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!

Biased Bar

The Bar Council’s actions seem to be slanted and their position on certain issues does not seem fair lately, Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said.

He said for instance, the call by the Council for the Human Rights Commission to conduct a public inquiry into the arrest of five Legal Aid Centre lawyers at a police station recently seemed inappropriate.

Read the full report here.

So the DPM is accusing the Bar Council of being biased. So shall we listen to the views of a politician or do we trust in the independent body made up of the legal minds of the country? Just because the Bar Council does not agree with the actions taken by the government does not mean that they are not acting fairly. If the government wants the Bar Council to agree with their actions, perhaps the government should act fairly in the interest of justice and righteousness.

The Bar is biased? Yes, i think so. It is biased towards justice and fairness.

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!

It's only words?

“The word of a minister should mean something,” said Datuk Zaid Ibrahim, who resigned as de facto Law Minister following the arrests of the editor of an online news portal, a Member of Parliament and a journalist.

“It is an honourable thing to keep a promise and I kept it. But obviously the present minister thinks otherwise,” Zaid told a press conference yesterday.

Read the full report here.

So there you have it - Ministers who do not do the honourable thing. Or at least, one minister.

As if that isn't bad enough, the same minister even has his facts wrong!!!! Whilst he was not doing the honourable thing and revealing to everyone the amount of ex-gratia payment paid out to certain former judges, he was even reported saying that the judges were allegedly not sacked.

After that, the former PM came out to dispute that. The former should know better being personally and directly involved in the whole debacle. the previous de-facto law Minister also confirms the sacking in the report linked above.


Get your facts right, sir.

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!