Thou shalt not question (Part 2)!

The Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin has called on all parties to stop questioning the status and position of Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM)... .
“Thus I would like to urge, let there be no one who question the status and position of UiTM”.

You can read the whole report here.

For those who do not know, UiTM only allow people of a certain race to be students in that institution. This of course has been a major complaint of a lot of people! Does this not appear to be blatant discrimination?

In the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, racial discrimination is defined in Article 1 as:-

any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life.

So clearly on the international level, this is racial discrimination. What is the justification? In typical Malaysian fashion, none is given and instead, his majesty, the King of the country simply tells us all not to question.

Malaysia boleh!