I thank you for your kind mention in your blog
and for your supportive comment in mine.
Those felt like warm hugs I really needed in this time of trial.
I am only human
blessed with love around me,
extra flexibility in my body and
an online space in where I share my happiness and heartbreaks.
Being a daughter to a man who used to serve the country's biggest Malay newspaper for over 30 years, I have never underestimated the power of media. JAKIM themselves confessed that their statement was manipulated by newspapers and only ONE of the muftis dared to state out loud that 'it is Haram and there is no reason and no question to why it should be banned' to the press.
I tried, Kenny.
I tried,
.. to voice out and enlighten my nation by writing to
every major newspaper I know with the same letter
but what can I do and what can I say
if my letter only made it to English newspapers
while the Bahasa ones chose to print letters stressing
"Jadi mengapa perlu yoga, jika kita solat lima waktu sehari semalam"
(by the same newspaper that used to make me and my yoga their cover just last year)
and another plastered these as their main 'variation' last Saturday.
What else can I do and who else could I turn to
when 99% percent of the hate-comments and personal attacks
left in my blog are in my beloved and highly-respected Bahasa bangsa?
I am done with being mad.
Leaving me with being sad,
tad too sad,
.. over MY failure to understand the system,
over ME not understanding what makes it so hard for them to understand
that I am simply trying to share what worked for me
and what changed me to being someone healthier.
I know you'd understand me, Kenny
and may I thank you again for your time and kindness.
See you around sometime.
In love and in light,
Ninie Ahmad
M | 601X 2X2X 810
"Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured,
and endure what cannot be cured."
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
