The three brothers (from left) Muhammad Syafiq Haikal Sulaiman (13), Muhammad Hafiz Iskandar Sulaiman (11) and Muhammad Harris Ikhwan Sulaiman (10) – Pic courtesy of Mas Aliza Ali, 14 September 2017
Three beautiful smiling boys dressed all in white and enrolled in one of Malaysia's countless "religious schools" where they are made to memorize the Quran and grow up into fearless mujahidin (warriors of the faith). How excruciatingly painful for their parents to lose all three of them in a pre-dawn dormitory fire - in a building with no safety considerations like a fire escape, alternative exit, and even the windows were barred like a prison.
All parents can't help trying to mold their offspring in their own image of what they perceive to be an ideal life. Some parents attempt to inculcate the spirit of determination and competitiveness by encouraging their kids to be athletes; some drill them from young into understanding the importance of financial security, teaching their kids to value money and learn how to handle it. Others take their kids on long journeys in the hope that they will grow up open-minded, unafraid of novelty, as eclectic and cosmopolitan planetary humans.
These three kids had parents who apparently cherish Islam above everything else, and were quite happy to let them be indoctrinated by adults who know next to nothing about life apart from reciting the Quran and adhering to the Hadith. Perhaps these parents are busy people, running their own business and having to make ends meet by working all day; so putting their boys in a tahfiz (Islamic boarding school) served to kill two birds with one stone - no need to worry about them getting into mischief, no unnecessary babysitting expense, and best of all an assurance that the whole family will qualify for entry to heaven.
Iron bars on all windows represent the caging of their intellects. Only one door to the dormitory prevents them from sneaking out the back like apostates in the night. Full immersion in Islamic studies to ensure they are safe from "alien" ideas and "decadent" cultural influences. This way the boys will identify themselves primarily as Muslims and serve to expand the global influence of Islam. Back home, they will tenaciously defend their faith against the encroachments of beer-swigging, pork-eating infidels - and in so doing ensure the continued political dominance of their race. This has been quietly occurring for many decades, the channeling of more and more funds into state-sponsored religious agencies like Jakim, to lay the groundwork for total control of the tribal-communal psyche, to protect the parasitic elite from being made redundant and obsolete by natural evolution.
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