Tommy Peters' Bicycles

Cyrus & Tunku was published by Tommy Peters Bicycles on January 24, 2016 “A good design is obvious. A great design is transparent.”  The maxim holds for King Cyrus of Persia and Tunku Abdul Rahman of Malaysia, who promoted a great design in a multicultural fabric working ‘transparently’ in the background.  In 500 B.C. King Cyrus, who wrote the first human rights charter, kept religions private and ethnicities distinct, enabling the ‘racehorse’ and ‘plough-horse’ to co-exist seamlessly. Generally, the Persians represented racehorses and Arabs, the plough-horses working in tandem to better the empire and down the pike; in modern times, they perform similar roles where the former is as an ‘entrepreneur’ and the latter a ‘consumer.’  Cyrus recognised that the pursuit of ethnic integration is the destruction of excellence, in that “for a plough-horse to keep up with a racehorse he would have to cripple the racehorse and conversely, for a racehorse to pull as much as a plou...

Preamble:- The House of Saud, which prides itself as the Rolls of the Middle East, is keenly aware that there is no Step 3 when you face the Twelfth Imam in the public domain.  Debating the merits and demerits of the cabal's house-negro is as awkward as it is irrelevant, but it is not a waste of time, given that it provokes the Django debate.  It is not Washington that 'made the region tremble' but an elite group that holds the violin, that drew lines in the sand, that defined not only the plethora of caged psyches we call The Middle East but resurrected their doctrinal antithesis in the form of a refreshing tech-driven 4000-year-old flicker to flame, tasked with dragging minions, misogynists and dictators of all stripes out of their dark caves, into modernity . On the chessboard, the grandmaster's protected one is Israel. It is a 'prized flame' while the one who trembles in its jubbah is the House of Saud, the DHL of the triangle and the necessary hypocrit...

"I became minister of defence due to the military's will and not yours, and you know this very well. Moreover, you can't remove me; that's it, you no longer have any legitimacy" - General al-Sisi, responding to President Morsi's threat to dismiss him.  On July 5, 2013, El Watan, an Egyptian daily,  published the dialogue  (in Arabic) between General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and President Dr Muhammad Morsi that took place on Tuesday, July 2, 2013, a few hours before Morsi's final speech to the nation and after that his detention. A reporter was allowed to witness and transcribe their conversation from a TV screen (translated by Raymond Ibrahim): -  Morsi: What's the military's position concerning what's going on? Is it just going to stand by watching? Shouldn't it protect the legitimacy? Sisi: What legitimacy? According to documented reports, the entire army is with the people's will, and most people don't want y...

If gay unions are legally allowed, we are swinging Sodom, the old Decadency Sword, where 'personal freedoms' were institutionalized. Sounds dramatic, but with the US Supreme Court ruling , humankind has once again taken leave of its senses by ignoring the tried and tested balloons of convention; the opposite sex of full age, not a blood relative, and monogamy that served to keep the old sword at bay. Instinctively, we yearn for the old convention. On the other hand, our kaleidoscopic world has surreptitiously allowed the sword to evolve into a 'human rights' thing while promoting convention over the old construct is consigned to a 'trampling-on-one's-personal-freedom' issue. The Sodomite gushes forth like a living thing. Not the natural-selection I'll-be-a-monkey's-uncle-overtime-type living thing - but living water that you drink. We are witnessing the return of the three-winged seraph. As its flutter's consistency resonates again, we aba...

Transcript: I'm Caroline. The writer asked me to deliver this commentary in place of those voodoo characters he usually employs. The writer said, being female, I am better suited to provide this brief tribute about a beloved Malaysian, a transparent personality yet sometimes misunderstood even by friends. For the affable Malaysian, such issues have to be taken in stride, and it has become a learning experience for those who know him.  A comparison between a Hollywood star and a Malaysian. Denzel Washington transcends racial barriers. He cannot 'blacken' his script, no matter how hard he tries, resulting in his roles being swappable with every Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Chow Yuen Fatt, and Jackie Chan. Washington did not create the ethnically neutral genre through acting lessons. An inherent character 'flaw' enables him to turn into a subliminal teaching device. 
 Lim Kit Siang transcends racial barriers. He simply does because the longest-serving politician i...

The apostasy prohibition is the 'hidden' encumbrance to a Muslim leader who places Islam in the public domain.  The Arab psyche is in a cage. On one hand, they are born into a religion that prohibits them from leaving at the risk of death. On the other, they yearn to experiment with democracy, a construct b ased on personal freedom, freedom of religion inclusive. A construct that challenges the underlying prohibition. Morsi installed a Sharia-centric constitution in December 2012 but resisted turning Egypt into a full-blown Islamic state. He experimented with democracy and embraced its institutions. A Muslim leader in a Muslim majority state must choose between placing Islam in the public domain or keeping it private. Keeping it private, as in Azerbaijan and Malaysia, allows for a secular constitution, whereas placing it in the public domain demands a Sharia-centric constitution and its enabling institutions. Otherwise being encumbered with such prohibition himself, a ...

A serial killer is on the loose. Forensics, summoned to the scene of the homicide, finds a baseball bat beside the bludgeoned body. At the press conference, police announce that they have a severe case of the  ‘baseball bat’. The killer commits a series of murders. Every time a body is discovered, the public is told that the spectre of the  ‘baseball bat’  has resurfaced and that they are working to eradicate the Instrument . The terms ‘homicide’ and ‘killer’ are never mentioned. Carla Bruni • Chanson triste  ∆ The Haze is merely the Instrument that kills .  The Crime is Arson, and the perpetrator is the Arsonist, period. The misguided terminology encouraged by the politically correct and commercially compromised media has placed affected people in a hamster’s cartwheel propelled by the Indonesian government that condones the repeated arson. The government's actions are a pathology to civilization, terroristic to man and nature and a...