So I read all over my Facebook Timeline that people are religiously against Valentine's Day. They made statuses, posters, pictures, jokes and so on about how people who celebrate the day are going to burn in hell. There were even a group of protesters walking around KL with banners saying "SAY NO TO VALENTINE's". Something like that.
I think I might laugh a little.
I am in no place to be giving any religious reviews (I know that, duh!) so if you are reading this, open your mind that what I'm about to blog here has nothing to do with any religious stuff. Just my everyday thoughts.
What is the big deal? It's a date where people celebrate Love between them and their partner, be it between fiances, married couple or just boyfriend-girlfriend. I don't think people go to churches and worship St Valentine for co-existing the date with Cupid. Why make a big fuss over it? Celebrate if you want, don't if you don't. It's just like Christmas. Say Ho Ho Ho if you feel like it or ignore it if you feel like it will shake and stir your faith in your religion. And don't waste your time judging people who are cool enough to celebrate these celebrations. It's fun for them and it's not their fault you choose to be boring.
Same goes to April Fool. So many people are starting to attack this day. Yeah, sure going back billions of years ago some religious dude did some religious stuff hence it became this day where people play pranks and have some laugh about it. And if you choose not to celebrate it, then don't. FULL STOP. Why all the preaches and speeches and reminder that we are all going to burn in hell. We are going to anyway regardless if we celebrate them or not. That is for God to decide.
I truly respect Islamic authorities in this country for doing their job and arresting couples who are having "sleepovers" on Valentine's day. Hey serves them right for being human and not rich enough to stay in expensive hotels, right? What I don't respect, is how they publicize the issue and humiliate them as if their crime is worse than murder. What ever happened to respect of privacy? While non-Muslims are laughing their asses off, building a thicker wall between us and them, here we are, humiliating our own people. Smart move.
Why Valentine's Day? If people want to have sex, they have sex. It doesn't matter what day it falls on to. There is no need to make such a big deal over one date. It happens all year long. Using 14th February as an excuse to look all-mighty is just lame.
It's okay to campaign Muslims not to celebrate all those days. Your call, you run the country. But in time, we are going to run out of fun things to do and non-muslims are having the time of their lives, showing off what they can do. Why not start making new events or days according to religious beliefs that is fun? Or is your definition of fun is always "sin"?
