MEJOH

Wood – 14 Rejab 1429/17 July 2008

I was having a late night TT with a bunch of friends at a mamak restaurant in Larkin last weekend.  Nothing much to talk about except some stories that never seems to bore any one of us, until suddenly one of my friends asked me this question. “Since you are a good lawyer, and a darn good one that I know of, can you answer this question. Is it considered to be a crime if I were to kill a person that technically does not exist in Malaysia?”

Well, he got my attention alright. Sounded like double jeopardy, where you cannot be trial and punish for the same crime twice. But in this case, the question would be how you can be trial for killing something that does not “exist” technically.

But let us skip what my friend and I talked about after that because now, I have this question to ask to Datuk Zaid Ibrahim. Is it a crime if a person kills another person that does not “exist “in this country?

Malaysian law prohibited any type of Jew to enter its sovereign land, as simple as that. Whether the Jew is from USA, British, France, Spain, Denmark or even Singapore, a law is a law. You can ask any Malaysian citizen and chances are that all of them know this hard fact, may be a few stupid one would not. As such, we can conclude that technically by law there would not be any Jews in Malaysia because the law said so.

But we also know for a fact that Jews have been roaming our countries for the past 30-40 years, thanks to UMNO-BN effective country management. Mahadet would be the person that most Jews would like to thank the most. Under his regime, Jews gained access to Malaysia through country like Singapore, USA and British or entity like IBM, Microsoft and Tesco. Mahadet close his eyes for his love to the country rather than his love to Islam. But you are not reading this article for that reason right, so let me skip that part also.

Going back to my question; my friend claimed that he has the ability to identify any living Jew that walk on this earth. To him, there is a watermark like image printed on the forehead of every Jews that say, “Please kill this Jew”. Having said that, he always has the urge to run over a bunch of Jews that walked on the sidewalk of KLCC whenever he drives around KLCC. Or to put cyanide or lethal poison in their drink whenever he walks past their cubicle.

My friend claims that he does not know how long he can hold on anymore. The urge is getting stronger and stronger every second. He told me that he might one day kill one Jew each day and toss their carcass at a river nearby his apartment. I would not blame him though because I know where he came from. My friend come from Palestine and been living there since born till 15 years old before he went to USA and later work in Malaysia till now.

While celebrating his 14^th birthday with his family in front of his father’s house, an Israel F14 Hornet drop a cluster bomb at the gathering claiming that his father’s house is a terrorist post. The cluster bomb killed everybody but him. The same thing happened to his uncle during their family gathering, the Israelis cluster bomb killed his wife, sons, daughters, parents but him. He was martyr (according to their ulama, not our ulama) 5 years back when he exploded himself at an Israelis army post, killing all the Jews army.

If I am in his position, I don’t think I will wait this long to kill “one”, but I am not. Dear Datuk Zaid Ibrahim, can you answer my friend question please. “Is it considered a crime for a person in Malaysia to kill a Jew, knowing that he or she does not exist technically?”

Mejoh