Trump irks Muhammad Ali. Trump irks Malaysians. The same thing. He irks everybody. Except that the former heading will instantaneously grab widespread attention.
My posts had consistently warned of the dangers a President Trump poses. Now a fellow countryman of mine has joined in the chorus and expressed incendiary indignation at Trump's latest bigoted utterances. And rightly so!
In Malaysia the doubled-barreled M initials conjure awe and great significance. We had a Prime Minister with the initials M2 who had governed for 22 years and is still robustly stirring the pot of government at age 90.
We have a popular press publication in Malaysia called the Star which, if accommodated for our mode of restrained democracy, can count to be a distant type of cousin to perhaps, The New York Times ? Well roughly anyway. Our M2 PM has taught us well to think big.
All being said, in today's Saturday Edition 12/12/15 (we are ahead of the US in our time zone) the Star's Business section termed Starbiz, obviously, carried an articulate article chastising Trump's utterances on Islam as contributed by a distinguished Malaysian intellect who also has the initials M2 but to be sure is not our ex-PM.
It would appear that this article followed from the publicity generated by Muhammad Ali condemning Trump's bigotry and, for good effects, a handsome photograph of a young Ali in a boxing pose accompanied the article. This provided a conducive opportunity to pun some curious "fighting words" into the heading of the article.
Essentially, the article tackled 3 hits (why not "punches" as the photo background justified the choice of that word ?) of a president Donald Trump.
The hits were "Muslim-bashing", "Kicking Chinese Arse" and something to do with the Republican Party which I am still working out to see how it fits into a hit of Trump.
I agree fully with M2's point about "Muslim-bashing", "Kicking Chinese Arse"which I have been making a big fuss about it myself in my posts here, but more clarification is required regarding the Republican Party - how is it a hit of Trump.
As I understand it the Republican Party had not been pleased with Trump from the beginning and there is a current furore about Trump and Carson planning to leave the Party.
Notwithstanding the above, the beauty of the US system is that it has self-correcting mechanisms to handle the personality defects of its prominent citizens.
One of them has kicked-in already. Trump's bigotry immediately became the butt of jokes of the top news and talk shows. It was taken up by Noah Trevor, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Jay Leno, Conan, etc, whose hard hitting twists of humour drive home the shortcomings mercilessly and are more humiliating than any direct criticisms.
Back in school, I remembered that Malaysia with a third world status before being upgraded to developing, we had to follow a programme called the 3Rs to uplift our fundamental skills to participate competitively on the world stage. The 3Rs were Read, 'Rite (for write) and 'Rithmetic (for arithmetic or maths).
Trump's unfortunate demeanor shows that America today needs a comprehensive 3Rs curriculum firmly established in its schools.
In this case, the 3Rs would be Religion (to understand the major faiths and beliefs in the world), Recall (to understand significant historic developments and milestones of the world) and Region (to be aware of the geography of the world).
Presently, Americans are sadly learning about religion, history and geography through the devastating wars they have started based on misled assumptions and knowledge and widespread misunderstandings.
What a World Tragedy inflicted by the so-called Leader of the Free World based on ignorance!!!
We have a popular press publication in Malaysia called the Star which, if accommodated for our mode of restrained democracy, can count to be a distant type of cousin to perhaps, The New York Times ? Well roughly anyway. Our M2 PM has taught us well to think big.
All being said, in today's Saturday Edition 12/12/15 (we are ahead of the US in our time zone) the Star's Business section termed Starbiz, obviously, carried an articulate article chastising Trump's utterances on Islam as contributed by a distinguished Malaysian intellect who also has the initials M2 but to be sure is not our ex-PM.
It would appear that this article followed from the publicity generated by Muhammad Ali condemning Trump's bigotry and, for good effects, a handsome photograph of a young Ali in a boxing pose accompanied the article. This provided a conducive opportunity to pun some curious "fighting words" into the heading of the article.
Essentially, the article tackled 3 hits (why not "punches" as the photo background justified the choice of that word ?) of a president Donald Trump.
The hits were "Muslim-bashing", "Kicking Chinese Arse" and something to do with the Republican Party which I am still working out to see how it fits into a hit of Trump.
I agree fully with M2's point about "Muslim-bashing", "Kicking Chinese Arse"which I have been making a big fuss about it myself in my posts here, but more clarification is required regarding the Republican Party - how is it a hit of Trump.
As I understand it the Republican Party had not been pleased with Trump from the beginning and there is a current furore about Trump and Carson planning to leave the Party.
Notwithstanding the above, the beauty of the US system is that it has self-correcting mechanisms to handle the personality defects of its prominent citizens.
One of them has kicked-in already. Trump's bigotry immediately became the butt of jokes of the top news and talk shows. It was taken up by Noah Trevor, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Jay Leno, Conan, etc, whose hard hitting twists of humour drive home the shortcomings mercilessly and are more humiliating than any direct criticisms.
Back in school, I remembered that Malaysia with a third world status before being upgraded to developing, we had to follow a programme called the 3Rs to uplift our fundamental skills to participate competitively on the world stage. The 3Rs were Read, 'Rite (for write) and 'Rithmetic (for arithmetic or maths).
Trump's unfortunate demeanor shows that America today needs a comprehensive 3Rs curriculum firmly established in its schools.
In this case, the 3Rs would be Religion (to understand the major faiths and beliefs in the world), Recall (to understand significant historic developments and milestones of the world) and Region (to be aware of the geography of the world).
Presently, Americans are sadly learning about religion, history and geography through the devastating wars they have started based on misled assumptions and knowledge and widespread misunderstandings.
What a World Tragedy inflicted by the so-called Leader of the Free World based on ignorance!!!
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