Oh Nurin Jazlin

I'm sure all of you must have heard about the sad fate of adik Nurin Jazlin. It has been hogging the news the past few days. However way you look at it, it is indeed tragic. To the parents, to her friends and relatives but most importantly to society as a whole. Which civilised society allows one of its young members to be subjected to that barbaric act? To the perpetrator of that act, you are worse than the lowest of animals. I wanted to say that I'll pray you will rot in hell but I don't think that is necessary. God, is all His Wisdom shall bestow upon you just reward for your act. There is no need for us humans to pray for anything extra. What we could do is pray that Nurin Jazlin is accorded a better place than what has been deprived of her in this world.

Now lets look at us. What has caused us to come to this state of affairs? We are no longer safe in this land of ours. Where have the protection accorded to us gone to? Where are the police? Are they busy shooting "rioters" who are trying to topple the government through illegal means? Or are they busy escorting VIPs through the KL jams so that they do not have to endure the agony of getting stuck in traffic like us mere rakyats? What turned otherwise sane people into sex monsters? Some may say, the fault is with the ladies who wore pakaian yang menjolok mata dan mendedah aurat. Surely Nurin Jazlin did not flaunt her assets to this scum of society. Even if she did, what right has anybody got to attack someone just because she is not decently dressed. I know our religion has stipulated a certain dress code for us to follow. But that stipulation does not mean anyone not adhering to it can be subjected to abuse. Are we so weak mentally and spiritually that we cannot see anyone yang tak menutup aurat without wanting to sexually abuse them. Maybe, just maybe, we have kept this subject too much under wraps and taboo that we do not know how to control our urges. To those who are religiously well endowed please do not assume that everyone is like you. There are many others who are not fortunate enough to be as enlightened as you are. And it is also your responsibility to "take care" of these unenlightened souls. Don't just blame them, guide them for heaven's sake.

Now, I just read somewhere that the police intends to charge the parents of Nurin Jazlin for failing to take care of their children. Why do they want to do this? Because there is a law that have been enacted for this but has not been imposed all this while. Maybe the police hopes by doing this parents who have their children raped or molested will no longer make a report lest they will be charged with negligence themselves. This reminds me of a story that I've wrote before about our hostel warden, Cikgu Tahir. He once caned a student who made a report that he lost money twice while he caned the rest of us only once. Since then nobody dare to make a report about losing money. Why not just make making police reports a crime? Then we can proudly announce to the whole world that Malaysia is the safest country in the world because there is no police report about any crime. Just allow police report for rioters destroying public property or people having illegal gathering trying to listen to opposition parties making speeches against the government.

I can continue writing this but it will just make me sick and for a day in Ramadhan, it is definitely not good.

So lets end it here. Al-Fatihah for Nurin Jazlin. Semoga rohnya ditempatkan bersama roh mereka yang diberi perlindungan oleh Allah swt.