Saturday, April 18, 2009

UTUSAN can say anything

Utusan Malaysia on Wednesday called on the Malays to arise and stay united as the non-malays are going out of control in their demand. I am okay with the editor’s calling for an awakening of the Malays but to raise the feeling of hatred towards the non-malays is unthinkable in this 21st century. Utusan also interviewed some controversial figures including Ibrahim Ali, who talked about disunity in the Malay community and weakening of their political forces, paving way for the Chinese and Indians to bring up "excessive" demands.
The main point raise was that the Malays must rise up and stay united to oppose the increasingly excessive demands from non-bumiputras. If this isn’t seditious than I wonder what would be considered one by the present government under the leadership of Najib.
Only recently he talked from ear to ear about 1 Malaysia and calling upon the Malaysians to abandon the ‘ethnic silo' mentality and ‘stand together, think and act as one people under the One Malaysia concept. The joke is when he was questioned what he thinks about the article he mentioned that it is to individual interpretation. Well said PM, now we know what is your stand and your 1 Malaysia concept, I interpret that as long as it works well for one society it is fine. The same day he “wayang” at a Sikh celebration to show the new PM’s approachable image. Memang wayang kulit ala Pahang!
This is not the first case, some time ago, the Malacca Chief Minister Ali Rustam calling for the non-Malays to be punished because by voting for the opposition they had been ‘treacherous' and had forgotten Umno's willingness to grant non-Malays citizenship before and after Merdeka. I wonder why no action was taken?
Then we had Ahmad Ismail of Penang calling the Chinese ‘pendatang' as though the non-Malays has just fallen of the boat and arrived at the shores of Malaysia. He accused the non-Malays of challenging Malays rights and created a whole racial issue out of his own indiscretion. What action was taken against him by the former home minister, nothing and UMNO just suspended him yet he goes around claiming to be a nationalist.
The police as usual did nothing as if they have two sets of laws one for UMNO and another for others but the home ministry was quick to detain the reporter who covered the news under the draconian ISA, and the reason cited was to ensure her own safety, laughably right?
How can the government allow these so called leaders like Ibrahim Ali, Ahmad Ismail, Ali Rustam and others alike to thump their chest like animals when it comes to their race and religion yet take action against others who questions some of government’s action or inaction; like JERIT, HINDRAF, BERSIH, BAR Council and other organisations?
If we are all children of God and we may not be homogenous in our ways and beliefs but we are all Malaysian. So stop threatening and harming our social fabric and let's start by respecting one another and appreciating our diversity. Najib if you truly claim to be the PM of this nation buck up and stand on your feet rather than following some old hag who raped this country for the past 22 years! Be the man that you need to be for Malaysia!

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