Malaysian bloggers are female bums, and a Tourism Minister predicts the outcome of racial warfare

File this under the "obscure trivia" list. According to Tourism Minister Tengku Adnan, Malaysian bloggers are a bunch of cheaters and liars. Why is this so? Because 80 percent of all Malaysian bloggers are unemployed women.

I wish I was joking. No, actually, scratch that. I'm filled with utter giddiness and delight that someone so high up the Federal Government has actually said something like this. I had been scratching my head the whole day, wondering what my post tonight will be about, and our very own Tourism Minister, directly responsible for the country's crucial Visit Malaysia Year 2007 campaign, stepped up in crunch time when we needed him most for our own entertainment purposes:

The Tourism Minister Tunku (sic) Adnan lashed out today... that all bloggers on the Internet are liars, out of which 80% are unemployed women.

“All bloggers are liars, they cheat people using all kinds of methods. From my understanding, out of 10,000 unemployed bloggers, 8,000 are women.”

(snip)

He said he may lose some female voters but did not retract his statement or indicate that he was just joking.

He said that bloggers spread rumours, disrupt social harmony and many bloggers are slanderous and are cheating people with their blogs.

“All bloggers are not in favour of national unity. Our country has been successful because we are very tolerant with each other, if not, there will be civil war, the Malays will kill the Chinese, the Chinese will take revenge and kill the Malays, and the Indians will kill everyone.”

As far as I can tell, he has yet to provide the damning statistical data that supports his delusional rant hypothesis.

Nice to see someone who's not afraid of the chick vote. Ballsy move, though it does beg the question: whose votes exactly were he planning to fish for here?

Actually, the thing that struck me most about this was his prediction of how racial warfare in this country would turn out. Naturally, the Malays and the Chinese will go at it head to head. But it's the Indians, quietly biding their time, that have the smartest, most diabolical strategy of the three races, one which takes advantage of the fact that none of the Big Two races pay any attention to them anyway, turning an insult into their greatest strength. Speaking as a half-Malay half-Chinese, I'm rooting for the Indians to win it all. I think it's their time.