Friday, October 24, 2008
"For those who love and feel they owe undivided loyalty to this country, we will welcome them as Malayans. They must truly be Malayans, and they will have the same rights and privileges as the Malays."
Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Alhaj, Malaysia's First Prime Minister.
"It is absurd and unjust to tell the children of families that have lived in Malaysia for generations that, in effect, they are lucky not to be deported and will have to put up with second-class treatment for the rest of their lives, in the name of 'racial harmony'". The policies based on the social contract is in essence, "official racism".
The Economist
Aug 30th 2007
"According to history, Malays began to migrate to Malaysia in noticeable numbers only about 700 years ago.Of the 39 percent Malays in Malaysia today, about one-third are comparatively new immigrants like the then secretary-general of UMNO, Syed Ja'afar Albar (father of Malaysia's Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar), who came to Malaya from Indonesia just before the war at the age of more than thirty. Therefore it is wrong and illogical for a particular racial group to think that they are more justified to be called Malaysians and that the others can become Malaysian only through their favour".
Lee Kuan Yew (Speaking in Parliament before Singapore seceded from Malaysia).
The Reid Commission which prepared the framework for the Constitution stated in its report that Article 153, the backbone of the social contract, would be temporary only, and recommended that it be reviewed 15 years after independence. The Commission also said that the article and its provisions would only be necessary to avoid sudden unfair disadvantage to the Malays in competing with other members of Malaysian society, and that the privileges accorded the Malays by the article should be gradually reduced and eventually eliminated. Now, Umno continues to use this so-called Social Contract with the support of their BN partners to cling on to power and stay relevant in the eyes of the Malays and Muslims whom it depends for its political survival.
The is a rising resentment by ethnic Chinese and Indians, together over one-third of the population, at the continuing, systematic discrimination they suffer in favour of the majority bumiputra, or sons of the soil, as Malays and other indigenous groups are called. There are also worries about creeping “Islamisation” among the Malay Muslim majority of what has been a largely secular country, and about the increasingly separate lives that Malay, Chinese and Indian Malaysians are leading. More so than at independence, it is lamented, the different races learn in separate schools, eat separately, work separately and socialise separately.
Some are asking: is there really such a thing as a Malaysian? At the core of the problem is the non Malay non Muslim BN component parties i.e. MCA, MIC, PBS, PBRS, UPKO, SUPP, Gerakan, PPP which claims to represent Malaysia's non Malay non Muslim communities. The Plain Truth has been that these political parties are led by people who are only interested in accumulating power and wealth for themselves, their families and their cronies. In the process, they have sold out the rights and future of the very people they claim to represent.
Umno on its part is a racist party and continues to bully its partners in the BN knowing very well that whatever it does, it will get the support of its non Malay non Muslim partners. The danger here is that Umno assumes that the approval given by its partners on whatever racist policy it carries out, is in essence with the approval of the non Malays and non Muslims these parties supposedly claim to represent.
That's the reason why the non Malays and non Muslim Malaysians must reject the BN and its component parties. Umno on its part hides behind the Social Contract, the Malay Rulers and Islam to carry out its version of APARTHEID. In fact, the Malay Ruler's themselves are saying that the Social Contract cannot be questioned. So where does that leave the non Malay and non Muslim Malaysians?
The following is an Article by Siva Regan Kathiravelu
I refer to the Malaysiakini report:
ISA: Suaram activist released.
When Cheng Lee Whee was arrested it made us wonder whether Malaysians were united or disunited. This poor girl was fighting for hardcore poor Malays to protect their shelter.
I think she is one of the bravest women in Malaysia for rising above racial difference to fight for something she believes in. So what is the fuss about disunity about?
When Hindraf was declared an illegal organisation, it was accompanied by loud outbursts from every quarter. Even PAS, a dominant Islamic party, appeared to defend them.
When Teresa Kok was arrested for god knows what, we heard the same protests from everyone regardless of race or religion. Even the mosque committee involved came out to defend her saying that she never stepped foot into nor got involved in their matters.
In Penang, the former chief minister was defeated in the general election by an Indian professor against all odds considering Penang is an area that reflects Chinese sentiment mostly. Ironically, the same Indians - regarded as extremist by certain ‘smart’ ministers - for PAS instead of the MIC.
In parliament, it is Lim Kit Siang who is fighting for the Indian’s cause more than any of the other Indian ministers now or past.
Kelantan in dominated and ruled by an Islamic party yet if you ask an Indian or a Chinese who lives there to consider shifting to Kuala Lumpur, he could give you more reasons why you should shift to Kelantan instead.
When Raja Petra Kamarudin was arrested, we witnessed Malays, Chinese and Indians coming together like never before to fight for a single cause and to finance support to him.
They who bravely stood out to talk to their friends about him to those who courageously followed him to court and back are heroes who defied racial differences and focused our on uniting for a common cause that we all believed in and supported.
Our forefathers would have been proud of us all today. Although we live normal life's, we have been instilled with compassion and tolerance for other races and religions by our experience.
We might not realise it because it is instilled so deep into us that we fail to notice it yet we practice it consciously and unconsciously.
So where the heck is all this supposed ‘disunity among the races’?
It would seem that this ‘disunity’ has been induced by those whom we ourselves gave power to so there is an illusion that they are fighting for our rights peculiarly.
If you doubt the above statement, check whenever a racial remark is made - the person will most probably be someone whom we put there in the first place.
by MarGeeMar
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