mamakk!!!

via theStar:

Lim questioned why Nazri, who was in charge of legal affairs, could not say anything about the investigations. Nazri said he could not reply on behalf of the Attorney-General because that would be seen as trying to usurp his powers.

“Malaysia cannot become a successful and developed country if such people (Lim) are in the House. Why are you so bodoh (stupid). Sit down, Sit down!” Nazri shouted at Lim and several AP MPs who began to stand up to argue with him.”

At this point, shouts of bodoh flew between both sides of the floor.

Wow, is that the most intelligent sentence our ministers can come out with?

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Jeffrey wrote:

On this particular day though, the conversation somehow shifted to the subject of “Malay rights”. Again, I can’t remember what brought that up or what conclusion we all came to, but I do remember someone saying something like, “Of course the Chinese and Indians aren’t happy about our rights and I don’t blame them. But I’ll fight to keep our rights.”

Let me first say that none of my cousins are racist bastards. They’re smart, streetwise, hardworking, good people with not a xenophobic bone in their body. Furthermore, this conversation took place many years ago, and minds can (hopefully) change as people become wiser. We’re not as close as we used to be, but I’d stand by them today.

I brought this up after reading the comments section of Haris Ibrahim’s blog (more on that later) to make a point about just how damaging the New Economic Policy has been to the Malay psyche.

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ES Chua wrote:

I refer to the letter Fantasy-ventilating and ignoring facts where the writer states: �Right. So are most Malays, I understand, who can trace back their origins to the Bugis, Minangkabau, and other peoples from Java and Sumatra. Just like the national language. Correct me if I am wrong but the original people of Malaysia, as far as memory goes, are the Orang Asli and aboriginal tribes of Sabah and Sarawak.’

He said this in reply to the writer of the letter Chinese M�sians must accept their lot who made the racist statement: �Not to forget, Chinese are only immigrants�.

The good Malaysian-minded person who passionately replied to the above racist statement reflects a large number of non-Malay Malaysians disillusioned with the unfairness of extremist Malays in positions of power who are bullying (and some say oppressing and marginalising) them.

However, his reply that Malays are immigrants from foreign lands such as Indonesia who robbed the country from its original inhabitants (the Orang Asli) is a fallacy which was invented by British colonialists, and later amplified by Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew and company.

The Malays are the Orang Asli - just that they are the Orang Asli of the lowlands (downriver) while those categorised as Orang Asli now are those who live in the highlands (upriver). The Malays are descended from the Temuan aborigines of Selangor and Melaka and Bahasa Melayu (Bahasa Malaysia, I insist!) is the Temuan language �upgraded� with English, Sanskrit and Arabic.

Is this true?

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Erna wrote:

In West Malaysia, 70 percent of you consider other races ‘aliens’. Malaysia doesn’t suck…West Malaysia sucks. The only time you really get along is in Yasmin Ahmad commercials. And in a way, I’m a racist. I believe that most West Malaysians (except maybe the people I call friends) have absolutely no idea what REAL tolerance is. Most of you ‘tolerate’ other races with the ’saya tak kacau kamu, kamu tak kacau saya’ maxim - (I don’t give you shit, you don’t give me shit)

Malaysia’s going to the dogs. You can’t blame it on the government - blame it on people like Ibrahim who think the world revolves around them or their God. It doesn’t. In this world, we are given the choice to love and respect other people, to feel compassion for all humanity - not just people who have the same blood/race/religion/economic status/citizenship.

Well, everyone’s a racist to a certain extent ain’t it? I’m a Chinese and this is what I’ve gotten since living overseas at a young age:

At least over here in Malaysia unlike the West, we don’t get teenagers who walks past you in the malls/streets and shouts “F*cking Chinks” or “F*ck you Asians”, or little boys who point the middle finger at you or grown drunk men who encircle you & dance around while chanting “Chink, Chink, Chink”. At least over here unlike China, no one labels you a “Chinese mongrel”, “descendant of exiles”, etc.

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