My fave local comic artist is being cyberbullied for having strong opinions (logical ones in fact). This is a free country, if one does not agree with another they should just bite their tongue and move on. Not breach other people's privacy and leak personal information just to create a stupid manhunt. Don't ever use religion to justify stupidity, seriously any religion at all. As far as I know religion has taught me to forgive people and be humble.
I had this experience last year when someone took my daughter's death and started blowing things out of proportion with absurd assumptions and threats that I had to delete 80% of the people in my personal account (so don't bother adding me) it has taught me a harsh lesson to never trust anyone including friends as they could be the reason how your personal information gets leaked in the first place.
Hello everyone.
I'm guessing that you know what was going on involving myself and my opinions released on social media. I believe I owe an explanation and an apology to my audience and people out there. I hope you take your time reading to the end. (Malay translation in the comments)
[please do take note that I may edit this post if I needed to do corrections or add extra info]
From my understanding he doxxing happened because of years of dissatisfaction towards my content which is accused as anti-Islam and anti-Malay, and the people who strongly disagreed with me happened to find my personal information and decided to use them as a personal attack.
However, please keep in mind that I have no intentions to insult Islam, because when I draw stuff I use "Don't blame Islam, blame the Muslims" as a principle, and I expected people use the same principle to when they read my content. If I were to insult the religion, I would have drawn caricatures of Rasulullah and cherrypick Quranic verses to make fun of. Just to be clear, I've drawn well-mannered and well-meaning Muslims in some of my comic strips (Story of Adrian, and the one on child marriage), but I guess the good characters are overlooked >_<.
Regarding my photo being leaked, I have come in terms with this because there are people who have already met me and took photos with me. To use it to insult my appearance is futile because I'm already comfortable with the way I look.
Regarding my name being leaked, my friends are aware of VulpineNinja's full name so it's not a surprise. Clients that commissioned me already knew my real name. Unfortunately, I have deactivated my facebook to avoid more personal information being leaked, and in order to protect my friends and family from being attacked too.
Regarding what I have said on twitter, I genuinely apologize for writing such statement. I admit I typed it out of anger. First of all, I was frustrated that a lot of religious scholars enable child marriages, that I wish Islam has made it haram since centuries ago as they deemed LGBT haram. It would be a much easier solution than to make many muslims confused of what is correct and what is not. Secondly, again, there was no intention to insult Islam, but I'd like to highlight that we should look at other factors instead of just simply supporting child marriage because syara' allows it. Think about underaged pregnancy the child might have to go through, and the health risk is explained in the medical field.
Thirdly, under the tweet there was actually a long discussion regarding the matter, so I can say that the screenshot of that tweet could have been taken out of context. I have also deleted that tweet.
Yes all knowledge come from Allah Himself, however let's not deny that a lot of knowledge are discovered by people who don't even practice Islam (Note: The scholars from the Golden Age of Islam plays a huge role in seeking knowledge, but they were also labeled as 'heretics' from doing so). There are people who sought knowledge without religion telling them to.
I believe Islam is a guide, it has answers to certain problems, and scholars are still revising laws that fit with the modern world.
Regardless, I'm still sorry that the words slipped out of my fingers, no "account kena hack" excuse whatsoever. I take responsibility for what I said and I completely understand if you're angry with me.
There are those who assume that my intention is to "spread liberal ideology" through this page. I don't have the motivation to spread any ideologies, but the reason I draw comic strips is to just transcribe what I think about certain issues on canvas. I like meeting people who have the same thoughts as I do, and I've met wonderful friends along the way, it just feels great to know that i'm not alone with such thoughts. That said, it's okay if you disagree with me, and I'm not here to force my ideology on you.
There are issues which I did not cover because I did not have any strong opinion on it, or I was too busy to draw anything, or I'm keeping the idea until I have a better story for it. Last year I went on hiatus, at the same time I was thinking of how to write bette and minimize damages. However, sometimes people will still misconstrue the message negatively, as seen in the "Penindas dan yang ditindas" comic, where I did not explicitly mention any race or community. And I admit there are contents which I don't think is 'overboard' but people may see it otherwise.
Regarding the pro-LGBT stance, I do not want to say much except that I am with Dr Mujahid and Dr. MAZA's opinion, that the government doesn't have to acknowledge them, accept that it's a sin in Islam but at the same time there's no reason to discriminate them
That said, I completely accept the consequences and once again I'm sorry for causing such ruckus.
I'm against cyberbullying, even during Kiki's (angry steering lock girl) case, although I find that she's rude, I'm against people making fun of her way too much. Therefore, please do not bully the person who intended to harm me, nor his peers.
Final word, I'm going to take a break for some time, rethink about my content again and concentrate on other projects. I won't be having much social media presence until things die out, probably even on twitter. I won't be replying any personal messages or comments. My page will still be moderated by another admin.
Thank you for the love and support you have given me, and i my friends are reading this sorry for making you worry.
P/S: if you have anything to say to me, feel free to meet up at VAX this weekend, I might be around.
