The artist really put a lot of effort into making this!
Anywho, herein shall I comment my thoughts on this latest controversial sensation that has taken over the Interweb in the last two days (and many more days to come as well). I promise to be as impartial as possible.
Where do we begin? Let's start with UUM, a short for Universiti Utara Malaysia or the Northern Universiti of Malaysia had this one modest forum held, titled : Seiringkah Mahasiswa Dan Politik? (Are Graduates In Line With Politics?) on December the 8th 2012. Our point of contempt here would be the hired speaker (as UUM has issued a statement that this particular speaker was invited over, not one of their own) Sharifah Zohra Jabeen.
THIS WOMAN HAS A FANPAGE! MAI SIAO-SIAO!!
Although no full-length event video was captured, but bits and parts of it, nonetheless, recorded and streamed into the interweb.
The kickoff for this event started off as politically-biased as it can be with the VIP of the event being invited to read out an oath that is to be followed by everyone (by hook or crook, like it or not, do or die) in the hall. The following would be excerps of the oath that disgust me:
"Menentang demonstrasi jalanan (cont)" (Rejecting street demonstrations; in direct referrence to the Bersih event that I have mentioned in my previous post.)
"(cont) penghancur keamanan (cont)" (Rejecting destroyers of peace; in direct referrence to Datuk Ambiga, head of the Bersih event, as how the speaker Sharifah Zohra Jabeen likened Datuk Ambiga as a destroyer of peace for holding the Bersih event.)
"(cont) menentang anasir luar yang menjadi barah, perosak anak-anak bangsa." (Rejecting cancerous [dangerous] outside elements that destroys our youth; once again, in direct referrence in how Bersih is already striking an impression amongst youth which they classify as evil or destructive.)
At the second minute of the clip, was the highlight of the event.
(LISTEN! x 30) + (LET ME SPEAK x 9) = Sharifah Zohra Jabeen
Everything erupted the moment the Indian girl in the clip, namely Miss Bawani KS, started declaring, with relevant point of views, on how Bersih is a legal function and questioning the government's sincerity in helping the students. She even gave her mathematical solutions on how the government can provide free education to students up until the tertier level, emulating and citing examples of countries doing so like Cuba and Argentina during the forum's Question and Answer session.
But the fun part happens when our discontented and disgruntled Madam Speaker, Sharifah, got down from the stage and stops our brave heroine from denoucing the lies and formulating a solution. Not only does Miss Bawani got denied of her freedom of speech, so does another Mr Peter too. It was Sharifah's repeated "Listen! Listen! Listen! Listen!.. " and "Let me speak! Let me speak! Let me speak!.." and also her "This is our event, when I speak, you listen!" in her attempt to silent Miss Bawani from speaking further that got the attention and wrath of the of the great Netizen.
Sharifah's formula to winning a debate.
Even Chief of Umno Youth, the firebrand Khairy Jamaluddin of BN has declared annonimousity when Sharifah and the group that she is president of; Suara Wanita 1 Malaysia (SW1M; Women's Voice of 1 Malaysia) name was mentioned. Many likened SW1M as a group under the government due to the fact that SW1M used the 1 Malaysia logo as part of their own decorum in their now war-zone page.
Khairy also don't want to save you.
Suara Wanita 1 Malaysia's facebook page is now administered distastefully by an admin named "Mis Natrah" as many more flaks comes shooting into the page with salvos after salvos contributed mainly by the angered public for the lack of apology and a stubborn retortment of the situation as the admin came riding on a pony's back and a lasso to save their now infamous president Sharifah.
My take on this situation? First off, it's plenty rude to cut off someone when they are giving their opinion in a forum with repeated "Listen!". This is called a forum for a reason, not a ceramah, not a syok sendiri event, neither is it a Hitler-style announcement, so why cut her off when she's merely explaining her facts on her findings?
Beyonce is always the better one with the mic.
Secondly, it's bloody rude to take away someone's microphone to prevent them from speaking further.
And who cares about your freedom of speech?
And thirdly, you don't cut someone off from her speech, talk about human rights and then argue about human rights using animals as examples.
Ikan jerung, anjing, kucing, burung, semua pun lebih rakus daripada manusia.
All in all, she failed wholy as an emcee, speaker, educator, adult, woman and last but not least, human, since she can so pleasently relate human rights to animals.
These just in, hotlinks to several national coverage on the event. Enjoy!
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