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That’s quite a strong word actually, evoking violent fiery images. And inside that church, it probably was. Violent and fiery.
As I’m quite remote from Malaysia and its happenings at the moment, being in my little bubble here, when I saw videos of the protests being held in the mosques on the malaysia kini website, I got kind of freaked out.
I was shouting on the phone to Marie that night (shouting as opposed to speaking, because I’m just generally quite loud) and we were discussing what happened. As it occurred at midnight on Friday in Malaysia, we were aware of it on Thursday evening here. There weren’t any tweets or facebook posts on it yet. It was extremely unsettling to wake up on Friday morning to this massive influx of outraged responses. It was like as if we knew the end of the world was coming, or rather had come, before everyone else did. Eeerie.
We’ve also been hearing about how lots of the non-Molotov-cocktail-making and non-protesting Muslims, ie the other people, have approached the non-Muslims (and organisations, churches, their friends, blah blah blah etc etc etc) to offer their support. I’m quite inspired to see that somewhere within this madness, there is banding together of the people. If not the whole nation, well then at least some of us.
