Bullet

PJ Utara MP, Tony Pua received a death threat recently:-

Pics taken from The Malay Mail online

"Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng said police believed the threat could be over Pua's statement calling for the abolishment of the bumiputra discount for houses costing more than RM500,000 and commercial property costing more than RM2mil" (taken from The Star newspaper - read the report here).

If the police are right, then it is really sad. Such discounts are clearly acts of discrimination - some may say racism as it (arguably) considers people of a race more superior.

In our country, when someone speaks out against discrimination, they get a death threat.

Maybe i may get one too...

Malaysia boleh!

Endorsing racism?

So Malaysia has a racist association (meaning it is legal!!!!) - Perkasa. Everyone know about them - and both government and opposition MPs have been speaking out against them.

Perkasa basically tries to champion the rights of the Malay race. This is blatantly discrimination and even racist!

So it was shocking that when a suggestion to for an association to champion the rights of the Chinese race, the Deputy Prime Minister, Muhyiddin said that the people are free to do so!

“We can have Chinese Perkasa and even Indian Perkasa,” he was quoted to have said!!!! You can read about it here.

Shocking! The DPM allowing people to form racist associations. Surely this is against what the government has been saying all along - 1Malaysia. Why segregate the people further? Are we not all Malaysians? Should not everyone then have equal rights? Why do we need associations to fight for the rights of particular race groups?

In fact, in the article linked above, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz has been quoted to say that such a suggestion is “ridiculous,” saying a Chinese Perkasa would only fan racial tension.

He said also that it does not gel with the PM’s 1 Malaysia concept.

Sir, you just endorse something which is ridiculous, will fan racial tension and which does not gel with the PM's view!
No, i din say that - one of your ministers did.

So a minister is contracting the Deputy Prime Minister, saying that the DPM is endorsing something which is ridiculous, will fan racial tension and did not gel with what the PM has said earlier. The funny thing is that i dun think he know wat he did!!!!! He was just criticising the idea without knowing the fact that the DPM endorsed it.

Did he say that what our DPM said is ridiculous and does not gel with what the PM wants?

Malaysia boleh!

Why? Well, why not?!

Prof Ramlah Adam from UiTM asked “Why challenge the NEP which was working so well?” You can read about it here.

Well, why not, i ask? After all, isn't the NEP unfair? Isn't it based on principles of discrimination? Doesn't it offend basic human rights principles? I would answer all these in the affirmative - and think that that itself is good enough reason to challenge it.

Furthermore and/or in the alternative, i would like to ask the learned prof what makes her think it is 'working so well'? Is it because it benefits the people of the Malay race and she is from that race? Perhaps she is not in a position to make such a decision then. (Altho some think that altho it attempts to help the Malays, it doesn't in reality. Not for all of them).

Anyways, if it really has been working so well, why do we need to keep it anymore? If it worked so well, it should have achieved its goals long ago.

Malaysia boleh!

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!

Thou shalt not question!

BTN course teaches disunity

AS parents we are glad that our grown up children attend the Biro Tata Negara (BTN) course, which is compulsory for government servants. They are all mature professionals.

But what angers me is that, instead of talking integrity, unity and harmony among the various races, participants are taught about disunity and racial hatred. Is this what our Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib wants for 1MALAYSIA?

Throughout the five days of the course, participants are repeatedly told not to question Malay rights and so on. The course coordinators keep talking about social contracts and telling non-Malays not to question Malay rights and so on.

Many participants, including my Malay friends, are upset.

Are we still living in a primitive age? If the BTN course is to be conducted in this manner, it is better to abolish it or let it concentrate on only one ethnic group.

The course is not bringing unity but only arousing anger and hatred.

As it is handled by the Prime Minister’s office, please do not say that they do not know what is going on.

DISAPPOINTED,
Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur.

Reproduced from here.

Malaysia boleh!

Hero!

Ahmad Ismail is a racist. make no mistake about it. I thought it'd be good if i just came out and say it from the start.

Oxford Advancd Learner's Dictionary defines a racist as one who believes that 'some races of people are better than others'. Ahmad Ismail showed this when he labeled those of the Chinese race in Malaysia as 'immigrants', indicating that they are of lower standing and therefore should not be made the Prime Minister (see here).

Moving on.

How do you describe a hero? One admired for his achievement and noble qualities? One who shows great courage? One who thinks of others first and sacrifices himself for them?

Well, certain people in my country think that a racist is a hero. See here.

Malaysia boleh!

Signs

“The protest in Penang is just Umno playing race politics,” Bandar Kuching MP Chong Chien Jen was quoted to have said (see here).

Not just UMNO but also our racist newspaper, Utusan Malaysia - these people have been criticising the State government in Penang for wanting to put up multi-lingual road signs!!! What was wrong with it?

let me quote you the reason which was reported in the link above:-

The Unity, Culture, Arts and Heritage Ministry also protested, saying that multi-language road signs had no benefit and would disunite the people.

Riiiiittteee!!!! These roads signs in different languages will cause disunity in our country! What a load of bollocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The hypocrisy of the whole matter has also been highlighted when it was pointed out that certain roads in KL have multi-lingual road signs! Read the report linked above!

Malaysia boleh!

Long live people of our race!

It is sad that when a neighbouring country (which unlike us is a state member of the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights) passes a bill aiming to criminalised racial and ethnic discrimination (see here) and the world is still in awe of the historical election results in the USA recently (see here) where a black man is now the President, our country still practices racism - openly and unashamedly!

I had no answer when asked by a student during my International Human Rights Law class recently on how racism is still so blatantly carried out here.

An example can be seen here.

In the first place, there exists such groups like the 'Gabungan Graduan Melayu Muda' which is waiting to be registered. A group which by the sounds of its name is exclusively meant for young graduates of a certain race only. But then again, coming from a country which practices race-based politics, should one be surprised at this?

Then, such a racist sounding group is free to take to the streets and shouts slogans like 'Hidup Melayu'. and all this was done to protest against a decision to have multi-language road signs which was proposed with tourism in mind!

p/s - where were the tear gas and water cannons? Or are those only reserved for people of other races?

Malaysia boleh!

Suspended

Umno has suspended its Bukit Bendera division chief Datuk Ahmad Ismail of his
membership rights and stripped him of his posts for three years for making remarks which were deemed offensive by the Chinese community.

The decision was made at a specially convened supreme council meeting yesterday(10/09/08).

(reported in The Star here)

The conclusion is that the supreme council made a finding that Ahmad did indeed make remarks which 'were deemed offensive' by the Chinese community. What the....? Crap!

Call a spade a spade. If it was a racist remark, then say it was. But they cannot bring themselves to say so. Now it appears that Ahmad is innocent - it's just that the Chinese community are sensitive or overreacted. They deemed it to be sensitive.

Hello? You do not have to be from the Chinese community to find such remarks offensive as it is racist! Anyone from any community will find it offensive - unless maybe if you are from the Malay community (i'm saying that since the Malay leaders i.e. UMNO could not bring themselves to say they find it offensive and it would be safe to assume they speak for the community?).

Is it any wonder Ahmad remains unrepentant and defiant? (see here).

Furthermore, a 3 months suspension is like a slap on the wrist! He uttered words which were racist in nature. It was against the constitutiion of our country which guarantees equality for all Malaysians. It threaten to harm the unity of the country.

I read this this morning:-

An Australian politician has had to resign after dancing in his underpants at a staff party.

Matt Brown, a state minister in New South Wales, admitted he had made a "mistake" and was "embarrassed".

Mr Brown then admitted conduct unbecoming to a minister, and resigned only three days after being sworn into office as minister for the police.

"I'm a human being and I made a mistake and I'm going to cop the consequences of that mistake," Mr Brown told reporters, without elaborating.

(reported in full here)

He did the honourable thing. He admitted his conduct was not becoming of a minister and he stepped down after he was asked to.

Not in my country. In my country, he would deny he did any wrong and would refuse to step down.

Malaysia boleh!

Turn the tables

I was almost impressed by how the government turned the tables against the media and the reporters - in a last ditch effort to cover their racism. or at the least, the racism of one of those in their ranks.

If you read the previous post - or if you have been following the local news in the past week or so - you would know that a certain politician made racist remarks against the Chinese community.

He then conveniently disappeared - so much so the cops and the PM could not contact him.

Apparently, he was overseas - in neighbouring Thailand. But in our day and age, do you expect us to believe that just because you are there, you cannot be contacted?

10 days after he made those racist remarks, he comes forward and say that he was misquoted out of context. The reporters were all behind it.

The PM quickly changed his tune and stood by his man and pushed the blame on the media and the reporters.

The reporter quickly stood by her story (see here).

So who do we believe?

I dun believe the politician. It is clearly an afterthought - his explanation. It took him so long to come up with this story. If it was indeed the truth, why wait til after 10 days?

Further, what was the purpose of him saying wat he said - he alleged he was making reference to history. Why did he suddenly make a historical observation in his speech? No explanation given.

The PM? He wasn't there so his view is worth nothing.

The reporter? Well, i believe her. Read her explanation - the context of when those words were actually spoken.

But i worry for her. In her bravery to do her job, the right thing, to stand up for the truth and expose contemptuous behavior, she could be made the scapegoat.

Malaysia boleh!

Hard to say I'm sorry

Right. So everyone knows about this man oredi


Unrepentant racist?

Wait. He looks a little familiar, doesn't he? Like a movie star! I think i saw him in a movie very recently! Was it in The Clone Wars?

But moving on.

He called the Malaysians of Chinese ethnicity 'immigrants' who do not deserve equal rights (as reported in a local paper which is linked later in this post).

The DPM apologised on his behalf. He also apologised on behalf of the Malay political party, UMNO (see here).

The PM was of the view that the DPM's action was 'the right thing to do' (see here).

But now, our fren Jabba Ahmad has come out of 'hiding' - and not only does he refuse to apologise, he is demanding that the Chinese community leaders apologise to him (see here)!!!! What the...?????

Further, '...state Umno liaison committee deputy chairman Datuk Abdul Rashid Abdullah said Umno’s 13 divisions in the state supported Ahmad’s decision not to apologise over his remark'.

Oh, it gets better - our former PM who does not know his time is up but still must stick his butt in everything goes public and questions why the Malay leaders should apologise (see here)! His reasoning is that when non-Malays utter racist sentiments, the Chinese leaders do not apologise.

Hello???? In the first place, that is not true. If non-Malays make racist remarks against the Malays, the Malays will take to the streets and riot and perhaps kill. And even if his remark is true - but is strongly denied - does 2 wrongs make a right? Can you justify your wrongdoing by pointing out that others are doing it also?

Is it also not a basic Constitutional law principle that there must be collective responsibility? Should not the political party take a collectiuve responsibility over the wrongdoing of a party member - especially when it was a leader speaking in such capacity?


Doesn't know basic consti principles?

So that's how it is folks. A leader utters racist remarks in public. he refuses to apologise. he demands to be apologised to. His fellow leaders support him. His superiors apologised but their actions are not followed (shows how much respect they have for their party leaders). Former leaders go public and say Malay leaders should not apologise.

Oh, someone was blogging about this and commented what a country we live in. A comment was left asking why he was still in this country. Typical response.

Malaysia boleh!

Transferred!

So a government servant has committed a wrong. A criminal offense, in fact. What will the leaders do?

Depends on which country it happens in. In my beloved land, there seems to be only one solution - transfer them!!!

Remember the pathetic story of the cop who was jealous the other cops were getting more bribe money than he was? (See here) Well, those cops were transferred out! Yup. It was reported that:-

Four policemen from the Gemas police station have been transferred out after a colleague lodged a report alleging that they received “ang pow” running into thousands of ringgit every month from those involved in illegal activities.

Read the entire report here.

And more recently, a teacher spewing out racist allegations and sentiments had the same fate - she was transferred out!!!! Read about it here.

The way to solve problems - to our leaders - is just to send it away. And just hope it won't happen again. Like an ostrich, if it is out of sight, it won't hurt you!!!

Sad.

And the teacher - well, it was reported that she had apologised. Wait a minute, tho. Read carefully:-

Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Senator T. Murugiah, who visited SMK Telok Panglima Garang yesterday, said the teacher regretted the incident and had apologised to the students.

“She also said that she did not expect things to become so serious and has agreed to be transferred to another school,”

It looks to me like what Rihanna described in her latest song - she's not sorry for the act, but just sorry that she got caught.

Malaysia boleh!

Less equal than others

KUALA LUMPUR: A recent statement by Pasir Salak MP Datuk Tajudin Abdul Rahman in Dewan Rakyat has sparked the ire of some and the MCA will be sending a complaint letter to the Deputy Prime Minister seeking disciplinary action.

MCA Youth secretary-general Dr Wee Ka Siong said the movement, together with Sarawak United Peoples’ Party (SUPP) Youth and the Federation of Malaysian Clans and Guilds Youth Associations, condemned the statement by Datuk Tajudin that all non-Malays were descendants of immigrants to Malaysia.

Read the report here.

Tajudin*

People like Six-Million-Dollar-Man Tajudin and Hamidah Osman must be glad that the news these days have been distracted with allegations against Anwar and Najib - and their racist statements have taken a back seat.

Tajudin was quoted saying that not long after it was reported that he is not agreeable "...to increase the ratio of scholarships to non-bumiputra students" (see here).

So do "descendants of immigrants" have lessor rights? Aren't all Malaysians equal? Or are some are just more equal than the rest? After 50 years of independence, the racial divide is still pronounced. We are still Malays, Chinese, Indians etc., not Malaysians.

Here's something said by a BN MP (of which i am in full agreement with):-

Datuk Dr Fong Chan Onn (BN - Alor Gajah) said the initiatives outlined in the Ninth Malaysia Plan to counter socio-economic imbalances among the people should not be ethnic-based.

He added that the Government should instead tackle the problem of socio-economic inequalities in areas where the problem persisted.

“The Government should do away with ethnic-based poverty eradication programmes and focus directly on the target groups such as the poor in the rural and urban areas, where the majority comprised the Malays and bumiputras in Sabah and Sarawak,” he said.

Dr. Fong*

That makes so much sense - help those who are really in need!!!

Oh, by the way, the Malays were not the original inhabitants of this land. They too were descendants of "immigrants", aren't they?

Malaysia boleh!

*Pics taken from Wikipedia

Racist politicians

Yes, this will definitely be a recurring theme on this blog. You'll see a lot of our politicians are racists. But most if not all are from one race - this is because if you say anything against them, you'll could be jailed. But if they say anything against other races, they are champions of their race.

Wait, was my statement racist? Is it still racist if it is true?

Anyway, here's what took place at the Perak State Assembly yesterday:-

One by Hamidah Osman (BN-Sungai Rapat) particularly earned the wrath of the Pakatan Rakyat assemblymen when she asked whether Sivakumar “agreed to disagree” with the well-known fable of whether a snake or a man from a certain racial community should be killed first.

Nga Kor Ming (DAP-Pantai Remis) and other Pakatan assemblymen demanded Hamidah retract her words but she maintained she was merely asking if Sivakumar “agreed to disagree” with it.

Sivakumar (The Speaker) let her off with a warning and told her not to bring up anything sensitive.

Barisan whip Datuk Seri Mohamad Tajol Rosli Ghazali (BN-Pengkalan Hulu) then asked her to retract her words, and she did.

Taken from here.

YB Hamidah
(Pic taken from Perak Legislative Assembly website)

Malaysia boleh!