The Week In Review 1: Making Sense Of Nonsense

Round up of all the crazy in Malaysia and around the world.

"Have Orgies, Ghost Style" says Obedient Wives Club

The Obedient Wives Club (OWC) is a club that just keeps giving, not just to their husbands (obviously) but also to the media and the public at large for their penchant for making crazy statements, some downright ridiculous but mostly laugh out loud funny.

Their latest book, the wordily titled "Seks Islam - Perangi Yahudi Untuk Kembalikan Seks Islam Kepada Dunia" (Sex in Islam - Wage War Against Jews To Return Islamic Sex To The World) preaches, according to the club's founder and the author of the book, Hatijah Aam, that a Muslim man can apparently channel the super human powers of Multiple Man (Marvel copyrighted), and "appear in multiple apparitions and have sex with his wives even though they are in separate locations"!

She continued by saying that they "never said that a man can have an orgy with all his wives on the same bed. That is not allowed".

So apparently, according to OWC, orgies are only allowed when you are f**king your many wives with an imaginary d**k.

Man...to think that I was about to throw my whole support behind OWC a week ago when they first touted the idea that orgies should be commonplace as a "f**k you" towards the Jews.

Raising Our Own Toilets & Flushing Our Own Kids

We as Malaysians have not done either for so long, we've forgotten which to raise and which to flush, and this is primarily due to our dependency on foreign maids.

Well, it is time for us to whip out those parenting manual because we have apparently abuse one too many Cambodians and Indonesian maids.

With Indonesia rightly not lifting the moratorium on their ban of sending their country folks to Malaysia, Cambodia followed suit and announced recently that they will no longer be sending any maids here, citing alleged abuses, rapes and murders of Cambodian maids at the hands of Malaysian slave drivers.

Many have stood up to defend our country from such allegations, but I suggest that we not only understand the positions that Indonesia and Cambodia find themselves in, but also to learn from the actions that their governments are taking. The direction that our economy and ringgit is going, it may not be far-fetched that decades down the road, instead of importing labor, we may find ourselves exporting our sons and daughters as construction workers and maids to these countries.

Himpun: A Gathering Of A Million In A Stadium That Seats 69,372?

Talk about failing mathematics. 'Nuff said.

A Death In China: A Wake Up Call For The Rest Of The World

Today, a week after being struck by two vans in Beijing, with both drivers fleeing the scene, two-year old Yue Yue has succumbed to brain and organ injuries.

Accidents like this happen every day, but the astonishing bit of this tragic incident is the fact that it was witnessed by no fewer than 18 passers-by, and not a single one went to the toddler's aid until it was too late.

A similar incident happened in New York, March 13 1964, when the murder of Kitty Genovese shocked America not just because of the brutality of the crime and sexual assault, but also because there were allegedly 36 potential eye-witnesses who were in the opposite apartment beside the pavement which was the scene of the stabbing, but none of them did anything to try halting the attack, or at least to call the cops.

A few theories were suggested to explain why none of the witnesses in the Genovese murder were willing to help the woman.

Some opines that it proved the moral decline of society and the increasing apathy that breeds in a fast moving industrial nation. Others theorises the "Bystander Effect", where contrary to common expectations, larger numbers of bystanders decrease the likelihood that someone will step forward and help a victim. The reasons include the fact that onlookers see that others are not helping either, that onlookers believe others will know better how to help, and that onlookers feel uncertain about helping while others are watching.

The unwillingness of the passers-by to help Yue Yue as she lies dying on the road was, however, attributed to their fear of facing court action should they be blamed for the accident itself.

A preposterous notion and an unacceptable defence, until you hear of documented and widely reported cases in China where good Samaritans who came to the aid of elderly folks who were involved in auto accidents being sued by the victims of the accidents, and losing the court decision because, as one of the sitting judge states in a suit brought against one such Samaritan, Peng Yu,  "one wouldn't come to the aid of another unless one is guilty of injuring the victim in the first place".

My take on this? Well, if you have to waste precious seconds to consider the risk of legal action while a child lies in front of you, bleeding and barely clinging on to life, I think you have already lost a huge part of your humanity. It doesn't take someone good or kind to do something to help. All it should have taken was for someone with a semblance of common sense and an instinct to protect and save a young life.

Sigh.

Lin Dan & His Patriotic Sense Of Duty

In this year's edition of Denmark Open, badminton extraordinaire Lin Dan of China crashed out in the quarter final stage to Wong Wing Ki of Hong Kong, People's Republic of China.

The number of times where Lin Dan concedes walkovers to his mainland China compatriots has raised suspicion that there is a conspiracy to manage the ranking of the Chinese players to field their strongest and largest contingent to the Olympics. It seems like his patriotism extends beyond mainland China to even the Special Administrative Regions ("SAR") of China.

In the words of a friend, Jay Ween, "after helping China players, now helping Hong Kong players. Macau players next?"