Sunday, November 29, 2009

You Misunderstood

Mohd Nazri the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department says that Deputy Premier Muhyiddin Yassin statement recently regarding BTN was 'misunderstood' when he said recently that BTN courses are not 'brainwashing' sessions and the programme should be continued. “I don't think he mentioned that. You probably misunderstood it. What he meant was BTN as a department is good, but we have to change the curriculum because now we have 1Malaysia concept.
"The curriculum cannot focus on one racial group,” said Nazri, disclosing that he had attended one such course previously yet he refused to elaborate when asked his personal opinion of that course. “To me the curriculum is not in line with what the PM wants, which is 1Malaysia. You have the BTN courses for students mostly from one racial group but now we want (an) inclusive curriculum,” he reiterated. “It is important for the courses to be inclusive of all races, as the government now stresses on racial integration. So you cannot have just one race attending these courses, although others were invited. Now we have to reflect the 1Malaysia concept.”
Now the cabinet has agreed to revamp the content of the controversial Biro Tata Negara (BTN, or National Civics Bureau) programmes to fall in line with the prime minister's 1Malaysia concept.
Funny though that all the UMNO Ministers were supporting BTN publicly; Muhyiddin, Mukriz,Ahmad Zahid, Sharizat and others but now it’s a U-turn by the government citing that BTN may need to be reviewed to reflect Najib’s 1 Malaysia. Aneh tapi benar,“ You mis-understood”, which means that all the reporters are stupid as not to understand the language that was spoken by the DPM Muhyiddin!

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