M bakri musa biography of michael

Moderated by Dr. Rozhan Othman. Part One of Three. Rozhan Othman : A mindset is more than just an opinion. It is a world view that develops through experience, conditioning, and socialization. In some situations social and political institutions are created to reinforce the mindset. The mindset forms the weltanschauung or tasawwur.

When this is not questioned or subjected to periodical scrutiny, it becomes a dogma.

M bakri musa biography of michael

What would you consider to be the key drivers that shape the Malaysian Malay mindset, and what aspects of the Malay mindset has become dogma? How does this shape how Malays behave? Bakri Musa : You could cite three more groups of Malays who are nearby and more relevant examples — Malays in Singapore, Brunei, and Southern Thailand. As for Brunei, I met her Minister of Education back in I suggested that Brunei use its vast oil resources to build a center of excellence for education in the Malay world Nusantara.

He stunned me with his answer. No point spending money on educating Malays, he assured me, for then they would become independent-minded and you would have a revolt. Remember the Azhari Rebellion of , he reminded me. Coming back to Malaysia, the drivers for the Malay mindset today are first, religion; second our medieval feudal culture, and third, the behaviors of others.

Within Malaysia the others would be the non-Malays; abroad it would be the West. Walaupun Mandarin, bahasa rasmi Taiwan, dituturkan oleh lebih ramai di seluruh dunia, tetapi rakyat Taiwan tidak menganggap mereka tidak martabatkan bahasa ibunda dengan membelajar Bahasa Inggeris. Beribu penuntut mereka belajar di Barat. Itu tidak bermakna mereka tidak mengindahkan budaya dan institusi mereka.

Namun, pengiktirafan itu timbul lewat. Pada awalnya dia disangkakan hanya sebagai seorang datuk bandar biasa. Pada satu masa dia berkempen, dia ditolak ke dalam longkang. Itu bukan satu masalah untuknya dia. Mereka cuba merasuahinya, dan apabila itu gagal, memeras ugut dia. Semua ini mukadimah panjang memandangkan kesibukan Perdana Menteri Anwar Ibrahim baru-baru ini yang bergelumang dengan pemimpin dunia dan penampilan di pentas global yang berkilauan.

Sementara itu, cabaran penting berterusan dan terus melumpuhkan negara. Yakni, akar rasuah yang cepat mendalam, institusi yang lemah khususnya sistem pendidikan , dan pelacuran agama yang kian bergiat tanpa berhad. Mereka mempunyai bencana pecah amanah mereka sendiri. Begitu juga dengan membaiki sistem pendidikan. Sekolah di Amerika kebanyakannya hanyalah dewan besar untuk menampung kanak kanak.

Tidak guna kita contohi. Sebaliknya, kita lebih baik meneladani bagaimana untuk menentangi rasuah dan membaiki persekolahan negara dengan mencontohi dan belajar dari pemimpin di selatan Tambak Johor. Di Kigali, ibu kota negara itu, rakyat boleh makan di tepi longkang kerana ia bersih dan dijaga dengan baik. Jika Kagame boleh melakukan demikian di Rwanda, mustahil jika Anwar tidak boleh berbuat yang sama di Malaysia.

Mungkin dalam menghadapi ancaman puak pelampau agama Perdana Menteri Anwar boleh belajar lebih banyak lagi dari Barat yang sekular, khususnya Amerika. Perancis juga negara Barat tetapi sekularismenya jauh berbeza. Di Amerika, sekularisme bermakna tidak menyebelahi sesuatu agama dan soal kepercayaan sendiri. Sekularisme Perancis mempunyai sentimen anti-agama yang kejam.

Itu adalah satu tindak balas yang sedia difahami memandangkan kekejaman kaum paderi Katolik di negeri itu pada satu masa yang lepas. Dunia serta pemimpin Islam semasa tidak boleh kita contohi untuk mengatasi ranjau pelampau agama yang kini menyerang Malaysia dan melumpuhkan masyarakat Melayu. Sebaliknya, contohi Amerika, khususnya institusi yang berkaitan dengan gereja seperti Universiti Georgetown dan Notre Dame, serta sekolah persediaan Prep School dan berasrama miliki gereja seperti Groton di Massachusetts dan St.

Paul di New Hampshire. Georgetown dan Notre Dame, walaupun universiti yang bergabung dengan gereja, mempunyai program Pengajian Islam yang di sanjung tinggi. Groton dan St. Paul boleh di contohi oleh sekolah berasrama penuh dan sekolah Tahfiz kita. Hanya sebahagian kecil sahaja graduan Groton yang menjadi ahli paderi. Sekolah tersebut menyumbang lebih daripada bahagian mereka menjadi doktor, jurutera, dan usahawan Amerika.

Selama ia dalam belantara politik, Anwar mendapat keistimewaan untuk menjelajahi universiti terkemuka di Barat seperti Oxford, Georgetown, dan Johns Hopkins. Baharui hubungan itu. Jemput bekas rakan sekerjanya di sana untuk memberikan seminar peribadi kepada kabinetnya. Contohi Presiden Ronald Reagan. Jika ungkapan yang berkobar tanpa had mencukupi, Indonesia di bawah Sukarno tidak menjadi negara yang bangsat dan rakyatnya menderita.

Betul, Churchill dengan pidatonya yang hebat boleh merangsang rakyatnya semasa perang dunia ke dua dulu. Walau bagaimanapun, apa yang mengalahkan pemerintah Nazi ialah perancangan yang tepat dan pelaksanaan D-Day yang teliti. Lebih bermanfaat jika Anwar biasakan mendengar dan kurang berceramah. Seumpama orang tuan rumah, biasakan ke dapur dan jangan hanya menunggu hidangan yang endah di serambi.

The more that leader is being fawned upon in the West, the less likely is he or she to be effective back home. She was even granted the rare privilege of addressing a joint session of the United States Congress. Meanwhile back home, her nation was fast spiraling into an abyss. Few in the West or the Third World could name the leaders of Taiwan.

Yet that nation had for decades bested China as well as much of the world. However, his recognition came late. Early on he was treated as another pugnacious city mayor. During one of his early campaigns, he was pushed over into a monsoon drain. That did not faze him. Even the United States Central Intelligence Agency had earlier thought of him as but another of your typical corrupt push-over Third World leaders.

They tried to bribe him, and when that failed, attempted blackmail. Meanwhile the three perennial critical problems crippling Malaysia—entrenched corruption, weak institutions in particular rotten schools, and rising Islamism—fester. They have their own versions of that scourge. Likewise with fixing Malaysian schools. Many American public schools are but mass warehouses for her young, not worthy of our emulation.

Instead, you can learn much on tackling both issues by visiting leaders across the causeway. Those visits would also be far cheaper and more convenient, with no distressing jet lag afterwards. In Kigali, the capital city, you can eat your lunch by the roadside drains as they are so well maintained. If Kagame could do that in Rwanda, so can Anwar in Malaysia.

As for combatting Islamism and religious extremism, Prime Minister Anwar could learn more from the West, specifically America. France is also the West but her secularism is of a different variety. Anwar has nothing to learn from other Muslim countries or leaders on how to deal with religious extremism, a cancer gnawing at Malaysia and crippling Malays.

Georgetown and Notre Dame, despite their church affiliations, have excellent programs in Islamic Studies. Groton and St. Paul would be excellent models for Malaysian residential and Tafriz schools. During his years in the political wilderness, Anwar was privileged to have spent time at Oxford, Georgetown, and Johns Hopkins. Renew those ties.

Invite his former colleagues there to give private seminars to his cabinet. Emulate President Ronald Reagan. If soaring oratories alone would do it, Indonesia under Sukarno would not have been the economic basket case that it was. Granted, Churchill galvanized the Brits during the relentless German bombings. Using the ringgit as a surrogate indicator, it fell to its lowest level ever vis a vis the US dollar, trading on October 13, at RM4.

Ever the schemer, Mahathir was not yet finished. Leading yet another splinter party, Gerakan Tanah Air lit. Motherland Action Party , and not content with the wreckage he had already inflicted upon Malaysia, he again offered himself to be Prime Minister, without blushing or any trace of embarrassment. That is, if Malaysians were to let him.

Alas, mortals may plan, but God as represented by the ummah, citizens decides. The humiliation did not end there. All, Mahathir included, lost their deposits. What a humiliation, and well deserved too! Bakri Musa PM. Post a Comment. Faham sajalah With Internet, he can do what he is most effective. You think he will be siginificant in politics? He shd have stick to teaching and writing, he is more effective.

Shouldn't have soiled his hands with politics. Not with hypocrit like Anwar and Khalid Ibrahim the swindler!!! Politics is best left to politicians. Leave writign to writers or bloggers. Thinking to thinkiers. Governing to civil servants. Education to educationist. The more we jumble ourselves and start thinking having had earlier and more salt then rest, we know more.

We are more susceptible to high blood pressure and probably tasted NaCl. Why the hell do some highly educated people failed in politics to some Petronas pump attendent wink wink They think having doctorate in some field another case of too much salt they know everything. They know who they are serving? Their pain and suffering? Their grouses?

Seingat saya dalam setahun dua ni tidak ada kes orang-orang penting ditangkap. Orang ditahan dan dilepas memang ada. Orang hampir-hampir kena tahan tapi tak jadi pun ada. Malaysia OK. Itu sebab pemimpin kita menggelupur dan tak gemar kalau Singapura kata Johor sarang jenayah. Kalau tak ada salah apa-apa, Bakri Musa tentu boleh balik.

Kempen second home masih berjalan saya rasa Orang putih pun boleh duduk sini, apatah lagi orang kulit sawo matang. Iye ke? Or is it just another case of inflated sense of self importance Haritu si kickdefella claims his house rummaged by you know who entahlah Rocky pun tulis berapi juga, tak de pun kena threaten camtu, lawsuit adelah kan, but that one is probably more personal hate than anything else Found this at www.

I do not know M Bakri Musa apart from the weekly blog that he churns out from his home in California where he is a practising surgeon. Even then very little as I cannot stand his long winded arguments. Bakri uses his title and job description as a validator of his arguments, after all if he has a good enough memory to recall enough ailments and their pharmaceutical symptomatic remedies then most would think that he must have a bit of grey matter between the ears.

In his lengthy article Bakri suggested that Malays are so high on religion that they cannot see the problems of the country, that we are so enamoured by a leader who can lead us in prayers that we are willing to forgive him everything. Since to be a Malay one has to be a Muslim, we can only assume that the religion he is rubbishing is Islam.

As is typical with half baked idealists who think that they are a match for great philosophers because they can string two half logics into an incoherent article. In this article Bakri quickly drifted into an accusatory mode by stating that in most Muslim countries the main fight is for human rights. In his mind, this seems to prove that Islam is such a powerful opiate that Muslims are willing to endure gross human rights abuses in the name of their faith.

As far as I can understand, this is his line of argument, see if you can spot where it is disjointed and crudely taped together We voted Pak Lah into power, Pak Lah was imam for few public prayer sessions therefore we will return him to power on the basis that we are stoned on Islam and would dogmatically vote for someone who has enough confidence to recite the Fatihah and a couple of short surah out loud in public.

Since many Muslim countries are backward and still grappling with the basics of human rights therefore it is proof that Islam is a powerful drug to make Muslims forget their sufferings and keep returning the same person back into power time and again even if he is incompetent or a complete despot. Maybe Bakri has not been back to Malaysia for a long time, maybe the last time he was in the country was just before he left to study overseas or to migrate decades ago when most Malays alive in abject poverty and quite unable to look after themselves financially as individuals and economically as a community.

Thanks to Muslim leaders of the Barisan Nasional we have developed the national economy and now have some semblance of equal distribution of wealth, even if it forced through the participation of Government and semi-Government agencies which are counted as holding the equity on behalf of the Bumiputra. Now that they are rich they feel they do not need God anymore.

They think that just because they can make more money than they need and can come up with ideas and learn some skills that they now have their destiny in their own hands. In short they feel that they need God only in small doses, on religious holidays. At other time God had better not be making demands on their time or their hearts. M Bakri Musa may be an intelligent man but no man is smart enough to look down on his own people and openly accuse them of being stupid, which is what he is saying when he says that Malays should keep away from religion if they do not want to be duped by politicians who use religion to stay in power.

The Barisan Nasional Government realized some time ago that Islam is a fantastic self regulator of society as it teaches love, tolerance and impeccable moral conduct so they promote Islam as a way of life in order to inculcate greatness into the minds of Malays. Islam opens hearts, it does not close them.