The Atheist

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I'm preparing myself to write something about a group of people that proudly declared themselves as atheist. The people that declared a car that existed without a car assembly plant, that somehow all the complex wiring and the test dummies just popped up out of thin air. The designers, the makers, the workers that assembled them actually did not exist! Yes, just like magic eh?

I'm thinking about Mao. A godly figure in the lands where God is actually forbidden. Oh they have their own holy book. A small red book containing the quotations of Mao to be read every day here and then in front of his picture as if the picture could listen to the recitations. The great man made famine and ten of millions that perished in the great amendments of the people of China.

I'm thinking of Pol Pot, the Khmer Rouge and the babies that were smashed to trees and thrown into Paddy field to save bullets in the great amendments that produce the killing fields. The executions of people just because they were smarter than the Khmer Rouge and of course the Muslims that were persecuted to near extinction there.

One thing in common, they were both originated from the Buddhist background. There is a slight different though. The Chinese practised ancestral worship and the prayer to the fat bellied rich god that supposed to grant them richness n spoil of the earth if not total happiness.

N of course a novel that I had to read during my quest for my degree, Animal Farm by George Orwell and among the important characters in that famous novel were pigs!

The bloodbath, cruel imprisonment, tortures n sadistic torture machines invented by their scientists were just like when Europe were famous with its underground dungeon where detainee were tortured to death or just left to rot in them without food or a drop of water n of course, the famous Iron Maiden. How long did these things reign in Europe? Well, for almost or nearly a thousand years before Islam set foot in Spain n spread knowledge n wisdom to them.

The scale of the destruction? Well in ten of millions. It seems to be one of the similarities of these three great nations that had undergone their self destruct mode, killing in cold blood legally according to their laws, their own babies, children, teenagers, women, old ones, everyone to eh, adjust n amend the wrongs n evil in their society. Talk about compulsion eh?

Oh, I forgot. There is another one specific characteristic that all three had in common.

All of them don't believe in God. They were Atheist. They were gods themselves, executing divine orders that would inflict live or death upon the mankind under their merciless rule. Go against them, then you, your children, n everyone related to U hanged in the balance. A Chinese artist even got busted 4 years, just because his painting of Mao in his village. The reason? U see, the position of the drawing or the materials involved made the forehead of Mao in that particular picture reflected the sun n thus the wise Mao worshipers accused him of putting a spell on his picture. Talk about superstition eh?

What happened to the Muslims that lived with them at that time? Many were killed of course, captured, tortured, wealth n possessions confiscated just for being a Muslim. But Muslims are indestructible. They were known as the invincible people in the Balkans remember?

The Indonesians were not that lucky at that time. I mean when they were facing the threat of the atheist. Hundred of thousands perished in the communist rebellion that witnessed them turning into cannibals with the slogan Ganyang Malaysia! Only to be repeated by Christian Bataks n Hindu Balinese 4 a misunderstanding of a Hindu dance. They forgot that all the Malays in the lands of the Malay are Muslims! With an exception of one, two or three or tens of renegades, of course.

At present, they still survive in the hostile lands, as they did in the past. Oh one more thing, we, the Malays of the lands of the Malay survived them 2, the blood thirsty Atheist Chinese that tried to turn Malaya into China. Ten of thousands died though. In the end, truth prevail. N they branded us as the only country in the world that fought the Communist n prevail!