All About Eve

Let us talk about women. Although, today’s agenda is searching for Kartika, yet, it is all about the women who seek justice, fairness and equality in the modern society. Malaysians have different thinking about the women. What is exactly women represent for, especially within our minds? They are the objects of sexuality. They are the properties of the male to trade with. They are not fit to be the leaders. They are cultured to be housewife. They are not the main contributor to the economy of nations. They are gorgeous, temptation and detrimental to other marriages. We tend to put women must alike with Ali Larter, Megan Fox, Britney Spears and Leighton Meester. I love them so much. We like them. They are idols of all. Like just Rabindranath Tagore wrote in his essay of women "And because of women has this power, she exercises such charm over our mind; her exuberance of vital interest is so attractive that it makes her speech, her laughter, her movement, everything graceful; for the note of gracefulness is in this harmony with all our surrounding interest"

Plenty of ideas and perception on women.

Looking back at Greek Illiad by Homer of centuries ago, women have imbued the story line of Achilles perseverance tragically. The fall of legendary hero, Achilles and the city of Troy largely defined as the result of the power of women. Their beauty and temptation in Homer's as I perceives, had encapsulated the eyes of males power while successfully allured the governing of the classic Kingdoms.

Suggest you the example of women pleasures, I quotes from Book I "I will not free her. She shall grow old in my house at Argos far from her home, busying herself with her loom and visiting my couch; so go and do not provoke me or it shall be the worse for you" Agememon told Chryse, father of Chryses when he came brought ransom for the release of her daughter from him.

She was the property of the insolent King. Because of Chryses, deathly pestilence killed many of Archeans. They feared the extreme wrath of God then unless propitiate Him. Jove is the God preached by Archeans. But, lust and greed at the other hand also the reason behind of the fallen of King Priam's city; Troy. Achiles spoke to the King Agememon, the only way to appease the wrath of God was "Give this girl, to the God" He then, stated the moment we capture Troy, the prizes is three and fourfold. Sacked the city of Troy due to insatiable lust of women prizes! Love and lust affairs of man and women! Not the Kingdoms affairs! Kingdoms acts only as proxy!

The beautiful of Princess Tamina motivate Prince Tus to conquer the sacred city of Almut. I witness the scene in Prince of Persia: The Sands Of Time with my friends at cinema. Same goes to Romeo when he drank the poison and he kneeled down to Juliet believing she died just the moment of her awakening.

I am not judging the destruction of women committed in the past, and publicly claims women of the day must be punish or subsequently being derogated all the time albeit the women are suffering from endless discrimination.

All about Eve is slowly taking its firm arguments currently. More women speaks, and more of them are voracious in putting the equality and democracy in their agenda. At one points, their movements appear constructive and tenaciously. They are everywhere in the country. They are establishing a very solid and gaining its momentum inside and outside of the country.

We heard heavy pressures by women groups on Kartika whipping case not too long ago. Kartika is very popular (covered in WSJ and Financial Times) because of the barbaric intervention by the state under the guise of Islam. As Professor Shad Saleem Faruqi said, Malaysia is veering into Talibanization.

Very articulates in his reasons, Islam according to him is symbols of hijab, scarf, beard and white Haji clothes or tasbih. Symbols which I think, others agreed that has preoccupying us for a very long period. We lost the real significance of the truth of Islam. Who speaks for Islam? What is the Quran purpose for? It is not the law. It is basically, similar to Bible and Torah; the way of life of human beings on earth. We were taught in school about all these without questioning. The woes of education system in Malaysia are another debacle, government need to look into.

I am raising this concern as we all do; our country is going to another way of civilization. More cruel and brutal in the sense that, extremists tend to presumes Malaysia is Islamic state. Islamic state encompassing Islamic laws and all their way of life. Non Muslims are as well, affected by these beliefs. Are we saying, we allows of how most Islamic Middle East countries practice their Islamic laws upon the society here, especially the women? Punish them because of laughing openly on the street, wearing jeans, wearing makeups, or wearing short skirts?

I think because of these, our young peoples are getting more conservatives subjecting to religion. They espousing Islamic country, specifically when it come to Islamic laws. That’s was when Kartika, one of many weak and ordinary women get caught of drinking wine by religious authorities. Ala Acheh Islamic law practice recommended by quite numbers of Muslim Malaysians. Very barbaric thinking and outmoded. Whipping and humiliates her in the public should not be seen as confining themselves to only certain period of history. Make it alive, as Prof Shad said, encourage more debates and discussion.

We are more civilizes and we also promoting many pristine ideas which less numbers of peoples arguing for since many times; human rights, rule of law and democracy.

Openness and matures among the modern world society allows us to be more proactive and aware of these beliefs must be defended and more crucial, the capacity to promotes them indisputably. Peoples enlighten to be attached to the issues rather than leaning on gender and sexes.

However, more is need to be done. Daunting tasks ahead of us is retarding the effort to get what the women want. They want their equal rights in law, thus, reforming laws. Others demands, for examples, the custody of children, divorces claims, family relations, access to labors, child care, women participation in politics, address biases women to be leaders, and raising the awareness of human rights continuously.

Luckily God has sent women to earth. A woman to love. I'm still searching for her to love with. Somebody to love.