Intellectualism, and what not.

First of all, Shaza is safe and sound (and happy) in Germany; for more about her, visit www.shaz-souriez.blogspot.com!

Just a short entry to show that this blog is still alive (albeit barely so!).

It is pretty humorous to say people talk about Muslim intellectuals bla bla bla: and the funny thing is, most Muslims do no know who these are! These people are pretty much in obscurity, preferring to write "fanstastic" theses; but the works are confined to the libraries. No one reads them other than their ardent fans and the Malay Studies majors. So, for these intellectuals and their self-proclaimed fans, I strongly urge you all to expand the means for you all to spread whatever message you intend to: and not blame the people for not "reading enough" and what not; coz that would be just plain dumb! When you know majority of the people don't even know abt your writings, and you blame them for not being aware, I really can't think of a word other than dumb.

And it's amazing really; recently someone has commented that he doesn't understand why there's a "trend" of helping the madrasahs. Even wanting to help the madrasahs can be an issue now! Haha! It is so ludicrous, that I shouldn' talk about it further. As my ustadz says, "Anjing kalau menyalak, gunung takkan runtuh." And people will always talk about anything; especially those self-proclaimed intellectuals, who want to problematize everything.

And next, I hope MS people, you're reading this, the yahoo group is going to be a joke really soon, if it isn't already. Whenever Surya posts something, there will be a few people (the same old people) who will embark on personal and cynical attacks on him. Yet, those scathing emails are approved. I wonder why. And my email to the yahoo group publicizing AAM wasn't aprroved initially (though it was later on)! I really wonder how this yahoo group works: maybe you guys can clarify for me.

Many many other issues that can and should be talked about: though time is a constraint. I'm looking forward to Yaacob Ibrahim's dialogue session, fro now. Hopefully, after that, there'll be an entry.