As regard to the proposal made by former MCA vice president Datuk Seri Dr.Chua Soi Lek to make BN as the one multi racial party is not viable, I must say. BN is already represent multi-racial ethnic and consist of 14 component parties, as a joined forces to represent all races in Malaysia. The exact concept that is more suitable to be used is it is a coalition party where all party work together to form an alliance. Soi Lek’s words was made in good faith, but nevertheless, this theory will only take effect for a while, and not for long-term period.
When we talk about the political party, one party, during its establishment, must determine their basis of representor and its liberation. What is this party going to do for the people? Who are their members of the party? And what this party has to offer their people and the country. UMNO was established to fight for the Malays, hence it basically a Malay based party. As this apply to the MCA and the MIC as well. If we about to abolish these component parties and make BN as the Malaysian based party, there will be confusion and mislead about what this party has to offer for Malaysia. Then members will start query about who will become the Prime Minister, and what happen to the affirmative action, as article 8 of the constitution generates the equality for all Malaysian- There you go, as we will be back to our original stake, and that will be today.
The Kedahan say – “pi mai pi mai tang tu jugak” ( means you are not going anywhere eventhough your legs walking ). Converting BN to become one single multi-racial party will not incite for any racial integration, rather are we pretending to unite each other but the real facts that, we not. Isn’t that pathetic, people? Then how to unite without making BN lose its identity?
BN represent all races in Malaysia. You name me one ethnic that is being left out from this biggest coalition party of the nation? Nobody is restricted to join this coalition party, as you may choose any party which suits you and your ethnic. Like I always say, there is nothing wrong with our system, but the man in the system that needs to be changed instead. If we want to promote unity among us, it has to come from ourselves, people. Individually. I am a bit sad since many of our political leaders especially UMNO are keen on playing the racist card.
Recently the UMNO chief of Bukit Bendera claimed that the non-Malays are “pendatang” – outcomers. You just imagine, me myself, as a Malay, felt very angry and anxious to what he has been saying. I urge the government, under the Ministry of Internal Affairs to impose ISA against this man. Honestly speaking, he deserves it. See, if we choose to continue in such a way, how possibly the racial unity might be achieved? Hopeless. Regardless of whatever race you may be, we have to respect each other and stop discussing sensitives issues. If the Malays went angry when the BAR conduct a so-called conversion forum, do you expect the Chinese and Indian will eventually happy with the “pendatang” thingy?
Racist in UMNO please wake up! If people like Jed Yoong with the comments given by her as stated above, voluntarily forgive other person’s default though it might hurt, aren’t you shamed for yourself, people? Wake up!
Filed under: National Integration, Politics, UMNO
Thank you for the prompt response as requested. I noticed that, Sharp-minded Malay friends concern much about malaysian politics but most of them are non-politicians. What a waste. Keep it up, Dr. Siddiq. Selamat berbuka puusa.
malaysia had been independent for 51 years….enuf la malay fellows….still need spoon feeding by government with all the priviledge…..wake up & be mature….look at the country today…..we are facing ecomony crisis & racist…..wake up & togather we work to ensure your next generation live peacefully & harmony. Think of your future family members…..think of your country & think of “WE” as Malaysian!
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written by ganbing, September 04, 2008 | 15:03:55
Mahathir is still in self-denial about the results of the 2008 elections.
His reason is simple, that the loss is due to Badawi’s weak leadership. His remedy is to change the leader and Umno will rejuvenate and the voters will come flocking back.
What a narrow viewpoint. Mahathir refuses to acknowledge that the political landscape has changed irreversibly.
It’s not about changing the leader. It’s about total disillusionment with the way the country is governed; the corruption, the racial policies, the social injustice, the economic decline, the widening wealth gap, the arrogance, the flight of the non-Malays away from BN.
There’s no Umno leader who can set things right. So changing Badawi will have no effect.
Mahathir still doesn’t get it! It’s not about replacing Badawi.
My Point Of View.
A differential Mentality and Mindset of Malay, Chinese, Indian and other create a bigger problem to LIVE TOGETHER In UNITY as Malaysian.
Guys, respect must be earned, not forced, some of you when you write, you have no respect for other people, so, if you insist the “malay fellows” to wake up, you have to be awaken. I’m a Malaya and damn proud of it and my best friend is a Chinese guy from Penang who are married to an Indian lady, nuff said.
If not “Pendatang” or Immigrants what word shall he use. As in kisah Dagang perantau, Malays has always used the word “Menumpang Kasih” to describe that the people who is berdagang ingin menumpang kasih pada mereka yang sudah ada.
Ahmad of Bukit Bendera may have felt disgusted with the silence of the Chinese Leaders reqarding the purpose of a Social Contract which is deliberately challenged by the non-Bumis. If the rights are the same, are the non-Bumis saying that the post of Sultan or the Menteri Besar of Perak can now be appointed from the Chinese or Indian clans. There is always a different even if PR wants to say the we are all equal. Unless of course if Anwar,Hadi,MCA,Gerakan, Kit Siang wants Malaysia to be a Republic.
the problem were created by those irresponsible people… those are the problem not bn
A Sarawak Chinese Point of view.
Mahathir is too pro-Malay that he failed to see from the Non-Malay view. Although he had been oversea, but he never ‘lived’ oversea enough to see how an open and fair government is like. He keep holding onto ‘his’ Malaysia and the government system (he initiated) that he thought is perfect. Our government system maintained our racist sentiment but refused to acknowledge it. In NZ or Aussie, we joked and ridiculed each other’s race but have no racial sentiment attached. All the migrants, even students like us easily felt ‘belonged’ to the system, but I cannot feel the same thing for Malaysia.
Anyway, things change and Tun need to adapt to the changes otherwise he will be a very sad, whingy person. He is strong and a bit extremist but I will not crown him as the best PM. He was just lucky to be the PM at the right time and era, like John Howard. And even luckier, to pass-on the baton when Malaysia began to slide-downward and backward.
And it is Tun’s policies and protectionism that render Malaysia uncompetitive in today’s open market. And the same reasons for the Malays’s weaknesses and poverties. (don’t look at the few filthy rich, but the multitude in despair). He has only himself to blame.
This is a much better site than CheDet, everyone speaks with clear mind and fair in judgment. Keep it up.
Saya tidak terkejut dengan reaksi masyarakat cina terhadap isu ini.
Saya sendiri tidak bersetuju dengan kenyataan Ketua Cawangan UMNO Bukit Bendera itu. Saya tidak nampak rasional mengapa hal ‘pendatang’ harus dibangkitkan.
Yang mengejutkan saya ialah mengapa ramai rakyat Malaysia tidak dapat melihat isu ini sebenarnya digunakan dan diapi-apikan oleh mereka yang berkepentingan. Pernahkah sesiapa bertanya mengapa DAP begitu bersungguh2 memperjuangkan isu ini?. Adakah kerana prihatin atau sekadar memancing sokongan?.
Mengapa apabila forum oleh Majlis Peguam mendapat bantahan daripada orang2 melayu ia dipandang sepi sedangkan pada hakikatnya ia dilihat menyentuh hak2 orang melayu/islam. Orang yang menentang forum ini dilihat tidak demokratik dan perkauman.
Apa yang saya lihat, hari ini kita semua sudah hilang rasa HORMAT di antara satu kaum dengan yang lain. Agenda peribadi lebih dipentingkan daripada perpaduan negara.
Harus diingat, setiap tindakan negatif yang timbul pasti ada sebabnya. Jika HINDRAF wujud kesan daripada penindasan ke atas masyarakat india, saya pasti orang Melayu menjadi “rascist” kerana diprovok sebagai racist oleh bangsa lain apabila mempertahanjan hak2 mereka.
Malangnya, kita lupa untuk melihat masalah ini secara yang lebih rasional. Kita lupa untuk melihat siapa dalan yang mengapi-apikan isu ini sehingga keadaan menjadi kacau-bilau.
Akhirnya kita hilang rasa HORMAT sesama sendiri yang menjadi asas kepada kemakmuran negara selama ini.
“Perang dimulakan oleh politikus, bukan askar” – anonymous
I pray Dr.Siddiq will become the future Malaysian Prime Minister one day.
greed. it is the issue here. once you get it, you become hungry, for power, paranoid and homophobic. the malays feel that what they have now is not enough, so they want more. the chinese always want more, they coined the term kiasu. the indians always feel not enough, they also want more. we should not blame whether malays, chinese or indians. it just the disease. the politicians saw this weakness, manipulate and take advantage.
it sad to see what happened now.
i remember growing up in a kampung. be it indians, chinese or malays, we didn’t bother about the differences. my grandfather and me always have breakfast and coffee at a chinese shop. people call each other by first names. we have the “ais kepal” at a nyonya stall after every football games. we didn’t bother about who’s selling.
but now, people are more concern on what they have and have not. if there are differences, we tend to see them as enemy. greed is the in thing, the fashion now. and may one day bury us all, be it malays, chinese or indians. i hope not. we can change that, after all, we are the same. trying to figure out how to start…..my close friends are malaysian. trying not to call them chinese or malays or indians. i think it is a good start.
Siddiq PM? haha
Dengar tak Siddiq, the Infamous Blogger!
Kelakar.
This talk about Malay, Chinese all blowing out of proportion. My point of view is this,
Malaysia Bar was talking about the legal point of view about Islam inshrined in the Constitution.
-so that, Islam’s Shariah Court jurisdiction can be better defined. It is a responsible issue and our Govt has made a big hoohah in the national media. If it is an open minded forum, I see no wrong.
Ahmad was talking specifically about non-malays’ position and called us “Immigrants”. Dato Nazri said in Parliament, in general that immigrants have no rights and all they have is privileges that can be taken away.
-I think that is uncalled for and discriminatory. Not a responsible thing to say if you are a leader.
Why can’t our leaders put aside skin color and race when making policies. Do you only want rich malays getting richer while the poor malays(still many), chinese and indians are suffering?
That’s why we need a more comprehensive economic policy.
Perasaan benci membenci antara Melayu Cina India adalah buatan Kerajaan BN. NEP/DEB telah buat orang Cina India prejudice terhadap Melayu padahalnya, orang Melayu elite UMNO sahaja yang untung.
Orang Melayu pula takut bila Islam dan kedudukan Melayu di soal. Matlamat Majlis Peguam diputarbelit oleh kerajaan untuk buat oranf Melayu berang.
Tan Sri Khalid kata nak buka UITM 10% dahulu cadangan Tun Mahathir. Tapi dulu, takde protes, UMNO tak kata Tun jual negara kpd Cina. Ni double standard!
Kita sebagai generasi Malaysia baru jangan termakan semua ni. Mari kita bina Malaysia yg lebih hebat dan lebih berjaya.
Perhaps everybody can check out this link. Good reading.
http://jebatmustdie.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/defend-yourselves-against-the-propagators-of-racism-pr/
Why funny? Ambitious and Humble.. that is good characteristic… well everyone” bermula dari yang bawah, klu bermula terus dari yang atas orang akan kata korup” .. most people talk with ego wthout dignity.. what are they fight for?
Different peoples responded in different ways. Some just brush aside the term “pendatang” doen’s mean the rest can not protest.
Chinese is Pendatang? True or not no one can deny the fact that it happen that the british brought them to work here in Malaysia..
But until now our leader still kindly each other rights until you chinese your own people try to collapse the harmony between us and make it serious racism, u talk about our bumiputera’s right eventhough u can.. u abuse the freedom of voice the goernment give to u
just to take advantage like u always do.. I am not racism and i can define it properly
do we oppress the chinese until they dun even have voice in the community and politics?
they have done the racism with the malay in singapore where the malay can’t even speek their voice in the community.. No Azan? that’s true criminal of racism!! do we do that in Malaysia to our fellow friends chinese? No!! we respect them and we trust them! we give them opportunity in every divisions.. but why they kindly speak about the Malays of being racist? Just for the statement of pendatang? Racism isn’t a playchild stuff to deal with.. it can create chaos.. we don’t want that to happen to our country.. we have to be tolerate to solve this matter
don’t add fire with fire..
we live in democracy and lets settle it quietly
Hey Dr Siddiq,
Thanks for the link.
It’s no problem with the remark. There is nothing to forgive on my part ‘cos it din offend me or hurt me (emotionally, if physically can make police report
). If he has a valid point then I’ll accept, if not just ignore.
Live and let live.
Also, he is not the only one on both sides of the divide.
Forcibly shutting people up usually motivates them to “rebel”.
i like to touch the comments by cotang. i had personal experience with favoritism. i don’t like to use racism, sound negative and bad. one of my previous so called ‘malaysian’ company. my superior and all the senior staff were chinese except one malay. the newly recruit graduate chinese were given the priority to be in charge though, there were experience malay engineers around. we didn’t complain. it was a chinese company anyway. due to my special competency, i was treated differently. what if there were a chinese engineer like myself, would i be the same?..it was favoritism with a pinch of racism. please correct me if i am wrong. we would have the same scenario in a malay company. the malay would be the preferred choice and would be the favorite. this happened also in the west and the so call democratic countries. when i was a student in the states, i have seen and heard racial remarks being used by the white americans. i have worked in the states, and have seen the racism with my own eyes. it was the same also when i was in europe. and it is the same in malaysia, we called names to the bangladeshis, indonesians. isn’t that racism? now i am working oversea, i still see racism also. don’t think everything is good oversea, especially the west, remember this ‘not all that gliters is gold’ as what ‘ledzep’ said.
you complaint about malaysian policies of protectionist. you need to learn about capitalism, then you know why we need that. i was in beijing recently, they are doing good with their control over the economy, opening up at their own pace. malaysia was doing the same, opened up at our own pace. the west was not happy, even not happy now because of greed. they have the cash, which could buy a third country if they want to. we don’t have that. they see the opportunity to make money, so they want it, all for themselves. i still could not understand why you don’t see this. most of factories move to china, low wages so low cost and better profits not because of the policies. it is just the bottom line, how much money!
Sifat perkauman amat susah dihapuskan. Dinegara majupun masih ada sentimen ini tetapi tidaklah seperti berlaku di msia. Melalui pengalaman saya semasa kecil, saya tinggal dikampung melayu di Lrg Derga, Alor Setar (i’m an indian) dan pernah diambil menjadi anak angkat kpd keluarga melayu. pada masa itu (sekitar 70′an) kami dapat hidup dlm suasana mesra dan muhibah. Jika ada kenduri dikampong,saya juga dipanggil menjadi bentara dan saya akan serve hidangan kpd para tamu dan mereka tidak pernah layan saya spt bangsa asing. malah saya dipanggil dgn gelaran “Gani”. Keadaan ini sesuatu yg saya tidak dapat lihat di zaman skg. Ini semua berpunca drp kaedah sistem pendidikan negara yg kurang menekankan semangat integrasi diantara kaum. Malah Guru2 sendiri tiada mempunyai sifat & semangat ini. Saya juga mendapat maklumat ada Guru yg bersifat perkauman dgn memilih murid2 melayu utk program2 khas atau pemilihan pemimpin pelajar atau sebarang aktiviti. Disinilah tempat bermulanya sentimen perkauman dan satu benih baru akan bermula samada positf atau negatif diminda mereka. Guru sekolah harus menggalakan murid2 berinteraksi dan bermesra dgn baik diantara semua kaum dan pastikan penyertaan semua kaum secara saksama tanpa mengira kuota demi perpaduan dan kesejahteraan masa hadapan Malaysia. Cuba lihat sistem pentadbiran Jab.Pendidikan sendiri. Kita boleh membilang dgn jari berapa bil Pegawai Pendidikan daerah atau pegawai2 utama di Pej.pendidikan daerah dan negeri. Kenapa ini berlaku di Jab.Pendidikan? Di Kementerian Kesihatan tidak begitu racialist dimana banyak Doktor2 bukan melayu menjadi Pengarah negeri atau Pengarah Hospital dan Pegawai Kesihatan Daerah. Tetapi di Pej.Pendidikan amat susah utk melihat seorang bukan Melayu menjadi ketua jabatan! Inilah dia dikatakan perkauman oleh Kerajaan BN dan UMNO. (Mungkin kerana kebanyakan Guru adalah ahli UMNO???) Malah Pengetua atau Gurubesar dari kaum bukan melayu pun sukar dilihat di sek.kebangsaan.
Dlm hal ekonomi, Parti2 politik pula terlalu bersifat perkauman dan ingin memajukan satu kaum shj sbg prioriti. Bangsa Malaysia harus diutamakan. Malaysia harus bersifat terbuka dlm semua bidang terutama pendidikan. Siapa yg layak dan pandai harus mendapat peluang ,mengikut prosedur & peraturan. Dgn adanya pertandingan sihat ini, tanpa disedari bilangan cendiakiawan Melayu juga akan bertambah kerana adanya competition sihat. Kenapa harus takut? Contohilah negara maju spt Amerika, kanada, U.K, Australia dll. Saya amat sedih melihat perkembangan tanah air kita yg terlalu sempit pemikiran pemimpin nya dan takut kpd bayang2 sendiri. JIKA MALAYSIA BENAR2 INGIN BERJAYA DAN MAKMUR SPT DAHULU, PERTAMA SEKALI HARUS UBAH SISTEM PENDIDIKAN, EKONOMI DAN SOSIAL. UJUDKAN BANGSA MALAYSIA DAN FOKUSKAN LEBIH KEPADA INTEGRITI, MORAL & AGAMA SERTA PEMBANGUNAN MODALINSAN. Agama adalah asas kpd sahsiah diri. Jika semua rakyat mematuhi peraturan2 dlm agama masing2, tak ada masalah akan timbul. Islam mengajar perkara2 yg sangat mulia. Kenapa perlu ada double standard?