The
latest in a sea of blogging profanity. An opportunistic tirade of
insults directed mainly against Malays as a race and Islam. Hiding
behind that thin veil of opposition to the Barisan government, UMNO and
religious fundamentalism in Malaysia is one Zorro supposedly Unmasked.
WHO LIES BEHIND THAT MASK ?
Bernard Khoo by all reliable accounts was a fully ordained Catholic
De La Salle Brother. A thug and a bully protected by his cassock worn as
a Catholic Brother at the La Salle School Kelang where he taught in the
mid to late 1960’s.
A karate black belt, he assaulted, threatened, vilified, mentally and
physically abused a number of students of that school. His victims
mainly Indians and Malays. All of this he dished out during his tenure
as a Catholic Brother at that school.
Bernard is also vividly remembered by his victims as enforcer to
another Chinese chauvinist of that period, another hoodlum parading as a
missionary at that school. The irascible Reverend Brother John Neo, a
cantankerous individual was the then principal of La Salle School
Kelang.
Collectively they are remembered for their reign of terror and the
resultant psychological damage inflicted on the vulnerable and the weak
in their charge during that period and possibly beyond. To many of their
victims the scars will always remain as an everlasting reminder of
Bernard Khoo, John Neo and their variety of justice, truth and fairness.
NOTHING NOBLE ABOUT THIS ZORRO- HIS ATTITUDE TOWARDS INDIANS AND MALAYS
Bernard Khoo aka Zorro Unmasked had a pre occupation with
intimidation. He, according to the testimony of some of his victims who
won’t forget the man, appeared to derive a perverse sense of
satisfaction and pleasure out of intimidation and bullying of those he
considered weaker and by implication lesser beings than himself.
Children of a lesser god.
Bernard Khoo also willingly undertook that same sadistic ’duty’ on
behalf of his fellow bully and minority tormentor Brother John Neo,
referred to irreverently then by his students as Mao Tze Tung for John
Neo’s proclaimed and unabashed affection and admiration for that late
Chinese dictatorial tyrant.
John Neo was also an ardent admirer of Lee Kuan Yew and the latters
attitude towards Malays. He never gave up an opportunity to espouse the
views of Lee on the Malays and to denegrate Malay students of that time,
much to their embarassment and humiliation, in the presence of their
overwhelming non Malay fellow students.
The Malays (the few who enjoyed the privilege of entry to a Catholic
school) were systematically insulted as was the norm in those days. Such
behaviour was not only practiced by just John Neo and Bernard Khoo. It
was also the staple of some students at the school, encouraged by the
conduct of their peers the Brothers of Bernard Khoo’s ilk.
Admittedly and thankfully so, as relayed to us by former students of
that school, not all Catholic Brothers fell into that category of
pathological racists as John Neo and Bernard Khoo were. But it was
nonetheless not uncommon for the Brotherhood and the Priesthood in
Catholicism to attract a disproportionately large number of these types
from the local communities as recruits to their vocational ranks.
The Malays then were systemically treated as an outcast minority in
these schools (with about 2 allowed in each class) even though their
numbers in the population betrayed the distorted representation in
enrollment of Malays in Catholic and other Christian schools in the
1960′s and 1970′s.
This too in a country, their own, that exclusion being inflicted on
them a majority by a foreign Church preaching fairness and equality,
Christ like charity and love. The same church that is now feigning
outrage at the Al Islam publication of an essay on holy communion.
The Indians, many of whom were Tamils at the time, were a
particularly soft target for physical and mental abuse. They then being
on the lowest rung of the socio economic ladder, were persistently
harassed, demeaned and bullied by Bernard Khoo and his fellow religious
thugs.
There are at least 3 reported suicides amongst Indian workers and
students at that school during that era of Bernard Khoo, John Neo and
Alban Senan although other sources attest to a larger number perhaps
twice that figure given.
They the Tamils did not dare resist Bernard and his cohorts bullying
and assaults for fear of retribution in punitive physical form.
From this champion of freedom and justice they were perhaps instilled
with the power of fear, intimidation and violence as a motivator. A
lesson which some undoubtedly have gone on to take up after leaving
school contributing to the disproportionate numbers from their ranks in
violent crime in Malaysia .
If anyone did dare stand up or resist his bullying and that of yet
another thug of that era, one Brother Alban Senan (an unmitigated,
pathological sadist and racist) they paid a price in unspeakable
humiliation and fear that has indisputably shaped their lives in a
manner the community now lives to regret.
All of this the result of very Christian charitable conduct condoned
and carried out under the watchful eye of the Roman Catholic Church and
the principal of the school Brother John Neo.
Now we bear witness to one of that gang running a website,
regurgitating the profanities of his discredited mantra of anti Islamic
slogans of the Bush era expecting the same unquestioning responses out
of fear through intimidation perhaps from his readers as he demanded of
his young students then.
IS ZORRO’S PAST A REFLECTION OF THE MAN TODAY?
Today Bernard Khoo parades in his new persona as champion of the
causes of missing children, clean government and democratic values. A
noble pursuit indeed if Bernard Khoo did have the personal or moral
integrity to throw stones at a government struggling to come to grips
with its inherited burden of the British Empire the avaricious ingrates
of mainly Chinese (and sprinkling of Indians) left behind at
independence.
Bernard Khoo’s amorphous ideas of corruption and his championing the
cause of children on his website are at best hypocritical, obscene and
as unconvincing an attempt at showing a human face as Adolph Hitler’s
much touted fondness for animals and his vegetarian lifestyle were
attempts to dignify the latters deeds against humanity.
It is also an unwelcome and cruel reminder to those who suffered at
his hands under that reign of tyranny. It has been said by many of his
former victims that he ought to be outed and not trusted with the
welfare or the causes of anyone let alone helpless children.
With his history of traumatising and assaulting minors ( which most
students were at that relevant time) under his care, he has little
credibility if any to take a stand on issues he claims disturb him
enough to want to leave a legacy of change for a better world for his
grandchildren.
Zorrro aka Brother Arnold aka Bernard Khoo’s public posturing on
issues is an insult to children and to right thinking people who seek
refuge from intimidation, bullying, violence and tyranny of every sort.
To allow Bernard Khoo aka Zorro Unmasked to continue with this public
charade of his new persona when, his victims unwittingly have turned
out to be the catalyst and reason perhaps for all that he demands
changed in society today, is to abet the offences of this man’s past.
Bernard Khoo’s idea of welfare and good governance are not compatible
with those universally accepted definitions of those same concepts.
Bernard Khoo has not yet seen it fit to publicly apologise to his
victims for his grievous and criminal misconduct as a religious Brother.
He abused that office of his as a religious Brother and teacher under
the protection of a powerful Catholic church like his mentor Brother
John Neo and the other thug and bully at the time Brother Alban Senan.
CAN A LEOPARD CHANGE ITS SPOTS?
Brother Arnold aka Zorro Unmasked now wants the world to believe he
is some paragon of virtue by calling himself Zorro though still
demonstrating that totalitarian self righteous mindset by excising from
his blog any contribution that is even remotely at variance to his own
chauvinistic views.
He spews his contumely like his other blogger vandals on Malays with
the type of unsubstantiated and unwarranted claims against them he and
his cohorts in the media churn out on a daily basis.
The man needs to be unmasked. He has his coterie of sycophants and
apologists and that’s fine. They include former students who believe
that he is forever entitled to the unquestioning respect he once
fraudulently claimed (or demanded) as a religious Brother and teacher.
And there are those who will seek to at any cost protect the man’s lack
of integrity simply because he held sway over them once and claimed to
be a man of God (ever heard of the battered wife syndrome or the
Stockholm syndrome?). Such are the failings of victims and the impact of
bullying on them.
LEST WE FORGET
But then again there are those, particularly his victims, who are
just as capable as Bernard Khoo is of speaking out to stoke those
sentiments sufficient to rail the public against real hatred, racism and
the prejudices of the type people like Bernard Koo are capable of.
There is a sense of duty in many and it is encouraging to see that
his victims no longer feel the need to suffer as victims and speak out
now decades after the man’s rampage on the weak.
His victims will emerge in larger numbers and expose the root of all
that is dysfunctional in Malaysian society today. That indoctrination
into violence and intimidation imbued in them and sanctified by religion
even though it has for so long been so conveniently swept under the
carpet and given illegitimate credence by that veneer of religious
cover.
Driven by a greater zeal and motivation for justice, these victims
who have voices and who have discovered the power of their voices, come
out to speak with greater conviction than when they don’t speak out and
suffer in silence.
CONCLUSION
This tit for tat is not over by a long shot yet. Malaysians like any
other group have to question the motives of those who stir up trouble
for the slightest cause in a volatile environment as Malaysia is today.
A good starting point for the likes of Bernard Khoo to consider when vilifying others is that old saying “let him that is without sin cast the first stone”. It comes from a religious doctrine Bernard Khoo once subscribed to.
The argument that is raging against the Barisan may be legitimate.
But no one is asking the question, who is the Barisan? Is it just UMNO
or is it UMNO and others such as the MCA and MIC? Is it perhaps also the
unaccountable former deputy finance minister whose husband as owner of a
large public bank benefitted from inside information as a result of her
use of confidential cabinet sensitive information? .
The husband and wife in that particular example are both Chinese.
Is it Samy Velu and corruption of the MAIKA affair during his
stewardship of MIC? or is it the also the elements of MIC whose physical
abuse of an actor turned porn star, or the misappropriation of hundreds
of millions of dollars of money allocated and destined for poorer
Indians.
Samy Velu and the MIC are not Malay either.
Yet no one asks. Who pays the piper playing that ugly tune of anti
Malay anti Muslim sentiments using a small band of disgruntled Malays as
their shield.
No one yet has had the intelligence to query the motives and the
character of those making these bilious and vitriolic statements against
individuals and groups of people like the Malays without a proper
mandate from anyone but themselves, yet claiming to act for the
‘righteous democratic majority’. Yep sure!!
Gopal Raj Kumar
Hm.. chill lah.. get a chinese friend and maybe you will find not all of them are evil.
We have taken complaints from his former students some saying we were too lenient others who provided extreme examples of his and his cohorts conduct against students whilst others still think we have been unfair to target him (Bernard Khoo). Unless we are able to verify these we will not publish and reserve these postings for a later date.
Whats interesting about this particular post is that it has now also raised the hidden taboo issue of padeophilia by priests and brothers during that era. Not in Kelang but elsewhere. We will continue to investigate and keep you posted.
GRK
@ GRK
Pls keep us informed on this matter. I knew that old man has skeletons in his closet.
A definite great read…:)
-Bill-Bartmann
A Malaysian Malay
As to the issues you have raised on the Chan critique, let me categorically and unequivocally put to rest your feeble claim that the man put proof to his assertions. His reference to cases and to quotes are embellishments and adornments which a good substantive argument does not need.
Verbose, well my friend perhaps you ought to find the definition of verbose and apply it where it belongs in the pejorative you apply to me. Chan failed to identify the core principle on the question of the Sultan’s discretion. The arguments he raises does not get up for his failure in this regard to identify the core issues of the argument on the crisis. To quote archaic and irrlevant English Law Lords in his inimicable ‘kow towing’ style is embarassing. He has led nothing of substance that could do him or his argument any justice.
A judge who fails the primary test of impartiality by entering into a debate of a political nature and does so with little substance other than unimpressive irrelevant quotes deserves to have strips torn of his back. It is not what I did. I wish I could though. Another time another place.
Chan’s arguments have been published in many forms. None of them worthy of redemption. Fire your best shot. Identify the substantive argument in mine that you find wanting in.
Gopal Raj Kumar
Is somehow having the addiction of posting the same thing at all websites and blogs he visitied…
is he really is a Malaysian Malay??
Like so many today, you use racism to denigrate a person thinking that people will fall for it. Tell us in plain english where and how Bernard Khoo aka Zorro unmasked ultra vires the Indians, Malays and Islam. I bet that you can’t, because it never happened. You are just seeking cheap publicity!
I would not be too surprised if you were some UMNO blogger in disguise trying to bring down a popular blogger held in high esteem by many. And make no mistake, you will fail miserably!!
dpp
We are all of 1 race, the Human Race
now whether he groped them or not I am not sure but I have heard from elsewhere that he was a bully in school, students hated his ‘over-compensating’ ways
All one really needs to be able to establish truth of the accusations directed against Bernard Khoo is one of these to be substantiated. Just one. We still welcome his rebuttals as he is entitled to.
can you dig up on haris ibrahim too?
Do you have relevant and compelling evidence against Zorro Unmasked aka Bernard Khoo?
Tawil was a head prefect. A man of Indonesian origins. The information we have is that he was deliberately selected and given the task of making public announcements as well so that he could be ridiculed which he was for his English.
It was apparently John Neos way of allowing the others to very subtely reinforce the idea that Malays were not very bright or were undeserving of the NEP (or its equivalent then).
Anyway the position of head prefect was never one to hi lite leadership characteristics of the individual. It was never based on merit and their choices were never the best we are told.
As to the other aspects of your comments there are racists everywhere, but that does not mean they ought to go unchecked especially where they make allegations of others’ shortcommings in this respect.
Thank you for your comments
GRK
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
I don’t care if you read or publish this but your action shows yourself.
My question to u on the 3rd article which u choose to publish is standing.
Thanks mate for the expose. Tha’s a load off my shoulders.
tim
There is also in fairness to the church a history of excellent and selfless work by missionaries. Most of these whether we like it or not were from the European, English and Irish who had genuine vocations that drove them into educating the vulnerable and the weak. Brother Arnold had another offsider or like minded thug we are now pursuing for another reason. Alban Senan we are told is of Burmese descent. We have had the bile of his sychophants spliied on us. which we do not bother publishing because none of it is supported by evidence.
Zorro is pathetic and a man without any cause, creed or character. He fills his time ranting and raving like that other lunatic on the run who believes himself to be a reincarnation of Joan of Arc or Robin Hood, Raja Petra Kamaruddin. Full of pious platitudes. he has not found in him the capaccity to at last ask for forgiveness of those he abused. He does not believe in the benefit of the doubt and neither will we.
Forgiveness can only come with true repentance. His deeds were not isolated ones. They were part of his daily diet.
GRK
I was in La Salle Klang 1958 – 1968.
I am still emotionally scarred! Does anybody recall Brother Martin, the irish tyrant who had a Chinese nickname? Again he destroyed 2 years of our precious life in Standard 5 and 6
and his pathetic sense of self righteousness and morality. These tyrants
brought the whole idea of the Christian missions into disrepute by polluting
the well of human kindness that they were meant to share with others and mould them
into righteous men and women of good standing in our communities everywhere.
Pity.
GRK
GRK
It is high time you outed that buffoon Haris Ibrahim and teh snake Malik Imtiaz Server.
One is a buffoon (a villainous one) of quixotic dimensions and the other the very sone of the serpent.
keep taking out the trash!
Nik Netanyahu