WHILE “conjecture is no substitute for truth” says the Holy Quran, some too credible circumstantial evidence makes speculation excusable in this case. If I’m wrong, may God forgive me.
Obviously the man the press labels as de facto leader of PKR, Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim, has little choice but to find redress in the Shariah Courts, especially if he is not guilty. He knows what the alternative court of law is capable of doing, despite his ultimate acquittal. The world, too, knows this!
The correctness of this move by him, however, relies heavily on the assumption that God’s law will not be gerrymandered at the whims and behest of political masters by the faithful. And, an even bigger assumption is that the system is indeed manned by pious Muslims who fears no other but God. But most of all it assumes that his accuser is truly a man of faith and, therefore, God-fearing. Sadly, this last could prove to be a mistake and the ensuing debacle a mockery of Islamic law.
One very important pointer that is indicative of questionable character on the part of the accuser is the man’s willingness to be sodomised. Why I say this is because it is difficult – even near impossible – to see this whole affair as one of rape. He is young compared to Anwar, who is 60. He is a big fellow, bigger than the average as his photograph with Datuk Shahrir Samad makes clear. He is a fit young man compared to Anwar who has had severe injuries inflicted on him by the late former IGP and a horse riding injury to his neck. If Anwar had tried to rape him he could have easily beaten the man to a pulp, had he wished. Don’t you think? No, instead, he allows it to happen and then makes a police report. Why?
I would love to speculate on this, but I have no facts to back my suspicion other than that the young punk can get an appointment to see the DPM at his residence. But even here there can be many legitimate reasons and one of them, as the DPM says, is that he is a rakyat and the DPM is an elected leader of the rakyat. Seeing him, even at what must be short notice, can be plausible. The Lord works in mysterious ways for His own purpose. Lame though this may appear to be it could be true. Wallahu’alam.
Yet, there is one strong assumption I can still make, I feel. I can surmise quite accurately, from the many pictures of him with ministers and those with access to them, that this is an ambitious young man going all out to rub shoulders with the high and mighty. What other reason can there be for this but to climb the ladder of success given the “who-you-know” culture that colours success in our society. Let us also assume that he was hedging his bets when he moved into Anwar’s private office, as assistant no less. When on 8 March 2008 the biggest upset in Malaysian political history occurred, surely he was able to smell the strong whiffs of potential power where he was. And the months following made it even more demonstrable. Nevertheless, he chose to throw the spanner in Anwar’s works at precisely the most important point of the man’s political comeback.
That there was no rape we can almost be certain of. This is a fair conjecture. Why, therefore, complain and make it so public in a police report and open oneself to prosecution when it is consensual sex? Herein is the conundrum. Such intimacy will only make him more favoured by the boss and if he really believed that a comeback by Anwar is highly likely (presumably the reason for his joining the PKR camp) why spoil the show?
One possible answer is that richer, more immediate rewards – measures of success in a materialist society – are forthcoming elsewhere. Speculation, of course, but this is entrapment pure and simple meant to foil the tsunami of Anwar’s comeback that will drown BN into oblivion. The question is whether there is a puppet master somewhere in the murky backstage of Malaysian politics, someone who believed the possibility of Anwar’s return to Parliament as opposition leader, or even PM, to be real. Or was Saiful “fishing in murky waters” so to speak, with the intention of auctioning his sordid services to the highest bidder.
Now, under either of these circumstances, one would have thought that some way would have been found to record the incident, preferably on video. After all, this is premeditated. If someone’s behind this seamy episode this kind of evidence would destroy Anwar once and for all. On the other hand if Saiful is the sole mastermind of the entrapment a truly rich reward would be paid by the highest bidder for any kind of evidence. But there is no evidence, hard or otherwise. Silly ain’t it!
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