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Monday, July 25, 2005

NEP, Kris and Hang Tuah

With the UMNO General Assembly coming to an end, a very strong statement has been made. Non-Malays are and will be treated as second-class citizens and the government has its fullest concentration on the development of Malays. And as for Indians, vying for even a third class citizen would be a struggling effort.

Revival of NEP has hit out as an even stronger message across the country. As a non-Malay, I look at all these with anger, disbelief, fear and sadness. The people who spoke at the assembly are the very same people who clamor about racial unity, the same people who were against the apartheid in Africa, the same people who hit out at SJK (C) and SJK (T), claiming it would hinder racial unity and these are the very same goons who suppress the non-Malays in the name of advancement.

Let me get this straight. I’m not against the reviving of the living standard of Malays. But do it without trampling on the rights of other races. Malays lament about allocation of seats at the higher education. There are enough quotas for Malays in Universities, that which is sometimes given to non-deserving students. Scholarships given to rich students, enabling them to afford BMWs while studying while the non-Malays struggle to make ends meet, fork out their life saving to send their children for a good tertiary education. Unable to tolerate the advancement, the very foreign universities or institutes these children go to are un-recognized, leaving the non-Malay students in a very difficult situation and the parents in huge financial debts.

Even as it is, as I quote from another comment, the people who benefit the most from all these discriminations are the UMNOputras. How else can you explain the harsh difference of the living standard between the poor Malays in kampongs and datuks and tan sris and tuns who have a jolly good time in the city? How else would a Malay family in a remote area survive on snails while the datuks enjoy French and Italian cuisines? The rich Malays are getting richer with all those share allocations, AP, govt. contracts and etc. But that wealth failed to trickle down to the ordinary Malay folk who live in the Kampongs.

I quote:-We have already now the Glocal Malays – mainly the products of inter racial marriages. Can the UMNO, MCA or MIC youths mixed to produce the BN youths to form the Glocal Malaysians? No way, this cannot happen, as the Malays would not allow their race or religion to be compromised in the process. This inward looking is their greatest setback and they dare to call it the NNA - a NATIONAL agenda for the Malays. It should be NMA!

As for Hisham’s act of waving the Keris, I quote:-You draw a sword against an enemy? You thrust a sword to warn off an enemy. You never need to draw a sword out among friends and family.

The UMNO General Assembly was family. So the sword that that spoilt brat Hishamuddin Onn drew was for someone outside the Assembly. Who was that enemy?
Read through all the speaches and you will see who the enemy is. No...its not Israel or the Jews. No, its not the USA or George Bush. And no its not even England or Tony Blair. Neither is it Indonesia, Singapore, China or India or Thailand. And no its not even drawn in the launch of a Jihad.

The speaches say it all. The enemy is the enemy within. The enemy are all the non-Malays living in this country. The Malaysian Chinese and Indians and others. They are the enemies and the sword was drawn against them.

Why? Is that the Malay mentality? Cannot a bunch of Malays meet without the presence of an enemy or a perceived enemy at their midst? Cannot these Malay leaders understand that you do not need to have an enemy in order that you lead a people? Leading a people does not have to mean that the people need to have an enemy among their fellow men. Only "leaders" who have hijacked themselves to that role by holding others to ransom or by stealth and deceit need the presence of the "fear of the perceived enemy" to justify their continued leadership of that bunch of people.
It is sad indeed that the Malays cannot find from amongst them a leader who can lead them at a time of peace and in a time when they do not have enemies. It would seem that even when it is not necessary and even when the enemy is not there, the Malay leader needs to instill the fear of the enemy to get his 2 minutes of standing ovation and applause from his flock.

The "enemy" who is not really an enemy because they consider the Malays to be friends and fellow country men is bewildered. Tired! Patient! Laughing! Fearful! Fed up! Amused! Sorry!

Yes, sorry for the flock who so easily suck up to their leaders' rhetoric and rather live in fear and to let fear guide their every actions and beliefs. Fed-up of the leaders, because the leaders are devoid of any qualities that cuts them into a leadership role without first having in front of them a non-existent enemy!
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There was even a debate on Hang Tuah. As I gawked at the absurdity, i could only shake my head in disbelieve. Hang tuah is dead. Leave him alone.

As for the Kris drama,look around Hisham. Your enemy may just be by your side.

Proud to call myself a Malaysian? Give me 10 good reasons why should i?
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