Khat, Jawi and cultural colonisation

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| I am perturbed by the accusation that the Malay Jawi alphabet and stylistic khat writing is a sign of Islamisation.

Our Jawi alphabet was an adaptation of the Arabic alphabet to suit the local language, Bahasa Malaysia.

Since Guan Eng also said he had Jawi calligraphy on his wall, would that mean he was also promoting Islamisation? Let’s just face the sad fact that the main argument here is that we want to remain limited and comforted in our racial silos, with set boundaries against each and every culture. That we would prefer each and every race and religion boxed into separate categories, not impacting or mixing with one another.If there were talk about how Jawi would be appropriate in this time and age, that khat was an outdated form of art, I would say the same about poetry.

Even if I find it a beautiful sculpture, I can’t explain why. Nor can I explain why I find Da Vinci’s 'The Last Supper' intriguing, or the Chinese calligraphy during every Chinese New Year season fascinating. But what it does is this - it sets us apart from the technology we are developing. It is what makes humans human. Now, of course, given time an AI could learn to write a haiku or deliver news in iambic pentameter, but only by viewing and recreating human work.

 

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