!

Try talking to the Bugis Museum curator near Kukup in Johor. Kukup is
located near the most south-western tip of Johor. (Due south of
Pontian Kechil)

Let's not even get into the Hang Tuah, Hang Jebat, Hang Kasturi, Hang

Lekiu, and Hang Lekir, who shared the same family last name as the
other super famous "Hang" family member. Hang Li Poh. And who was she?
The princess of a Ming Dynasty Emperor who was sent to marry the
Sultan of Malacca. Won't that make the entire Malacca Sultanate
downline "Baba" ? Since the older son of the collapsed Malaccan
Sultanate got killed in Johor, (the current Sultanate is the downline
of the then, Bendahara) the only other son became the Sultan of Perak.
Do we see any Chinese-ness in Raja Azlan? Is he the descendant of Hang
Li Poh?

Next question. If the Baba's are part Malay, why have they been
marginalized by NOT BEING BUMIPUTERA? Which part of "Malay" are they
not? Whatever the answer, why then are the Portugese of Malacca
BUMIPUTERA? Did they not come 100yrs AFTER the arrival of the first
Baba's? Parameswara
founded Malacca in 1411. The Portugese came in 1511, and the Dutch in
the 1600's. Strangely, the Baba's ere in fact once classified a
Bumiputera, but a decided that they were strangely "declassified" in
the 1960's. WHY?

The Sultan of Kelantan had similar roots to the Pattani Kingdom making
him of Thai origin. And what is this "coffee table book" by the Sultan
of Perlis claiming to be the direct descendant of the prophet
Muhammed? Somehow we see Prof Khoo Khay Khim's signature name on the
book. I'll pay good money to own a copy of it myself. Anyone has a
spare?

So, how many of you have met with orang Asli's? the more northern you
go, the more African they look. Why are they called Negrito's? It is a
Spanish word, from which directly transalates "mini Negros". The more

southern you go, the more "Indonesian" they look. And the ones who
live at Cameron Highlands kinda look 50-50. You can see the Batek at
Taman Negara, who really look like Eddie Murphy to a certain degree.
Or the Negritos who live at the Thai border near Temenggor Lake (north
Perak). The Mah Meri in Carrie Island look almost like the Jakuns in
Endau Rompin. Half African, half Indonesian.

By definition, (this is super eye-opening) there was a Hindu Malay
Empire in Kedah. Yes, I said right. The Malays were Hindu. It was, by
the old name Langkasuka. Today known as Lembah Bujang. This Hindu
Malay Empire was 2,000yrs old.. Pre-dating Borrobudor AND Angkor Watt.
Who came about
around 500-600yrs later. Lembah Bujang was THE mighty trading empire,
and its biggest influence was by the Indians who were here to help
start it. By definition, this should make the Indians BUMIPUTERAS too
since they were here 2,000yrs ago! Why are they marginalized?

So, in a nutshell, the "Malays" (anthropologists will disagree with
this "race" definition) are TRULY ASIA !!! (main continent and West
Asia included)


Part 2

Here are some comments from Michael in answer to some Malays who have
attacked him for penning this commentary.

Greetings. This is Michael Chick. Unlike others who hide behind
"anonymous synonyms" I came clear with my real name. The post which I
put up was not a figment of my imagination but the end result of 3
years extensive research. As such, the facts presented are clear-cut,
straightforward and unassuming. Perhaps you would all like to chat
with any anthropologist at UM before sending-off any flaming sparks in
my direction again. These Professors should be as Malaysian as any of
you. The subject matter is fact-based. To Bayi, "Contesting Malayness"
is available at Kinokuniya at Takashimaya 4th floor, Orchard road. At
a cost
of S$32. It is also available at National University of Singapore.
Why? Coz it's their textbook. Let me repeat; "Contesting Malayness" is
an NUS textbook, published by NUS Press, written by Professor Tony
Milner .

To Achmad Sudarsono, calling the Malays a "race" is akin to calling
the Hokkiens or the Javanese a "race". Please do not confuse the term
"orang" with "Bangsa". What do I mean? The term orang is used by
Malays to describe Orang Bugis, Orang Acheh, Orang Laut, Orand India,
Orang Melayu. And here is where the confusion was.. Orang Melayu
merely refers to the residents of Kampung Melayu near Jambi, near
Palembang. Please use Google Earth to find its exact location.

Unless you can say that all "Orang melayu" are descendants of that
village, you simply cannot be called orang Melayu. In fact the name
"Malay" has been traced to Lembah Bujang, where the Indian traders
used to call the locals "Malai" (in Tamil) to describe the locals. The
locals were animistic pagans at that time, and readily adopted Hindu
practices and Indian customs. "Raja" and "Sultan" are Indian titles.
The adat bersanding with the pelamin are of Indian origin. Even the
"gifts-bearing" walk by the groom has its Indian roots. Please attend
an Indian Wedding before flaming me again. Or have a chat with Prof
Nik Hassan who is in charge of the Lembah Bujang archaeological
excavations.

Malaya, was therefore a derivative from Himalaya . "Sejarah Melayu"
therefore was describing the Kampong Melayu origins. But here is where
from pages 1-3 tell you that Kampong Melayu are descendants of
Iskandar Zulkarnain (Alexander the Great) through the bloodline of a
West Indian Princess. This came from Sejarah Melayu. This book is
cheap. You can buy it at the University Malaya Bookstore for a mere
RM35. It is published by MBRAS (Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic
Society). Its patron member is Tun Hanif (ex-IGP)

Please speak with Datuk Prof Zuraina Majid , who excavated "Perak
Man". She will tell you that Perak Man is a descendant of the
Australo-Melanesian stock African. National Museum of the Phillipines
will verify that they came from Taiwan . And National University of
Indonesia will confirm that they came from the Phillipines. Nik Aziz
(PAS leader from Kelantan) will tell you that his grandfather came
from Champa. To all Kelantanese, please explain the newly changed name
of a Kampong near Bachok (close to the Pengkalan Chepa airport) to
"Kampung Champa" to our friends here.

Please also visit Museum Negara to see the exhibits on the "Dong Song"
brass drums and Gua Cha in Kelantan near Gua Musang to see the
Hoabinhian Caves . Dong Song and Hoabinh are in Indochina . And
therefore, the locals are descendants from that region. The entire
Northern States also have their roots from the Pattani Kingdom ; which
today we call Thailand . In fact, please visit the Kelantan WWII
museum to see the article on how Perlis, Kedah, Kelantan and
Terengganu was part of Thailand from 1943-1945. Then walk over to the
Kelantan State Museum to see the exhibit on Gua Cha to read their
explainations of the Hoabinhian Cultures of Early Kelantan settlers.

Malaysian Archaeologists call the early settlers Proto Malay. And the
current settlers Deutero Malay. The scientific term is actually,
Australo Melanesian (African) and Austranesian (Chinese, or
Mongoloid).This is a DNA and bone structure classification. Even the
term Negrito transalates from Spanish to mean "mini Negro".

I hope that I've made myself comprehensible enough. Feel free to ask
any further questions to help clear the air. The "Malays" are NOT a
race. I'm so sorry that you are only hearing this now. The rest of the
Academic World has known it for years.

By: Michael Chick on May 30th, 2007
At 2:44 am

To address Hang Tuah, Hang Jebat, Hang Lekir, Hang Kasturi, Hang Lekir
and Hang Li Poh.. They were all related by the family name of "Hang".

Please visit their graves in Malacca. Their graves are clear-cut
Hindu. This was during the "Great Malacca Empire" when Parameswara was
supposed to have converted to Islam. Why are "Legendary Defenders of
the States' " graves Hindu? They are not having the spiral headstones,
or the Batu Acheh type headstones. Instead, they are solid concrete
blocks with traingular holes for incence and oil-lamp burning. Hang
Tuah's grave (Kampong Keling) is another "conspiracy". Please read the
inscriptions on the side, ". they found a large stone marking a grave,
and therefore it must be Hang Tuah..". This grave was merely designed
to be a tourist destination. Note that there are no names engraved
anywhere. Just a big non-descript stone marking that a human body lies
underneath it. Lastly, why is A muslim buried in Kampong Keling?

keling meaning Indian?

The subsequent question is why is Hang Tuah removed from current
schoolhistory textbooks? One of two suggestions come to mind. He was
pure fiction (please read Hikayat Hang Tuah before flaming me again),
or as the Bugis Museum Curator in Johor will insist, that Hang Tuah
was Chinese. So were the rest of his "blood brothers". They were all
Chinese; and related to Hang Li Poh.

Let me pose a simple question to you, Why is it, that when you visit
Malacca to see the great historical Malaysian City/ State, you see the
Portugese "A-Famosa" gateway, or the Red Dutch buildings like
Christchurch, or even St. Paul's Church on St. Paul's Hill? Where is
the evidence of "The Great Malaccan Empire"?

Let me help you with that answer. Published by Dewan Bahasa Dan
Pustaka in a publication called "Melayu Journal" in 2005. ".. we had
to look for an icon by which the Malays would be proud of.." Since
Majapahit, Acheh, Lembah Bujang (Langkasuka) were either Hindu, on
Indonesian soil, or both, Malacca was the only location left. The
great Parameswara is, by the way buried on Fort Canning Hill downtown
Singapore , for those of you who want to visit it. They call it the
"Keramat" immediately behind the National Musuem of Singapore.

Please enlighten me by showing me ONE single piece of evidence of "The
Great Malaccan Empire". Even Dewan Bahasa couldn't. Perhaps any one of
you could. Evidence, and not mere gut-feeling please

....c'mon, she's no Thacher!

Wanita UMNO chief Rafidah Aziz's 'verbal tirade' (to quote the SUN) can best be described as 'rantings' of an old-school madam with a severe 'attention-seeking' disorder after being unceremoniously-booted out of the cabinet. Iron Lady? On the contrary as I do not see anything 'iron-clad' or 'lady-like' about this individual whose chequered career remains blotted with the unresolved and poorly-explained AP issue. The term 'iron-lady' must definitely be a misnomer if it was meant to compare her with Britain's late Margaret Thacher whose tenure as Prime Minister has remained unblemished to this day.

Her 'nit-wit' statements describing the practice of the PM hurriedly handing power to the DPM as being unprecedented are laughable. So too was the unceremonious dumping of a senior woman Minister (no prices for guessing who that was) from the cabinet without warning or fanfare.

Spurred by today's cyber-technology, political-trends tend to change with such speed and awe that it has simply no place for 'dinosaur-mindsets' that refuse to go with the flow. Anything can happen. The ball, as they say in soccer, IS ROUND.

'Cheeky' threat to bloggers

'The Truth Hurts' best describes information Minister, Shabery Cheek's veiled threat to bloggers that they are 'not untouchable' (the SUN/pg8/16thApril/08). The 'cheek' of him (pun intented).

Instead of wasting taxpayer's money by dragging these so-called 'miscreants' to court, wouldn't it be wiser of the honourable Minister to suggest a government-backed blog-panel to refute the alleged half-truths and lies that supposedly litter the blogsphere? Wiser still would be for him to take the blog-articles in stride with 'a pinch of salt' and use it to cure the various ills that plague the administration he subscribes to. If the BN is seeking answers to its pathetic performance in the recently-concluded elections, they should look no further than the local blogsites.

Instead of wasting time with fad-technologies such as cyber-forensics to nab bloggers, which also involve the taxpayer's money, the good Minister would be better off improving the broadcasting-quality of RTM's radio and TV stations which are currently, best described as 'graveyard channels'

Snake & the bunny

Once upon a time, in a nice little forest, there lived an orphaned
bunny and an orphaned snake. By a surprising coincidence, both were
blind from birth. One day, the bunny was hopping through the forest,
and the snake was slithering through the forest, when the bunny
tripped over the snake and fell down.

It's quite ok," replied the snake. "Actually, my story is as yours. I
too have been blind since birth, and also never knew my mother. Tell
you what, maybe I could slither all over you, and work out what you
are so at least you'll have that going for you."


"Oh, that would be wonderful" replied the bunny. So the snake
slithered all over the bunny, and said, "Well, you're covered with
soft fur, you have really long ears, your nose twitches, and you have
a soft cottony tail. I'd say that you must be a bunny rabbit."


Oh, thank you, thank you," cried the bunny, in obvious excitement. The
bunny suggested to the snake, "Maybe I could feel you all over with my
paw, and help you the same way that you've helped me." So the bunny
felt the snake all over, and remarked, "Well, you're smooth and
slippery, and you have a forked tongue, no backbone and no balls. I'd
say you must be either a team leader, supervisor or possibly someone
in senior management!

a so-called 'infidel' succeeds where muslims have failed.........making a muslim invalid child happy!!!!

GI saves Iraqi boy in long-shot adoption
By CARRIE ANTLFINGER, Associated Press Writer Sun Dec 23, 1:14 PM ET
MAUSTON, Wis. - Capt. Scott Southworth knew he'd face violence, political strife and blistering heat when he was deployed to one of Baghdad's most dangerous areas. But he didn't expect Ala'a Eddeen.
Ala'a was 9 years old, strong of will but weak of body — he suffered from cerebral palsy and weighed just 55 pounds. He lived among about 20 kids with physical or mental disabilities at the Mother Teresa orphanage, under the care of nuns who preserved this small oasis in a dangerous place.
On Sept. 6, 2003, halfway through his 13-month deployment, Southworth and his military police unit paid a visit to the orphanage. They played and chatted with the children; Southworth was talking with one little girl when Ala'a dragged his body to the soldier's side.
Black haired and brown eyed, Ala'a spoke to the 31-year-old American in the limited English he had learned from the sisters. He recalled the bombs that struck government buildings across the Tigris River.
"Bomb-Bing! Bomb-Bing!" Ala'a said, raising and lowering his fist.
"I'm here now. You're fine," the captain said.
Over the next 10 months, the unit returned to the orphanage again and again. The soldiers would race kids in their wheelchairs, sit them in Humvees and help the sisters feed them.
To Southworth, Ala'a was like a little brother. But Ala'a — who had longed for a soldier to rescue him — secretly began referring to Southworth as "Baba," Arabic for "Daddy."
Then, around Christmas, a sister told Southworth that Ala'a was getting too big. He would have to move to a government-run facility within a year.
"Best case scenario was that he would stare at a blank wall for the rest of his life," Southworth said.
To this day, he recalls the moment when he resolved that that would not happen.
"I'll adopt him," he said.

Before Southworth left for Iraq, he was chief of staff for a state representative. He was single, worked long days and squeezed in his service as a national guardsman — military service was a family tradition. His great-great-greatgrandfather served in the Civil War, his grandfather in World War II, his father in Vietnam.
The family had lived in the tiny central Wisconsin city of New Lisbon for 150 years. Scott was raised as an evangelical Christian; he attended law school with a goal of public service, running unsuccessfully for state Assembly at the age of 25.
There were so many reasons why he couldn't bring a handicapped Iraqi boy into his world.
He had no wife or home; he knew nothing of raising a disabled child; he had little money and planned to run for district attorney in his home county.
Just as important, Iraqi law prohibits foreigners from adopting Iraqi children.
Southworth prayed and talked with family and friends.
His mother, who had cared for many disabled children, explained the difficulty. She also told him to take one step at a time and let God work.
Southworth's decision was cemented in spring 2004, while he and his comrades watched Mel Gibson's film, "The Passion of the Christ." Jesus Christ's sacrifice moved him. He imagined meeting Christ and Ala'a in heaven, where Ala'a asked: "Baba, why didn't you ever come back to get me?"
"Everything that I came up with as a response I felt ashamed. I wouldn't want to stand in the presence of Jesus and Ala'a and say those things to him."
And so, in his last weeks in Iraq, Southworth got approval from Iraq's Minister of Labor to take Ala'a to the United States for medical care.

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His parents had filed signatures so he wouldn't miss the cutoff to run for district attorney. He knocked on doors, telling people he wanted to be tough on criminals who committed injustices against children.
He never mentioned his intention to adopt Ala'a.
He won office — securing a job and an income.
Everything seemed to be in place. But when Southworth contacted an immigration attorney, he was told it would be nearly impossible to bring Ala'a to the United States.
Undaunted, Southworth and the attorney started the paperwork to bring Ala'a over on humanitarian parole, used for urgent reasons or significant public benefit.
A local doctor, a cerebral palsy expert, a Minneapolis hospital, all said they would provide Ala'a free care. Other letters of support came from a minister, the school district, the lieutenant governor, a congressman, chaplain, a sister at the orphanage and an Iraqi doctor.
"We crossed political boundaries. We crossed religious boundaries. There was just a massive effort — all on behalf of this little boy who desperately needed people to actually take some action and not just feel sorry for him," Southworth says.
He mailed the packet on Dec. 16, 2004, to the Department of Homeland Security.
On New Year's Eve, his cell phone rang. It was Ala'a.
"What are you doing?" Scott asked him.
"I was praying,'" Ala'a responded.
"Well, what were you praying for?"
"I prayed that you would come to take me to America," Ala'a said.
Southworth almost dropped the phone. Ala'a knew nothing of his efforts, and he couldn't tell him yet for fear that the boy might inadvertently tell the wrong person, upending the delicate process.
By mid-January, Homeland Security called Southworth's attorney to say it had approved humanitarian parole. Within three hours, Southworth had plane tickets.
He hardly slept as he worked the phones to make arrangements, calling the American embassy, hotels and the orphanage. His Iraqi translator agreed to risk his life to get Ala'a to the embassy to obtain documentation. Like a dream, all the pieces fell into place.

Southworth returned to Iraq for the first time since a deployment that left him emotionally, physically and spiritually exhausted.
His unit had trained Iraqi police from sunup to sundown; he saw the devastation wrought by two car bombings, and counted dead bodies. Mortar and rocket attacks were routine. Some 20 in his unit were wounded, and one died. He knew that nothing could be taken for granted in Baghdad.
So when he saw Ala'a in the airport for the first time since leaving Iraq, he was relieved.
"He was in my custody then. I could hug him. I could hold him. I could protect him.
"And forever started."
They made it to Wisconsin late Jan. 20, 2005. The next morning, Ala'a awoke to his first sight of snow.
He closed his eyes and grimaced.
"Baba! Baba! The water is getting all over me!"
"It's not water, it's snooooow," Southworth told him.

Police found Ala'a abandoned on a Baghdad street at around 3 years old. No one knows where he came from.
In all his life in Iraq, Ala'a saw a doctor 10 times. He surpassed that in his first six months in the United States.
Ala'a's cerebral palsy causes low muscle tone, spastic muscles in the legs, arms and face. It hinders him when he tries to crawl, walk or grasping objects. He needs a wheelchair to get around, often rests his head on his shoulder and can't easily sit up.
Physical therapy has helped him control his head and other muscles. He can now maneuver his way out of his van seat and stabilize his legs on the ground.
"I'm not the same guy I used to be," he says.
He clearly has thrived. At 13, he's doubled his weight to 111 pounds.
Ala'a's condition doesn't affect his mind, although he's still childlike — he wants to be a Spiderman when he grows up.
Ala'a's English has improved and he loves music and school, math and reading especially. He gets mad when snow keeps him home, even though it's his second favorite thing, after his father.
At first, he didn't want to talk about Iraq; he would grow angry when someone tried to talk to him in Arabic. But in the fall of 2006, Scott showed Ala'a's classmates an Arabic version of "Sesame Street" and boasted how Ala'a knew two languages and could teach them.
Soon he was teaching his aide and his grandmother, LaVone.
LaVone is a fixture in Ala'a's life, supporting her son as he juggles his career and fatherhood. One day, she asked Ala'a if he missed his friends in Iraq.
Would he like to visit them?
Big tears filled his eyes.
"Well, honey, what's the matter?" asked LaVone.
"Oh, no, Grandma. No. Baba says that I can come to live with him forever," he pleaded.
"Oh, no, no," he grandmother said, crying as well. "We would never take you back and leave you there forever. We want you to be Baba's boy forever."

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Southworth knew once he got Ala'a out of Iraq, the hardest part would be over. Iraq had bigger problems to deal with than the whereabouts of a single orphan.
On June 4, Ala'a officially became Southworth's son. Though he was born in the spring of 1994, they decided to celebrate his birthday as the day they met — Sept. 6.
Life has settled into a routine. Father and son have moved into a new house with an intercom system, a chair lift to the basement and toilet handles. Southworth showers him, brushes his teeth and washes his hands. He has traded in his Chrysler Concorde for a minivan — it was too hard to lift his son out of the car.
In October, the Wisconsin's deputy adjunct general gave Southworth, now a major, permission to change units because of Ala'a. His former unit was going to Guantanamo Bay for a one-year deployment, and he didn't want to leave his son behind, at least for now.
He hopes one day to marry to his longtime girlfriend and have more children. He may run for Congress or governor someday — he's already won re-election once, and plans to run again next fall.
Not everything is perfect. Ala'a never encountered thunderstorms in Baghdad, and the flash-boom reminds him of bombs. He is starting to get over it, although he still weeps during violent storms.
But Ala'a — who picked out his own name, which means to be near God — knows he's where he belongs. Southworth always says Ala'a picked him, not the other way around. They were brought together, Southworth believes, by a "web of miracles."
Ala'a likes to sing Sarah McLachlan's song, "Ordinary Miracle," from "Charlotte's Web," one of his favorite movies. His head and body lean to one side as he sings off-key.
"It's just another ordinary miracle today. Life is like a gift they say. Wrapped up for you everyday."

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