A couple of days ago I received another e-mail from my sister KN. Besides updating me with my niece's school acitivity, her three newborn kitten and her little garden, she told me about our neighbor Mr. I. Mr. I and his family live two houses away from my mother's house. I know Mr. I as a quiet man. He didn't talk to anybody unless it was a matter of life and death. When he came home from work, we wouldn't see him again until the next morning when he left his house on his Raleigh bicycle at 6:30 a.m to go to work. That was the only time I saw him in a dim light. His face uliminating by the front porch light of our house.
When my parents bought a piece of land thirty seven years ago and built a house on it, Mr. I and JM's house was one of a dozen or so houses on our Street #15. Unlike Mr. I, his wife is an opposite character from her husband. People say, they are like night and day, or like earth and sky.
I wasn't surprised reading three lines about Mr. I my sister wrote me. He tried to commit suicide by slashing his throat in his bathroom. There are many things have been going on back home that leave me unfazed and undazed anymore. News about little girls being raped and killled, news about an illegal immigrant Indonesian maid was gang raped by four local cops, news about a 65 years old grandfather repeatedly raped his nine years old granddaughter, news about a fourteen years old boy raped his 16 years old sister. Rape, incest and commited suicide are news I hardly read or heard of twenty or thirty years ago.
I couldn't say those things didn't exist twenty or thrity years ago, but to read about this horrible things as I read a daily weather forecast make me wonder: What happen to Malay people now?
Is it the way they show a resistence to Islamic law enforcer? When I was a young girl, nobody (Malay men and Malay women) batted an eye to uncovered head Malay women. As long as she dressed modestly, nobody would give her a sarcastic remark. Nobody would've had asked her in arrogant tone, "Islam ka?" (Are you Muslim?).
Head covered has become a number one issue as there is no other important issues to be addressed.
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sad news about whats happening (rape e.t.c.)
Posted by: be | April 27, 2004 at 05:52 AM