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2. If we study other nations where people of different ethnic groups have immigrated, we will find that integration and unity depended on several important factors. Firstly the indigenous people or the people who had set up the country make up at least initially, a very big proportion of the population. Additionally they would be dominant and materially successful. The small numbers of immigrants trickling in found it judicious and beneficial to be identified with the numerically superior and powerful dominant inhabitants. They would willingly forget their original languages and adopt the language of the people of the country as well as their culture; they would intermarry and over time they would be totally absorbed and assimilated and identified with the indigenous people. In such a situation unity is not a problem. The United States is one such country where the original language and basic culture of first settlers are accepted by later immigrants.
3. In the old days before the coming of the Europeans the few Chinese and Indians who settled in Malacca adopted the language and much of the culture of the Malays. Though there was no assimilation nevertheless good relations existed between the immigrant settlers and the Malays. Unfortunately when later the China-born Chinese-speaking immigrants dominated in numbers as well as economic wealth, the Malay speaking Baba and Nyonya deliberately dropped their Malay language and Baba culture and reverted to being Chinese in every way possible.
5. The British are only partly responsible for the separation of the races in Malaysia, for keeping the Malays in the rural areas, the Chinese in the urban areas and the Indians in the estates. The different races are also responsible. They made no attempt to mix together as a matter of preference.
6. The Malays before World War II really believed that the Chinese and Indians were temporary guests who would return to their countries once they had made enough money. So it was at the beginning.
7. Even when they showed signs of staying permanently, the Malays and their Rulers believed the British would honour the treaties which recognised the Malay States as the land of the Malays, the peninsula as Tanah Melayu or Malay Land.
8. But after the Brits returned after the war they talked of “giving” this country to whoever wishes to stay here. Although the Malays rejected this and forced the Malayan Union to be abandoned, they realised that things had changed and they had to recognise the claims of some of the non-Malays at least.
9. To cut a long story short independent Malaysia recognised the citizenship rights of the non-Malays and gave them quite freely. This is unlike many countries in the region where strict conditions were imposed. In fact, some immigrants were actually expelled.
10. The hope at independence was that the non-Malays would accept a single national language and a single national identity. But it became clear very quickly that the Chinese and the Indians wanted to retain their identities, their mother tongue and their culture. They did not want to be solely Malaysians, certainly not Malays.
11. At the beginning some prominent people tried multi-racial politics but this was rejected by the ordinary Malays, Chinese and Indians. In the end we settled for a compromise – retain your racial identity but cooperate with each other in a coalition of racial parties.
12. Politically it was a good formula and it worked. But when English schools were abolished and the Malay, Chinese and Indians children went to their own schools rather than to the national schools where the teaching was in the National Language. The hope for true national integration faded. After this even the attempt to put the schools from the three language streams in one campus was rejected by the Chinese.
13. It is no good blaming the politicians for perpetuating racial schism. Some of them who tried to ignore racial loyalties simply failed politically. For various reasons the races preferred to stay separated. They may meet at their work place or the playing field but they go home to separate enclaves according to their race.
14. We had opted for democracy and popularity decides who rules the country. Those who reject racialism simply lost popular support. But those who embrace racialism won.
15. They are not racists. The leaders of the different races were, at least in the beginning, able to get along well with each other. They developed close friendship. But they had to be very conscious of their racial backing and to cater to racial demands.
16. The lower ranking leaders, the ordinary members of political parties and the people as a whole had shown no sign of forgetting their racial identity. There may be few liberal minded ones who reject race, but some who do this do so because they believe their own race would gain by it. So even these people are racialist at heart.
17. Then came the resurgence of Islam worldwide. The Malaysian Malays began to adopt Islamic conservativeness especially with the dress code. This tended to push them further apart from the non-Muslims who saw this as an attempt to differentiate Muslim Malaysians from non-Muslim Malaysians. Some people suspect that this is the intention.
18. The behaviour of some extremist exponents of Islamic separateness did not help.
19. And so the races drifted further and further apart. All the time the so-called non-racial parties with their single-minded campaign against the positions of the Malays and Islam as agreed upon at the beginning actually intensified Malay racial sentiments, causing them to yearn for Malay unity rather than Malaysian unity.
20. The ideal of having a non-racial Malaysian nationality has now been almost forgotten. As the self-proclaimed non-racists attacked Malay racialism, the feeling among the Malays hardened. Openly the Malays have not attacked Chinese racialism as manifested by their practical rejection of the use of the National language, their rejection of the National schools, their Malaysian Malaysia slogan. If they do it would be muted and certainly not as blatant as non-Malay attacks against Malay racialism.
21. The Malays have seen what has happened to the Malays of Singapore and they have no desire to be like Singapore Malays.
22. So their reaction is to seek for Malay unity. They feel threatened, and their fear is real. Admittedly there are among the younger educated Malays a few who claim to reject Malay unity. But these people do not represent the vast majority of the Malays.
23. Malay unity, if it becomes stronger will make it more difficult to bring about Malaysian unity. But it must be remembered that the Chinese and Indian are also keen to retain their identities more and more. The Hindraf memorandum is very telling. And the Chinese educationists want even stronger role for Chinese language.
24. The trend is obviously against Malaysian Unity. A weak and unstable Government with its crude attempts to win over the different races through giving in on all demands does not help. Every time it gives in to the demands of one race it simply antagonises and pushes the other races further away.
25. If we still want Malaysian Unity we need to be willing to make sacrifices regarding what we consider to be our racial rights. Everyone has to do this. The leaders must be given some mandate to discuss these matters in private and to make concessions. After each step the lower rung leaders of each race must be given full briefing as to why the concessions have to be made. It would be useless if they don’t agree.
26. Provided we can roll back the present unhealthy trends and redirect it towards more positive non-racial objectives, provided we do this slowly by small steps we may be able to create a truly Malaysian identity where race would gradually become less important. It will take time but with sincerity we may reverse the present trends and move towards increasing co-operation and integration.
Asalamulaikum Tok Det,
Political problems under Pak lah has become hay wire.
Hak keistimewaan orang melayu semakin hilang tak berganti.
byk orang buat silent protest.Bangsa asing dah naik tocang. Zaman Tok Det dulu tak dak sapa berani…
I suggest they should appoint you as a mentor to the next PM
Regards,
Cucu Dato’ Wan Ibrahim Wan Soloh
Dear Tun,
Malay unity must come first before Malaysian unity. Our unity now is not as strong as before because some of the Malay try to be more open like the westerner. Open means that some of the Malays does not care about our race, they try to be like the American who now have a African American President. However, the Chinese and Indian still kept their unity, they want other race to become Prime Minister and they want freedom. But they do not want is the Malay language and the Malay schools. This is our main problem and we cannot let this happen at all.
How to unite Malay, it depends on the malay themselves. Our youngster now behave like the westerner; to open and does not think of their future. They even can let anybody to become Prime Minister because they just do not care. We can see this from the previous elections, where as the DAP, and keadilan are more powerfull than before. Why? because some stupid malays… Yes, indeed that UMNO now are not serving for the malays. The leader served for themselves, to make money. What happen, the malays got no economic stability at all. Prizes are going up; especially housing and the government just do not care. That is why this happen.
Malaysian unity, there is no such thing because we have let the Chinese and the Indian go so far that they have become stronger and bantai the Malays back. Even the Malay do it also. Our government are week in preventing this. Afraid of the Chinese and Indians to retaliate. Let it be, let only UMNO rules, MCA and MIC can go if they do not comfortable with us. Yes, we need them, but most of the time they are pain in butt.
They want other races to be Prime Minister like the US President now. In US it can happen because they speak, learn, and been thought in one line. It cannot be in Malaysia because we have 3 schools and 3 languages.
Hopefully, somebody stubborn like you TUN can ruled our government and bring back the dignity of our races.
help us.
thank you.
Yang Ariff Tun,
Dengan segala hormatnya saya ingin sampaikan Malay Unity sapeti yang dibahaskan itu adalah sama dengan Serb Nationalism. Kita mesti jaga jaga apa yang kita harapkan.
I am a Malaysian who believes that unity can be achieved by tolerating each other. Our forefathers could do it, y can’t we? Well it’s cos we r greedy.If one race have this or that, the other races also want the same n sum of them want more. We all have that attitude, be it Indian, Malay or Chinese. Emphasizing on teaching school children new subjects on unity or sumthing like that will not make a difference. Teaching begins at home, parents should teach children to be united with other races, but that is not so in our country. Parents express dissatisfaction against the goverment against other races at home. N some ppl even come up with stories like “u know this guy suppose can get scholarship one, but then ah just cos he is a non -malay ah, he did not get.” Ppl get angry when they hear such things n most of them dun bother finding out whether it is true.
Such things such be stopped, we the younger generation should change our mentality, we need to look ahead, it is time to be one, Malaysian. It not as easy as it is said but it can happen. We need to fight for our country, cos any loop hole is an advantage for foreign countries to take advantage of our country.
We r special, we r rich, we hv everything we need in this country. All we need to do is to be united n work as one. If our “pemimpin”s can’t make good use of their position, we the “rakyat” should try to change. Till now i am speaking as a malaysian, not as an indian cos i believe that a malaysian is who i am first, then only i am an indian. If every1 is able to think this way, maybe things will change.
“”PROVE TO ME THAT THE SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT IS LOOKING AFTER THE INTERESTS OF MALAYS ACCORDING TO THEIR CONSTITUTION.IF NOT THEN PLEASE FOREVER SHUT UP!”"
Similary, prove to me that all Malays in Malaysia are equally taken care of by your Malaysian Gov. Don’t need to talk about the Chinese and Indians, they know they are marginalised.
The results of the last GE and of the win by Anwar are telling. Are Malay stupid to vote for Anwar and the oppositions if things are going their way? Are you stupid?
Anyway, tell me which parts of the Singpore Constitution has gone wrong.
Salam Tun,
Just wanna say “selamat berpuasa dan semoga sihat selalu”.
Dear Tun,
I say this in reply to malay_supremacy’s comments.
Yes, I do agree that vernacular schools are a stumbling block to racial harmony, but likewise, mentality such as malay_supremacy’s.
Part of the aim to unite a nation is adaptation of cultures across the nation into one identity. It is not the act of “malay-nising” other races to comply to the malay culture. It also involves Malays adopting the cultures of other races and vice versa. It is about the birth of one nation with one identity that is neither Malay, Chinese, Indian etc but a nation is all Malay, Chinese, Indian etc- who call themselves as Malaysians.
In truth, the races in Malaysia had been doing some of this adaptation without even realising it and this is usually an expected outcome when people of different cultures live together for more than half a decade.
Back to the matter of vernacular schools.. yes, abolish them but also adopt some of their cultures into the national schools. Things like making Mandarin or Tamil or French or Spanish or Japanese or German etc (select between both)as the third language a must, besides your usual BM and English – will send a very good message to all races that even Malays, will need to learn an extra language besides English. This will also eliminate the thinking that Mandarin or Tamil are languages only for the Chinese and Indians and make work requirements such as “able to speak and write Mandarin” a capability issue instead of a racial issue.
I myself am not a Malay, but I speak, read and write flawless Malay (if you do not see my face, you will think it is a Malay speaking!) with all the Malay slang and dialect and Arabic greetings…. but I also speak Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, Tamil, Hindi, Japanese and Spanish. I know I am an anomaly for a Malaysian because not many Malaysians can speak more than 2-3 languagues…but it is my dream that one day, ALL Malaysians (Malays included) can speak a standard of 3 languages (BM, English and a select one) and enjoy unity under one identity. I also long to see the day when Malays are confident and comfortable enough to embrace unity instead of harping on things such as Malay Supremacy….for if you want to talk about supremacy, I can tell you… the Chinese and Indians can confidently say theirs are much more supreme cultures, one that dates thousands of years back as the two surviving first civilisations on earth.
What I would love people to understand is: unity is a merge, not a requirement. Like a marriage, if you unite two people together based on requirements, the marriage will most likely fail… but if you unite two people together as a merging of lives, the marriage has a high chance to survive. At this stage, the Malays have been laying down requirements for others to meet and have not thought of merging with the other races and vice versa and each races are afraid to lose their racial identities… it is no wonder, unity is a failed issue in Malaysia!
Come one, people! It has been more than 50 years now and still you want to hang on to being Malays, Chinese or Indians? Can’t you see that you are no longer that, but Malaysians?
Salam Tun,
I think you have made some very good points but some of the people just failed to digest it in a rationale way. Sometimes I think we need a dictator like Saddam Hussein to lead us to UNITY !
As for Singaporean Malays— dont bother to think about them..they are just too arrogant to accept the truth. Let them rot in that small country. I can see their youngsters (the Malays) there have lost their identities and even faith. I pray that we will not be like them and for the Malays ..don’t ever fall into the the tricks of equality, human rights etc. There is no prefect country exist in this world. last but not least …abolish all vernacular schools because it is the biggest stumbling block to racial harmony and unity.
Selamat berbuka Tun.
jawapan kepada Dr Syed Alwi Ahmad:
sekarang apa yg berlaku ini adalah resepinya..
syed alwi: The problem with Malaysia is NOT unique.
adib: terimalah hakikat yg malaysia multi-racial n sememangnya unik utk duduk bersama2 semua kaum dan agama. jgn kita belajar dari demokrasi barat. kerana negara mereka tidak seperti malaysia. atau mari kita kaji penciptaan demokrasi dan komunisme. kita kena kosongkan diri dan observe dr semua zaman, bidang2, kaum2, agama2 dan budaya huhu..
syed alwi: What keeps the races truly apart ? Religion of course??? adib: …pandai jer dr alwi cakap begitu
*mari kita sama2 belajar semula semua agama di dunia ini dan kita nilai semula di mana pengetahuan kita ttg agama;p ..takpernah saya nak salahkan agama!:D kite nih yg pembawanya..pada saya pengamal agama seperti kamu dan saya yg memjadikan agama itu sendiri baik atau buruk…bila ramai yg begitu(baik atau buruk) maka jadilah tanggapan(baik atau buruk) terhadap agama itu sendiri.
dan bila kamu kata ttg 15% sahaja rakyat melayu ada di singapura dan kamu taknakpun jadi general, saya teringat kata2 dr mahathir ttg jews yg sedikit kat dunia nih boleh mendominasi dunia;p ..kita kena bebetol oserve n learn dr semua sejarah, agama, politik dll kat dunia nih…kosongkan jiwa kita..dunia nak kiamat,subhanallah!
syed alwi: Let me publicly ask you this question – Who stops Muslims in Malaysia and elsewhere from acquiring technology and emulating Japan, Korea etc ?? No one ! Yet Muslims blame everyone else for their own shortcomings.
adib: yerr kerr???mcam takpercaya jer, mungkin muslim itu yg takcukup belajar agama kot;p
syed alwi: I suggest that you encourage Malaysian Malays to pursue Science & Technology instead of bad mouthing Singapore. At your age – there are better things to do.
adib: to persue science n tech adalah tanggungjawab kami rakyat malaysia dan kami sedang menuju ke arah itu. kami belum jadi negara maju lagi seperti singapura..tapi tggu kami 2020 nti
ini dr mahathir tidak bad mouthing about singapura, dia mengingatkan saya dan bangsa melayu, cina dan india di malaysia.. alhamdulillah saya yg berumur 29 tahun ini kian sedar dan stil belajar dari semua aspek, ader jer kawan2 saya di singapura..kami mmg belajar semua aspek baik dan buruk dr singapura sebagaimana kamu belajar ttg malaysia…
artdeep
p/s; ..demokrasi
Monday 22nd Sept 2008, one of The Star’s headlines:
“Dr M: Teach good living values”
Dear Tun,
It’s a start. Kudos to you for giving a voice to this matter.
To By justmy2SEN,
You cut and paste an article from the Islamic Human Rights Group based in UK.
The article talk about religious freedom. It says that there is lacking of religious freedom in Spore.
The second quote you paste, you said from the reputable source. You did not named the source. So……
There is a whole bunch of articles in the internet. Is all them facts?
We can find thousands of foreign articles in the internet which ridicule our country. Can we take them as facts?
I want to state that there are Malay minorities which is really have been discriminate even murdered in the thousand in Yala, southern Thai. There is not even a blip about them being disciminate. Why is Spore Malay is so special?
What is the basis for comparing with them? There are minorities and we are the majorities? We should comparing us with their chinese. Apple to apple.
Are we the Malaysian insist that our neighbor is in misery and we take comfort with misery of others?
Tun have said that the Malay Singaporean have been discriminated.
There are whole bunch of Sporean who says in this post that they have not been discriminated. I’ve lived in JB and I don’t think they are living in misery as perceived by TDM. Are we going to have this fantasy that they are?
They do have their problem but so do we.
I have my respect for TDM but he is after all a politician not an angel from heaven. All politician (except for YB Nik Aziz) spin the truth.
The bottom line is, BN politician always says, we should not become like the Malay sporean………. what they actual mean is that we should give contract to the Malay…… Well the problem and the fact is that only few Malay cronies become rich while the rest of the Malay only get the RESIDUE. So all this is actually political gimmick which already lost its touch.
I think most of us already aware of this gimmick and we all hope for a change in a political landscape.
The present leaders should not manipulate for their own political interest and gain and come to a conclusion to assimilated all races into one Malaysian Malaysia without jeopardy to Malays races. Need to think of racial integration and harmony without offending other races but have to make them know who is the boss, so-called Ketuanan Melayu in a non arrogant manner.
http://www.orangmelayu.com
Dr Mahathir,
You are wrong in accusing different culture or language are the root cause preventing national unity.
These are life proofs of languages & culture will not divide a nation:
1. Canada has French speaking Quebec and English speaking states (almost, but still united strong).
2. Switzerland has German, French, Italian and Romansh. Their citizens are divided among these four languages.
3. Luxembourg has Luxermbourgish, French, German
The sense of oneness loss after 1969, the 513 event and the subsequent power domination of one race over the other two.
It was the politicians that divide the nation, and you are one of them.
Another point to note. This may be my prejudice. Those who gave up their root or original identity to blend into another culture, will never understand those who insist on their own original identity.
Dear Dr Mahathir,
I wrote in earlier, but you did not publish it. I hope it is because it was not received properly and not because you, the former Prime Minister of Malaysia are afraid of a dissenting opinion and a contrary view. Here it goes again.
I am a Singaporean Chinese.
I cannot leave the insults to the Singapore Malay unanswered.
Dr Mahathir, please get this straight.
When our country was born,
he chose to stay with us
When our country was at war.
he chose to fight with us
When our country was struggling to survive
he struggled with us
We Singaporeans stand eye to eye and no one has to bow his head. We are not the same people your political parties frightened into fighting back in 1960s.
I have relatives in Malaysia and if your people choose to beat up on them, donât for one moment think I would lift a finger against a fellow Singaporean in revenge. Because we are one people. Not the Malaysian Chinese. Not the Hong Kong Chinese. Not the China Chinese unless they choose, like the Singaporean Malay to stake his life on this land. I would defend the Singaporean Malay at home if he is insulted by the bigot. I would defend himabroad if he were attacked by a foreigner (like you, Dr Mahathir). And I am confident he would do the same for me.
Divide your people if you wish with your racialist rhetoric, donât bother trying to divide mine. You and your UMNO friends will never succeed again as my fellow Singaporeans have told you.
Do our Malays look different from yours? Perhaps it is simply because they have grown-up and moved on. You should actually not encourage your people to look more closely lest they become even more dissatisfied with themselves. I end with a story to illustrate.
There were once two schoolteachers in a village school. One schoolteacher had favourite students in his class. He marked them correct even when they were wrong. He praised them even when they handed in shoddy schoolwork. The rest he taught but otherwise ignored. The other schoolteacher had no favourites. He punished his students when they were lazy, he praised them when they learnt their lessons well. Which class do you think did better in the National Exams? Which schoolteacher did his duty by his students?
Hi Tun,
You talk so much of Malay civilisation & what not. What about the indegenious people of Malaysia; both in Peninsular & in Sabah & Sarawak. Where do they come into this picture. If the these people what their equal rights as propogated in your article ; then I think even the Malays should be uprooted & sent back to their original countries. Thanks & have a nice day.
Assalamualaikum Tun,
I have just completed my research on Malay loyalty to umno as promised in the earlier part of my comment dated 15 September.
Ayahanda Tun and other readers are invited to my blog on this latest article:
***’Analisis undi UMNO dalam Pilihanraya 2008: Kajian Kesetiaan Ahli Parlimen dan Pengundi’.
plus for those who missed earlier article ‘Personality traits of the Malaysian Prime Ministers.
Regards,
DAH IKHWAN
dahalmi.wordpress.com
Dearest Dearest Tun,
You said it as it is, and you said it best.
You are a living legend.
You always say it best because you didn’t just read it all from history books, you were there. For people like me who was born way after independent and learnt the country’s history from books and read it from papers, or media (or blogs, of course), I always got confused and got sandwiched in between these racial matters.
Sometimes I don’t know who to hate, who to side with. I don’t hate the other races, sometimes I even adore them. But the racial claims on media (blogs included) taught me to have some sort of that anger inside. And sometimes it won’t rest even if I tried so hard to make it to.
I thought to myself when someone, be it a leader, ordinary citizen, or one of those artistes who not long ago involved in a non-profit “Malaysian Unity” project, say something about “Malaysian Unity”, what does that *really* mean to them? –Does that mean that they would really tolerate racial issues with the other, or does that mean they’re warm and nice towards their friends, colleagues, neighbors from other races but when it comes to racial privileges, wealth, “you’re on your own”?
I hear everyone shouting for “Malaysian Unity” everywhere, and those leaders who claimed to abolish racial politics, how far did they mean it, I always wonder about all this.
If someone is shouting for (or demand for) “Malaysian Unity”, did they “really” mean “Malaysian” unity, or did they mean to have every privileges shared because they didn’t already have them?
I guess the right way to know if you are racist at heart or if your not racist at all, don’t rely on going out there and see how you treat someone from other races, BUT see if what you claim as your “racial rights” being taken away in return for “Malaysian Unity”, see if your gonna be comfortable with everything as it is.
My points may be scattered. But I do have points, I am sure of that. And I am satisfied with what Tun wrote in this article, because you said it best. It all happens not because we hate each other, but because each one of us always think and demand for our own “rights”.
Regards.
To Blogger BEER (Bravo Echo Echo Romeo): Finally !!! You are absolutely right. Assimilation will be easier if you are not forced into a religion by virtue of inter marriage. I also believe the “new Malaysia” will not happen in our lifetime. But if it were to happen in the future, the movement should start now. Unfortunately, there is something called “generational memory” … my parents for what they’ve gone thru can change immediately and completely be “color blind”. Generation X may have partial success. It is our children that will reap the benefit of a unified Malaysia.
For the record, I never knew of racial polarization until I got into Form 6 and saw all my Malay friends missing (mostly went to Matriculation). And reality hit me like a speeding locomotive when I got into University. The phrase “birds of a feather flock together” is an understatement. It didn’t get any better when I started working.
The opposition have got the nation’s attention. But their coalition is superficial. The have a common enemy called BN. When BN is disposed … it will become a circus.
Assalamualaikum Tun,
My husband and I grew up during your great premiership and was fortunate to have been blessed with good education, thanks to DEB policies. My grandparents were poor farmers. Unfortunately, it seems that my generation has forgotten the struggles of our ancestors. Not only that, I think the generation before mine seems to have wiped the hardship off their mind especially when we give in to demands by other races. Like it or not, the majority of Malays are still not up to par economically. You can watch “BersamaMu” show for evidence. However, better assimilation between races would probably improve the environment.I truly hope that UMNO would take heed of your advices for our future generation’s sake.
May you be blessed with good health and strength to carry on.
Hullo Tun
Are there any movie producers or scriptwriters reading this wonderful weblog of our TDM? If not they should. Hahaha itâs so funny with those two..Baba Melaka & Ganesh on their bumiputra status. A sure block buster indeed!!! A lot of movies can come out of the contents from this blog. How I love this blog!!! It makes everybodyâs day. Syabas.
Dear Tun Dr. Mahathir,
This is an excelent historical lecture on how the Chinese and Indians migrated to stay in Malaysia. What is far more important is on how we could unite the different races that make up Malaysia. There are more than 12 million non-Malays in Malaysia and certainly they have their place under the Malaysian sun. I urge you, as a senior statesman to use your goodoffice to inculcate racial unity and harmony among the different races so that we could live in peace and prosper together in this land of plenty. History has shown that humans have gone to war for land, race and religion and Malaysia is ideally placed for such problems if we don’t remedy the situation. I reiterate that as the former Prime Minister you have the capacity and capability to inculcate positive values among the rakyat and that include racial unity among the different races that make up beautiful Malaysia. Any racial overtones under the guise of historical past would only endanger racial harmony and peace. This is clearly reflected in the various comments to your article. The different races that make beutiful Malaysia are like eggs in a single basket, if we drop it all the eggs will be smashed. Thank you Ybg Tun and I earnestly hope that you would give some thought to my proposal. Aruna
“By Ganesh on September 17, 2008 10:02 AM
Hello Sir, I got a question for you. please answer to it. I born in Malaysia. Am I bumiputra or not?”
Hello Ganesh! You think born in Malaysia banyak besar kah? You think just born here can make you Bumiputra kah?
Wake-up lah Joe! My ancestors came here hundreds of years ago, and I’ve lost touch, not only with my ‘relatives’ in China, I don’t even know where the ‘kampung’ is and I can’t even speak the original language of my ancestors! My family speaks Malay, eat like the Malays (by using our hands), eat food similar to the Malays (asam pedas, curries, masak lemak cili padi, etc), have similar taboos like the Malays, etc.
And I’m not even a Bumiputra. You want to be one, just because you are born in Malaysia??? Wake-up lah!
Dear Tun,
It will be difficult to unite when all involved do not have equal rights. I am one for Malaysian Unity and have been hoping to see the birth of a truly Malaysian nation, but things are getting uglier by the minute! Why? Because people are being made more aware of their race and less aware of their national identity. Anything that can lead towards that, should be eliminated before we can bring people of all races together under one identity. This not only include policies, but also principles, morality, philosophies and mentality.
The current dominant mentality in the world we live in is “Me, me, me” and this is one characteristic found across all races. As you had mentioned, unity involves sacrifices and how is it possible for people to sacrifice anything if all they think about are themselves?
Years ago, we see this sort of mentality in action when people are virtually grabbing food off plates using their bare-hands during open houses, then there are the horrid driving skills of cutting into other ppl’s lanes with no warning whatsoever, the shameful morality of taking advantage of people or situations etc. Children are raised and taught by their parents to take advantage or you will be taken advantaged of. Both adults and children do not know what taking turns or being curteous means.
Tun, the problem is larger than merely social policies and political games. The problem lies in a rotting society and this is a problem that transcends race. Yes, work on changing policies, but at the end of the day, it is the society and its values that also need changing before any sort of unity can be enjoyed by all.
If there is no malay,there will be no Malaysia,no Malay Peninsula and off course no MERDEKA.Merdeka is given to the Malay community to rule their own country by the brits and we must respect the independence given to the malay community.So with this agreement of transfering power by the brits to the malays,I would only like to see that the PM of Malaysia should always be a Malay.It cannot be rule by a bengali,arab,chinese,indian.This is Tanah Melayu and only melayu should lead the country and the Tuan Agong must also be a malay and can’t be benggali.chinese,indian or whatsoever lah.
Salam untuk Tun seisi keluarga.
If you think malays get it easy in the private sector, then I think you’re crazy! Since day 1, malays have been discriminated against for fair employment and distribution of wages based wealth.
From the point that jobs are advertised (when did mandrin become a requirement for roles with markets in just m’sia), till their resumes are submitted. These days its very, very common to see non-malays running the HR, senior exec roles and ultimately the CEO/COO roles. These losers are very protective of who gets into their father’s companies and hence hiring is only limited to the non-malays, usually those with a 3 syllable name. For the lucky few malays to make it, they are usually exluded from important tasks and made to do work that adds no professional value or tasks that require affiliation with other malays like a govt account. This is how the non-malays now squander wealth and deny malays good private sector jobs, and ultimately seclude them from a fair share of economic equity that the NEP has had to fight for all these years.
Govt officials, pls do something about this before the malays are entirely wiped out the whole private sector employment network.
For proof, pls look ta Shell, Exxon, Caltex, BP, Maxis, Ericsson .. etc. Fair employment my arse!
To JB_FROM,
That article was copy-paste from a reliable source and I put it here because i feel sick that one fella simply assume Malays Singapore are not discriminated based on his supposedly few frens
and please read my other comments before you make any statement…My previous comment DOES NOT EVEN MENTION MALAY SINGAPORE BUT I AM MORE BEING CYNICAL TOWARDS THE MALAYSIAN MALAYSIA CONCEPT..IT IS MY SECOND COMMENT THAT I JUST COPY-PASTE THE TRUTH RATHER THAN THE MAKE UP STORY BY SOME OF COMMENTATORS HERE ABOUT MALAYS SINGAPORE…AND YOU COME UP WITH KUMAN SEBERANG LAUT NAMPAK, GAJAH DPN MATA TAK NAMPAK…APA NI AKU PUN TAK PAHAM WHAT YOU’RE GETTING AT..
I decided to copy-paste the article to give another side of story regarding Malays Singapore as some people here are so shallow to based their arguments about the Malay Singapore from a ‘few friends he supposedly has’ or even one person who mengaku he is Singaporean…so i decided to have a source from a reputable international body..if that also you want to argue i don’t know what else to say-LAH..it seems in Malaysia people are blinded or too obsessed with their ideology that they can;t differentiate between TRUTH and LIES
If we don’t learn from history we are doomed to repeat it…SO MALAYS IN SINGAPORE IS ONE OF EXAMPLES OF HOW MALAYS MIGHT BE DISCRIMINATED DUE TO ONE IDEOLOGY MALAYSIAN MALAYSIA WHICH IRONICALLY SUPPOSED TO BE ADVOCATES OF EQUALITY FOR ALL..IT IS THEREFORE RELEVANT FOR ALL MALAYS TO BE AWARE OF THIS AND THINK HARD BEFORE MAKE ANY DECISION WHICH AFFECTS THEIR CHILDREN’S FUTURE
I can’t seem to find my comments that I posted earlier on my reasoning on those who still think that this land doesn’t belongs to the Malays….here goes (again?)..
1. If you read and understand the constitution, you will notice that the words “Bumiputera” and “Malay” are being used interchangeably. This means Malay=Bumiputera and Bumiputera=Malay.
2. Since “Bumiputera” means “Malay” then this means all the native people of this land be it Malay/Orang Asli, Kadazan, Iban, Bidayuh, Murut, Bajau, etc are all MALAYS.
3. When those “small minority” talks about the owner of this land, they only mention the Orang Asli who live in jungles. They never mention about those “evolved” Orang Asli who live out of the jungles i.e. the native people of this land, the Bumiputeras who also happen to be the Malays.
4. Please be grateful that you’re born here and share this land with the native people.
5. We may not live in harmony but believe me, we can live normally and happily here in this land called Malaysia.
Assalamu Alaikum WrWb Ayahanda Tun,
Saya rasa Melayu adalah bangsa yang nak jadi sama macam bangsa Yahudi. Kamu ini ego lagi perasan. Tun tegakkan bangsa kamu kerana kamu adalah orang Islam, maka demi Negara Malaysia juga. Apa lagi yang kamu nak? BN dapat bagi keistimewaan dah untuk KAUM mu MELAYU. Bersyukur dan tegakkan lah ALLAH, majukan tuhanMu dalam pekerjaan sekali pun. Pergila sokong DSAI yang majoriti pengikutnya bukan Melayu. Maka jika Anwar jadi PM dia akan bawa semua jentera2 dari DAP dan sebagainya yang akan makan Anwar jugak. Tak usah berlagak la Pemimpin atas Melayu. DAP dan sekutunya mereka ada perancangan dan kepentingan mereka. Kajilah diri anak keluarga, jiran, rakan2 mu sebelum nak menang. Tegakkan Asmaulhusna dahulu ya. Sesungguhnya tiupan Asmaulhusna itu ada dalam dirimu malah dalam semua manusia.Semua manusia inginkan keadilan kerana adanya tiupan dari Allah Al-Adl iaitu tuhan Maha Adil dalam setiap manusia. Manusia juga inginkan kesejahteraan keamanan kerana datangnya juga dari sifat Allah Assalam dan al-Badi’.. Kenalilah siapa yang menciptakanmu manusia.
AssalamuAlaikum WrWb,
Hanan
assalamualaikum ayahanda tun..
my feedback comments to overseas expat and giri…
you may call me a racist, unsocialised etc etc. i believe everyone here has the rights to express his/her own opinion in this beautiful blog..rite? so do i…afterall my posts here are based on my observation around me and i dont twist and turn the facts..no harm done rite???
ciao
thank you and wassalam
p/s:selamat berbuka puasa tun dan keluarga..;-)
Tun yg dikasihi,
Forgive me as i have to explain to miss norashikin79 about the “bigger picture’ and also to teach young generation about understand, diagnose and conclude. These are three basic tecniques in order to survive in this modern era.
By looking at your comment, you are another average malay student. TUN’s discussion is about UNITY. Therefore, please use your wise brain to digest the reality of the indonesian UNITY not the bombing or any other issue. The bombing, riot and most of the unplesant thing happened in Indonesia is definitely not because of UNITY.. I may be wrong but it is most due to lack of learning opportunity, poverty, wrong relegion teaching or understanding…
to miss norashikin79…. do check your comment before you start comment other… year 79.. luckily you only 29 years old…. “kanyiaq lagi…”
asalamualaikum tun
1)i have pakcik and makcik stayed in s’pore.
2)i think the malay status there depend on how or what your career is in there.
3)as for my makcik marrying a s’porian doing small trading they just lived like a kampung house
4)my another aunty also just live in a flat. she married a spore clerk having 6 children!!. i remember going there when i was very small. at that time i thought my aunty and cousins has a very beautiful flat and the surroundings are clean.
5)my uncle work as policeman(quite a high ranked one). he lives in a bungalow and married a s’porian aunty
6)both my aunty had demised and all the children had move to msia
7)my uncle still there, once in a blue moon he will come back and visit relatives in msia.
8)he always bring along lots of murtabak spore for my mother..who has 9 children.
9)his children are all very faired skin and has not a bit of my uncle punya jawa look. they all schooled in spore and the male have to joined the spore national army. all of my cousins are married and some of them have migrated to brunei and indonesia. one even become a hotel chef. my aunty is a typical spore with the always ‘kita org,kita org’ punya accent and character..with black sunglasses and she never fancy staying in msia long.
10)i think to live in spore is a matter of survival and networking..
11)i love malaysia tanah air ku…
I’ve always been a strong supporter of yours. I believe in what have been said by you. we must be willing to sacrifies our racial rights and look at the big picture! An unstable country = to bad economy for the country = to uncertainty among the rakyats… So forget about our racial rights and not going asking for this and that but look in how we can improve as MALAYSIANS for the future and for our childrens’s future… The only solution now is for you to return and put everything right especially choosing the most reliable candidate as the new PM
DEAR TUN AND FAMILY. SELAMAT BERPUASA.
BACK IN 1987, DATUK SRI DR. RAIS YATIM RESIGNED AS
FOREIGN MINISTER WHEN HE DECLARED JOINING TEAM B
AND CHALLENGED TEAM A LEAD BY TUN MAHATHIR.
TAN SRI MAHYUDDIN MUST ALSO RESIGN IF HE INTENDS
TO CHALLENGE THE PM IN THIS DECEMBER PARTY ELECTION.
LET THE ACTION BE CRYSTAL CLEAR AND NOT HIDING
BEHIND THE BUSH.
TENGKU RAZALEIGH WANT TO GO SOLO IN AN EFFORT TO
BECOME THE PM, THIS IS TOOOOOO KELANTANESE…WE ARE
FACING A NATIONAL ISSUE. UMNO IS LOOKING FOR MALAYSIA
NEW PM NOT PM FOR KELANTAN.
SELAMAT HARI RAYA AND SELAMAT BERSIDANG
Dear Tun,
I am a young malaysian born of ethnic chinese.
I beg to differ with some of your points.
I’ll start with the issue of schools. I have been fully educated in sekolah kebangsaan. In university and with friends from those of chinese schools, I begin to see the difference in education. The level of education is much higher especially in subjects such as maths and science. The subject is taught with much verve and depth that the capabilities of a Form 3 chinese school student is comparable to that of a Form 5 student in national schools. Anyone that questions this fact can go and see for yourself. It is truly a great amount of difference.
Second, as far as the minorities that are complaining of not earning enough, that I cannot comment but what I will say is this, I firmly believe in the statement that competition improves the breed. In life I strongly believe in giving it all you’ve got and that should be the true form of competition. Factors such as university enrollment should be entirely by merit and factors such as having poor students should not be an issue as can be seen in newspapers where poor students can still produce fantastic results. Where there is a will, there is a way.
I however do not agree with the case of argument of Azan calls being noisy. It is the traditional call of prayer for muslims and has been so for more than a thousand years. i ask of the same when temples have prayer sessions where drums and bells are played. It is only fair that we accord them the same respect.
Racial tensions should not arise when people learn to understand each other. It is obvious by now through world economics the nature of the chinese and indians. We are competitive by nature through upbringing and that propels us to move forward. We would like to share this drive with all malaysians so that we can bring this country forward.
the world is a cruel cruel place. But together we will prevail.
A young malaysian
YABhg Tun
1. Sesungguhnya amat membimbangkan. Anak bongsu baru berusia 4 tahun. What would his future be like … 20… 30 yrs from now? All I can do is give him the best possible education, and a good grounding of nationhood.
2. Pada hemat saya, pihak-pihak yang paling bertanggungjawab dalam memburukkan keadaan, dulu dan sekarang, ialah (1) ahli-ahli politik yang ghairah meraih sokongan melalui isu-isu perkauman (yang sebenarnya tidaklah seburuk yang digambarkan) dan (2) pihak media yang nampaknya teramat taksub dengan sensasi yang boleh diraih dari setiap perkembangan politik yang tidak sihat. Tidakkah mereka sedar amalan kewartawanan seperti ini boleh memburukkan keadaan dan menghancurkan negara.
3. Of course, as indicated by many others, Pak Lah is too weak a leader. No more excuses please, hand it over to somebody else, NOW.
4. Sekalung penghargaan kepada pihak BPR. Bersihkanlah negara ini, sebersih-bersihny, dari korupsi.
5. Perhaps Malaysians should try to learn and be comfortable with the concept of two-party system for this country. With the right set of leaders, it is OK to eventually accept this system.
Salam hormat dan Selamat Hari Raya kepada Tun dan keluarga.
My dearest Tun
Your point: â13.
I believed Tun has not been out of your home much lately. In due respect, I beg to differ your view on this. Itâs correct to say the people may meet at their work or the playing field but they go home to their separate enclaves according to their race. BUT the beauty is that their separate enclaves are in and within the same community of their housing environment. Even in kampungs and villages, we do find a mixed racial environment. Thereâs really no racialism thinking in the peopleâs mind other than it being put so outwardly into their mind so oftenly by the politicians. After 51 years of Independence, the people have learned to accept one another. If there is any racialism at all, itâs only a drop in the ocean. The fact is, the politicians should focus more on the peopleâs livelihood rather than humming this same old song on racialism every now and then. Why is there a need to instill such feelings and thoughts into the peopleâs mind whereas it can all godly be forgotten? Living together harmoniously and putting their differences aside and accepting each other as they are, has always been a norm and also an ever learning process to and for our people. This is part of our way of life..the Malaysian way of life. Though I may sound odd but this is the way I look at our environment and how our country should be living together in peace and harmony…and not for political gain. God Bless.
salam Tun,
to Mcguyver99,
Thanks for your views.
you have yours but I beg to differ.
It’s just that I am sick and tired of commentators praising Singapore as if it is a perfect example.
That’s why I gave facts about their governance,a section of their constitution,Tun’s comments and ask readers to deny those facts.
Actually none can because it is true.You know it and I know it.
Yes Malays should work hard to achieve their dreams to become rich,
but you should not implement policies that go against your own sacred constitution,can you?
Please refer to my previous comments for reference.
Thank you.
Jeng3
DS Anwar looks grotesquely confident to take over the government.
Pak Lah is laughing and called Anwar is bluffing.
YB Zahid Hamidi said thre is no need to discuss transition(STAR Sept. 17, 2008)
âWhether it is Sept 16 or later, or any other date, PAS will support Anwar as the Pakatan Rakyat goal is similar to PASâ, which is to take over the Government,â said PAS spiritual adviser Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat.
DS Anwar is now creating a situation like: there is a calm before the storm.
NOW TO SEE WHO IS THE REAL PENIPU RAKYAT
YAB Tun and fellow bloggers,
Our country has existed and prospered for the last 51 years as an independent nation. Thus far all races in this country of ours have managed to live side by side in comparatively peaceful and tolerant atmosphere with some hiccups here and there which are not uncommon in many other countries.
The trouble stems from the fact that the younger generations have not bothered to study the history of our nation and the events that took place before, during and after the 2nd World War. Such events like how certain section of the community tried to takeover the country before the British Military Administration took over the reign, the saga of the Malayan Union, the armed attempt by Chin Peng and his bands of Communists to overthrow the government by waging guerilla war from 1948 until 1990 may not have sunk in the minds of the younger generations who were then not even borned yet. Our country has made tremendous progress compared to the time of the British when KL used to look like a cowboy town. This has been achieved only by one very important factor of TOLERANCE by the various races in the spirit of give and take as embodied in the Constitution without which this country would have gone to the dogs.
So the choice is really ours to make, to either continue to live in peaceful co-existence or live in chaos and anarchy!
Assalamualaikum Yg Bbhg TUN & fellow bloggers,
Once again the issue of unity is becoming fast topic among Malaysian… it is so synonym with the current situation at hand. In the first place… do Malaysian really know what is “UNITY” in the first place?
As Malaysian first… unity plays important role in ensuring Malaysia is heading toward the best of its future for the younger generation. Deleting all sentiment or sense of racism within these multicultural society of Malaysia.
Whereas as Malays…unity play crucial role to establish strength of the Malays to maintain the future of the malay people.
Nevertheless we have to be UNITED as a whole whether we be Malays, Chinese or Indians…
Take care Yg Bbhg Tun & fellow bloggers…
wasalam
Salam Tun,
After reading much of people comment here make me laugh. Talk about other are immigrants here and that they ‘over extended’ their stay.
I think human nature are greedy. They like to claim everything are their but in fact everything in this world belong to God. If one day God decided Malaysia cover with sea than see can claim it any more.
In Islam, they believe that all humans came from Adam the first messenger of Allah The Almighty. So the concept of racism is way too far from the concept of Islam. Take a good look at the Mecca city during Hajj season. Around 2 million of pilgrims from all around the world regardless of their skin colors go there to circle the Ka’aba. It’s symbolic but somehow some muslim people could not easily realize about the universality of Islam.
And another thing is sometime we saw some of the job advertisement, there is “Chinese/Mandarin” is preferred. This not racist my friend. It’s a need for the scope of the job to deal with some investor from China or Taiwan. It’s just a language like Japanese and etc. I don’t take this as racism but as a advantage to us Malaysian. Cause we can learn many language here. Many of my Malay friends can speak or write chinese better than many Chinese and some can speak more languages. So please don’t think this a bad thing or racism.
May peace be with all of us
Hello Sir,
I got a question for you. please answer to it.
I born in Malaysia. Am I bumiputra or not?
Assalammualaikum,Tun ,isteri dan umat Islam sekelian.Salam mesra buat yang lain.Tun ,sekarang di Malaysia sudah terhapus semangat muhibah.Kerana sikap dendam yang ada pada bangsa2 yang tak tahu berterima kasih itu.Malah ditanam sifat pada keturunan mereka yang pandai dengan sifat bermuka2 kerana kononnya MALAYSIA tak demokrasi pada bangsa2 ini.Tun ,ketegasan dalam menjalankan pemerintahan perlu,Jangan mudah meiyahkan apa saja pandangan terutama dari bangsa2 ini.Kadang2 memang ingin melaga2kan bangsa melayu yang mudah simpati,mudah melupakan apa yang org buat kat dia sebelum ini.Kita bukan berdendam tetapi berjaga2 .Semangat muhibah itu perlu dalam negara seperti MALAYSIA .Tetapi undang2 mesti dilakukan dengan adil tak kira bangsa /pangkat sekalipun.Semoga Tun akan diberi kesihatan yang mantap agar dapat meneruskan perjuangan demi Malaysia.
Salam Tun,
I hope p lah-wak will reaad this, or at least his konco2 will read this and pass to him what u’ve written.
Plah-wak if u down want to step down now at the very least learn from who knows. u a disgrace to sekolah pondok. make we all feel like stupid.
Dear Tun,
I have always reminded myself, to always think positive and move forward when things got out of hand.
I think we Malaysian, should do the same. If individual of the approximate 15 millions adults or so think positive and move on that basis of attitude, we will be ok.
We are always grateful to Allah. Why are we not grateful to our own self? as we have the mind to think.
Also grateful to hear Malaysians without color or race in mind, say, there is no place in the world, I would prefer to live in, aside from the sambal belacan and durian.
A good warm feeling always appears when you read a brilliant man’s thoughts. Grateful to you Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad.
Semoga kita maju kehadapan dengan mudah dalam tenang.
Salam
dear JJJ…..
No need to go all the way to Singapore lah..Masalah negeri sendiri pun tak terjaga, ni nak cakap pasal negeri orang. Malaysia has been looking after Malays for 51 years since independence, but the many Malays in Malaysia are still not as competitive as others economically. Are they just too used to be spoon-fed and not trying hard to work their way up unlike others who has no choice but to be competetive to achive a better life in Malaysia? This is the difference. No need to be scared and intimidated by those who are more successful, just work hard and stand on your own feet to achieve what you want in life, then you can be proud of it.
Ayahanda Tun sekeluarga ……. assalamualaikum
Pengalaman semasa membuat pemantauan Pergong ……..Semasa melobi nak jadi perwakilan bahagian/cawangan semua berjanji akan membawa hasrat akar umbi ke pihak atasan. Malangnya bila tiba masanya lain pula yang berlaku. Pelbagai alasan diberikan, konon inilah konon itulah. Akar umbi terpedaya dengan helah kain pelikat, pakej melancong/umrah dan sebagainya. Akibat daripada kejadian seperti ini maka lahirlah kepimpinan yang low quality baik diperingkat bahagian,perhubungan mahupun MT. Ada satu pepatah Jepun yang berbunyi; KITA PERLU MEMOTONG RUMPUT UNTUK MENGHALAU ULAR. Persoalannya siapakah yang perlu memotong rumput tersebut, rumput manakah yang perlu dipotong dan siapakah ular itu. Insyaallah jika kita semua ikhlas dengan tanggungjawab masing2 Umno akan bertambah kuat.
Insyaallah dengan pengalaman yang dimilikinya saya yakin cita2 Ayahanda Tun untuk melihat Umno kembali stabil akan tercapai. Sama2 kita membantu,berusaha,berdoa dan tawakkal. Semoga berjaya.
The veteran Umno leader, KuLi said all political leaders, including those from Umno as well as Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, should be straightforward about their intentions as the people were tired of political mind-games.
Well within the political arena, it is exceptable to play political mind-games, as I am sure KuLi has done many times during his fight with Dr. M in 1987 and during his time as the chief in S46.
Unless presently he himself is playing the mind-game to defeat PakLah.
Dear Tun.
I am 39 years old born in Melaka and ethnic chinese. I have never in the past felt any racial segregation from the time I was in school till recent times.
I remembered very vividly of my childhood friends comprising of malays, chinese, indians, portuguese (some others classed as “dan lain lain”) . We went to national schools, sat next to each other, played football and ate from the same canteen.
And no, we did not select the football team based on race. I was the captain of the under 12 football team for my school and my team won the “Johan Kawasan”. We did that with a chinese goal keeper, 3 defenders (an indian, sikh and myself),3 malay midfielders (that ran up and down the length of the football field for the whole game) and 4 strikers (a portuguese, 2 chinese and 1 malay) and many more multi ethnic reserves. Together, we steamed rolled our way to the championship. The school even declared 1 day holiday for bringing back the piala.
In our own housing area and there were many other bordering housing areas, kids came out to play together without regard for race and religion. I still remembered that my malay friends having to go for “Menggaji” and I am as welcomed in their homes and they were in mine.
Occasional disagreement happens but never because of race and religion. We visit each other during weekends and during festive periods. And of course, we all had our “mercun” to play.
NEVER HAD ANY PROBLEMS…….
Now, i feel the racial divide though I have many friends from all races. It must be something about the adults.
Just maybe, the adults could take note of the kids and perhaps they can learn something from the kids on what is unity….just maybe.
SALAM AYAHANDA RAKYAT TUN,
IZINKAN,
By pakbelalang on September 16, 2008 2:14 PM
Dear Tun,
Datuk Rais Yatim suruh Pak Lah ambil tindakan terhadap Mahyuddin kerana kononnya Mahyuddin mendesak PM untuk memikirkan semula rancangan peralihan kuasa.
â¦â¦â¦..
My rating towards Rais is now dropped to B-. What a pity !! Sorry Rais, you had made a blunder by calling Pak Lah to act against Mahyuddin.
SDR. ‘PAKBELALANG’ YANG BUDIMAN.
JANGAN CEPAT MELATAH. TERNYATA TUAN BUKAN ANAK MINANGKABAU
MAKA KAMI JEMPUT BAPAK BERKONGSI PERPATAH2 KAUM MINANG, ANTARANYA
KALAU TERKURUNG, BIAR DILUAR
KALAU TERHIMPIT, BIAR DIATAS
KALAU BERDUA, BIAR DITENGAH
IA DEK ORANG, LALU DEK AWAK.
KAMI NAK TANYA SDR. YANG BUDIMAN, ADA PERBEDZAAN TAK ANTARA DUA UNGKAPAN BERIKUT?
YANG TERSURAT.
1. ZAID IBRAHIM – TAN SRI MUHYIDDIN PATUT MELETAKKAN JAWATAN SEBAGAI MENTERI JIKA TIDAK BERSETUJU DENGAN PERDANA MENTERI.
2. RAIS YATIM – PERDANA MENTERI PATUT MENGAMBIL TINDAKAN KEATAS MUHYIDDIN KERNA MENDESAK PM MEMIKIRKAN SEMULA RANCANGAN PERALIHAN KUASA.
YANG TERSIRAT.
1. KUASA DAN UPAYA ATAS BAHU MUHYIDDIN MENENTUKAN, PAK LAH BOLEH TERUS LENA DENGAN KUASANYA TIDAK TERGUGAT.
2. KUASA DAN UPAYA ATAS BAHU PAK LAH MENENTUKAN, MANA BOLEH TIDUR LENA LAGI OOI.. TERGUGAT KUASA NANTI.
MAKA PABILA TUAN MELIHAT PAK DATUK RAIS MEMBALING BATU KEDALAM AIR,
JANGAN HANYA TENGOK PADA PERCIKAN AIRNYA, KENA IKUT KEMANA DAN JAUH MANA ALUNAN OMBAKNYA… KENALAH FAHAM ‘PERPATAH (PERPATEH)’ MINANGKABAU?
TIADA KATA SECANTIK BAHASA.
WOULD YOU RECONSIDER YOUR RATINGS?
GERAK HATI KAMI MASIH RAIS YATIM (Phd) , AYAHANDA TUN.
ALFATIHAH, AMIN
hai tun,
i would like to post comment on mr.temenggung’s………….comment,i can be bleady so sure that this guy is a bleady fanatic guy who has been instigated by tun to hate other races except malays.this is how your powerful writings works…you can see urself……once u or i die,we’ll go into the same ground without any prejudice or quarelling like your ground or my ground.this shows that you has no friends of other races whereas i m working as an engineer in a company where 95% are malays and working for the past 15 years.none of my malay friends are fanatic like you,they are fantastic people.please mr.temenggung,go to primary school again and learn moral subject to imptove your socialization with other races……take care out of the world person
Dear Tun,
Perhaps we should ask, Malay Unity or Malaysian Unity which is a better choice for Malaysia as a country?
Base on past event worldwide, how many ‘racial issue’ lesson have benefited the people advocating it.
Compare to events that stress on ‘Unity regardless’
Than perhaps we should look at Unity itself?
Have anybody ever consider ‘Unity Education’ replacing NEP?
‘Unity Education’ should be seen a self continuously learning program. Its empty in the beguine.
Through question such as ‘Is it fair to say everyone are born equal?’ and let the ball roll.
To your best of health Tun.
Salam,
Kalau betul trend sekarang kepada Malaysian Malaysia, maka sanggupkah mereka hapuskan sekolah cina dan india, suratkhabar india dan cina dan sebagainya supaya integrasi nasional betul2 boleh berjaya. Adakah mereka bersedia??
To Jeng3,
So what do you think Singapore Gov can give to Singaporean Malays and make them become more successful? What interest you want from Singapore government? Please mention out…
Give them 5% discount on buying property?
Give them Land and Estates?
Give them 60% quota to enter University?
My fren, this world is very materialistic. Not only malay, Singaporean chinese and Indians are suffering too. If you’re not fit enough, you cant survive at there. If a malay in Singapore work hard and smart, him/herself too can join famous Uni in Singapore. If they are poor, they still eligible to get grant for government flats… What more you want?
No one can stop them to become successful. Is the Malay themselves stopping themselves. For example Olympic, if the council give special treatment to Malaysia to get a gold medal, then its not glory we can happy about…
Remember, God will only help those whom help themself…
Comments by si Temengong seems to be the most RACIST among all.
Tun,
Can we ban somebody like that from posting in your blog? I know it is not up to me but ppl like that seems to be planting seeds of disastor into Malaysia’s racial harmony.
Salam Tun,
Izin saya untuk memberi komen terhadap komen seseorang di sini.
By Phrase on September 16, 2008 12:54 PM
As for the 16th of September to be recognized as our independence or Malaysia day, lets just look at a case in point the big old US of A. The legal separation occurred on July 2nd 1776, then the Congress deliberated and the publicised declaration took place on July 4th.
And in the case of the 28th state of US of A, the State of Texas or formerly the republic of Texas was annexed to the USA on April 12th 1844 by Secretary of State, Mr. Calhoun. Having spent 8 years in Texas I donât quite remember celebrating Texas day or a public holiday at the university, whereas I remember very well attending the 4th of July concerts, BBQ and fireworks.
Hence, if we are to hold a referendum my vote goes for 31st August as our Merdeka day.
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The Merdeka Day of Malaya (if you are from Malaya) is 31st August. The FORMATION of Malaysia is 16th Sept. Your comparison with USA (Texas ) is invalid because Texas was annexed by the already formed Union. However, as the case of Borneo states…they were never annexed into Malaya. Malaya, Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore together FORMED Malaysia as equal partners with respective rights (social contract among the members??). My Merdeka will always be the 16th, however, I respect your Merdeka Day of the 31st…since its truthfully yours (if you are from Peninsular)
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As for the extra fund to appease the âBorneoâ cabinet members, I think proportionate development fund should be allocated in accordance to the economic contribution of the state or geographical area or to a potential bigger contributor that can value add to the government coffer. At the same time the development need to address the actual need of the specific progress required or on that can generate a better or multiple return (ROI). There is no point of building a road that will only be utilized at 20%, I have seen some these examples even in Selangor.
Of course exception should be for education, health services and eradication of poverty but not by means of hand out nor welfare.
RG
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This I agree as the Borneo States contributed a lot in terms of resources revenue to the Federal govt. Your point that development need to address the actual need of specific progress is a tricky one. For example, should we give development fund just out of need…or should we give development funds to spur the development itself ( maybe so the demand can increase–just like building infrastructures)
16 September sudah menjengok ke bumi Malaysia…
Tapi mana Si Anuar Ibrahim…
Tak nampak pun..
Salam Tun,
I also agree with Zaman… Tun as Presiden and Muhyiddin Naib Presiden. But due to health reason I think better if you just become temporary Presiden.
Ref to Freedom’s posting on September 16, 2008 6:49 AM .
I believe Freedom doesnt understand the contents of Tuns posting. He would do better if he read every sentence of Tuns posting with an open mind and try to understand the message it conveys.
I also believe that Freedom doesnt know what he’s talking about.
Freedom should analyze and research about what Tun wrote before coming to a conclusion.
Did he know that Indonesia once expelled its Chinese immigrants. And its Presiden doesnt have to apologize to the Chinese Premier!.
Malaysia’s independence is not fought by the Malays or the Chinese.
Her independence was given by the British keparat! who stole our beloved Tanah Melayu from the Malays.
To Freedom..please appreciate Tuns freedom of speech and freedom of mind and learn some history from him.
Wassallam
To justmy2SEN,
You had mentioned and insist that the Malay Singaporeans really have been discriminated.
If you look at the comments on this post, all that say that the Malay Singaporean is discriminated are Malaysian while the all the Malay Singaporeans commented in this post say they have not.
So, what is this tells you?
I am not a Singaporean and I do not care about them. However it is the typical mentality of the Malaysian who is busy body and as the malay sayings “gajah di depan mata tak nampak, tapi nyamuk di seberang punyalah nampak’.
The Malay Singaporean is not relevent in this article. They are the minority group and we the malay malaysian are the majority group.
If you look at the statistic from the Jabatan Statistic, we are the majority and with the lowest income per capita compared to other minorities.
We should address this issue, yes, but what is the Malay Singaporean got to do with this?
Leave them alone, I am really sick and tired of baseless assumption and comparisons.
We in Malaysia have been discriminate by our own people. Most of the Malays are poor or with average means and only a few that are truly considered rich.
In order to deflect this fact, the government have always divert to Singapore or create racial sentiment in order to stay relevant.
This have work so far but people are getting smarter.
SO PLEASE WAKE UP.
Salam Tun,
Semoga sihat selalu.
1. Fakta yang Tun beri dlm artikel ini sangat relevan kepada situasi sekarang yang ‘kacau-bilau’.
2. Jika mahukan kedamaian haruslah bersatu tidak kira bangsa & agama.
3. Walaubagaimana pun begitu seperti termaktub dalam perlembagaan, negara ini agama resminya Islam.
4. Hanya Islam sahaja yang dapat menyelamatkan manusia di dunia & akhirat.
5. Negara Malaysia yang tercinta ini orang Cina, India dan kaum lain bebas mengamalkan kepercayaan masing-masing.
6. Lets work on our similarity rather than our differences.
7. Maybe we need another ultra-malay like yourself during your early days to lead the country, once again.
Semoga Allah melimpah kurniaNya kepada Tun & keluarga. Wasalam.
Salam Tun Mahathir,
Kami ni kalau nak mengadu apa2, mengadu kat Tun Je la. Cakap Kat Pemimpin yg dok ada skrg ni rasa cam tak ada effect atau impact..buang karan je. Tak kira pemimpin peringkat cawangan, bahagian, pusat.
Islam dan Melayu tidak dapat dipisahkan. perlu ikut syariat islam baru melayu unggul. bersatu dan bekerjasama sesama melayu tak kira suku. ini dok kira, hang mamak, lu jawa, aku batu bara..dll.
yg bukan melayu dengar dan ikut cakap org melayu. jgn banyak bunyi. mereka ni pun kalau tgk org melayu kuat segenap aspek mereka pun tak berani. bukan melayu tidak akan pertikaikan apa jua perkara jika memang ianya baik, hebat, power.
Berubah la org melayu. jadi berani, pandai, bijak, hebat macam Tun Mahathir.
Dear Tun,
IF we look at our political situation carefully, the Malay’s rights are still intact and still well protected; it is the UMNO’s influence is deteriorating. If we look at the recent developments, UMNO being the dominating political party is still having the old mindset, its ministers are still very race based, arrogant, stubborn, and resist to change. Look at how our home affairs minister’s comment regarding the arrest of Sin Chew reporter (the use of ISA is to protect her). What a big joke. If this is the case, then why ISA is not used on Ahmad who come out the seditious remark. Definitely he needs more “protection” than the reporter who just report his remark. UMNO is like a dinasour and this dinasour will soon die of natural death one day if it still having the old mindset and resist to change.
I salute Zaid Ibrahim’s action to resign from the government as a minister. He has taken a honorable action after failing to convice the government to reform in certian areas. He is considered as a conscience of the government, whereby “his first instinct has always been to think about what was right and just for the country, and not members of one political party” (Quote from the Malaysian Insider) He is a modern, rational, profesional Malay whom we need most during this critical period. Unfortunately, his effort is not valued by the government and his party. He is a misfit in the present UMNO and the government. And this “dinasour” is lost touch with its rakyat, the gap is becoming wider and wider……….
Selamat Berpuasa.
1. Ramai yang bangun pagi ini dengan minda lebih lega. Sekurang-kurangnya, tarikh 16 September tidak membawa sejarah baru. Tidak hari ini. Lega kerana tidak suka. Lega kerana hilang bingung, sekurang-kurangnya sekejap. Lega kerana masih ada harapan bagi sebahagian orang.
2. Sayapun lega. Lega kerana tak jadi.
3. Persoalan saya ialah, jika 50 (atau berapa pun) orang AP melompat sehingga merobah kerajaan, ia adalah satu penganinyayaan dan ketiadaan hormat kepada rakyat yang telah membuat pilihan. Semua AP yang lompat harus dihukum berat oleh rakyat jika ianya berlaku. Mana lebih bererti bagi demokrasi, 50 orang AP atau ratusan ribu rakyat yang telah mengundi mereka dalam PRU? Saya amat mengesyaki, jika lompatan itu berlaku, ianya BUKAN kerana kebenaran, atau kepentingan negara. Ia adalah kepentingan peribadi dengan membelakangkan kepercayaan yang telah diberi oleh rakyat. Syak saya terhadap pembabitan rasuah, dalam apa bentuk sekalipun, adalah terlalu tebal.
4. Sesungguhnya, mereka yang terlibat untuk menukar kerajaan dengan cara sedemikian tidak harus diberi penghormatan, tidak kira daripada kalangan manapun mereka, apapun sahaja gelaran mereka.
5. Sekiranya para ulama’ turut terlibat dalam penukaran kerajaan seperti ini, saya PASti ia tidak mengikut lunas Islam. Saya yakin tidak ada justifikasi dalam nas Islam atau jumhur ulama’ syariah yang menghalalkan rasuah, dalam bentuk apa sekalipun, sebagai wasilah penukaran kerajaan.
6. Semestinya, saya tidak akan menerima kerajaan seperti ini sebagai kerajaan yang halal dan perlu dipatuhi, atau dihormati. Para pemimpinnya, tidak akan menerima sekelumit penghormatan daripada saya, tidak kira siapapun mereka, berapa besarpun nama mereka, berapa tinggipun pengajian mereka.
Ah, Malaysia, Dear Malaysia my beautiful land we’re going to blow this are’nt we. We have got to get over this race business, Tun you built this country it is so easy to destroy it. Your legacy is honored all over the Muslim world. When ever people ask, name one succesful Muslim country, I say my Malaysia; and Tun you did it; the only truly succesful Muslim leader. You have done so much for this country, remember Iran had a per capita GDP higher than Spain in 1978; why can’t we be Switzerland and get off this race business, have multi racial parties. We can beat Singapore but I am so afraid we are going to be just another failed Muslim country, poor and destitute.
Assalamuailaikum Ayahnda Tun..
Banyak fakta sejarah bangsa ini tidak diajar disekolah-sekolah. Mungkin kerana untuk menjaga hati setiap bangsa, maka fakta ini tidak perlu diterusterangkan kepada generasi baru. Sejarah amat penting untuk membentukan sesuatu bangsa, hasil ini dapat menjadikan pedoman dan kesedaran diri.
Kehidupan dalam pelbagai bangsa seperti di Malaysia , yang amat penting ialah menghormati satu sama lain. Berdiri teguh atas bumi yang dipijak dan berkomunikasi dengan menggunakan satu bahasa, Bahasa jiwa bangsa.
Fakta ini perlu di perjelaskan dari bangku sekolah lagi..Dari Tadika, sekolah rendah, menengah hingga ker peringkat Univeristi..Fakta ini harus diulangi beribu kali didalam minda seluruh bangsa kita. Demi menjaga kehormanian bangsa dan negara.
Ayahnda Tun mungkin banyak lagi strategik untuk menjadikan semua bangsa kita bleh bersatu..
Selamat berbuka Ayahnda Tun.
Salam kembali YAB Tun,
Saya tak mau komen banyak-2 kat sini.
Cuma saya nak cakap, saya teramat rindu mendengarkan ceramah-2 & point-2 YAB Tun yang begitu bernas & bijaksana sepertimana yang telah disampaikan dulu-2 semasa zaman pemerintahan YAB Tun.
Rindu sangat nak tengok YAB Tun kembali ke layar berita utama untuk menyampaikan mesej berguna kepada rakyat jelata untuk memupuk perpaduan. Dalam masa yang sama YAB Tun sentiasa tak terlepas pandang akan kepentingan anak bangsa YAB Tun.
Rindunya saya pada semua ini.Malas saya nak mention apa yang berlaku pada kepimpinan sekarang.Semua orang dah tau perangai yang sorang nun.
Okaylah YAB Tun, selamat berbuka.
Semoga Allah s.w.t. sentiasa melindungi YAB Tun dan keluarga dari sebarang perkara tidak baik.Amin….
Salam Berhormat Ayahanda,
Di sini I nak mengulas apa yang dikomen oleh si “resaksegornite”, si “pocong” dan si “temenggong”. Sekarang masalahnya jelas terbukti bukan disebabkan oleh bangsa-bangsa lain!!
Janganlah ingatkan jikalau bangsa-bangsa lain SEMUA dihalau keluar pun, tinggal hanya bangsa Melayu ataupun umat Islam, masalahnya tetap ADA!! Ada yang kata “mengapa tak ikut cara Indonesia?” Bukalah mata anda besar sikit keadaan di sana! Negaranya kacau-bilau, bom sana sini, mengapa pulak nak ambil negara tu sebagai contoh sedangkan rakyatnya sendiri menjadi pendatang asing yang kini memudaratkan rakyat di sini dengan melakukan perbuatan yang ganas seperti membunuh, merompak & merogol (seperti tragedi yang baru berlaku di D’kayangan).
Sebenarnya kita sendiri yang tidak bersatupadu sedangkan nak salahkan bangsa lain pulak. Seperti apa yang dikatakan oleh si “Kancan” bahawa “nama orang cina atau India mesti ada Richard lah, David dan macam-macam sedangkan sekarang kita sendiri pun guna nama mat salleh seperti “Melissa Hanis, Camelia Afiq, Muhd. Daniel, Danish Aidee, Natasha Idin” dan banyak macam-macam lagi.
Ingatlah dahulu sebelum memberi pendapat.
“By KualaLumpurLights on September 16, 2008 2:04 PM
Salam,
What do you think about malaysian unity through religious unity? The fact that more chinese and indians can convert to islam. Maybe a good idea will be to do away with the nep and give a new nep for muslims. give more concessions to chinese and indians that want to convert to islam? as well as malay muslims? what do you think?”
You can’t force people into religion by giving incentive, obviously you are the ignorant one that contribute to racial tensions.
salam Tun,
I HEREBY CHALLENGE ALL BLOGGERS OUT THERE TO PROVE TUN WRONG ABOUT HIS STATEMENT;
Orang Melayu Singapura adalah golongan minoriti termiskin.
DO NOT BABBLE ABOUT SUCCESSFUL MALAY INDIVIDUALS THERE.WE ARE TALKING ABOUT MALAYS AS A WHOLE!
PROVE TO ME THAT THE SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT IS LOOKING AFTER THE INTERESTS OF MALAYS ACCORDING TO THEIR CONSTITUTION.IF NOT THEN PLEASE FOREVER SHUT UP!
Jeng3
ASSALAMUALAIKUM WARAHMATULLAH HI TAALA WABAROKATUH
Yang di hormati lagi di sayangi Ayahanda Tun dan Bonda Siti Hasmah
Eversince i joined in this blog,i’ve told them (the great jokers
who critisize you) that YOU’RE NOT RACIST BUT A MAN WITH TRULY
MALAYSIAN IDENTITY – TO THE HEART ,MIND AND SOUL.
Sesungguh nya anakanda sangat2 menghargai di atas segala jasa baik ayahanda di dalam membangunkan Negara Malaysia ke satu tahap yang maju dan di segani di seluruh dunia.
Semoga Ayahanda Tun dan Bonda Siti Hasmah selalu berada di dalam limpahan Rahmat ALLAH SWT.
Alif Lam Mim
WASSALAM
Dear Tun,
It is sad for me to read some commentators here condone the use of ISA against Teresa Kok, Sin Chew reporter and Raja Petra.
For my personal view, Teresa is being frame and play by dirty politics the likes of Khir Toyo and his gang on the Azan issue. What kind of a person is this Khir Toyo? and more important what kind of a MUSLIM is he?? What is he showing to the non muslim that is a muslim practicing Islam can resort to slander people like that??? Is that what the religion teaches people like Khir Toyo?? Tun, if I may kindly asked of you…..check and investigate yourself and see yourself properly who is of true heart and who is really the evil ones.
For Sin Chew reporter, reporter suppose to report FACTS and what can make a nation flourish and progress also because we need to see the FACTS. And not twisting and turning, sugar coated lies with chocolate layer sweetness. We don’t need propaganda from TV/newspaper but real reported truth of what is said, being said etc and let the reader decide. If the Sin Chew reporter has commited slander and unethical journalist standard, then CHARGE her libel and in court. But to use ISA against a female reporter who just does her daily job reporting news to us….what the hell is this??? ISA should be use against bomber, terrorist, etc and not against journalist???
For Raja Petra, what Raja Petra wrote is from heart….what he may say or write, is not “sweetness” to the ears of many but he spoke the truth also. Of course, when people hearing the truth will get angry and up in arms…..and if not true…then haul him up for libel and discredit him properly. It takes honesty and openness to discredit a person because we cannot lie to a person heart. I don’t think Raja Petra warrant ISA and what he write not true…people will ignore him. We Rakyat have eyes to see around us what is happening and know what is true or false or just plain prejudice.
Mohom maaf if I got silap on this issue about Azan. To me, my personal view on Azan is that I don’t have any problem at all with Azan. And my personal belief other also have no problem with it. After so many years in Malaysia, I already get used to Azan and back in my kampung days, I used Azan to wake me up to goto school in 5.30 or 6am morning. Also, before Astro and other Tv, I used to watch government TV and before some of my favourite programs up, there will be Azan also. I like Azan during my kampung days and the singing is very melodic and soothing at times. Now that I grow up and live in Taman area….the Azan nowadays very bad….as if the speaker don’t know arabic at all and the call of Azan very broken and sound annoying…as if the speaker don’t know Azan anymore like what I used to hear in Kampung and listen to TV. I think the government Islamic officer should educate those Azan speaker to learn proper Arabic first and to recite properly.
Brgds,
MlkView
Dearest Tun and readers,
Point 25 noted. I’d like so much to agree with you on this. However, just to point out something interesting… that is by saying this are we the malays are giving leeways further to the chinese and indian? Just wondering…if the situation is reversed where the chinese or indian are the bumiputeras instead, are the malays as “pendatang” will be given “face”? Just be honest guys. If you say yes, then we are ready to move away from racialism.
Warmest regards to you Tun and your Family. Wassalam
hi all..
malaysia may claim that its a multicultural society..
yet malaysians are amazingly racist.
just look at the way they drool and lick the mat saleh’s..
compare that with how they treat other coloured ppl like africans or bangaldeshis or even our close neighbour indonesians…
its really sad after 6 yrs being back in msia..i find ppl are becoming more and more racist..
-dissapointed malaysian-
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Salam YAB Tun,
You said, “It is no good blaming the politicians for perpetuating racial schism.”.
You are absolutely right. It is the RAKYAT who choose the politicians that has to be blamed.
Now, should we be surprised if there is a breath of fresh air blowing against racism, even within BN.
So, what do we do?. Drum up fear and uncertainty to further add to the butterfly syndrome and bring down the economy.
Do we need all these internal bickering as we brace against a global downturn. Why can’t we all play a more matured, dynamic, vibrant, forward looking and anti-racism role. Instead of attcking people or races, how about attacking corruption and failures in project or program deliverables.
I hope the Rakyat have awaken to the reality – there is no cause for alarm. This is all politicians talk. Forget Ahmad Ismail and concentrate on working that extra load or hours to save for hard times ahead. Wait for the next election and then make the right choice, based on track record performance.
In the meantime, go play with your Malay, Chinese and Indian friends. At the very least, offer a smile. Diversity adds colour to your lens!. What comes to your mind when you recall the names of Mokhtar Dahari, Soh Chin Aun, Santokh Singh and Arumugam. Anyone who says they never lived the Malaysian spirit are either ignorant fools or self denial racist who cannot see hope for the future. I wonder who came up with the war-cry, “Malaysia Boleh”. Tak habis habis tarian ago-go. Satu langkah kedepan, dua langkah kebelakang!. Tak boleh maju kedepan kah?. Macam mana nak capai Wawasan 2020.
Selamat Berbuka Puasa to YAB Tun and all Malay Malaysians.
Hi Tun,
After reading the articles above I well understandingt taht the chinese initial or ancestors are immigrant. but the up roar now or what we concern is after the first generation and subsequencly the next generation the chinese is born in Malaysia and raise in Malaysia and work and contribute in malaysia. Is that fiar to call them a immigrant any more???? Well I thing we have to accept that the new generation have to be open minded that ‘Tanah Malaysia’ belong to Malaysian and not to any particular race any more. Anyway every race contributeto build up Malaysia from the rural to the modernise and properous Malaysia. Why we still need to constantly side step the people you are malay, chinese or Hindu…. we all Malaysia. All Malaysian deserve to the equal right. We all sing “Negaraku” and salute the “Malaysia Flag” . We all will prepare to sacrifice our life is our belove country treaten by others. So much so we must scrap the idea of “Bumiputra”. We must have the united mind that WE ARE MALAYSIAN. AND WE ARE PROUD TO BE MALAYSIAN. WE DARE TO SPEAK OUT LOUD THAT WE ARE MALAYSIAN.
Dear all and Tun.
Everybody has his own thinking but don’t you all fell that before independence and after 51 years of independece. All the good and bad happenings are all the results of the policy maker. From the British government to BN.
While most of you may praise the achievemant of Malaysia under Tun. some will slam the ops lalang in 87, the cronysm and nepotism, the dissmissal of the judges. While some of you praise the NEP but if it is so good then why there are still people condeming the NEP. Some of you may say teaching English in science and maths are good but even more are disagreeing with this. There would be no end for disputes.
Frankly, we are at the mercy of the policy maker. Sometimes the situation is really not that complicated but someone with interest and motives had purposely make it more complicated so that they can continue to maintain the status quo.
Thaksin of Thailand is an ex cop turned prime minister, Chen Sui Pian the ex president of Taiwan who is label a hero after he supposed to have been shut while campaingning, Marcos who ruled Phillippine for so many years. During their hey day they were worship but in the end what happened to them. All involved in money scandal and like they said the rest is history.
They are the head of the policy makers and do we realized or knew what is actually done by them to their country. We are shouting for reform and equality but are we really in need of the reform or rather a better policy maker who can guide Malaysia out of the current difficult time.
The Dow Jones just shed 504 points yesterday. Our KLSE is not far from 1000 points. But here we are embroiled with a political storm that leads us to no where.
Once we are down, it will be more turmoil that follows and we will have more of what is happening now. Let just hope we don’t have to go through this.
Thanks U……
Asslmk’um Tun,
You hit the nail on the head, I just wish the whole nation can read your comments or may be the press should use your article.
Look at many countries with such history, take many South American countries for example, you will find that there are so many Europeans who went there, settled there, and became one with the locals…
Looking not so far away, Singapore is also rather in a similar case, but there’s an active and positive encouragement for unity…
I agree with you that Malaysia is unique, but there’s much more that you could have done… but did not.
Leaders in a country could set the right system, i.e. punish the racist and reward the “harmonists”. People are like apples, there are of course some bad apples, but it is more of the time, the barrels that causes the apples to turn bad faster than others… and leaders, are the barrels…
Yes, it seems that racist leaders could win politically, but this is more or less due to the continued existence of a bad system, a system which you would have the power to change.
It will take new leaders who are daring and strong to undo the damages done by ex-leaders whether or not it the damages were intentional…
Dear Tun,
MCA Youth called on the govt. to release ISA detainees to “save the govt. from further embarassment”.
Comment:
What embarassment they are talking about? Well, if after a thorough investigations being done and that these detainees are a threat to society then they deserve to be detained. Make no mistake about it.No Fear NO Favour No Pressure! No Flip, Flop, Flup, if the govt wants to maintain its credibility. Don’t sacrifice our security aspect just because the govt. wants to be popular.
assalamualaikum,
Tun & Pembaca blog yang dirahmati Allah,
saya ingin berkongsi satu analogi,
Malaysia kini umpama sebuah kelas bilik darjah yang menempatkan pelbagai peringkat umur dari sekolah tadika( pra-sekolah) sehinggalah ke pelajar tingkatan enam.
Semuanya belajar didalam kelas, waktu dan subjek yang sama.
So untuk lebih adil kepada yang junior, kelas dimulakan dengan sukatan pelajaran yang paling bawah untuk memudahakn pelajar pra -sekolah, tetapi yang lain pun turut sama mengikuti pelajaran yang sama.
so bayangkan betapa jurang pendidikan/pengalaman hidup yang sangat besar memisahkan mereka, keadaan akan menjadi baik sekiranya ada sikap tanggungjawab pelajar yang senior memberi tunjuk ajar kepada yang junior kerana mereka sudah nampak apa yang pelajar pra-sekolah tidak nampak.
Tetapi keadaan akan menjadi lebih buruk apabila ada senior2 yang kurang ajar mengambil kesempatan diatas kenaifan pelajar pra-sekolah dengan menafikan hak mereka yang baru tekedek-kedek untuk sama2 menuntut kejayaan.
Bayangkan betapa mudahnya kepala budak pra-sekolah diputar2 oleh pelajar2 senior yang kurang ajar dan tidak bertanggungjawab demi kepentingan perut busuk mereka sendiri.
Akan tiada lagi persaingan yang sihat lagi saksama untuk mereka, maka dengan itu belum pun sempat bdak2 pra-sekolah ini menikmati kejayaan mereka, mereka terpaksa menjadi pecacai dalam bilik darjah.
Bayangkan pula jika CIKGU BESAR barunya yang buta tuli dan pekak badak yang ingin memberi layanan samarata tanpa mengira umur… MAKA diringkaskan disini..akan hilang lah KEBANGKITAN satu bangsa yang bertamadun dari segi ilmu dan segala-galanya..maka JADILAH MEREKA PECACAI DI DALAM NEGARA SENDIRI.
BERILAH MASA DAN PELUANG UNTUK BANGSA MELAYU BANGUN DENGAN KEUPAYAAN MEREKA SENDIRI..SAYA PERCAYA TIDAK ADA SEORANG PUN MELAYU BARU SEKARANG YANG TAK INGINKAN KEJAYAAN… JANGNALAH KAMI DIPANCUNG OLEH PENGUASA2 EKONOMI YANG TAMADUNNYA SUDAH BERIBU TAHUN…
harap2 GURU BESAR yang sedang bersara yang dulu pernah membimbing kami pulang kembali membimbing kami lagi sekali..
Dear Tun,
Datuk Rais Yatim suruh Pak Lah ambil tindakan terhadap Mahyuddin kerana kononnya Mahyuddin mendesak PM untuk memikirkan semula rancangan peralihan kuasa.
Rupanya disebalik kebijaksanaan Datuk Rais ada “kebodohannya” juga. Dah bodoh stupid macam bossnya juga. Lain kali teliti apa yang orang lain ertikan sebelum terus lompat menghasut bossnya suruh bertindak.
Saya rasa Tun silap memberi pujian kapada Datuk Rais yang beliau pun boleh memegang jawatan Presiden UMNO. No, I don’t think so. Rais Yatim tidak layak kerana dah nampak dia cepat melatah. Nak jadi Presiden you must be cool man !!!
My rating towards Rais is now dropped to B-. What a pity !! Sorry Rais, you had made a blunder by calling Pak Lah to act against Mahyuddin.
Dear Tun,
You are great. This article must be read by all malaysians. The fact that the indegenious race has given their sacrifices must be fully admired by the other immigrant races. The leaders of these groups must not be over sensitive over race and immigrant issues, they must face them wisely. Tun Tan Siew Sin in 1969 mentioned ” The malays…were generous enough to relax the citizenship laws….within 12 months of independence, 90 percent of non-malays became citizens..”.What happen if the Malays and the Malay Rulers were not generous then? The current chinese leaders must read this carefully and not simply harping on RIGHTS unnecessarily.
Salam,
What do you think about malaysian unity through religious unity? The fact that more chinese and indians can convert to islam. Maybe a good idea will be to do away with the nep and give a new nep for muslims. give more concessions to chinese and indians that want to convert to islam? as well as malay muslims? what do you think?
Assalamualaikum Tun.
Tentang pendidikan.Sudah lama saya terpikirkan tentang perkara ini.Tapi tidak begitu ada keinginan untuk menyuarakan kerana berasa yang benda-benda ini semua adalah asas dalam kehidupan keluarga Muslim.
Dalam What Say You.TV2.
Tetamu undangan : Menteri Pengangkutan.Jamal(Melayu yang fasih berbahasa Mandarin) dan seorang lagi berbangsa Teong Chew.
Nampaknya Menteri Pengangkutan tidak berapa setuju dengan cadangan kedua-dua panel untuk menyatukan semua bangsa dalam satu sekolah (pada peringkat rendah pun).Katanya ini bukan penyebab utama kepada perkauman.
Dalam Blog.TV1.
Blog Tun Mahathir pun ada jugak hos rancangan tolong bacakan tentang ‘Barisan Nasional’ pada malam tu.
Tetamu undangan : Mufti Perlis.
Soalan(lebih kurang) : dari segi apa yang boleh dilihat untuk mentafsir sejauh mana keupayaan Ulama-ulama.
Jawapan : dari segi ilmu/sarjana.
Pada pendapat saya,Mufti telah terlepas satu perkara asas yang amat penting.TAKWA.
Contoh yang nyata :
Di bandar Kuantan terdapat 3 buah sekolah (2 menengah dan 1 rendah) yang terletak betul-betul bersebelahan dengan 2 buah gereja paling besar di Pahang.Setiap hari ibubapa Muslimlah yang paling ramai menghantar anak-anak mereka ke sekolah ini.Dengan harapan semoga anak-anak mereka menjadi terpelajar dan bijak pandai satu hari nanti.Jadi lawyer atau pun doktor.
Adakah ini yang dimahukan oleh kaum lain?Tidak.Kaum cina tidak merelakan anak-anak mereka ke sekolah kebangsaan.Tapi kenapa kita?
Terima kasih Tun.
Fifty one years already gone, the Malays are still in the same position socially and economically (refer to those writeup in this and other section of this blog). These prove that the Malays must forever have their special right. That is how the Malays live in Tanah Melayu. The Malays never invite people to his house. Those guests came by themselves or through a slave master. After all the Malays are just the nelayan, petani and jobless. Those who came and live in a Malaya house cannot say ” Since we care to come and stay in your house, you must give up this and give up that, you must also adjust to our pace and style”. If the Malay is not comfortable and refuse to accept the guests suggestion, then it is the guests right to leave the Malays alone and move on to other houses elsewhere.
THE ALTERNATIVE, be his sincere loyal friend, a friend in need is a friend indeed, respect him by accepting his right, religion, languages and others. Looking at the Malays softness, The Malays may in return awarded the guests with goodwill, trust and familyhood. After all Islam FORBID/REJECT racism. Racism is one that will bring heavy penalty in Islam. Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) disowned those who are racist. Muslims must protect the peaceful minority. Muslim cannot even touch even the hair of non-Muslim. This is the opportunity to co-exist peacefully.
JUST THINK- CAN MALAYS GO TO CHINA AND TELL THE CHINESE WE WANT EQUALITY, WE WANT MALAY SCHOOL, ALLOW US TO TALK MALAYS AMONG US, BUT WE ARE CHINESE CITIZEN.
The commandment is Muslims must accept the peace offered to them.
Dear TUN & fellow readers,
Its a very well written article TUN! But then again, most of the non bumi wouldnt want to understand. I think you should explain to them straight forward version. Do not spinning around the wordings or the sentences as if it sounds good to accept. They just CANNOT accept the NEP. Instead i think in order to make these people shut is by restructure the NEP again but this time favour to NonBumi. Then we see what will happen. I bet with every single dime ive earn for the past 10 years- that there will be no more cursing, insulting, humiliating and such from them.
Hi Tun,
Wishing you well. I remember you have mentioned, we have to change in order to pick up with the trend/technology. So is the politic. We are at the stage of having evolution, and we could not deny it anymore.
Even America is now having Black to become their President. It is no longer white only can hold the position.
World has been changed from 1957 until now. We have gone through so much of era. We need to be more open minded. If we keep on holding the traditional think, forever we will never grow up. If we keep holding the history, we will never grow up. No doubt the history has keep us united and harmony, but undoubtly the situation has changed. Everyone want a change.
The world change from agricultural to Industrial to Technology world. We could not apply agricultural system on the technology system. We have to amend it. People has speak out.
I totally agree with you that people choose for opposition because they dislike the current government. But people still have the choice not to choose the current government, by not going for vote. There is a reason why people want to choose the opposition. They want a change.
Currently i am living in Singapore, and i feel Singapore is in fact far more better than our Malaysia. Singapore has a better system than us.It is much secure than us. Why our Malaysia can’t follow the same stepfoot. We got our independence earlier, but in fact we are losing so much now. We should review again our policy and system. We have to start working on new formula.
Singapore is willing to give citizenship to people as long they have enough requirement and contribute to the country development and wealth. We are now still arguing on the 1957 agreement on the social agreement. We have grown up together, enough to live harmony together. We are mature enough now. We sometimes also mentioned, we must throw the old thinking and move on to the new dimension. Why can’t we do it? We are the citizen that we want to choose the way. Not the government. Everything has change now. Companies has been adopt the customer centric. They create product based on customer need. Not the companies need. So why we Malaysia still want to run the country based on government need? It is now the citizen need that more important.
Tun, i grown up under your governance. I salute you, i respect you. But sometimes, we should put away the history and live the way we should live. Why still talking about the social agreement when we want to change? why still want to think of malay/any race run the country? In fact, we should learn like America and Singapore, those who is capable can run the country, no matter what is the race.
Tun, hope you will be healthy as always.
Thanks for your blog.
Dear Alam888,
[QUOTED on September 15, 2008 10:29 PM ]
I’m a Malay Singaporean and I object to your comments about Singapore Malays as though we are some downtrodden people when in fact we are as successful as we are willing to be. The thing about Singapore is, as long as you work hard, you will be able achieve your goals regardless of your race. I do not face any form of discrimination at work or else where. I consider myself quite successful in my career, being an AVP in a bank even though I did not study hard enough to qualify for the university. I am not forced to speak the language of the majority and am free to practice my religion.[UNQUOTE]
Thanks Alam888 for telling the truth. What’s good about Singaporean Malay are more hardworking and confidence compare to Malaysian Malay. I think Malay in Singapore receive fair treatment in business and education compare to Non-Malays here. That’s why the three races in Singapore are living happily! We dont see any racial issues nor the Malays uproar in Singapore…
Malaysian Malay are too afraid that 1day Malaysia will be dominate by other races. Think again… Why do Malays should have such fear???? If Malays are hardworking enough just like Singapore Malay, you will earn well respect from other people.
Actually many of us taught that Malay government were too generous and spoon feeding on Malays hence making them behaving “tidak-apa” attitude. Malays always taught “takpelah, kerajaan akan bantu pasal ada hak istimewa”. This thinking is the actual killer to the Malays. Malay leaders should do away such thinking…Globalisation is taken place already and Malay shouldnt be lacking behind relying on government support.
I went to Singapore on July to watch their Independence day parade. On the eve, I was so admire with their patriotism compare to Malaysia!!! They can sing very well in Malay childhood song using Indonesia traditional instrument!!! Those senior people just sing along in very well verse!!! I must respect the Singapore government effort for making such a good nations!! despite being complain as a money sucking government, but their nations receive good treatments…
I as a non-malay, I’ve tried to join the PDRM and did went for interview and test for Kadet ASP in Pulapol. Unfortunately, I failed due to physical reason which not fit for marching!? But I’m a martial artist and very good in physical training. Anyhow I saw quite alot of non-malays went for the interview and all of us Malay and non-Malay sleeping together in the same camp. During the test, we chat with each other, help each other for the test. Btw, Pulapol food is delicious!!!
Some of you here are very narrow minded. Just because you see non-Malays lacking in the Forces, then you jump into conclusion that Non-Malays are not patriotic enough without thinking that the non-Malay have only 10% quota to be fit in the forces!!! Chinese and Indian have to compete with each other for the sake of 10% quota. Do I see fairness in this sense and being accused of not patriotic?
Saya membesar di JB sehingga tahun 1977. Kemudian bertukar ke KL dan merupakan kumpulan terakhir menduduki peperiksaan LCE,MCE dan HSC. Bersekolah dalam aliran Inggeris merupakan rahmat bagi saya lebih-lebih bersekolah di SM Saint Joseph (JB) dan Methodists Boys School (KL).
Apa yang ingin saya bangkitkan ialah hubungan antara kami pelajar-pelajar melayu dengan bukan melayu semasa saya di JB. Hubungan kami amat rapat. Tiada langsung perasaan perkauman. Kami gembira apabila bersama dalam semua aktiviti. Kami amat berbangga dengan sekolah dan berusaha mengharumkan nama sekolah. Lawan kami bukan bangsa lain tetapi pelajar sekolah lain biarpun dia melayu. Sifat perkauman menjadi begitu ketara apabila saya menuntut di MBSKL. Pelajar-pelajar di KL ini amat kuat perasaan racistnya. Pada mulanya saya agak terkejut dengan budaya tersebut. Saya cuba mengekalkan amalan saya ketika di JB tetapi ternyata gagal. Saya turut tenggelam dlm hasutan dan budaya itu.
Kini apabila saya fikirkan semula, saya simpulkan dua perkara;
(i) Masayarakat KL memang menebal sifat perkaumannya. (Tak tahulah di negeri-negeri lain.)
(ii) Sebenarnya sekolah aliran Inggeris dapat menyatukan semua kaum dan jika mata pelajaran Maths dan Science dikekalkan dalam bahasa Inggeris kita sudah lama lagi maju malah setanding dengan Singapura.
Saya setuju jika diwujudkan semula aliran Inggeris dan percaya jika aliran ini masih ada banyak sekolah cina yang ditutup.
YAB Tun Dr. M,
Recently I went to my mom’s place for iftar, I was told of recent war of words after the last GE- where the Chinese complained on the practicing of kompang by the local kids at the surau. Then the local surau guys raised an issue on the burning of giant joss sticks that goes on for a month during certain period of the year. And my mom also complained of the Indian bell incessant ringing at Maghrib.
Iâd like to add on to that if the non- malay communities have issue with the sounding of Subuh call for prayer, what about the pollution in front of the five foot walk way of shop lots- burning of joss stick, prayer paper/ money. Then, there are the little Tokongs at the flats entrance or balcony which emanates unpleasant scent to the neighbors for those not used to the smell. Again those Tokongs are everywhere from roadsides to construction sites, jungle treks; they are omni present- a visual pollution? The food that are placed on roadsides during the hungry ghost month, or the mahjong playing past midnight- just imagine all these toll on a non chinese living in a flat.
Then you have the Chinese drums, or the Indian Thaipussam or the Buddhist Wesak procession- have we the muslim ever made an issue out of these? When the balance of power is no longer in the Malaysâ hand the demand/ insult from other race seems to go for the jugular. Do we then always have to have their political power in check or else the Malay would be at receiving end?Have the Malay not show our tolerance, or have the government used force for racial segregation? Iâm not a racist but Iâm trying where is my country headed for the sake of future generation. Honestly, if a Malay or Chinese or An Indian having the same qualification and aptitude attends an MNC interview who will get the job. Even in the States they have affirmative action to enable the minority ( African American) to be employed⦠I wonder if they have the same for Hispanic and ABC?
As for the 16th of September to be recognized as our independence or Malaysia day, lets just look at a case in point the big old US of A. The legal separation occurred on July 2nd 1776, then the Congress deliberated and the publicised declaration took place on July 4th.
And in the case of the 28th state of US of A, the State of Texas or formerly the republic of Texas was annexed to the USA on April 12th 1844 by Secretary of State, Mr. Calhoun. Having spent 8 years in Texas I donât quite remember celebrating Texas day or a public holiday at the university, whereas I remember very well attending the 4th of July concerts, BBQ and fireworks.
Hence, if we are to hold a referendum my vote goes for 31st August as our Merdeka day.
As for the extra fund to appease the âBorneoâ cabinet members, I think proportionate development fund should be allocated in accordance to the economic contribution of the state or geographical area or to a potential bigger contributor that can value add to the government coffer. At the same time the development need to address the actual need of the specific progress required or on that can generate a better or multiple return (ROI). There is no pint of building a road that will only be utilized at 20%, I have seen some these examples even in Selangor.
Of course exception should be for education, health services and eradication of poverty but not by means of hand out nor welfare.
RG
Assalamualaikum Tun!
Saya alumni KSAH, anak Kedah dan berharap Tun akan memperkukuhkan perpaduan Melayu. Pak Lah masih menaruh harapan nak tunggu sampai 2010. Pada saya kerosakan perpaduan,kegagalan mengawal situasi, tuntutan bukan bumiputra yang dilihat keterlaluan,ketelusan media tanpa rasa tanggungjawab harus dibendung agar keharmonian kembali kepada kita. Tuntutan, komen dan tindak-tanduk bukan Melayu merangsang Melayu bersikap defensif,beringat-ingat apatah lagi sedikit-demi sedikit hak Melayu, tanah Melayu terkakis. Saya tidak berasa yakin dengan kepimpinan Pak Lah. Beliau dilihat seperti alah kepada justifikasi, minta apa sahaja, justifikasi ada, hak Melayu pun orang boleh ambik. Beliau perlu ada keberanian mempertahankan pendirian, pendirian bangsa, pendirian parti dan pemimpin perlu ada sedikit pemikiran misteri yang orang sukar nak baca. Beliau mudah dibaca. Saya harap Tun kembali dan mendidik pemimpin pelapis untuk kami dan generasi akan datang. Wassalam.
Salam Tun,
I totally agree with you on point 21 Tun. To those of you who don’t agree, you all should compare the living standards of Singaporean Malaysthere and Malays here please!!
How many Singaporean Malays are pratically holding professional jobs? Practically almost none but only a few just only a handful.
How many Singaporaean Malays drives luxury cars or staying in luxurious properties or even holding high posts? Practically NONE!
There is also no freedom of speech. Crazh ah you will end up in prison!!! Here at least we can speak out our frustration.
Singaporean Malays have been far discriminated and this is factual.
Though I am a Malaysian I have been living in Singapore for 20 years and have seen how Malays have been treated there.I opt to move back to Malaysia to avoid been discriminated and marginalized. I am very proud of what Malaysia has achieved and by right we are economically superior.
Singapore is a very SMALL nation and so easy to control laa….. Malaysia is huge compare to them and of course it will take time.
I am stating these facts logically here rather than been driven by emotion. For those who don’t agree on point 21, please do your research first.
I for one can guarantee you most of the Malays there envy the Malays here!
Regards Tun,
Selamat Berpuasa
Ps: Need to let this out…
Dear Tun,
It is great that you support unity.
First question, do we as Malaysian wants to be world number one ?
If yes then what are the new values and educational system and language should we use ? Malay ? Think about it. If you would try to make all Malaysian into top people of this world, what type of learning culture should we addopt, what type of working mentality should we all work towards ? You once say Japan working culture in your look east policy. This is good, and how far has we come in that time ? In most of Malaysia I have experience only the malay people from Johor that really works and proud of what they are doing. Some even hold down 2 jobs and most I have come across is willing to break fast during the holy month much latter due to the needs to completed some urgent work for the company. The rest wiil just scream bloody murder, if you interfear with our religion, the malay are sensitive do not try us. WORLD NUMBER ONE ? WHAT DO YOU THINK.
Going by Pakbelalang @ Lalang’s convoluted and confounded logic, one can say then what Ahmad said in Pulau Pinang of the Chinese is tantamount to a terrorist’s racist remarks and therefore he should be detained under the ISA. Why didn’t the government do this? ‘Lalang’, you don’t seem to have grown up, despite your age! can you imagine what would happen to this great nation of ours if people like you become political leaders? There would be chaos and confusion in this country to the extent that it would jeopardize the unity and stability of this country for which our great leaders of the past had toiled.
People like you are the scums of society and hence should be shunned and discarded.
ABI
Salam ramadhan TDM..
Tun,
Kami rakyat dah xtahan lagi.Bila suma n akan selasai.Saya nampak UMNO akan hancur.Parti yang memperjuangkan orang melayu akan hilang di Tanah Melayu sendiri.PakDolah ‘ketegag pedai’.
Tak paham apa yang kami nak.Yang dia paham apa yang Khairi nak.
Kami tak mau UMNO hancur!
Kami tak mau PKR jadi kerajaan!
Kami tak mau Anwar!
Kami tak mau Malaysia musnah!
Tun,
Buat la sesuatu.Jangan la suma orang cakap jer.Tapi yang tanggung kami rakyat di bawah n.
Please Tun……………………………………………….
Kalau terpaksa bermandi darah pun kami sanggup berjuang!!!!!!!!!!
Salam Tun & fellow bloggers,
Bravo Tun!Bullseye.Perfect.Sharp.Most precise article on racial/religion differences so far.
1.I have already mention about the importance of assimilation & adaptation in my previous postings.These won’t happen in Malaysia as long as we would find differences rather than similarity.Thinking makes a man,like thinking your race/religion are superior than others
2.Totok.That’s the right word.I’ve seen a prominent figure,while preaching about national unity but sending his children to vernacular school
3.Freedom is an illusion.Changing religion is not like changing your shirt,it involved Aqidah
Wassalam
/// By reader on September 15, 2008 3:49 PM
Dr Syed Alwi Ahmad,
It seems you are relentless in proving how successful Malays have been in Singapore. ///
No, reader, you got this backwards. Dr Syed Alwi was only responding to TDM’s paragraph 21. Dr Syed Alwi is not trying to prove how successful Singapore Malays are. He is trying to disprove TDM’s insinuation how unsuccessful and poorly treated Singapore Malays are.
If you know TDM’s thinking, you would know his pathological hatred and envy of Singapore’s success and his animosity towards Lee Kuan Yew. Singapore and LKY’s success is a direct repudiation of TDM’s racial policies and all that is wrong and corrupt with the Malaysian administration.
This post is about Malay Unity and Malaysian Unity. Why does TDM have to take pot shots at Singapore Malays? TDM’s hatred for Singapore is so deep that once in a while, he will take a sniper shot at Singapore for no rhyme or reason.
So, reader, please do more reading. This post is not about Singapore. It is not about Singapore Malays. Singapore does not want to impose its values and policies on Malaysia. It is Malaysia, and in particular, TDM, who saw fit to tell Singapore what to do and what not to do.
TO THOSE WHO CLAIM MALAYS IN SINGAPORE ARE NOT DISCRIMINATED…PLEASE STOP THE LIES OK..GET THE FACTS RIGHT!!!!!
I THINK ALL MALAYSIAN SHOULD READ THIS…
PAP prohibition on ethnic and religious discussion
Whilst the PAP-government regularly violates constitutional guarantees of the right to freedom of religion, as exemplified in the 2002 âtudungâ (hijab or headscarf) school ban, the PAP-government has imposed an array of laws on Singaporean society that prohibit any public discussion of âsensitiveâ ethnic and or religious issues which are considered likely to strain inter-communal harmony (In February 2002 an opposition leader was fined $1,700 and faces a potential ban from running for political office for publicly criticising the governmentâs ban on headscarves in schools – see âEducation: Flashpoint between Malay-Muslims and PAPâ). These very laws have the effect of restricting, if not completely prohibiting any criticism of the very policies and attitudes of the PAP-government which has often been the source of religious and racial tension in modern Singapore.
The governmentâs hyper-sensitivity to any issue that mildly resembles racial and or religious controversy is conditioned by the racial strife and riots between the countryâs ethnic Chinese and Malay populations in the 1950s and 1960s, which threaten to tear Singaporeâs very social fabric apart. Lee Kuan Yew and PAP have long been considered to have been at the centre of the 1960s racial troubles, accused of making political capital out of the then civil strife and thus effecting the marginalisation of Singaporeâs Malay-Muslims. The riots permitted Yew to consolidate his powerbase by blaming Communists and Kuala Lampur-based Malay groups. The ethnic Chinese population moved to dominate politics and state government.
In February 2000 Tong warned Singaporeâs Muslims not to publicly confirm their religious identity, posited as a threat to societal cohesion. Commenting on the tudung, Tong stated: âAnd for them [Muslims] now to try to push the wearing of the tudung in schools will only cause greater concern to the non-Muslims, so I would advise them to be quite cautious in this . . . But in school leave things alone. Donât change the present order of thingsâ.
In 1999 the government attempted to close down Singaporeâs only six primary madrasah (Islamically-based schools), but was forced to shelf such plans. In 2002 the government restricted the entry quota to such schools to just 400 pupils, reducing the number of pupils who could be admitted to Singaporeâs primary madrash.
Muslim teachers and pupils complained of being banned form performing their prayers during school breaks. Further complaints have been raised as to the system of racial quotas which affect Muslim entry into university faculties e.g., the medical profession are restricted to admitting only 10% ethnic Malays and Muslims as part of their overall intake, despite these groups constituting 14% and 15% of the overall population respectively. Foreign universities with franchise agreements in Singapore have been told to abide by the racial quotas
In July 2002, Muslim rights activist, Zulfikar Mohammad Shariff, sought political asylum in Australia after criticising government policies and discrimination towards Muslims.
taken from Islamic Human Right Commission, UK : http://www.ihrc.org.uk/show.php?id=776
Hi Tun
This is my first time commenting. Just had a discussion on this with the family recently and am grateful for your explanation. Certainly puts things in a better light for me. As always, your blogs inspire me to think.
I wonder when Malaysians are going to realize that while the government needs improvement, we ourselves are in serious need of change. Change in the way we think and behave. We say we don’t want racial based politics but raise our voice the minute we feel slightly slighted by our racial based chosen representatives. We say we want to grow and be independent of government mollycoddling but rally the moment the government tries to reduce some of its support. We’re a nation who doesn’t know what we want. If Malaysians truly believe that they are above racism, perhaps its time to abolish all race based schools and have a national language which everyone must speak, and start integrating our children from early on.
Salam..
Pasal malay unity and malaysian unity ni aku sokong la Tun. Aku suka kalau semua dapat hidup berbaik baik.Tapi apa yang aku tgk walaupun slps 51 tahun merdeka ni aku tgk banyak yang pura-pura..(siapa makan cili dia la rasa pedas)..integrasi nasional ke apa program pun depan mmg yes..dalam hati siapa yang tahu ye??
What a load of rubbish this article is. I can tell you when I was in school, I was told not to refer to myself as a Malaysian, but as an Indian; I’m a 5th generation Malaysian; I’ve never even been to India! This was your Govt’s policy to crush the spirit of a One Malaysia. Under your tenure, Barisan did nothing to redress racial inequality and only worked to help further the careers and line the pockets of BN friends and cronies who have grown obscenely rich and powerful at the expense of the rakyat in general. If as you say that the races need to be kept apart, why is there a dynamic and powerful multiracial, multifaith and multiethnic coalition now facing up to the BN? Why then did so many of my Malay and Muslim brothers vote against the BN and are looking forward to a bright new future free of Barisan and its devisive policies? A new day is dawning, the times they are a changin’ Dr.M .. enjoy your retirement and go back to sleep.
Elbornean,
I’m agree with you, I’m Sabahan Muslim and I can see that in my uni as well….The most united group of Sabahan, sarawakian,actually it’s kinda mixture of all other races but the huge amount from Sabah & Sarawak.
Always keep our own culture but always maintain RESPECT & HARMONY all the way… (^__^)
Love you Tun…
Araamai Tiii!!!!
Mengapakah org cina tidak suka sekolah kerajaan? Pelbagai alasan diberikan. Silibus tak bagus, disiplin tak bagus, cikgu tak bagus. Tetapi hakikatnya mereka tidak suka Melayu dan tidak suka anak-anak mereka membesar dengan Melayu, dan tidak mahu anak-anak mereka “jadi Melayu”. Dah belajar sekolah cina satu patah melayu pun tak faham tapi mengaku rakyat Malaysia, hendak hak Melayu dihapuskan, tidak hormat agama Islam sebagai agama kebangsaan.
Tetapi mahukan Malaysian Malaysia. Di sekolah cina mungkin di ajar Sejarah Malaysia versi Cina. Sebab itu ada yang mengatakan bahawa Melayu juga pendatang sebab berketurunan campuran. Moyang saya datang dari India dan berkahwin dgn org Cina di Singapura. Namun datuk saya telah jadi Melayu. Kami tiada budaya lain melainkan budaya Melayu. Kami tidak bercakap bahasa lain melainkan bahasa melayu. Pendatang semasa penjajahan British tidak pernah dan tidak mahu menjadi Melayu. Itulah bezanya.
After all said and done, it boils down to this. We have a WEAK LEADER. He’s not firm, undecisive, easily swayed and distracted………….seems not to have his own vision or belief or principle or direction of where he wants to take this country to. Even if he does, to us, the rakyat, it is vague and ambiguous, not crystal clear in his head. He still think if he gives development, the rakyat will love this government. He still think that the OLD FORMULA still works. Things are not that simple anymore. It is getting more complex and complicated. He doesn’t keep in tandem with this. So sad!
ISLAM FOR ALL..
AS THE PROBLEM IS NOT BY RELIGIONS OR RACES,
BUT FROM THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE,
WE JUST NEED SINCERITY.
WHILE OUR “FATHER” TEACHES US TO BLUFF EVERYDAY.
Dear Tun.
I’m the one who very disappointed when the government failed to introduced ‘Sekolah Wawasan’ few years back. I strongly believe this will be a great medium for malay, chinese, and indian to get along since they are young. I used to study in national school before and i make a lot of friends from different races and till now we still keep in touch. You see, my best friend till now is Toh Tuck Keong. The one I met him since primary school.
Yes, we need only national school to unite the Malaysian. and I strongly believe the government should now thing about Malaysian, not just to fight for the interest of their races. All races based school shall be abolished and only single school stream allowed. But I would highlight it here that we should also put mandarin and tamil language to our core subject (must take) as it will benefit all parties including malay as well as a sign to respect each other.
Sir, even i’m malay, i feel not good if we just abolished chinese and tamil school and we add some more MRSM. I strongly appreciate and agree that this school has producing a lot of professional malay. but we need to realize that time has change. why we still need more mrsm if we cannot maintain the quality? does it promoting to create good relationship between other races? To all my malay and my other races friends, lets unite.. i just small and weak in here but i do believe that somebody shares the same idea like me. this is my 1st comment in your blog. thanx Sir, keep blogging
salam Tun,
to Earthling,
you are very clever at manipulating facts.
You think Singapore Malays are better off?
Why don’t you tell that to my uncles and cousins there but I am afraid you’ll never make it back in one piece!
Tell you what,why don’t you and LKS sit down and learn a thing or two from Tun?
You might learn on how to administer a multi cultural country like ours as Tun has a proven 22 years track record.
Why…you might even be a better person in whatever religion that you profess!
(I am just reflecting back on your previous comments)..
Jeng3
I love singing along to the song sung by late Sudirman, “Saya Anak Malaysia” and whenever a stranger asks where I come from, Malaysia will be uttered. Then, naturally the ethnic part will come such as “so are you Malay?” because derived from the word Malaysia. Then the whole explanation of the multicultural comes into picture. Do I have a problem with this? No, not at all.
Meeting people in real time or virtually, especially when they are curious to find out more about this country, all sorts of questions will be asked. I remember the first time when I started my job abroad, a colleague asked, “Who do you prefer? The current PM or Dr Mahathir?” I thought, what an insensitive question. Then I realised, being in Malaysia, we are so used to not talking about this openly because of respect and sensitivity. The same colleague asked, “What’s with Malaysia these days?” And that was right after the election this year. All I said was, “Nothing! Everything is fine.” To be crude, I despise people who claim they are Malaysian but when it comes to describing this country, they complained and described as if there was zero credit to the country. The irony, these are the people who rise up from ‘that’ occasion and lead good life somewhere. I thought a simple gratitude would be sufficient, at least not to degrade the country in front of foreigners. My one belief, in fact this was taught by a PE teacher when I was in primary 6 that, “discuss family dispute at home and not propagate it elsewhere, you have a responsibility in taking care of your family’s good name.” HOw wonderful! And I stem to this belief even when I am abroad.
Pertaining Malaysian Unity, frankly when I go to market with mom, we are just like everybody else. Nothing is prevalent to show that we are different because we are all local. We are excited with the thought that something that is sold hailed all the way from the North or East Malaysia. Why are commoners so happy with each other? I would say we simply adhere and practise what we learn as respecting differences. However, for the less educated ones, unfortunately, the thought about Malaysian unity is pretty adverse. No, I don’t blame them because these are the dropouts from school, some started working and usually they understand the importance of unity but for those who just stayed home and not doing anything beneficial for the society, they are easily influenced any agendas. How do they pick their choice? Well, by preference and whichever ideas that suit their mood or probably the level of understanding. Sad, but this is so true, something that a country should really scrutinize and consider. And when these people become parents, and if they feed all this incorrect or biased information to their children, the children will form new and ‘profound’ belief that even the education board cannot capture and deal with them. Oh, why the word deal, sounds heavy. But this is unavoidable because in schools, the content and the delivery done by history teachers for example, cannot do a good job. When a student asked a question about Malaysian history, how many history teachers can give unbiased and CORRECT information to the students. And when a teacher shuts the students up, all the do is to turn to their friends and then the ones with incorrect information will rule. Again, I cannot blame the teachers too because the whole problem doesn’t just come from the teacher, it stems from the society, the University, the government policy, etc. And this includes the vast gap with students’ proficiency level with the language and thus no matter how good a teacher can be, they won’t be able to comprehend it completely.
I was asked by a Chinese national few days ago, that if I will return to China one day. My immediate reaction was NO, why should I? I am a Malaysian, Malaysia is where I will return. She smirked and said, but you are a Chinese. So I told her, yes I am a Chinese but a Malaysian Chinese. If one should return, I would think my late grandpa should coz he was. I was born and bred in Malaysia, my home country.
Now my point is, everyone feels good to be home. The non-bumiputra understand and accepts the priorities given to the bumiputra. It has been like this even before I was born although changes were made here and there. Many ex-colleagues asked if I was treated like a second citizen (denied from University, unfavoured treatment from government offices, etc) I said NO coz I lived like everybody else. I worked in Malaysia, I drove a car and sometimes I would say, my life is a lot better than many people; the indigenous group. Am I complaining? No.
And with what Tun has written above, especially with America or Australia where one country, one language and at the same time acknowledging and respecting the indigenous, so why can’t we achieve the same? I used to think it can be achieved. But with the current condition of having such bad housekeeping situation, I doubt. Of what I had mentioned above, even though there were disparaties and differences, that is what made up Malaysia. When there are differences, there would be disagreements and disparaties.
Metaphorically speaking, Mr X is the father of a large family. He has 10 children, 6 are his children biologically and the other 4 are his adopted children. Now, when it comes to serving food and giving clothes as well as education, Mr X will naturally turn to his 6 children first, something he had made the whole family to understand which the other 4 willingly and happily accepted it. Now one day, one of his 6 children fought with the other child, and called the other child a ‘bastard’ because there is no biological ties with Mr X. What should Mr X do? He loves all 10 children. And when he avoids this problem, the adopted child will feel that Mr X is not being fair, and then the whole argument of who should stay in the house or not come into picture. The children who used to grow up together, having fun and sleep in a big bedroom, now having to feel the tension and whenever an argument or fight breaks, the same old issue will arise.
What do they actually ask? They just want to be known as the 10 children of Mr X and although being made known in the ID or birth cert that the four are adopted, so long Mr X takes good care of them, and made them feel at home, they are just like everyone else.
I know this metaphor is quite rigid as a running the administration of a country is a whole lot more difficult and complex. I guess my point is, with the current situation of everybody coming up to talk about who belongs to Malaysia, of using ethnicity as the tool in discussion, these don’t seem to help at all. Not at all.
Apology for such a long comment. And if you ever read this (readers), I thank you for your time and attention.
Dear Tun,
>As what I know, The Malay in Sâpore are fully subsidise by the Government for their education from Primary until Secondary. They must study hard in order to obtain a place in the University. By this, the Universities in Sâpore are among the best in the world and able to produce good quality graduate each year.
>As what I know, All the mosques are, at least 50% subsidise by the Government .
>So, correct me, Sâporean, if Iâm wrong.
>thanks
Dear Tun,
I strongly believe that Malaysian unity can be achieved by
1. having one education system. In other words, Chinese and Indian must abandon their schools and go to national school.
2. Another way is thru inter racial marriage. It is proven those who married inter races can live happily and have great race tolerance. Many of them have brilliant children. Government should come out with incentives for the people to have mixed marriage such as tax break, free education etc.
These ideas seem difficult to achieve, but if you believe you can then you can do it.
ASMKum Tun,
Your item 12 is interesting for me to further elaborate. It is not solely due to the abolishment of English schools that other races resorted to their mother tongue schools.
The thrust of change is the Islamic influence in the management of the schools. The extreme Islamic practices at schools. During early days, a must tudung, uncalled doa-doa,extreme Islamic preaching to children, some schools even read the doa in BM….Ya Allah, hindarkan lah kami dari menjadi seperti orang2 kafir, kaum yang dilaknat dll. Worst were schools in the rural.
Do you think these will make the other races feel sending their children to Sekolah KEBANGSAAN or sekolah AGAMA!
Remember the PAS extremist AMANAT HJ HADI! AL-ARQAM! AL-MAUNAH and the TABLIQ! They all infiltrated and change the scenario of the schools and institutions of higher learning.
Even now, these strong practices cannot be reverted and neutralized to be a truly KEBANGSAAN environment.
The core root of racial integration environment (education) has long been destroyed beyond repair.
A history…..my wife quit U, for forcing her to wear TUDUNG!Reasons- her grandMa, herMum did not wear tudung and all of them conducted 5X a day prayers, fasting in ramadhan and perform Haj. They were all good moslems.
The English schools will not imposed based on, “A woman must not wear men’s clothing, nor a man wear women’s clothing, for the Lord your God detests anyone who does this”.
Bible, Deuteronomy 22:5
Dear TUN,
I hope you are in good health.
I could not help but notice that numerous time in your blog that you had mentioned and compare us with the malays in Singapore.
In this particular article, you said that ” The malays have seen what have happened to the Malay in Singapore”
So, What actually have happened to the Malay in Singapore?
I am a Malay from JB and I have been to Singapore quite frequently. I’ve got so many relatives from Singapore who said that they have a good livelihood, good salary, and they have been taken good care of by the singapore goverment.
They have also received free money twice a year due to the growth of the country. Their general hospital is as the same standard with their private hospitals. (I’ve been to their hospitals}. They have also boast about their infrastructure which is one of the best in Asia and etc….
So I think, the message about the Malay singaporean that you numerously stated in your articles are not true. Perhaps you should meet them directly and interview them or go to Singapore unofficially to get the true picture.
The Singapore PM have shown examples on successful singaporean in his recent national rally speech and half of them are Malays. (We in JB received Singapore TV broadcast in addition to RTM)
This can be view in the link below.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/nationalday/rally_engvideo.htm#
I am a Johorean Malay. I am proud to be one but I do not want to believe in a fallacy.
The Malays in Singapore are minority group (15%)and we are the majority group (60%). There is no strong basis for comparisons. By the way, we are the one that abandoned the Malays in Singapore in 1963.
My apology for disagreeing with you but I cannot help myself but to state the truth.
I hope you do not compare us anymore with Malays in Singapore because the perception that you have about them is not true.
Best Regards and Sallam
ASWB,
I DIDN’T SEE MY COMMENT THAT I DID AROUND 12.30 PM LAST NIGHT.
APPRECIATE IF YOU COULD POST MY COMMENT.
WASSALAM.
Assalammualaikum Yg Berbahgia Tun Dr. Mahathir,
1. Penyatuan Melayu boleh berlaku sekiranya pemimpin pemimpin Pas dan UMNO sanggup bertolak ansur dan mencapai suatu persetujuan.
2. Penyatuan Malaysia pula akan berlaku sekiranya ada penyatuan Melayu.
3. Walaupun sudah terlambat, syllibus baru di sekolah untuk orang Melayu mestilah di perkuatkan dengan membina asas kukuh untuk anak anak orang Melayu.
4. Subjek adat dan istiadat serta adat resam orang Melayu mestilah diadakan, diperturunkan dan diamalkan di peringkat sekolah rendah ini.
5. Begitu juga dengan fardu fardu Ain dan Kifayah serta Kelas Pengajian Quran yang mesti wajib lulus bagi semua pelajar Melayu sebelum ke Tingkatan Satu.
6. Biarlah semasa di Tingkatan Satu sehingga Tingkatan Lima di semua sekolah, anak anak Melayu bersongkok hitam dan yang perempuan pula bertudung.
7. Apabila di Kolej dan Universiti nanti, insyaallah, anak Melayu walau dah bertukar pakaian seperti bangsa Cina dan India, asas kemelayuan mereka telah kukuh.
8. Kurikulum sekarang hanya mengajar Melayu bertolak ansur dan beradab sopan walaupun kepala sudah di tekan.
9. Hal hal adat istiadat Melayu didokong oleh UMNO manakala hal hal keagamaan didokong oleh PAS.
10. Rasa rasanya masih ada sinar untuk penyatuan orang Melayu.
good article..banyak orang x sedar diri la ni..apa nak jadi la
Dear Tun,
This is an indeed a well thought through article for the agony that we are facing today which is racism. If I’m right, your last 2 points are indeed what we have been fighting for ever since we achieved independence. Nevertheless, in all practical sense, it is achievable and is that the most practical solution for our agony?
As history has always been the best guidance for solution, let us reflect during the times of our prophet Muhammad s.a.w when he himself had not given equal status to the immigrants of Mecca who are the Muhajjir. What was given to them was all the rights to pursue their economic wellbeing and a place to live under. However, rights on politic was never given. Why had the Prophet not given equal right to the people of Muhajjir? Why was he protecting the rights of the indigenous people of Mecca above the Muhajjir?. Perhaps, he must had foreseen that sooner or later, Mecca would have to face the same problem that we are facing now had the rights of the indigenous people are equalized. Thus, taking the cue from history, racial harmony can never be achieved if equal rights are given to all races of a country. The Malays remember well their roots and they do not accept defeat easily, what more if Islam is compromised. Malaysia has been the land of the Malays ever since and therefore, there should not be equal rights between all races. My belief is real harmony can only be achieved if the Malay supremacy is protected. It is a critical point to ponder as without such supremacy, Islam is at risk of being equalized.
I had believed Malaysian Malaysia once and voted Opposition for that…
But as time goes it was clear to me that Malaysian Malaysia is a fake…The so-called advocates of Malaysian Malaysia, who cries for unity are the ones sending their kids to chinese school which some of it follow China syllabus (that’s why they fail to understand history and how they get here in the first place as they busy learning on China Empire instead..hehehe)..if that doesn’t spell HYPOCRISY, I don’t know what does
Can we be like before?..I Malay, U chinese, U Indian and live together, respect what the constitution entails, the newer pendatangs don’t be too jealous or hard-up or greedy or kiasu of the older pendatangs, Malays to stop calling chinese pendatang as it is sensitive to them, don’t question or make forum on other religions, don’t be kurang ajar to the kings, don’t simply do whatever you like to do in the name of FREEDOM…
THERE IS NO SUCH THINGS AS TOTAL FREEDOM AND EQUALITY IN THE WORLD (not even in country like UK/US..I know as I’ve lived there and work with immigrants where people also mistaken me as immigrants as well)..LOOK AT IRAQ…I BET NOW MOST OF THE IRAQIS WISHED THEY ARE STILL IN SADDAM’S REIGN AFTER WHAT HAPPEN WHEN AMERICA INTERFERE…
IT’S HIGHLY POSSIBLE TO HAPPEN TO MALAYSIA AS AMERICA HAVE GOOD MILIRATY RELATIONSHIP WITH SINGAPORE AND WITH THE MALAYSIANS THEMSELVES WHO WANTS TO BE HUMAN RIGHTS HERO..YELLING HERE AND THERE…IT IS A MATTER OF TIME FOR MS RICE TO MAKE ANNOUNCEMENT TO INTERFERE (They can also use HINDRAF’S letter to THE QUEEN as well to make their case)
TO PEOPLE WHO CALLED THEMSELVES A MALAYSIAN,
DO WE WANT TO END UP LIKE IRAQ?
ps: People might not see why I talk about Iraq….the chronological events ie eerily similar……….all in the name of TOTAL FREEDOM/ DEMOCRACY/EQUALITY
Askm Tun.
saya cuma nak cadangkan, Tun wujudkan satu akademi kepimpinan Tun Mahathir. (Private Academy). Macam Tun pernah buka klinik Maha dulu.
Macam mana?
Salam Tun,
You are absolutely right. I agree with you. To me, the racial gap is widening everyday. Opposition always stress on being one race i.e Bangsa Malaysia (BM). But when they are in power, they started to behave like they are so racist. If we want Malaysia to be a one race nation, then its people has to accept Bahasa Malaysia as the official language of the country but the scenario is however different. Even road signs has three languages now such as places like Bukit Bintang. I see that some signs has 3 languages i.e. Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil. It’s very confusing. Boys and girls are not mixing with boys or girls of other races because they attended different schools. The chinese makes it worst by sending their children to chineses schools only. They hardly speak the Malay language. So, how are we going to accept them as a true Malaysian?
I remembered many years ago when reporters asked you whether a chinese and become the PM of Malaysia. And you (Tun) said that “only if the are accepted by the people”. Judging by the current scenario, I think it will take many, many years before the Malaysia accept the non-Malays as PM. Malays on the other hand, will send thir children to either the Government schools or sekolah agama.
As such,they only know to mix with people of their race when they grow up. Likewise the indians, too. We also have indians who can’t even speak the Malay language. What else to her ask her to sing our national anthem.
Tun, FYI I have anticipated all this long before the recent Gen. Election. You can easily notice this in colleges and univertities. To me, as long as this scenario is being practice, we can forget about being Bangsa Malaysia. Malays will be Malays, Chinese will remain chinese and indians will always be “Hindraf”. Amen?
Dearest TUN,
The extremist Malays
The extremist Muslims
The Extremist Chinese
The Extremist Indians
The Extremist Rakyat
This is not the kind of rakyat we expect and want to have in Malaysia because they would be the cause of of our downfall.
We have to be MODERATE.
We have to GIVE & TAKE.
We have to be TOLERANT.
We have to be SACRIFICE.
But most rakyat want to WIN ALL.
NO WAY TO ACHIEVE UNITY AND PROGRESS
Respect the pact that had been decided by our wise leaders of Malaya, Sabah and Sarawak.
MERDEKA DAY IS ON THE 31st of August.
Salam ayahnda Tun,
Tiada pemimpin lain yang paling saya hormati selain ayahnda Tun. Ayahnda seorang pejuang bangsa dan negara yang tulen. Pemikiran ayahnda sangat hebat. Ayahnda lah sahaja yang dapat memulihkan keadaan di Malaysia sekarang. Sayang Malaysia! Sayang ayahnda!
Dear Tun..
You have mentioned it perfectly… As stated, we need to sacrifice and it refer to all races in this beloved country.. and it does include our hak bumi, special right and so on…
However, other races were also need to be ready to sacrifice… i know that chinese and indians have already sacrifices for the Malays special privilage but please also bare in mind that the malays was also sacrifice when Tunku decided to represent the 1 million citizenship without any special requirement to chinese and indian.. Enough of repeating all these sacrifices… let start with new sacrifices… Indonesian as an example… other races were just blend as being indonesian… and aother races were also received equal right among indonesian… and they earn it by being indonesian…. not Chinese nor Indian nor Malay nor Jawa nor etc… just Indonesian…. These are kind of sacrifices that are needed for my fellow chinese and indian and also Malay .. in order to be Malaysian… equal right.. and etc…
1. Malays will abandon their special right… in order for chinese and indian to have equal right..
2. No more Chinese or Indian school…
3. Speak Bahasa Malaysia CORRECTLY…
You guys opt to have this and that… equal right and everything but at the same time you guys still want to be known as Malaysian Chinese or Malaysian Indian???… however, there are no Malay Malaysian…. it will be better if we are all to be known as Malaysian…
TO DR. SYED ALWI AHMAD – you just wake up the resakse… JUST GO BACK TO SINGAPORE.. WORK IN SINGAPORE AND DIE IN SINGAPORE….. it is proven, Singaporean Malays are just can talk outside of their tiny dot country… where else.. Malaysia…
IF YOU WANT TO STAY AND CARI MAKAN HERE… JUST DO YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES AND BE THANKFUL….
Assalamualaikum,
Selamat berpuasa buat ayahanda /bonda Tun berdua.
Disini saya ingin memberikan sedikit padangan dan ulasan.
Pertama: Kenapa tanah air kita ini dipanggil tanah melayu. Cuba kita lihat sebelum penjajahan dahulu. Semua kaum dan bangsa didunia ini ada tanah air masing-masing. Di Malaysia ini dulu sebelum penjajahan semua negeri disemenanjung diperintah oleh raja-raja melayu. Ada tak negeri yg diperintah oleh raja cina, raja india sebagai contoh. Semasa penjajahan mereka-mereka ini dibawa masuk oleh penjajah. Selepas merdeka dipersetujui mereka2 ini diserapkan sebagai rakyat malaysia. Sikap dan jiwa orang melayu dari dulu sehingga sekarang rata2 masih tidak berubah tidak pernah ujud rasa irihati terhadap kejayaan mereka, tidak pernah menghalang kejayaan mereka ini. Malah ianya digalakan meniru setiap kejayaan mereka2 ini. Malahan jika ada seorang dua kaum cina dan india yg berniaga di perkampungan melayu mereka boleh hidup dan berniaga dgn aman dan boleh semakin kaya.Tetapi jika mereka ini menidakkan ketuanan melayu, ini yg tidak boleh diterima. Mari kita lihat, orang melayu berkuasa, kaum lain tidak terpinggir. Kaum lain berkuasa, kaum melayu terpinggir. Kita tidak perlu melihat pada Singapura yg mana pada pendapat saya negeri melayu tersebut telah dan akan terus dijajah oleh kaum cina. Kita lihatlah pada syarikat2 kepunyaan kaum bukan melayu. Apa kedudukan orang melayu dalam syarikat itu.Sekali lagi pandangan saya tetap mengatakan sosial kontrak perlu dipatuhi untuk keharmonian semua rakyat malaysia.
Kedua : Kenapa kaum cina dan india yang merupakan dua kaum utama dimalaysia. Kenapa mereka beriya-iya mempertahankan ujudnya sekolah-sekolah jenis kebangsaan ini. Apakah matlamat dan tujuan utama mereka. Sedangkan kita boleh lihat berapa ramai orang dari kedua kaum ini yang berjaya dan kaya raya, tetapi… nama mereka mesti ada richard, eric, david dll.
Ketiga: Saya dahulu hanya mengikuti perkembangan politik secara sepintas lalu sahaja. Sekarang saya merasakan seolah-olah saya ini memang orang politik walaupun tidak pernah menyertai mana2 parti politik. Pada pandangan saya PM yang ada sekarang tidak perlu menunggu lama untuk meletakkan jawatan. Semakin lama semakin banyak kesilapan yang ditunjukkannya. Apakah kerja dan tanggungjawabnya yang masih banyak lagi untuk dilakukannya jika semua orang diluar dan didalam pentadbirannya tidak sependapat dengannya. Undurlah secara terhormat bukanya secara terhina.
Keempat : Semua diatas adalah pandangan ikhlas dari saya anak malaysia yang ingin dan rindukan keharmonian dan kemajuan yang lebih baik daripada apa yang kita pernah capai dahulu, bukanya semakin buruk dan hilang.
Terimakasih Tun
Hi Tun,
1.I would like to set the record straight by saying that please do not forget your father will fall into the category of PENDATANG (according to the historical reference by the recent BN Person in Permatang Pauh ) and the only son of PENDATANG who has to be grateful perhaps for the support he gets form the so called Malay is YOU because you used them to become PM of Malaysia.
2.I pity my malay friends who still in poverty while you preach about some ideology that doesnt exist and cheat the entire nation for past 22 years.
3.History will remember you as the RACIST leader not otherwise.
4. Base on you own definition the term “Malay” in the Constitution :
” A Malays/Bumiputra is some one who practise the culture in his or her daily life.” This imeddiately renounce the need to be born as a one. So this shows the need for this definitions only arises when the there is a need to recognise someone who is not born as one. this give a room for any migrant to be in this category.
5. The Orang Asli is the original owner of this Malaysian land this is a open secret.
6. Teh ancestor of mos tof the malays are from Java or Sulawesi ( No matter how many generation comes this are written facts as well if its not in Malaysian history books but its is the History of Malaysia). Selfish leaders like Tun will be happy to sweep this under the carpet to be PM. ( Perhaps being PM is you ambition).
7. Repeating again the Only SON OF PENDATANG that need to be grateful to the Malays ( specifically those in BN) is yourself because they made a NON-MALAY be the PM of Malaysia for 22 years!.
8. Mind you the Non-Malays and the malays fought for the Independance together and that was the reason we were granted the citizenship for this Beautiful nation. ( Before it get corrupted by Tun.)
9. Refering to Tun’s comment excerpt below : Please state which Country expelled the people who have fought for the Countries independance?
“To cut a long story short independent Malaysia recognised the citizenship rights of the non-Malays and gave them quite freely. This is unlike many countries in the region where strict conditions were imposed. In fact, some immigrants were actually expelled”
10. Please be a Leader who takes accountability rather than finding fault on others. No Leader is perfect neither no decision is good in time for eternity as Leadership and decisions are merely dictated by the TIME and circumstances it self. Being a PM for 22 years you have disappointed your suporters and follower with your racist remark and tarnish your own status and wisdom as a Former PM. Hope your late father ( who is a PENDATANG) is proud of your racist remarks.
Please comment on this.
Dear Tun,
The star reported that Anwar is always doing a con job to trick the rakyat. You can kid the people once, twice but not all the time,â Nazri said when contacted.
Deputy Home Minister Datuk Wan Farid Wan Salleh said Anwar âshould stop playing mind games.â
âFor someone who aspires to be the future leader of the country, he must behave like one, and not like a politician hungry for power,â he added.
Comment:
I must add that this Anwar character is already past 60 years of age and he should stop behaving like a 21 years old student leader of the ’70s. It is outdated political strategy. I consider him a “pariah” politician of the first order. No class !!
As a leader it is very disgusting indeed to tolerate such kind of politician. Only the American cowboys can appreciate his antic.
Tun Mahathir,
Salam Dengan Penuh Hormat.
Saya orang Melayu.
Saya akui bahawa darah yang mengalir dalam tubuh ini tidaklah 100% darah Melayu Asal tetapi, semangat yang terpahat di hati dan fikiran ada lah ” Melayu ” tulin.
Samasa saya membesar ,saya lebih suka berdamping dengan kedua dua datuk di sebelah Ibu dan juga di sebelah Bapa kerana saya di manjakan dan suka mendengar mereka bercerita. Sedikit sebanyak, saya memahami asal usul diri saya.
Saya lebih rapat kepada datuk di sebelah Ibu kerana ia tinggal bersama Opah saya bersebelahan rumah di kampong. Datuk di sebelah Bapa tinggal di pekan kerana bertugas sebagai Imam di sabuah Misjid di pekan Ipoh.
Saya sering mengujunginya kerana sebagai Imam dan juga penjaga Masjid, datuk saya di beri tempat kediaman yang lebih baik didalam kawasan Masjid jika di bandingkan dengan rumah di kampong.
Saya misih ingat datuk di sebelah Ibu menceritakan bahawa datuk moyangnya berasal dari Kemboja dan beberapa saudara sekeluarga telah dikerah olih Raja Siam untuk menyertai bala tentera “paksa” untuk menyerang bahagian Utara Tanah Melayu.
Satelah tujuan penaklukan tercapai dan Raja Siam mengambil kuasa memerintah, datuk moyang saya menetap dan berkampong di Utara Perak dan berusaha sebagai pegembala gajah . Moyang saya memiliki beberapa ekor gajah dan menyedikan khimat gajah kepada sesiapa yang memerlukan pada ketika itu.
Mengikut cerita datuk saya apabila British berkuasa dan membangukan pekan Ipoh, keluaga moyang saya bersama beberapa saudara sekampong mudik kehilir dan membuka kampong di pinggir pekan Ipoh yang mula rancak dengan usaha perlombongan bijih.
Moyang saya memilih Melayu Asal untuk mendirikan keluarganya dan datuk saya telah di lahirkan di sebuah kampong di tebing Sungai “Kente” di pinggir pekan Ipoh.
Datuk saya menceritakan lagi bahawa pihak British telah mengusir penduduk kampong tersebut dan dua ekor gajah yang misih dilam peliharaan datuk saya turut di rampas.
Bersama sama 4 saudara rapat satu keturunan, mereka telah menanggalkan rumah masing masing, mengikatnya dan menghanyutkan kedalam Sungai “Kente” dan mereka berjanji di mana rumah mereka tersankut di sungai di situlah mereka akan membuka kampong baru untuk membesarkan keluarga. Mengikut ceritanya lagi, rumah salah saorang saudara tuanya telah tersadai di satu tebing dan mereka mendirikan 4 buah rumah asal berpasak dan membuka kampong yang di namakan “Tebing Tinggi”.
Darah keturanan di sebelah Ibu saya masih “Melayu” walaupun moyang moyang saya berasal dari Kemboja, mereka adalah Melayu Kemboja dan Islam dan moyang perempuan pula adalah Melayu Asal Tanah Melayu.
Datuk di sebelah Bapa saya mengikut ceritanya, datuk moyangnya sendiri berasal dari Cina yang turun kerantau Sulu dan menetap di salah sabuah kepulauan dan bekeluarga dengan orang Bugis. Saya tidak di ceritakan samada datuk moyang saya dari Cina berugama Islam atau memeluk Islam semasa di perantauan Sulu.
Apabila Aceh berkembang sebagai pusat perdagangan serta dianggap sebagai Pusat dakwah Islamiah di rantau ini, keluarga datuk moyang saya berhijerah ke Aceh di mana datuk saya telah lahir dan di besarkan.
Mengikut cerita datuk saya, Tanah Melayu ketika itu yang di kuasai olih British, menarik ramai pendatang kerana puluang pekerjaan dan Pemerintahan yang kuat yang mampu mengusir Siam dari Tanah Melayu.
Dalam usia muda, datuk saya telah mengikut keluarganya berhijrah ke Teluk Mak Intan dan moyang saya menjalankan usaha membuat sampan dan bertukang. Apabila pusat Pemerintahan British di Negeri Perak berpindah ke Ipoh,datuk saya bersama beberapa orang saudara mara telah perpindah ke Ipoh untuk berkampong . Datuk saya telah mendirikan keluarga dengan orang Melayu Asal Tanah Melayu di Penkalan Pegoh.
Jika di lihat dari asal usul datuk saya dari sebelah bapa dan satelah 6 atau 7 keturunan, darah Cina yang mengalir dalam tubuh ini mungkin ada tinggal kurang dari 10%.
Walau apa darah yang mengalir didalam tubuh ini, saya menganggap diri saya sebagai Orang Melayu kerana telah di lahirkan dalam keluarga Melayu, bertutur Melayu, adat resam Melayu, warna kulit melayu, berugama Islam dan berfikiran Melayu.
Bolihkah pengakuan ini yang mementingkan darah Melayu di anggap sebagai ” racist ” ?
Jawab nya; tidak ! kerana setiap satu rakyat di Negara ini adalah
racist by nature.
Pemikiran dan pembentukan character sesaorang berpaut kepada environment pergaulan dan pendidikan ilmiah.
Tidak semua yang pandai itu, bijak. Tidak semua yang kuat itu, lasak dan kaedah ini meliputi semua Bangsa.
Saya telah melalui berbagai pengalaman dalam usia yang sudah lewat ini. Saya beranggap bahawa Melayu terlalu berhemah dan ingin menjadi tuan rumah yang baik, mudah memberi kerana berkatnya “bersedekah”, sabar itu adalah separuh dari iman.
Tidak di nafikan bahawa tingkah dan laku seperti ini adalah baik dari sudut pandangan dan penghargaan perpaduan . Tetapi dalam context tamadun persaingan, bertindak biarlah bijak, berusaha biar lah lasak.
Adat,resam, peraturan, perjanjian, persetujan,undang undang harus lah di jadikan panduan dan di ambil iktibar supaya segala prilaku dan tidakan kita betul dan bijak. Kita juga harus waspada kerana manusia tidak berfikiran sama disebabkan kelemahanya ; tamak, haloba,dengki, khianat dan sebahagian besar berpunca dari “Ringgit & Dollar ” samaada terlalu banyak melimpah ruah atau terlalu kurang,kering kuntang dan menusia bertindak diatas ‘Kepentingan diri”
Salam Sejahtera untuk Tun dan Keluarga.
Tun Sila kembali lah memimpin kami.
PRESIDEN UMNO: TUN DOKTOR MAHATHIR MOHAMAD
NAIB PRESIEN UMNO; TAN SRI MUHYIDIN YASIN.
SILA UNDUR: PAK LAH
SILA BERI SOKONGAN KEPADA USUL INI,SUPAYA MALAYSIA DAPAT KEMBALI KEPADA KECERMELANGAN.INSHAALLAH
SEMOGA TUHAN MEMBERKATI TUN INSHAALLAH.
Salam Tun,
I wish you could keep on posting you views in this blog. Its very enlightening and very educational especially for those younger generation who is ignorant of their roots and culture.
Wassallam
Dear Tun,
This is a superb summary of our history. It helps us understand how our socio-political climate is the way it is. You are so right about the Malay-chinese-Indian wanting to keep their identity and not wanting to assimilate.
However, our government’s effort to assimilate and create a “Malaysian” is on its way, as there is a growing pressure for caused and not race based politics. The pressing issue is socio-economy of all Malaysian not any race in particular. With globalization, people are accepting more and more of the similar culture and also facing similar challenges.
As a local graduate, I can share with you that during my university, there was quite a divide between those chinese/indian/maly community whose comfortable medium of communication is Malay/chinese/indian. The probably most united mixed groups are one or two of the christian groups where they have huge number of native sabah & sarawakian, portugese, indian and chinese. One of this group actually “hung out” together as a social group. The other groups were quite separate. I guess the University’s policy and management had quite a lot to do with segregation too.
The good news is that respect & harmony were always present, similar to what you’ve described, keeping to own culture, maintain friendship and work together. This was just slightly more than 10 years ago.
Well, the past are good way for us to understand how we came this way. Moving forward, we really need to focus on issues and values for Malaysian.
Tun, could you share with us the history with Sabah and Sarawak too please? What were their ruler’s role, their leaders of the land, and what were the British’s role? It will be really educational for all.
Thank you!
betulkah apa yang diperkatakan semua ini?
Hindraf? – hanya bersuara sekali dalam 50thn itupun selama ini mereka penyokong kuat tun dan bn (I don’t think is racist).
Educationist? – apakah hak-hak istimeawa yang diperolehi oleh minority Malaysia selama ini selain menjadi pembayar utama income tax dan saya rasa mereka cuma memohon supaya pelajaran ibunda untuk anak-anaknya dikekalkan disekolah (itupun private – kena bayar sendiri). (not racist too).
Wat’s so racist – kena halau keluar! kena mandi darah! kena jadi pendatang! Orang asli masih miskin! …and can we proudly say we’d independent 51years? syabas to umno & bn. Malaysia boleh
Dear Tun and fellow readers,
This is the most important article in this blog so far. Simplify the complexity. This issue I had mentioned in my comment in other previous old topics.
However I still feels something missing when read all the visitor’s comments. I still feel the “emptiness” , “soulless” and “feel-less” which I do not know how to describe it nor write it here.
All the readers either they agreed with the content, they elaborated, they disagreed, they condemned, they tell their stand point, etc but almost everybody left without real solid, concrete, absolute, firm resolution.
Being Melayu, what they want actually? Being Indian what they want? Being Chinese what they want? the answer is still GREATER WEALTH, ABSOLUTE POWER AND LEGACY. Human being is naturally born GREEDY.
How you Melayu, Indian, Chinese, Singh, Iban, Kadazan can live together is just a pure RESPECT and TOLERANCE. If these 2 qualities we still lack, then our mother Malaysia will be destroyed and demolished in anytime soon.
ISA is still relevant. Remember, we dont use ISA to capture Chinese only or Indian only. Melayu still make the biggest number of ISA detainees history. One bad and insensitive Theresa Kok and one bad Melayu not so Melayu will never make Malaysia in a Doomsday. A bad rotten apple must be kept away from others. To detain both rotten apples in ISA is worth.
Dear Tun :
What Malaysia truly needs now is a truly selfless, visionary, CLEAN and capable leader who can unite the people and take Malaysia forward. Unfortunately, decades of corrupt practices and power abuse by so many of our leaders who only think of enriching themselves have bequeathed Malaysia and Malaysians with very inept, sub-standard and embarrassing leaders. We have had cases of ministers allegedly involved in illicit sex, statutory rape, economic plunder (most serious !), building palaces for themselves like Deros, murder, deceit, etc, etc. How can our ministers stand shoulder to shoulder with other first world leaders ? What system is in place to check them and their abuses and make them answerable to the rakyat ? It will make no sense to say that they will eventually have to answer to God.
I believe you cannot deny that the policies of the BN have also to be blamed. While I truly can understand that the social and economic inequality between races must be redressed; I totally disagree that it must be done the NEP way. Why ? After the government has made is so simple for bumiputeras (now, everybody says it shd be termed “umnoputras”) to just “walk in”, you will have difficulty taking away the privileges away from them. In your many speeches in the past, you has also lamented with great sadness that the bumiputeras were selling their “privileges” away for a quick buck to the Chinese. You had time and again asked the Malays to stand on their own two feet, and fight for their dignity. But, after DECADES of easy life where you can just “walk-in” to universities, colleges, businesses contracts, APs, etc, etc, it is now not easy to take it back from them and ask them to “pertahankan maruah and martabat Melayu”. With due respect Tun, do you really, really believe that the non-competitive system and environment will help the bumiputeras to compete in this zaman globalisasi ? Apart from China and India, other southeast asian countries are also developing rapidly, and might soon overtake us. In schools, many of my bumi classmates literally “walked” into the universities even with very mediocre “A” level results. Look what has hapened to UM – which used to be one of the top universities in Southeast Asia, perhaps even Asia ? Are we proud of what has happened to UM ?? Why don’t our ministers send their children to local universities then ?Our numerous universities are churning out poor quality graduates who needed reskilling and retraining. Are we not making a joke of ourselves on the world stage ?
You speak of the Malays in Malaysia not wanting to be like the Malays in Singapore. I think you are making a sweeping statement. The number of Malay professionals in Singapore are rising surely and steadily. I read somewhere that twice, the top student for their Primary Six leaving exam (our equivaent of UPSR) was an anak Melayu. I read in Fudzail blog (http://1426.blogspot.com/2008/08/lee-kuan-yew-at-85-fire-still-burns.html) recently that last year, an anak Melayu named Natasha Muhd Nasir topped the cohort. I googled and verified that it is true ! Now, this was achieved without Natasha being given “crutches” or any unfair advantage. Now, that is what I call maruah. She proved that she was as good as anybody, and she did not have to demand to be given special entry privileges. The number of Malay professionals in Singapore is on the rise …. lawyers, doctors, teachers, lecturers, economists, etc. Why ? Because they were forced to compete on equal terms ! I saw their MPs on TV, like Mdm Halimah Yacob, Fatimah Lateef, Maliki Osman, Yaacob Ibrahim, etc, etc … and I compare them with our MPs and I cringe. Some of our MPs can only make good, fiery speeches that can shake the ground and boil the blood of the people. The best example is our friend from 4 th Floor. Some can use the keris to draw blood. Can we command respect by acting and behaving in this manner ? Or will we invite ridicule ?
Incidentally, you must know that Malays in Singapore receive free education; still. Tun, I still have great respect for you. But I feel that you are also very prejudiced against Singapore. The fact that Singapore has done so well despite NO resources must make us all sit up and wonder why. Malaysia’s resources have all been squandered. By who ? The numerous bailouts by the government over failed government-backed ventures and bumi businesses must make Malaysia the laughing stock of the world. This is the rakyat’s money … How come so many of the top BN politicians are all so rich ? Where did the money come from, given their Minister’s salaries ? Who are we trying to kid ?
The way to go is to increase the education level and aability of the anak-anak Melayu; not handouts and bailouts. But look at the state of our national schools. Can we blame the Chinese for enrolling their children in Chinese schools when the teachers in national schools cannot even teach well and the state of discipline is deplorable ? Right now, Malaysia still has money for a lot of iconic projects and bailouts. In 20 years’ time, it will not be the case. Will we go the way of Myanmmar, or Zimbabwe ? Tun, in 20 years’ time, you will not be around. But your legacy ?
Also, what you have talked in you blog about unconditional acceptance of the social contract by the non-Malays can only be true for the past generations. As second and subsequent generations, it would be foolhardy to expect them to accept the same. If you were a non-Malay, and subjected to such discriminations, you would naturally be unhappy and dis-satisfied too – especially if you become educated. An enlightened leader must realise this and put in place new policies. Thus, Tun, I think the government must change its thinking and policies with the times, and not be trapped in a time warp. You can never expect non-Malays to be totally loyal if the policies continue to discriminate against them. You only need to put yourselves into their shoes and imagine you are Ma Ha Thir, or Mahathiruvan A/L Muhammadvellu. Then, you tell me whether, as a Malaysian trained as a medical doctor, you can be happy with the current state of affairs. And tell me also whether you would expect your children to swallow the bitter pill; and tell your daughter Ma Ri Na that she should be thankful, and accept the status quo unquestioningly. I think we need to be realistic. If we can remove the discriminatory practices,corruption and power abuse, then eventally a Bangsa Malaysia will come into being. All Malaysians, regardless of race must then work together for a shared better future.
It saddens me that Malaysia, which was once one of the most successful and rapidly developing countries in the world is now a joke on the world stage. The behaviour of the puteras and puteris UMNO during the Permatang Pauh nomination is so shameful, to say the least. Maruah ? Why have they sunk so low ? Whose example are they following ?
Is there a Malaysian Martin Luther King somewhere out there to save Malaysia ? Or a Mandela ? a Jose Rizal ? a Mohandas Gandhi ? a Tun Razak ? a Deng Xiaoping ? an Anwar Sadat ? a Mohd Ali Jinnah ? a Lee Kuan Yew ? a Mustafa Kemal Ataturk ? a Jawaharlal Nehru ? sigh ….
We seem to be producing only the ilk of Saddam Hussein. And the crime rate in Malaysia is soaring to such great heights that we cannot even enjoy basic human rights and freedom like personal safety & security ! Is this a country in decline ? Tunku Abdul Aziz of Transparency International says that the present government is one that is in moral decay. Unfortunately, he is right. Sigh.
It suprised me that Tun compared Malaysia with the United States. It’s true that Malaysia to a certain extent is similar to the United States in terms of racial and ethnic composition, but did Tun and other politicians ever wonder why U.S. managed to pull all its multi-ethnic people together and create one single identity – U.S.Citizen, whereas Malaysia couldn’t. It’s pretty simple, just look at their Constitution. The U.S. Constitution guarantees EQUAL RIGHTS for every of its citizen, regardless of race; on the other hand, we all know pretty well what’s in our Constitution, didn’t mean no respect to our Constitution though. A country can never talk about having a single national identity when it affords different treatments to its single-identity-citizens based on their religion or race. A mother can not be said to love all her three sons equally if she gives more sweets to the eldest son.
The indigenous Indians in the U.S. also honestly believed that the Europeans were only ‘dropping by’ to make a few bucks and that they would eventually return home thereafter. But it turned out that the Europeans wanted more than a few bucks, they wanted the land as well. Eventually, the Europeans took all their land and drove them into some ‘Indian Reservations’ and consequently the Europeans became the ‘First Settlers’ of the Free Land. Can anyone relate this part of the U.S. history to our Malaysian or Malayan history?
In fact, there are a lot other countries beside Malaysia and the U.S. which are multi-ethnic and multi-racial. To name a few – Australia and New-Zealand. The similarity among these 4 countries does not stop at multi-ethinicity, these 4 countries also share similarities in their treatments towards their INDIGENOUS PEOPLE. In these four countries, the ‘First Settlers’ have successfully usurped the rights of the INDIGENOUS PEOPLE by claiming to be the rightful King of the Land.
Tun had been talking about Unity, Rights of the First Settlers, Rights of the Minority Late Comers a.k.a Guests, etc, etc but no one seems to give a hoot about the rights of the INDIGENOUS PEOPLE in Malaysia. How about the Orang Asli, Kadazan and Iban. They seem to be of little value to the Establishment and the Warlords. But in my opinion, I believe that if the Indigenous People a.k.a The Rightful Prince of the Land say that WE, regardless of First Comer, First Settlers, Late Comers or Quests, do not belong to this Boleh Land, then I think we truly DO NOT belong to this land because this land belongs to THEM not US. So, until the Rightful Prince of the Land HALAU me out of this land, I will continue to stay on this land as my ancestors did.
Hi Tun,
Hope you are well. I have always respected you when you were our PM, but now, I just feel like there is a hidden agenda for your own benefits in everything you do or write. Instead of helping the Rakyat feel more comfortable at ‘home’…you have been adding more miseries to their lives with your ‘dramas’ here and there. What’s the point? If you really care for the Party and country, you should be more sensative towards ALL Malaysians and not create more hatred and disturbance among the Rakyat. STOP all the writing more sensative RACIAL issues about Rights, etc. As Malaysian, we all know that..but by bringing it up again and again, it will only make Non Bumis feel they dont belong here. What do you achive by doing that? When you were the PM, you were never like this..It seemed like you just don’t care anymore, since you are no longer the
the PM. Are you just trying to prove that Pak Lah is incapable and you were/are? If you are unhappy with Pak Lah, settle it between yourselves and not use the Rakyat and country as your war zone. I really hope that I will remember and cherish you as I have always been and not who you have become now. I don’t mean to be ungrateful, I still and will always respect you for all you have contributed to Malaysia. Please let us all live in harmony as a nation and not differentiate and split the nation with insensative comments on racial rights again and again.
wahai azlela—–when ‘they’ said chinese/mandarin is preferred – hello..I’m sure you are not that ignorant to think that they are referring to race, are you?? it’s language..multilingual employees are preferred due to globalisation of most international companies. That’s why so many Malays and Indians are registering their children for Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Cina or provide them with additional language tuitions..merely to equip them with more language skills to fulfil the international demands. I have many Malays friends adn infact my best friend is a Malay lady and her children went to Chinese schools, I dont see what wrong with that. I went to Sek. kebangsaan and I have many great friends with different racial backgrounds. Never had any problems and never will. How can our nation be competitive when we only speak one language? It is not Chinese/Indians fault for being capable to speak more than one language, we live in a multicultural country, why not? If a Malay can speak B.Melayu, Mandarin, Tamil, English etc and is competitive, there should not be a problem for a Company which requires multilingual staff to employ them. But if you are incapable of speaking other languages and lose out on certain employment opportunities, you can’t blame those who are better than you, can you?..and certainly not the Company which will be paying the salary, of course. There are sooooo many opportunities for Bumiputeras Only out there..please think before you comment. ‘My Foot’ as you have quoted—this makes you look really childish.
Ayahanda Tun sekeluarga… assalamualaikum
Walau sebaik mana sekalipun idea yang ayahanda lontarkan dan grassroot mahukan perubahan di dalam umno tetapi pernahkah kita semua terfikir adakah umno akan mengalami perubahan selepas Pergong Disember nanti. Yang akan menentukannya hanyalah kepimpinan 4 peringkat termasuk timbalan dan naib ketua bahagian serta G7nya sahaja.Siapa yang memilih mereka ini jika bukan perwakilan dari cawangan. Secara ikhlas kita renungkan. Siapakah mereka ini? Apa nawaitu mereka? Kenapa pemilihan G7 kurang rancak jika tiada pemilihan di peringkat MT? Dan banyak persoalan lagi yang timbul kenapa, kenapa dan kenapa ………..? Satu pembohongan besar jika kita tidak tahu jawapannya. Golongan hipokrit akan memberi alasan amalan demokrasi di dalam parti untuk menghalalkan nawaitu mereka. Perpecahan berlaku akibat dari pertandingan di peringkat bahagian dan cawangan. Ini adalah salah satu faktor yang memberi kesan yang amat buruk terhadap parti telah berlaku pada 8 Mac 2008. Tidak keterlaluan jika dikatakan musuh umno pada masa kini bukannya ahli Pas atau PKR, tetapi ahli umno itu sendiri. Jika keadaan ini masih tidak berubah maka bersedialah umno untuk menerima bacaan TALKIN UNTUK UMNO. Zaman dah berubah. Siapa yang perlu diubah? Sikap ahlinya atau pemimpinnya,atau sistem di dalam parti?
Kepada Ayahanda Tun teruskan perjuangan untuk survival melayu.
This is so pathetic. Our founding forefathers of this nation, be it Tunku Adbul Rahman, Tun Tan Siew Sin, Tun Sambanthan and the leaders of our brothers in East Malaysia had one main aim â It is clearly written in our national crest â âUnity is Strengthâ.
While there are different races, religions and customs in this land -This is exactly what makes us strong. Instead of looking at the different races with suspicion, we should relish and be proud to call each other as our Malaysia brothers.
Agreed Malay or Bahasa Malaysia should be taught and learned by all citizens. But what is wrong is being educated in Mandarin, Tamil, Malay or English. The criterion is to learn, be educated and to be a productive citizen. Our diversity is our strength. Our economy improves as we are in a better position to do business in China, India, Indonesia, and The Middle East as well as with the West. If a person knows one language (Malay), the other Malay and English, and another Malay, English, Mandarin or Tamil, which one do you suppose is at an advantage?
When I was serving in the air force, when the Malays had to go for their Friday prayers or for Hari Raya Holidays, we would willingly take over their shift. Similarly when I go on my Deepavali holidays, they would take over my shift. The result is the nation is always guarded and our mutual respect for each other is always there.
All this new words â âKetuanan Melayu, Social Contract and Affirmative Action. What is this all about?
The non-Malays do not question the rights and privileges of the Malays. This is just one of the ploys used by politicians – especially those in Umno especially when it feels threatened. There is also no question of Malays being trained and given opportunities so that they can eventually be on par with the others. But where the problem lies is in the manner this is being done.
As for me, I no longer believe in race based political parties. They profess as looking after the best interests of their race. This ideal is no longer valid as the leaders are seen as being increasing corrupted and only interested in their power and wealth. This is true be it UMNO, MCA or MIC. This was made abundantly clear by the people in the last elections.
As for the unfortunate Singaporean Malay – Put a Graduate Malay from Singapore with that of Malay here and give them a similar test in their qualified fields. Guess who will get the high marks. After all if he is so miserable in Singapore, he can always migrate here and enjoy all the privileges that are given to the Malays here.
Anyway all this is beside the point. The point here being – we should strive for a united Malaysia. As history will bear witness, this will eventually come to being. It wonât be now, but it will happen. What we lack is far sighted leaders with the vision and strength to see this though.
Dear Tun, you could have been this great leader, but unfortunately, as with all politicians your actions were dictated by not what was required but rather a vague notion of racial supremacy and inadequacy.
Looking at some of the reactionary comments in your blog, I fear that before things get better, it will only get worse. My hope is that somehow reason will prevail and that we realise that we are all brothers, and if one is hurt all will be hurt.
Asm Tun,
You are indeed a man of vision. A lot of people misunderstood your judgments and actions when you held the country’s esteem CEO office. Reading your ‘Affirmative Action’ and now this ‘Malay Unity and Malaysian Unity’ clearly explain that it was for the benefit of the country and not just a few selected group. However being only human you do made a few bad judgment. The most glaring of course is your choice of a successor. As it is it’s not easy to take over from someone as good you but still, a mediocre leader can be accepted but surely not a bad one.Being a leader that person have to be firm and decisive. You were right in dismissing DSAI then as there cant be two captain in a ship. You acted firmly and without compromise in the interest of the nation. Now I believe your guidance is needed to bring back the country to even keel. Indeed Tun you are the best leader the country had thus far. May God be with you.
Salam Tun. Setiap patah yg tun katakan pada coretan kali ini banyak kebenarannya dan membuka pandangan saya. Teruskan menulis Tun, MAlaysia masih memerlukanmu.
I think inter marriages will encorage unity but the problem in Malaysia is one must be a Muslim or must convert to Muslim if you are marry a Muslim.
Why cant we follow Indonesia?
Tun,
Bahasa Melayu dah rosak. Misalnya, ayat bodoh saya di bawah ni…
“Dalam keadaan kucar-kacir dan perkauman, bantahan dan pemakluman perlu giat”
sudah jadi fesyen baru….
“Dalam situasi krisis dan rasis, petisyen dan penginformasian perlu aktif”… pooodah! uweek!
Hampir semua dah jadi Mat Saleh (penjajah) pelat. Perosaknya DBP sendiri yang meMelayukan dan menghalalkannya. Tiap kali tukar pengarah, tatabahasanya tak tentu arah.
Bahasa Itu Jiwa Bangsa.
Rosak Bahasa Tiadalah Jiwa Bangsa Melayu.
Tiada jiwa itu Mati!
Walaupun ini tiada kena-mengena dengan penggunaan bahasa inggeris untuk sains dan Matematik di sekolah, apa pasal pulak NGO (ngok) tu duk nak mansuh bahasa Inggeris di sekolah.
Sebabnya satu je, pasal ianya datang Tun dan Mr WhoLikeToBeAmpued sure akan setuju nyer.
Senang cerita, nak suruh semua diam, buat balik sekolah aliran Inggeris, semua pilih suka mana satu. Dijamin ramai termasuk ahli-ahli NGO itu pasti hantar anak-cucu dia pergi sekolah Inggeris.
Selagi Bahasa Melayu tak berterusan dirosakkan oleh DBP dan dipulihkan balik mana yang telah rosak, selagi itu ia tak akan lenyap.
Assalamualaikum Tun,
Pertama kali saya ingin mengucapkan setinggi2 terima kasih kepada Tun kerana pernah mentadbir Malaysia dengan begitu baik sekali. Saya berasa bangga kerana saya adalah generasi yang dilahirkan waktu pentadbiran Tun.
Artikel ini buat saya terasa betapa penting dan perlunya kita mengimbas kembali sejarah. Saya sebagai anak melayu generasi baru ini pernah meragukan, menyoal tentang racial politics di Malaysia. Saya pernah merasakan tidak pentingnya menyedari hak ke’melayu’an kita.
Generasi baru ini harus sedar akan cerita lama yang menjadi asas kepada keharmonian masyarakat majmuk Malaysia…
Tun…
Diharapkan tun dapat kembali menyedari generasi muda Malaysia kini… Saya rasa perlu ada kumpulan/organisasi ditubuhkan agar dapat membawa Tun memberi ceramah/woksyop di seluruh universiti2 tempatan (tak kira kerajaan ataupun swasta) agar pelajar2 Malaysia generasi kelahiran zaman Tun ini sedar bagaimanakah sebenarnya wujud keharmonian masyarakat majmuk kita ini..
Demi kesejahteraan Malaysia yang sangat kami cintakan…
Wassalam dan Selamat Berpuasa, Tun…
Assalamualaikum Tun,
I have few comments here in respond to some of the posts by the bloggers which i totally disagree;-
By malaysian chinese on September 15, 2008 5:13 PM
“…please bear in mind the majority of chinese here does not want to create more chaos and misunderstanding with the malay people..so we hope…”
** CANT YOU SEE THAT THE RECENT INCIDENT IN PUCHONG BY THE CHINESE COMMUNITY OVER AZAN WAS A CLEAR SIGN THAT THE CHINESE WANTED TO CREATE THE CHAOS BY PROVOKING THE MALAYS?
By dfkl on September 15, 2008 5:20 PM
“…Please understand the chinese school system before you simply comment, the students from these schools can speaks very good languages – B.M., English & of course Mandarin…”
** IF YOU SAID THE STUDENTS FROM THE CHINESE SCHOOL SYSTEM CAN SPEAK GOOD B.M WHY AFTER 51 YEARS OF INDEPENDENT WE HEAR MOST OF THE CHINESE/INDIAN STILL SPEAK BROKEN B.M…SOME EVEN CANNOT SPEAK B.M AT ALL!!…LET ALONE WRITING A GOOD B.M ESSAY! ISNT THAT SO SHAMEFUL BEING MALAYSIAN AND YET YOU WANT YOURSELF TO BE CALLED BANGSA MALAYSIA? Poorah la…
“…Tun, you still believe the Malay still lives in kampong like those days, sekarang Melayu sudah jadi professional, they stay in town, in taman-taman, ada hyper market, ada internet & macam-macam…”
** SINCE WHEN DID YOU GET THIS FACT CORRECT?? HAVE YOU GONE TO THE REMOTE AREA OF KELANTAN/KEDAH/PAHANG/PERAK? CANT YOU SEE THAT MOST OF THE KAMPONG PEOPLE (MALAYS) STILL LIVE IN STILT HOUSES/HUTS WITH NO BASIC UTILITIES? Please check your facts first la…
By giri on September 15, 2008 6:13 PM
“… THINK THE INDIANS N CHINESE ARE MORE PATRIOTIC THAN MALAYS.I CAN BE SURE CAUSE WHEN DURING THE MERDEKA ARRIVES YOU CAN SEE MANY INDIANS N CHINESE WILL BE DOING SOMETHING DIFFERENT TO SHOW UP LIKE THE TAXIS FULL OF PRIME MINISTERS FACE,FULL OF FLAGS,DOING FLAGS USING KOLAM AND MANY MORE…….IN JB FOR EXAMPLE YOU CAN RARELY SEE A TAXI OR CARS FLAGGING OUR MALAYSIAN FLAGS DURING MERDEKA CELEBRATIONS…”
** SINCE WHEN YOU CAN BE REST ASSURED THAT THE INDIANS AND THE CHINESE LIKE TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT DURING MERDEKA TO SHOW THEIR PATRIOTISM? ARE YOU BLIND..? DURING THE RECENT MERDEKA MONTH CELEBRATION HOW MANY PRIVATE OWNED COMPANIES TOOK THE EFFORT TO DECORATE THEIR BUILDINGS WITH JALUR GEMILANG? NONE….read my word…NONE!!! ONLY THE GOVERNMENT OWNED BUILDINGS and THE GOVERNMENT LINKED COMPANIES WHO REALLY MADE THE EFFORT TO WRAP THEIR BUILDINGS WITH THE BIG JALUR GEMILANG. What a disgraced…
By hilz on September 15, 2008 5:22 PM
“…Daripada dasarnya, memang rakyat Malaysia nampak bersatu. Semua kaum kelihatan nya hidup aman dan damai. Tetapi kita tidak tahu apa yang ada di dalam hati mereka…”
** YA! MEMANG BENAR…PADA DASARNYA NAMPAK BERSATU TETAPI PADA REALITINYA KETIGA TIGA KAUM DI MALAYSIA INI SUKA HIDUP DALAM KELOMPOK KAUM SEBANGSA. LIHAT SAJA SENARIO DI STARBUCK ATAU WAKTU LUNCH DI KL…KAUM MELAYU SAMA KAUM MELAYU, KAUM CINA SAMA KAUM CINA DAN KAUM INDIA SAMA KAUM INDIA…INIKAH YANG DIWAR-WARKAN HIDUP BERHARMONI ANTARA KAUM?……..PLEASE LA!
Thank you.
Wassalam and Selamat Bersahur kepada Tun sekeluarga.
There he goes again. Unable to win support from even his own UMNO members, many of whom view him as a pariah to be banished forever from the shores of Malaysia, Dr Mahathir Mohamad has set his sights across the causeway at his âunfortunateâ brethen in Singapore.
In an article entitled âMalay unity and Malaysian unityâ (point 21) published on his blog, chedet, Dr Mahathir took a snipe at the âplightâ of Singapore Malays:
âThe Malays have seen what has happened to the Malays of Singapore and they have no desire to be like Singapore Malays.â
It is most unbecoming for a foreign statesman to keep interfering in our domestic affairs. Dr Mahathirâs insinuations that the Malays in Singapore are second class citizens as compared to the state of the Chinese in Malaysia are totally unfounded, baseless and malicious.
Had a Singaporean make the following remarks on a blog or forum, he will be charged under the Sedition Act or arrested under the ISA immediately
Read rest of article here:
http://wayangparty.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/dr-m-takes-cheap-pot-shots-to-stir-racial-unrest-in-singapore-again/
Dear Tun,
People’s Progressive Party Youth leader T. Murugiah today called for the Internal Security Act (ISA) to be reviewed, particularly in its usage.
“I don’t mind if we use the ISA against terrorists but not on normal civilians.”
Comment:
I consider those who are harping and instigating racial and religious sentiments can be classified as “terrorists” because even though they don’t use “mechanical weapons” but their “verbal weapons” are as dangerous as using the real weapons. They can cause havoc to society especially our multi-racial society.They deserve to be charged under ISA without fear and favour.
Salam kepada ayahanda Tun dan bonda,
Semoga sihat sejahtera dan dilindungi Allah sentiasa.
Another example of excellent writing from ayahanda Tun,but still some of ‘them’ didn’t recognize or didnt see the vision that you have in your mind.
Nowadays people are always blaming each other if there is a fault or mistakes that heve been made by the current leaders or the previous leader, it seems obviuos that their mentality was beyond their humanity and genious thinking.
They should be proud of our country political system that is fair and have an equal treatment of everyone in an organization.
Racial means the existing between people of different races that will contribute to racial hatred,prejudice,tension,violence or racial equality thus it will not contribute to the country unity and growth.
It is our responsibilities to end racial discrimination in our country.
We should respect each other or by means respects other’s (malay)first,before you expect to be respected by them.We should stop this now or later it will tarnished our reputation as a multi racial country.
MALAYSIA UNITY WILL CONTIBUTE TO MALAYSIAN PROSPERITY
SELAMAT BERPUASA to Tun and family.
Wassalam
Dear Tun,
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Monday advised Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Zaid Ibrahim to take a leave and rethink his decision to quit the post.
Comment:
A man with principle like Zaid should not retract his decision to resign. Apa nak suruh cuti dan fikir semula.
Dah nak resign, resign lah !!
Dear Tun,
Thank you for the well written article.
HOPE, our Malaysian Press could disseminate this article for the benefit to all Malaysians.
Regards
mnbas
Salam Yg Berbahagia Tun,
I am always amazed by the depth of your knowledge.
I remember the time when I would just sit in front of the tv, listening to your inspiring speeches for hours and hours.
There is such a gulf of gap in knowledge and leadership between you and the present PM.
Instead of finding answers and solutions, some people would just simply retort to do-not-question and oppressive approaches.
Obviously, the situation within the country has vastly changed.
BN’s election result had shown the ill-health of the party. Instead of focusing on making the recovery, we have seen that the situation is getting worse day after day.
I am looking forward to read more of your articles.
Wish you luck in everything you do.
May Allah show us the true path.
Hidup Malaysia! Hidup Negaraku!
Hello Tun,
Most of what you said is a fact except for some.
When you were PM there was a greater gap in racial unity than your predecessors, so I believe that you will have to own some responsibilities for the current affairs.
While in office you could have seriously formulated plans to overcome this serious divide but unfortunately you did not and even now you use history to explain away the present political climate.
I personally was not too keen in politics and I may boldly say that many Malaysians did not take politics seriously until now when our country has achieved more than 50 years of independence. It has taken us Malaysians more than 50 years to realize that we have not matured as far as politics is concerned.
The world is changing and even now you are more engrossed within the borders of our country and yet I always thought that you are a global statesman. America is seeing its first Afro-american Presidential candidate. An Arab and an Asian have bought the top British football clubs whereas China and India are now major International players and we are stuck in the mire of racism.
Malaysian politics has brought a rude awakening that many BN politicians are arrogant and self assuming. The Government did not realize that the citizens were maturing from political adolescence to political maturity and hence the results of the election.
Tun, I am not a young person but yet I feel that you still make statements of a yester-year politician which clearly has no place in today’s society. You cannot justify today’s events with past history. If Malaysia can become a developed nation in just a short span of time then surely, we could have made some serious efforts to bridge the gap between the races. Some tell me that the bridge that annexed the twin towers was a stroke of genius. I am sure we have some politician who are genius to bridge the racial gaps.
When Malaysia was formed we were able to work out a solution to annex the people of Sabah and Sarawak and I think this is successful to a certain extent. This was in 1963 but our independence was from 1957. If the early PM had thought it could be difficult to assimilate the Sabahans and the Sarawakians we will not have East Malaysia.
I commonly hear politicians widely use the word “toleransi” of course this is the English word tolerate, it simply means to allow something that one dislikes to remain and not interfere or change it; to put it in a nutshell it means sweeping under the carpet. This it seems was the easy solution to assimilation.
Every election, race was fair game to unscrupulous politicians and of course the recent by-election was no exception.
The greatest folly is when generation to generation the political scenario is kept intact. This is the miserable situation of our country’s politics.
Malaysians need a Deliverer, one who respects another as a fellow human being, does not misuse race for political mileage, uncorrupted and most of all a social worker. Please do let me know if such person exist and I would gladly vote for him.
Dear Tun
Nothing is impossible provided we have good and trustworthy leaders
who are sincere in what they do not just talk and talk.
We did remarkably well since independence unfortunately the current
leadership just lost control what was once the mighty BN ship.
Well we can only pray and work hard for a better Malaysia.
take care….
Assalamualaikum wbt.
Ayahanda Tun & bonda yang dikasihi,
MALAY UNITY AND MALAYSIAN UNITY
1.PANDANGAN TUN DALAM PERKARA INI CUKUP BERNAS UNTUK DIHAYATI OLEH KAUM MELAYU DAN KAUM LAIN DIMALAYSIA.
MALAY UNITY
1.PENYATUAN MELAYU KETIKA INI,KERETAKANNYA AMAT MEMBIMBANGKAN.
2.INI BERMULA DARI SIFAT PEMIMPIN KETIKA INI LEBIH MEMENTINGKAN KUASA HARTA DAN KEMEGAHAN,LEBIH TEPAT CINTA DUNIA.
3.KAUM MELAYU JIKA INGINKAN PENYATUAN,AMALKAN AGAMA ISLAM YANG DIANUTINYA SECARA SEMPURNA.LUPAKAN KEPARTIAN..INILAH KUNCINYA
…FAHAMILAH PARTI MEMBAWA PERPECAHAN,AGAMA ISLAM MEMBAWA PENYATUAN..PARTI YANG MELEBELKAN ISLAM JUGA DATANGKAN PERPECAHAN..
MALAYSIAN UNITY
1.PENYATUAN KAUM DIMALAYSIA MESTI BERASASKAN ADA PERASAAN HORMATI MENGHORMATI ANTARA KAUM.INI DIMULAKAN MENGHORMATI KAUM MELAYU(MAJORITI) TERLEBIH DAHULU.
2.PEMIMPIN PEMIMPIN DARI KAUM LAIN PUNYAI PERASAAN DIATAS,PENYATUAN KAUM DIMALAYSIA DIRASAI KEHARMONIANNYA KETIKA ITU.
3.APABILA PERKARA 1 TIDAK ADA,KAUM MELAYU RASA TERCABAR,CONTOH TERDEKAT APA BERLAKU DINEGARA JIRAN SEBAGAI RUJUKAN..PENYATUAN TIDAK AKAN WUJUD..
ASWB TUN & FELLOW BLOGGERS,
A gold medal award to TUN for his excellent write up on the issue of Malaysian unity. i love this simple yet honest article, one of the bEST write-ups by Tun.I hope that all Malaysian should read this beautifically explained write-up that contributes to the present racial segregation.I suggest TUN publicize this article in the main media. New Strait Times, The Star, Utusan, the Chinese and Indian news paper. I’m sure the public would strongly laud this beautifically written article.
actually the present government should not be blamed for causing this racial sentiment among the Malaysians. The root cause as Tun pointed could be attributed to the British for separating the three races before and after independence.After the Merdeka, effort to unite the three races resulted in futility as each race tend to champion on its own culture, language and religion. over the 50 years, each community seems to drift further apart, as the Malays are focused on defending the bahasa Melayu status and the Islamic religion, the Chinese are more towards protecting their vernacular schools and mANDARIN AND the indians also engrossed in preserving their schools , language and hinduism as well. It seems there no light at the end of the tunnels far as intergrating them culturally and economically.
I strongly concur with Tun’s view that in most countries, the minorities tend to assimilate the majority
of the people’s culture, language and values etc. It’s either that
the immigrants are being forced by the government like in the case of Chinese in Indonesia and Thailand where there are required to adopt the local name and to learn and be proficient in the local language. in addition they are able to blend with the majority through inter-ethnic marriage and duly accepted by the local community as one of their own.but In Malaysia, sorry to say that there are still some Chinese and Indians who are still not able to converse in Bahasa Melayu let alone to write formally.THIS IS A VERY DISSAPOINTING FACTS FOR US TO ACCEPT THAT HOW COULD AFTER 50 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE, SOME MALAYSIANS ARE STILL NOT ABLE TO SPEAK THE INDIGENEOUS LANGUAGE. AND SORRY TO SAY THAT, THEY PREFER TO SPEAK IN ENGLISH OR EVEN IN THEIR OWN LINGOS RATHER THAN THE BAHASA MALAYSIA.HOW COULD WE LET THIS SORT OF THING TO HAPPEN ?
I still believe that the Malaysians could still be intergrated as the real Bangsa Malaysia if we are able to reconcile our differences.
But IT IS EASIER SAID THAN DONE AS ALL RACES NEED TO SACRIFICE THEIR
DIFFERENCES IN TERM OF THEIR CULTURE, LANGUAGE,CUSTOMS ETC FOR THE SAKE OF MALAYSIAN UNITY.IF WE ARE REALLY SERIOUS, AS TUN SAID
If we still want Malaysian Unity we need to be willing to make sacrifices regarding what we consider to be our racial rights. Everyone has to do this. The leaders must be given some mandate to discuss these matters in private and to make concessions. After each step the lower rung leaders of each race must be given full briefing as to why the concessions have to be made. It would be useless if they don’t agree.
Provided we can roll back the present unhealthy trends and redirect it towards more positive non-racial objectives, provided we do this slowly by small steps we may be able to create a truly Malaysian identity where race would gradually become less important. It will take time but with sincerity we may reverse the present trends and move towards increasing co-operation and integration.
AN EXCELLENT POINT FOR US TO PONDER……..
KUDOS & BRAVO TO TUN, KEEP IT UP.
ASWB TUN & FELLOW BLOGGERS,
A gold medal award to TUN for his excellent write up on the issue of Malaysian unity. i love this simple yet honest article, one of the bEST write-ups by Tun.I hope that all Malaysian should read this beautifically explained write-up that contributes to the present racial segregation.I suggest TUN publicize this article in the main media. New Strait Times, The Star, Utusan, the Chinese and Indian news paper. I’m sure the public would strongly laud this beautifically written article.
actually the present government should not be blamed for causing this racial sentiment among the Malaysians. The root cause as Tun pointed could be attributed to the British for separating the three races before and after independence.After the Merdeka, effort to unite the three races resulted in futility as each race tend to champion on its own culture, language and religion. over the 50 years, each community seems to drift further apart, as the Malays are focused on defending the bahasa Melayu status and the Islamic religion, the Chinese are more towards protecting their vernacular schools and mANDARIN AND the indians also engrossed in preserving their schools , language and hinduism as well. It seems there no light at the end of the tunnels far as intergrating them culturally and economically.
I strongly concur with Tun’s view that in most countries, the minorities tend to assimilate the majority
of the people’s culture, language and values etc. It’s either that
the immigrants are being forced by the government like in the case of Chinese in Indonesia and Thailand where there are required to adopt the local name and to learn and be proficient in the local language. in addition they are able to blend with the majority through inter-ethnic marriage and duly accepted by the local community as one of their own.but In Malaysia, sorry to say that there are still some Chinese and Indians who are still not able to converse in Bahasa Melayu let alone to write formally.THIS IS A VERY DISSAPOINTING FACTS FOR US TO ACCEPT THAT HOW COULD AFTER 50 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE, SOME MALAYSIANS ARE STILL NOT ABLE TO SPEAK THE INDIGENEOUS LANGUAGE. AND SORRY TO SAY THAT, THEY PREFER TO SPEAK IN ENGLISH OR EVEN IN THEIR OWN LINGOS RATHER THAN THE BAHASA MALAYSIA.HOW COULD WE LET THIS SORT OF THING TO HAPPEN ?
I still believe that the Malaysians could still be intergrated as the real Bangsa Malaysia if we are able to reconcile our differences.
But IT IS EASIER SAID THAN DONE AS ALL RACES NEED TO SACRIFICE THEIR
DIFFERENCES IN TERM OF THEIR CULTURE, LANGUAGE,CUSTOMS ETC FOR THE SAKE OF MALAYSIAN UNITY.IF WE ARE REALLY SERIOUS, AS TUN SAID
If we still want Malaysian Unity we need to be willing to make sacrifices regarding what we consider to be our racial rights. Everyone has to do this. The leaders must be given some mandate to discuss these matters in private and to make concessions. After each step the lower rung leaders of each race must be given full briefing as to why the concessions have to be made. It would be useless if they don’t agree.
Provided we can roll back the present unhealthy trends and redirect it towards more positive non-racial objectives, provided we do this slowly by small steps we may be able to create a truly Malaysian identity where race would gradually become less important. It will take time but with sincerity we may reverse the present trends and move towards increasing co-operation and integration.
AN EXCELLENT POINT FOR US TO PONDER……..
KUDOS & BRAVO TO TUN, KEEP IT UP.
Good day Tun,
As i kept reading your blog on this issues, I cannot stop thinking that why you of all people, keep stating what not a fact is and making it in to a fact.
There are few things that we should all know, the so called ” perjuangan melayu” its actually “perjuangan orang tanah malaya” As i would recalled, most races was there during the “perjuangan”. All together was there. So please dont come up and say that it is ONLY “melayu” that went for the perjuangan.
The Chinese, Indian were there and fairly enough, they been here far longer than ….well… the entire prime minister from. I came from a 4th generation from china. And I believe some of the blogger are even the seventh generation. If i am not mistaken, you are the 2nd generation from India.
On your issue #6, I donât think I would agree as the Chinese and Indians were here long as the Malay as well. And we are definitely “NOT” guest. I think the orang asli will think that we are just guests, till we push them side line and name them âdan lain lainâ
On issue #21, most of the Malay in Singapore are proud to be in Singapore and look down as well as laughing at “Malaysia” A country that donât have much land, donât have oil and most of everything that Malaysia have, they are doing far far better than us in term of unity, economics way before when you were PM of Malaysia. To think, they actually independent the same like us. Go figure.
I just think that we all are humans and DONT see what we lack of and keep on point fingers and in denial. Cant blame you, you were once ridiculing others and you are still doing it now.
Salam Tun,
Pada pendapat saya, untuk rakyat kini & kemudian kenal diri:
1. Kerajaan mesti mewajibkan subjek sejarah
sejak darjah satu lagi hingga ke pengajian tinggi.
2. Dan kembalikan Bahasa Malaysia kepada Bahasa Melayu.
3. Negara Malaysia kepada Tanah Melayu.
4. Dengan identiti ini, saya percaya mereka2 ini akan kenal diri.
Salam Tun,
You are very correct. I totally agree with you.
Just one big question here … Why can’t the present leaders just start to learn from you and start thinking like you … ???
They are so emotionally involved that they have lost or forgotten to put on their thinking caps well wisely.
It seemed that there are parties out there who is looking for personally gain, wealth, glory and power. These people are trully irresponsible people and they are the ones who is making all these trouble and problems now. They really should be dealt with toughly so as to stop all of their unhealthy agendas.
Till then, lets get tough and be real firm with all these ignorant parties. Together we stand and together we put a bar against them.
Wassalam.
Sincerely,
Lubis
DEAR TUN,
I like to read comments in your blog!We can get to know different thinkings of different “Kaum”.After reading over thousands comments.I found one Malays intellectual.No Malays leaders even TUN want to touch on these points.He is EN. Ahmad Zaki Ismail on SEPT.2008 9.59 pm….”mentality and attitude”…He is right!
Do you think ONE sekolah kebangsaan, ONE langauge…ONE religion….ONE strong political party….can change the present situation !NO only change of “mentality and attitude”…can gain respect..and ..”Ketuanan”..
Do you think ONE this… and ONE that…can make state government pay back huge debts to Federal government…can prevent various Ministries misused of funds…NO!
Only change of “mentality and attitude”….you will acheive
Wawason 2020..or not another 50 years!
Selamat Hari Puasa..
Dear TUN,
Hope you are in good health.
I cannot help but notice that numerous time you mention about the Malays in Singapore.
In this article, you mentioned that “the malay have seen what have happened to the Malays in Singapore”
I am not a singaporean. I live in JB and went to Singapore quite frequently and a lot of my relatives is Singaporean.
So, have the malays actually seen what happened to the malays in Singapore?
I think not but we like to assume that they are in an inferior state.
The truth of the matter is that you should see how many malaysian is working in Singapore because their currency is twice stronger then us.
You can see for yourself from the CCTV camera from below at 6.00pm.
http://www.onemotoring.com.sg/publish/onemotoring/en/on_the_roads/traffic_cameras0/woodlands/2702.popup.html
Are the Malays in Singapore unhappy? Well we like to assume that they are because that will make us more superior. But are they really?
I have been to Singapore quite often and I do not think what you say is true. You just assume and this is quite misleading. Perhaps you should visit singapore unofficially and see for yourself.
In JB, I watched the National Day Rally speech by Singapore PM. He have praised some examples of very successful Singaporeans and half of them are Malays.
Don’t just believe me, you can watch at below link.
See http://www.channelnewsasia.com/nationalday/rally_engvideo.htm#
I do not think that Malay singaporean is a valid comparison on what is happening in Malaysia. They are minority group and we have abondoned them in 1963 We are on the other hand the majority population.
I hope you will stop comparing us between malay singapore. It is not very relevant and it is not true. It is only based on assumption and wishful thinking.
My appology for disaggreeing with you. I very much respect you as you were my PM for so many years.
Take care and best regards.
Dear Tun,
Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi says the date for the leadership transition between him and his deputy Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak remains as agreed — in 2010.
The prime minister said at the moment, there was no change to the date and that there was no new decision made on the timeframe.
Komen;
I think Pak Lah memang dah “pekak, buta dan tuli”. Dia telah menjatuhkan maruah ahli-ahli majoriti UMNO yang bijaksana yang telah rata-rata mendesak dia berundur diri. Apa nak tunggu lagi. Tak malu ke buat macam muka tempe ?
Pak Lah sudah tidak ada credibility lagi untuk memimpin UMNO. Dia telah GAGAL !! Sedarlah, Pak Lah !!
Tun, jika umno hancur, ketuanan melayu akan lenyap dibumi Malaysia.Umno dibenci kerana pemimpin yang ada sekarang sudah tiada nilai kepimpinan Melayu.Sombong, tiada tahu mengenang budi dan hanya mengejar kekayaan. Buatlah perubahan dalam memilih calon demi mengekalkan ketuanan Melayu. Orang Melayu sudah cerdik. Dasar Malaysia Malaysian akan menghancurkan ketuanan Melayu. Melayu Pas dan Melayu PKR akan menyesal suatu hari nanti bila DAP menguasaai Kerajaan Malaysia. Melayu ini lah akan jadi Melayu Singapore kedua di Asia. Saya sudah tua, kepada Melayu Pas dan Melayu PKR, saya menyeru, supayu kamu berfikir sejenak jika kamu membiarkan ketuanan Melayu hapus dibumi Malaysia kerana mengejar kuasa bersama DAP, fikir lah nasib anak cucu kamu akan datang. Lihatlah jiran kita, hanya tinggal MELAYU TIN KOSONG.
Tun, saya hanyalah orang kecil, tetapi celih hati atas jasa kepimpinan Tun,saya sedih situasi politik sekarang, takut suatu hari nanti cucu saya tiada tempat lagi di bumi bertuah ini jika diusir perlahan-lahan.Buatlah sesuatu Tun kerana Allah masih memberi tenaga kepada Tun.
Salam Hormat.
Dear Tun Mahathir,
The following are some of my view with regard to some of your points:
[Mahathir]10. The hope at independence was that the non-Malays would accept a single national language and a single national identity. But it became clear very quickly that the Chinese and the Indians wanted to retain their identities, their mother tongue and their culture. They did not want to be solely Malaysians, certainly not Malays.
[pohsoon] In my view, it depend on what it means with Single identity. Do bear in mind, even within the Malay, there are also not totally same. A Malaysian identity doesn’t mean that all must have go to the same kind of school, having same religous and such.
[Mahathir] 12. Politically it was a good formula and it worked. But when English schools were abolished and the Malay, Chinese and Indians children went to their own schools rather than to the national schools where the teaching was in the National Language. The hope for true national integration faded. After this even the attempt to put the schools from the three language streams in one campus was rejected by the Chinese.
[PohSoon] From my observation, the one campus idea was rejected simply because it had been too many time that the vanacular school faced the bias treatment. Furthermore, with the hidden agenda clearly stated in the Razak report (if not mistaken), with asimilation and abolishment of vanacular school in mind, it can’t be avoided that the idea was rejected. If the government will be able to treat Malaysian more equally and gain the trust of all races. I believe that one campus concept will be accepted.
In my view, if the government are sincere on one campus concept and willing to build the school base on needs rather base on politic, then it can always allow building of new vanacular school and have it build under one campus concept, where the common facilities being shared by say 3 schools. If indeed that government can showcase its concept in fairness manner, i believe more and more malaysian will buy into the idea. For your information, i personally will support such move if i am convince that there aren’t any hidden agenda. This is more so as a lot of SRJK(c) and SRJK(tamil) are actually having a lack of good quality facility, as it have to raise fund from public and its tough.
[Mahathir] 13. It is no good blaming the politicians for perpetuating racial schism. Some of them who tried to ignore racial loyalties simply failed politically. For various reasons the races preferred to stay separated. They may meet at their work place or the playing field but they go home to separate enclaves according to their race.
[PohSoon] This issue doesn’t exist at all when i was in secondary. I mixed with malay and india in co-curiculum activities and etc. However, we do become more and more separated after secondary. Whay? Its very simple. Its mainly due to the various differences that was being highlighted when one left secondary school. When apply for University, one realized that there are such thing called QUOTA. Just imagine what is the feeling of those poor but bright non-bumiputera, when they thought that as long as they study hard, they can make a different to their life, and then realized that it’s not so. What happen to this group of student is they either get into public university or start working as their parent won’t be able to afford them in private college. Obviously, some of such bright youngster got offer schoolarship from Singapore government and end up as foreign talent there.
There are also a group of lucky one, who managed to squized into public university. They could be thankful, but also realized the different treatment based on race. With all the highlight of race, how can one become race blinded? I, for once had an interview for schoolarship by MCA politician. I was told that they regretted that the schoolarshi that i applied for were fulled. However, if i go to look for this particular politician at my “kampung” there might still be chances. However, i rejected the race based politic and thus i never look for that MCA politician and end up without schoolarship for my first year of university studies.
I had also seen some of my senior who had very good result and aim to become a lecturer by applied to become Tutor after graduated. However, their application had been rejected without any explaination. Whereas, application by all other bumi student, who can’t compete with them academically had mostly been accepted. With all such encountering, how can one become colour blind?
Thanks.
Regards,
Poh Soon
Dear Tun,
Umno vice-president Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam said any difference of opinion among Cabinet ministers on a decision should be discussed in the Cabinet.
He said if ministers gave opinions outside the Cabinet it would lead to a lot of speculation and give the impression that ministers were not united.
Komen:
The truth prevails. Pak Lah is now out of control within his own cabinet. What does this indicate? It is timely for him to ponder whether he should resign immediately. He just cannot remain as Prime Minister when his cabinet ministers are in loggerhead among themselves. There is no more credibility. How can he contunue running the government when everything is in a state of chaos. That shows he is a real lame duck prime minister who is no more getting respect from his own cabinet members. What a shame! Pak Lah is damaging his own credibility.
Dear Tun,
Umno vice-president Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam said any difference of opinion among Cabinet ministers on a decision should be discussed in the Cabinet.
He said if ministers gave opinions outside the Cabinet it would lead to a lot of speculation and give the impression that ministers were not united.
Komen:
The truth prevails. Pak Lah is now out of control within his own cabinet. What does this indicate? It is timely for him to ponder whether he should resign immediately. He just cannot remain as Prime Minister when his cabinet ministers are in loggerhead among themselves. There is no more credibility. How can he contunue running the government when everything is in a state of chaos. That shows he is a real lame duck prime minister who is no more getting respect from his own cabinet members. What a shame! Pak Lah is damaging his own credibility.
I think there is something wrong with ‘giri’. I don’t think he/she has thoroughly read all of your articles. His/her thread makes him/her sound so shallow. I’m sure he only read the title.
As’Kum Ayahanda Tun
I personally think that it was a mistake to abolish the SRJK then, where the medium of teaching was english. I was from that generation. I remember student of all races study under the same roof by the same teacher and playing on the same field for one team ie. the school team. The spirit of muhibbah was instill at the very early age of 7.
And now, it is kind of difficult to foster the same spirit when you are already 17 during your 3 months PLKN stint. The solution is just a knee-jerk one.
I pray for the wisdom of our elected leaders to come up with a just solution to all the unity problems existed today.
Wallahualam
Tun,
Another excellent writing. I do wish I have the same talent as yours in making things simple enough for most people to understand.
In my observation, it’s probably true to say that most Malaysians are not honest and are practically two faced.
The Malays are fighting amongst themselves. They rather “maruah bangsa tergadai” and sacrificing their children’s future as long as it suits them and they’re able to gain profits. Worse is probably their lack of ability to think about the future.
I remember the opening of the Olympic games in Beijing. I noted the Malaysian Chinese were very interested in it and hoping that China does a remarkable job. I remember them stoutly defending China (I was in a foreign country at that time) as if it’s their own country. I do wonder why is their sense of nationalism is so strong towards China rather than Malaysia. It makes a mockery of the claim that 600 years is enough to make a citizenship.
I apologize if it is a bit of a generalization, but we do have to just ask ourselves truthfully and I’m sure we all realise that most of us (malaysians) are racist. I doubt that if Malaysia goes to war, how many of us are willing to die for the country? (all inclusive of Malays, Chinese and Indians)
I agree with some of the comments that the education system needs to be revamp, the social contract probably needs a bit of tweaking and the government and NGO needs to work together instead of against each other. But at the end of the day, it starts with ourselves.
Ali, Ah Meng, Ravi.. I remember all the stories in school text books used to start with those three names…it’s hard enough to see a mix nowadays… and who’s fault is that? do we even know our next door neighbours?
Ponder on that honestly..
Dear Tun,
After reading your article we can safely deduce that all Malaysians are racists of the first order. Those who claim that they are not racists are hypocrite of the first order. Yes, we are all racists and will continue to be racists until doomsday. Our political and social systems are already structured in such a manner that there is no hope at all for us to be Bangsa Malaysia. Don’t ever dream. It will be worst if the opposition takes over the government. Make no mistake about it.This country will soon become a failed state. It will be chaotic for sure.It is not hypothetical assessment. It will be a reality if the leaders do not restrain themselves from harping, instigating and continue enthusiastically to demand their rights based on racial lines.
I am not surprised at all if this country would one day be under military rule if things are out of hand. Lets brace ourselves that it will NOT happen.
Salam Dr M and all
saya rasa sudah sampai masa nya “ayahanda” pencen dari politik.bawak2 la beramal ibadat,dunia ni pon bukan untuk selamanya.bak kata orang kata dulang paku serpih..masa Tun jadi PM dulu pun rasa nya sama je…jangan kata Tun tak penah buat silap samaada kecil ataupun besar.malah tak keterlaluan kalau saya katakan salah satu punca perpecahan orang melayu masa kini adalah kerana silap Tun masa jadi PM dulu.tak semua org sempurna,seharusnya kita berani untuk mengaku kesalahan yang pernah kita buat dari asyik bersandiwara..tahulah tun ni ada darah keturunan keling pon.
Salam Tun……
I agree with you for enlighting the issue. In a multi-racial country like Malaysia, there are things which we cannot talk publically. BUT some just don’t bother….they talk, create havoc and in the end, blame the Malays…..
As long as you write Tun, I know someone is there to save the day!
Long Live, Tun!
Respect Malaysian Police.Sometimes Malaysians must know to calm down and respect other people.Don’t simply criticize and criticize.You go to the clinic meet the doctor and the doctor ask u to do this and that , take medicine, follow…because they are trained and specialized .At times , yes u can also ask the doctor , why like this , why like that .
Salam Tun,
Para 9, some immigrants were expelled…Di Indonesia sikit hari dulu, orang Cina kena halau balik negeri China, Taiwan, Hongkong. Kalau nak tinggal di Indon, mesti tukar nama Indonesia. Status mereka WNA ie warga negara asing. Buku2 tulisan Cina di haram bawa masuk Indonesia.
Lah ni, zaman dah berubah, bila Habibie pegang Indon, apa yg dulu dilarang dah di izinkan. Orang Cina Indonesia sekarang boleh cakap bhs Jawa dgn fasih apalagi bhs Indonesia. Dan mereka ada yg masuk politik. Dah besar kepala.
Tapi di Malaysia lain pulak, orang Cina nak menuntut hak mereka.
Hak apa,,,tak tahulah.
Hati2 Tun…salah salah lama lama negeri Melayu kena jual.
Wassallam.
The Government should not play God anymore. Stop dividing us with races and religion. Look at all the Governmental forms… what is your race? Why ask? Different treatment ha? Different kulitfication?
Time has changed,BN should evolve, please stop it and get on with life.
God bless you.
Dear Tun
You are spot on, on the Education policies. I saw this coming the moment the government god rid of English schools. Why did it take you so long to see this? See my blog : http://malgal128.blogspot.com on education and the suggestions I put in.
I am a Chinese but never once supported this type of educational system. I was angry when the Chinese Educationists made a lot of noise about Chinese schools. They probably hate me writing this now too but a clearer head must prevail for the love of our country and developing unity. We must never separate children into racial groups from young. Integrattion from young is the best. I am a product of an English school and am proud to say that I really enjoyed my years of schooling playing with children of all different races and because of that, I do not have problems mixing with any race at all. My closest friends are all a mix of races. In American schools, children are taught from young to respect and love all races as we are all the same. We should introduce this kind of programmes in school
If we want to make everyone happy, just include the mother-tongue language as a language by itself into our system but not in separate schools.
To the Chinese Educationists and all communities, I beg you all to think about our country and racial unity instead of harping on mother-tongue for every subject in school. Do not be selfish. You will reap what you sow now.
Dear Tun,
The article was a very good read.All of us have been living united till the day politics came into the picture.We might not have stayed around each other or to that circumstance,but thats the roots of diversified cultural heritage colorful architectures that has made Malaysia unique to the eyes of the world.Dont you think so?We dont want to be wannabees and copy how countries cultivate unity We once had.
Some of these folks think unity like Indonesia.People please dont get the riots start talking.Unity is not in the name.That is the problem.It is that other physical manifestation that the Owners want to implement by again politicians ( the big fraction of friction).
It is the nepotism,chronism,sheer arrogance and ignorance that is teething unity till all the enamel is peeled out and I am afraid you are contributing to it.You have done a tremendous work being a former PM but you have created barbaric rhetoricians who engage in falsifying facts and sing money motivated themes(how many times has our school history books going to revised and chain real occurrence).
Isnt umno the one who is singing a Malay unity and not a Malaysian unity?I guess Malaysian unity comes with lesser basic equalities and distribution then.How can we ask for racial based schools to close down when the education system is so flawed.Who knows just suddenly some mi-sinister is going to blow things out of proportion.Upgrade it 1st then we can and just might reach an amicable solution to the racial based school.Both You and I know teaching English for Mathematics and science will take time for positive results.But just take a look how much brouhaha within few years of implementation and all the excuses.Lame i say.
I really hope you can suggest someone who will look at the bigger picture and cure our ailing differences.We should and must keep all need our culture,language,writings,names and wisdom as these are handy but we need to think as one for national salvation which is progress.Infinity unity without racial polarity.
Dear Tun,
A very interesting history lesson indeed.
Could we just imagine what if there were no immigrants ie. no indians, no chinese etc,no racial based political parties, No DAP, No MCA, No MIC, No Gerakan,
and left only the Malays, Org Asli, kadazans, ibans and other bumiputeras…
what would be the political issues?
- ketuanan melayu?
- Would we still argue that we are more malay or more muslim than the other?
Malays nowadays are united (or feel that they need to become united) because of other immigrant races i.e chinese & indians.
Ironically, the malays actually needs them because without them the malays would just fight each other.
Malaysia could also become like our neighbours ie Thailand, Indonesia or Philipines with a lot of political instabilities. And they are just fighting with each other (against the same race).
On the other note, I personnaly feel that the language is the main barrier to unity. It is really annoying and very rude to speak other language in front a person who don’t understand.
In some extent, some malays even send their children to chinese school so that they can learn their languages.
We are in Malaysia, it you are truely a Malaysian Citizen, you must be able to properly speak in Bahasa Malaysia.
rgds
imran
Where they are majority single race parties
ASSAALAMUALAIKUM…..AYAHANDA TUN..,BERSYUKUR sangat-sangat kepada ‘ALLAH’ kerana telah memberi ayahanda TUN keberanian untuk menyedarkan orang melayu…sedih rasanya melihat senario MELAYU pada masa ini…,nampaknya banyak yang tidak faham dan tak nak faham mengenai sejarah negara sendiri,kenapa terlalu PAYAH untuk orang melayu bersatu untuk satu matlamat,UMNO parti terbesar dalam kompenen BN,kemudikanlah kapal kearah tujuan sebenar(malangnya kapten kapal tidur terlalu lama semasa dalam perlayaran sehingga menyebabkan kapal BN telah dilanggar oleh tiga buah kapal pakatan rakyat “PKR,DAP,PAS” yang sedang memasang pukat tunda untuk menggumpul hasil tangkapan)……FIKIR-FIKIRLAH,sepatutnya kita memerlukan seorang kapten yang pakar dalam mengesan lubok ikan,supaya mendapat hasil yang banyak untuk kepentingan semua…, KEPADA DAP,PAS dan PKR JUGA janganlah cuba menambah ketegangan dengan mengeluarkan kenyataan yang boleh menghuru harakan keadaan…,FIKIR-FIKIRLAH..,..,..,GELAGAT MANUSIA BILA HENDAK MERAMPAS KUASA(pakatan rakyat)MACAM-MACAM ADA…,ada yang sentiasa kena bohong,ada yang suka kena bohong,ada yang sentiasa membohong dan macam-macam lagilah..,esok.,lusa.,tulat.,lupit..,.., tujuannya tetap sama iaitu KUASA..,sudahlah, berhentilah berbohong kepada RAKYAT.,rakyat sekarang ni dah bijak,cuma tiada saluran dan belum tiba masa kami mainkan peranan., bacalah banyak-banyak buku agama dan sejarah…..,…..,….., BERANI BERUBAH….,,,,….,,,,
Salam Tun,
This article sounds like your book, The Malay Dilemma which I read many years ago. I agree with your views and also about what happened to the Malays in Singapore.
In Singapore, they bring in Chinese from Hongkong, mainland China and even from Malaysia just to maintain the percentage of Chinese at 75 per cent of total population. Mainly because orang Melayu tiap kali beranak banyak tapi orang Cina anak sikit. He He.
Wassallam
Where the horse and the riders?
Where’s the horn that blow thw whisper,
They had passed like rain in the mountain,
like wind in the meadow
The day have gone down to the west,
behind the hill into the shadows.
How they’re come to this?
Salam Tun dan Toh Puan.
Saya yakin dengan perpaduan di Malaysia akan tercapai.
Saya tidak menafikan untuk mengekalkan bukan perkara mudah membuat roti.
Ini kerana ianya berkain dengan kehendak, tuntutan, dan kemahuan yang kita tidak sangka dan mungkin tidak dapat di pertimbangkan, bukan senang hendak mendengar dan mengiaya kan kemahuan mereka semua.
Pemimpin dan kerajaan mesti memainkan peranan yang utama. Jangan menunjunkkan kelemahan dan tindakan berat sebelah. Dunia semakin kecil segala tindak tanduk kita di perhatikan… masa depan kerajaan di tangan rakyat…walaubagaimanapun rakyat kena ingan tanpa ketua kita mungkin berpecah lagi teruk dan tidak mungkin dapat bersatu.
13 Mei adakah perkara ini akan berulang?
Bunuh dan benci pada kamun lain akan menjadi-jadi?
Menghapuskan kemudahan sek cina dan tamil akan menjadi kenyataan kalau kerajaan dah marah sangat.
Contoh yang di berikan oleh Tun ada benarnya. U.S.A adalah negara yang menghapuskan hak keistemewaan peribumi dan hak kaum pendatang.
Negara Malaysia adalah negara yang bertuah….
Hargainya perjajian sosial kontrak yang telah di persetujuai oleh pemimpin sebelum kita. Merka sedai maklum keadaan kita.
Saya berharap negara kita akan aman dan makmur.
Harap semua kaum termasuk Melayu , cina dan india menghormati perjanjian kontrak…
Jangan sesekali bermain api dan membangkitakan unsur perkauman.
HENTIKANLAH…TIDAK ADA UNTUNG NYE.
Saya rindukan sentuhan Tun dan Toh Puan.
Tun jaga lah kesihatan…kami perlukan Tun.
HIDUP TUN! HIDUP TUN! HIDUP TUN!
TDM
1. Why do you equate nationality and ethnicity?
2. Why do you suggest that to become more Malaysian, one must become more Malay?
3. Why do you suggest Malaysian unity must come at the expense of Malay unity?
4. Why do you, while talking about unity, drive a wedge between the Malays and non-Malays?
5. Why do you keep talking about the favour given to the Chinese and Indians by granting them citizenship, but fail to mention their contributions in the last 50 years?
5. Why do you compare Malaysian Malays with Singapore Malays? If the lot of Singapore Malays is so bad, why do they not migrate to Malaysia in droves? Compare that to the many Malaysian Chinese who are now living in Singapore.
6. Why do you say that the educated Malays are in the minority? Are you afraid that their worldview might gain a wider acceptance among the Malays?
7. Don’t you think that the Chinese would have sent their children to the Sekolah Kebangsaan if there were good education and equal opportunity?
8. Don’t you think that there will be more unity if people were treated more equally?
Your appear to be fair minded and reasonable, but in reality you are subtly setting the rules of this debate by creating certain assumptions that are not necessary fair and reasonable. Therefore, your arguments are disingenuous.
Cheers.
If what is reported in the mainstream media is true, then I must say that your move to rejoin UMNO is that of a chameleon. You are fickle-minded, inconsistent in this regard. Surely, you are not going to achieve anything great by rejoining UMNO. To have some peace of mind,to stress-proof yourself,you should continue to remain as a non-member,an ordinary citizen. Would you pay heed to my suggestion, Tun?
ABI
Dear Tun,
You must read this joke lest you miss it.
Soalan 1
Tukang Soal : ‘Didalam baju hamba, ada sebatang kayu yang telah dipilih,
bagaimanakah kia mahu tahu yang mana UMNO dan yang mana PKR..??’
Ahli Nujum Negara : ‘Mintak pada hamba..!! Apabila sebatang kayu
diletakkan di dalam air, yang condong ke bawah itulah UMNO dan yang menegak
ke atas itulah PKR..’
Tukang Soal : ‘Sebabnya… !!??’
Ahli Nujum Negara : ‘Sebabnya… Kita pun telah tahu sekarang ini parti UMNO hampir tenggelam manakala PKR makin tinggi kedudukannya. ..’
Soalan 2
Tukang Soal : ‘Dua ekor anak itik yang baru menetas, yang manakah UMNO dan yang
manakah PKR..??’
Ahli Nujum Negara : ‘Ini senang saja, kita letakkan kedua anak itik
ke dalam bekas berisi air, yang mengejar itulah PKR dan yang lari sampai
terberak itulah UMNO..’
Tukang Soal : ‘Sebabnya… !!??’
Ahli Nujum Negara : ‘Sebab di dalam negara kita, musuh PKR hanyalah UMNO yang patut kita kejar.. Bukan Parti Amanat Bangsa di Indonesia atau Parti Rak Tai di Thailand..!! !’
Soalan 3
Tukang Soal : ‘ Ada sebuah masealah,
Satu… baaaanyak-banyak! !… Dua… sedikit-sediiiiikit ….!!!
Tiga… jarang-jarang! !!… Empat… kad-dang, kad-dang,
Apa itu..???’
Ahli Nujum Negara : ‘UMNO!!!’
Tukang Soal : ‘Buktikan..! !’
Ahli Nujum Negara : ‘Satu… Baaanyak-banyak. .. Ertinya, ahli UMNO memang banyak dalam negara ini…
Dua… Sedikit-sediiikit. .. Ertinya, sedikit sahaja yang berani bersuara dari
bilangan ahli UMNO yang banyak itu…
Tiga… Jarang-jarang. .. Ertinya, jarang-jarang yang kita dengar pemimpinnya berani melawan…
Empat… Kad-dang, kad-dang… Ertinya kad-dang, kad-dang barulah kita dengar dan
lihat ada pemimpin tertinggi UMNO yang mahu mendengar suara ahlinya…’
Soalan 4
Tukang Soal : ‘Dimanakah terletaknya kekuatan Laksamana UMNO..?? Di kerisnya kah? atau di jenteranya kah..???’
Ahli Nujum Negara : ‘Kekuatan Laksamana UMNO bukan terletak pada
kerisnya ataupun pada jenteranya.. .’
Tukang Soal : ‘Dimana terletak kekuatannya. .???’
Ahli Nujum Negara : ‘Kekuatan UMNO hanya terletak pada TOYOL-TOYOLnya! !’
Tukang Soal : ‘Buktikan!!’
Ahli Nujum Negara : ‘Laksamana UMNO begitu bergantung kepada toyol-toyolnya untuk menonjolkan kekuatannya. .. Iaitu toyol dari Media Prima, toyol dari Polis serta toyol
dari Badan kehakiman.. Toyol-toyol inilah yang menampakkan Laksamana UMNO
nampak hebat walaupun hakikatnya mereka luka parah…’
‘Biasalah… UMNO akan memungkiri janji dan suka lari dari tajuk apabila
kalah dalam apa-apa pertandingan. . Tapi bak kata Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim,
Jangan takut.. LAWAN… KITA LAWAN…!!!’
Soalan Extra
Tukang Soal : ‘Kalau Ahli Nujum telus mata dan betul bijaksana… !!! Apakah yang ada
di genggaman beta…????’
Ahli Nujum Negara : ‘……….. DUIT !!!..’
‘Kerana duitlah yang telah MENJAHANAMKAN UMNO…’
tun,
the present administration could not provide the leadership.. pak lah is only good at ziarah mayat.. he has got to prioritise things…thanks
Azlela, please don’t put your foot into your mouth. The language prerequisites in job advertisements often relate to business requirements and dealing with partners from China, Japan, Korea, USA etc. Please think before writing a totally off tracked ‘racist’ accusation comment.
genius, you’ve claimed that Malays = 65%, Chinese = 25%, Others = 10%. May I ask if that is also the same ratio for personal income tax contribution in Malaysia? I think NOT. Therefore, stop debating about who owes who what…the key is mutual respect.
I once told my 10 years old son, “you are a Chinese…” he interjected immediately and said “No, I am a Malaysian Chinese”. I asked him why he said that. He explained “I was born here and so are you and mummy. Just because I am a Chinese doesn’t mean that I am from China.”
Even a 10 years old can differentiate between nationality and origins, sadly there are still so many much older people and politicians continue to see different races based on their history past.
Dear Tun
Again u need to get yr facts correct:
(1,2,3, The Nyonyas/Babas assimilated over centuries + there were no discrimination on yr persuits for peace, education (at that time English n Chinese),business. Commom sense previal to assimilate when one is happy.
(4)Late comers was no different to original settlers, they wanted peace, education n have thier business.
(5)There were no problem with Rural Malays, Indians in estate n
Chinese in city. Our fathers-mothers/grandfathers-grandma have more friends amongst the races than us.
Our forefathers were all color-blind until the not-so-wise leaders of the last 35 years made them/thier children FEEL they r immigrants, with minimum rights, speak carefully(otherwise u ISA-ised).
i)The Bad repercussion of INSTANT social engineering to move 80% of our rural Malays into the city causes un-imaginable pressure n problems on our Malay cultural fabrics.
ii)To made matter worse, the corruption + wanton waste of monies/talents + arrogance of politicians + self-indulgence of few selectives Umnoputras/Chinese n Indians associates.
Tun n yr leaders (Barisan leaders), drilled all these into us. How else do u want us to think n feel now that the pandora box is open.
WE R YR PRODUCTS n when we look at ourself in the mirror, we dont like it.
Now we had woken up n we want to see a future our children.
(12)Why blame the Chinese school, Why blame on world class education. If there r good, let them be. People flocked to good school.Even the Malays/Indians.
The fundamental reasons the Chinese wanted their own because the Government school standard of education drop somuch n indiscipline of students almost border on criminal activities. The teachers are inept n more, more students getting 10As n aboved for normal students. WHere is excellence of education. The Chinese pride in this. This is not wrong. In their school, they sang Negara Ku. Rukun Tetangga n discipline/education is paramount. Years after years, they produced world beaters.
Even the Malays elite sent their children to the best school, not the normal Government school.
The Government Malay-medium school had so much of tax-payers monies put into it. The Chinese generally had to raise it from thier communities. Pl respect them.
Quietly all the elite ruling Malays send their children to the best English school n Universities to be world beaters.
To all the general public like us, we being drilled into Malays-medium education, the good, bad n ugly we taken.
But for our children, we want to make sure they had a good
chance.Fair request.
(6)Chinese/Indians temporary guest by malays??
Are u suggesting that our pre-independence Malay leaders actually want 2millions chinese/indian back to China/India.
If this so, why didnt u shipped back 1.5million Indonesians under yr leadership.
C’mon..let be real on this.
(13 – 25)
I agreed with Malay unity 100% because we want to see Malay being strong so the country can move forward.
To do so, pl, pl give us leaders who will be show us:
i)Truth
ii)Transparency
iii)Righteousness
iv)Free from corruptions
v)Fair to all races
vi)Enforce merit
vii)Remove or review ISA
viii)Modern, global n push for Malaysian, nomore racial line.
No need to evaluate how disunities amongst races:
It comes from:
i)Privilege Umnoputras-associates/Chinese/Indians r disunited/disgrunted over monies, contracts, big houses, even bigger bank accounts. They fight over each others for bigger things.
ii)Average Malays, Chinese, Indian + others slogged their days out with hardly enough.
tq again for the sharing
I have to disagree with you Tun.
1. Since the birth of Malaysia, the rakyats are always divided into races. Every people is thinking about themselves and their own races.
2. And this has affected our lives greatly. Even when drivers “mengelat” during rush hours, we always ask “That fella is a Malay, Chinese or Indian?”. What’s the matter? If someone “mengelat” in traffic, does it matter which race he/she belongs to?
3. I blame this totally on UMNO, MCA and MIC for racially-based politics and political party.
4. Your ideas today are idealistic and not practical. You have been in power for over 20 years and after you stepped down, things just got worse, racial-wise. You can blame PakLah for a weak rule for the past 5 years, but are you saying your 22 years of power doesn’t have any effect on the current situation at all?
5. Fact is, people really fear you back then, and blogosphere was at its infancy if not nonexistent. Now that PakLoh is weak and people rely on blogs much more than the mainstream media, they already know what’s best for them.
6. If people rejects failing and deteriorating racial politics, I’d say those are just natural course. Why opt for slow integration when fast integration can be achieved once racial politics are rejected? As I said, your ideas are not practical for the current situation.
7. You shouldn’t expect the rakyat to “bersyukur dengan kerajaan”. That is already lame and expresses desperation for company and gratitude.
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Salam Tun,
I’m a Malay Singaporean and I object to your comments about Singapore Malays as though we are some downtrodden people when in fact we are as successful as we are willing to be. The thing about Singapore is, as long as you work hard, you will be able achieve your goals regardless of your race. I do not face any form of discrimination at work or else where. I consider myself quite successful in my career, being an AVP in a bank even though I did not study hard enough to qualify for the university. I am not forced to speak the language of the majority and am free to practice my religion.
Many of your commentators have brought up examples in agreement with your views. Please allow me to give my take on the points raised:-
1) the tudung issue in Singapore schools where the schools uniform is meant to unify all students:- Yes, in secular S’pore that is not allowed but where school uniforms are not required such as in the polytechnics and in universities, there are no such restrictions. Singapore is more tolerant than Muslim majority Turkey.
2)the azan :- I think it is only right that living in a multi racial society, the azan is not too loud so as not to disturb others. This applies to all religions.
3) frankly I have not heard about limits to the no. of intake in religious schools, but if there are such limits, it is probably because the govt is concerned about the employability of their graduates. Surely we do not need so many ustads and ustazahs. Recently the govt has made it compulsory for students of religious schools to sit for the common Pri School Leaving Examination to ensure that they are taught secular subjects as well. I think this is laudable as Islam encourages man to seek all forms of knowledge. Off course one can also study Islam in the mosques after school hours. Many kids do so and and get the best of both worlds.
4)someone else brought up the fact that there are less Malay graduates than Indian ones. It is the Malay themselves who are to be blamed for this and not the system or the govt. Entry is based on merit.
5)there was also mention of the racist Chinese blogger in Singapore. Unfortunately, that commentator forgot to mention that the person who reported the blogger to the authority was another Chinese and that in less than a few days, the culprit was dealt with in court. Anyway, there will always be people who are prejudiced against others of a different colour or creed. This is not a uniquely Singaporean trait. I have read the tirades of some M’sian bloggers against M’sian Malays and the many M’sian colleagues working in Singapore do not exactly paint a glowing picture of the race relations in M’sia. .
6) someone mentioned M Nasir who is now a M’sian citizen. Frankly, for someone who writes songs almost exclusively in the Malay language, it is only sensible to be where the market is. This is simple economics and nothing to do with the way Malays are treated.
Being a minority is not necessarily bad when there are systems in place to ensure that you are treated fairly and with respect and that you are not forced to conform to the dictates of the majority.
Agree with you Tun,
Must start the first step now before it too late.
MALAYSIA BOLEH! ADEN PUN BULEH!! TUN DAH TENTU BOLEH!!!
Salam sejahtera buat Tun sekeluarga yang dikasihi, serta semua pejuang bangsa.
Perpaduan kaum tidak akan berlaku jika dilihat secara konsistensi.Penolakan orang Cina dan India terhadap penggunaan bahasa Melayu itu sendiri jelas menunjukkan bahawa mereka tidak berminat untuk membenarkan proses asimilasi itu berlaku.Ini bermakna mereka juga menolak untuk mengenali bangsa Melayu serta adat budayanya.Mereka lebih berminat untuk melihat perkara-perkara negetif sahaja.Sikap penolakan ini sebenarnya secara tidak disedari telah menjadikan mereka membesar menjadi warganegara yang negetif dan penuh prasangka.Akibatnya minda mereka menjadi letih kerana merasai diri tidak ‘sejati’ sebagai warganegara.
Apa yang mereka ini mahukan sebenarnya?Sepatutnya selepas 51 tahun merdeka proses asimilasi itu sudah berlaku dengan hebat sekali.Namun mereka mempunyai perancangan atau agenda lain.Titik tolaknya ialah apabila Lee Kwan Yew berjaya memerdekakan Singapura.Sikap baik bangsa Melayu terhadap mereka diterjemahkan secara senyap sebagai satu kelemahan.Kini dibawah kepimpinan dan kabinet yang lemah peluang terbuka luas.Sikap orang cina jelas dalam hal ini, mereka adalah ‘dalang’nya.Semua parti politik cina senada.Sebenarnya apa yang mereka inginkan adalah ‘MERDEKA’ dari kekuasaan bangsa Melayu secara total.
Apa yang bangsa Melayu inginkan? Di tahap ini sudah jelas siapakah petualang bangsa.Bangsa Melayu wajib membuat pembetulan.Walaupun keadaan semasa mungkin akan reda, namun mereka ini dari masa ke semasa tetap akan berusaha mencapai hajat.Oleh itu pemimpin Melayu mestilah berani mencipta sejarah baru demi untuk keselamatan bangsa.Terlebih dahulu perhitungan haruslah dilakukan sesama Melayu untuk membersihkan bangsa dari parasit-parasit.(Menteri senator ‘tikus memperbaiki labu’ sudah menghantar surat perletakan jawatan setelah misi tercapai)
Had the past presidents of the United Stated been babbling about how the blacks were brought to the states to work as slaves, and that was the social contract between blacks and whites, USA wouldn’t have become what it is today.
Tun, you are old. It’s time to write your memoir and stop wasting effort in justifying racism of any forms.
Tun adalah dari keturunan campuran India, tapi Tun beragama islam dan fasal bercakap melayu akhirnya Tun menjadi orang melayu dan bukan pendatang.
Orang-orang indonesia dan juga filipina yang beragama islam datang ke Malaysia tanpa kebenaran (terdapat setengah juta di Sabah) hanya setahun dua mereka senang saja boleh dapatkan mykad tapi mereka juga tidak dianggap pendatang. Mereka boleh ambil apa saja dari orang tempatan.(boleh berniaga di pasar-pasar,mereka boleh menyerang pihak berkuasa apabila disaman). masih bilang ok lah kerana mereka islam.
Sejarah menunjukkan orang-orang cina dengan izin orang tempatan telah lama menjadi rakyat Malaysia juga telah berusaha memajukan Malaysia tapi masih dianggap pendatang.sedangkan rata-rata rakyat cina yang biasa hanya ingin hidup damai dengan kaum lain tapi mungkin kerana terlampau berusaha mereka telah berjaya dan akhirnya mereka dianggap cuba merampas hak melayu.
Akhir sekali, soal perkauman selalunya ditimbuhkan oleh ahli-ahli politik saja dan tidak terkecuali oleh Tun sendiri.
What surprises me is that you are still influenced by what was heard and thought over 100 years ago. To the present generation, all this does not matter, what matters is what we have now and how to progress. This article is another proof of your racist ideology that should be erased from this country forever. What you should think of is the progress of the nation and humanity. I hate to travel to Singapore because when I am there, I see what Malaysia would have been like had terrorists like Tun Razak had not come to power. The Malays there are what the Malays here should have been like – let the best men win. By giving someone a handicap might work for a while (5 years?) but not for a generation. NEP has made Malays even weaker. Instead of having the Malays capable of progressing, the govt decided to blindly donate (just as how you treat beggars). It seems logic is not good enough to convince you. When will you ever learn?
Dear Tun,
We emjoyed a good amount of unity among the races during your tenure as PM and that was a long duration.
Look at what a soft and indisciplined leader has undone in a mere 5 years.
Coming from a mixed parentage, it is sad to see that the different races can no longer be united or even stop for a second to reason and understand what goes around.
Personally, I use to hate listening to all the racial slurs that went around. The Malays calling the Chinese and Indian names and vice-versa.
Now, like it or not, it seems we are in dangerous times where name callng is not all that happens, everyone has begun to look at one another suspiciously.
What will befall Malaysia if this continues. What will our children gain living in such a divided society.
God help us if Tun does not return to right or at least put things in their proper perspective.
Please come back, Tun, and save Malaysia
Mistakes in the past needs to be remedied quickly…
now while i do understand and applaud your concern for the present racist state that we have to endure, while steps need to be taken to bring all races together, while understanding needs to be disseminated to all levels of our present Malaysia, I can’t help but to wonder why these very very necessary steps has not taken place before.
It is crucial to note, lest that i’m mistaken, that it was during your tenure, particularly when Hishamuddin took office as the Education Minister, that the number of racial-based school had increased tremendously.
It is a fact unbelievable for one that yearns for national unity in this country and certainly beyond the expectations of one who desires for Malaysian unity.
I am not against you in any way. I have been your supporter all this while and certainly an admirer of your contributions. but matters such as this have proved to be the root of our racial tension…
Wan Danial
To Sarawakian_06 on September 15, 2008 6:33 PM
Quote[What I have observed nowadays Tun, If mostly Chinese in majority state i.e. Sarawak, and etc, I do observe they seldom watch Malaysian Tv programs, they preference to watch Astro programs or independent-parabola TVs from Hong Kong, China and Taiwan. This very upset us YBhg Tun, It look like our effors to enhance malaysian unity goes into drain. Because unity start from home.Even they are not fluent to speak BM compared to Indonesian Chinese who they are fluent and proud to speak bahasa indonesia.How should we blame Tun?? Adakah salah ibu mengandung??]
Watching TV programs are very subjective to individual interest lah~~~~ Do you believe that me with my NON-MALAY friends and some MALAY friends went to cinema watch CICAKMAN, SEPET, SEPI, JGN PANDANG BELAKANG, PUTERI GUNUNG LEDANG and etc???? Malaysian TV programs are very boring compare to creative HKG, China and Taiwan programmes… even my Malay frens admitted!!! You said Malaysian Chinese not fluent in BM, show me PROOF! Do you want me to show u my SPM Bahasa Malaysia result to you?? I think even some Malays cant get A1 result in their SPM… so please stop B*llSh*ting here…
Assalamualaikum YB Tun,
Saya telah lama mengikuti blog Tun dan ini adalah pertama kali saya tinggal komen
Memang benar analisa Tun bahawa Malaysia adalah negara unik di mana Bangsa Malaysia terdiri daripada 3 kaum yang sangat jelas. Saya tidak melihat perkara ini di negara jiran kita seperti Thailand, Indonesia dan Filipina. Bahkan mereka bangga menjadi bangsa negara mereka, bukan seperti di sini. Kami tidak boleh salahkan sesiapa kerana semua pemimpin buat yang terbagus dalam keadaan dahulu kala.
Tetapi memang benar Sekolah berjenis membawa banyak masalah kerana di negara. Ini adalah sangat jelas di dunia kerjaya di mana mereka lebih cenderung dengan insan-insan berbahasa mereka sendiri. Walhal, ia dilihat lebih ‘afdal’ untuk menghantar anak Melayu ke sekolah berjenis. Saya sendiri bersekolah di sekolah kerajaan dan dalam zaman persekolahan saya tidak pernah ada masalah ini, bahkan rakan-rakan sekolah masih lagi bertegur sapa sehingga sekarang. Masa itu, kami tidak pernah berfikir untuk berpuak berdasarkan kaum tetapi pada minat, persefahaman, semangat kompetitif, rakan dan semangat kerjasama.
Saya bercadang sekolah berjenis di bubarkan dan di adakan kelas lebih lepas sekolah seperti kelas agama. Saya tidak ada masalah dengan rakan saya berbahasa lain tetapi seharusnya, bahasa utama yang patut digunakan adalah Bahasa Malaysia, kalau tidak pun bahasa Inggeris. Bahasa jiwa bangsa. Kalau kita tidak suka berbahasa Malaysia, apakah Bangsa kita?
Sekarang, kita didalam zaman yang tidak tentu. Ada pakatan ingin mengubah dasar sosial kita dan berpuak berdasarkan pada ideologi yang mungkin akan memudharatkan kedudukan Melayu dan Islam, yang amat merisaukan saya. Walhal barisan yang berjuang untuk hak-hak kaum kita dan sentiasa di hadapan kita, kini hilang arah tujuan. Saya harap pimpinan kami sedar apa tengah terjadi dan akan tindakan yang sewajarnya.
Pepatah Inggeris berkata “We are between a rock and a hard place”.
Kami berdoa supaya negara kami akan selamat. Saya harap mereka semua akan dengar nasihat Tun demi Negara.
Wasalam, Selamat berpuasa dan Hari Raya.
Selamat Petang Tun, dan selamat petang rakyat Malaysia.
Sebahagian rakyat Malaysia, saya sudah bosan tentang BN yang main politik and “power”. Ketiga-tiga besar parti, Umno, MCA, MIC patut bekerjasama.
Rakyat memilih Kerajaan yang boleh bantu mereka. Rakyat hanya mahu hidup yang lebih selesa.
Memang ada segelintir kaum yang main kaum isu. Tetapi, rakyat yang pemuda sekarang, lahir di Malaysia , saya bangga sebagai Rakyat malaysia. Saya berharap kaum sesama boleh tolong menolong.
Saya berharap yang pemimpin seperti Tun “mindset” yang luas yang boleh meminpin malaysia. Saya berharap suara saya boleh sampai kepada seorang yang boleh memimpin kita dan semua kaum-kaum.
Saya meminta maaf jika silap guna bahasa.
Sekian, Terima kasih. Kenneth
Multi-racialism in Malaysia is still a growing process. We are a new civilization which depend on trial and error in ensuring that we move towards an organized flow.
At this point of time, we are still at the infant stage. But with each generation growing, we would face new shortcomings. Yes there are many issues that some of us are unhappy with whether it took place during Tun’s time in the Govt or in PakLah’s era.
Whatever it is, we cannot deny that Malaysians were more united during Tun’s administration. PakLah legacy has moved us back rather than springboard us forward.
Our version of democracy is unique compared to other countries. We are who we are due to our diversity.
Racial harmony can only be achieved when PakLah steps down and a new vibrant PM takes over. PakLah’s Govt has no room for racial harmony. It merely breeds misunderstanding on a regular basis, and more confusion amonst Malaysians about what national unity is all about. Tun’s credit was the creation of Vision 2020. And this should have been strongly advocated by PakLah’s Govt/BN but instead many politicians decided to move away from that Vision and create their own racially-charged wawasan.
BN is no longer a political force to consider. It is merely a group of power-hungry people who seek to maintain their own positions in the Govt. They care not for Vision 2020, if they did then they would have implemented/advocated more progressive programmes for society to unite.
Ahmad Ismail is an example of how power could influence an individualist to dream of going back to the stone age. Apparently his dream is supported by those in Umno, or else they would have surely taken action via the Law to punish him for his radical perangai.
Najib is an excellent example of how a politician could be convinced to ignore Umno’s democratic way in the transition of power. He knows little of Malaysia’s displeasure of PakLah’s predicament, despite the fact that he claims to read alot of books. Such is the price to pay for being a ‘learned one’.
The fact is I am unhappy with the Govt. I am unhappy with many politicians and their mentality.
Just like many Malaysians, I seek equal opportunities to increase my periuk nasi, ensure that my children have good education, engulf myself in a secured society where crime is low and most importantly make friends from all walks of life.
Why non-malays always look NEP as a weapon to shoot at the malays? Who dominate the steel industry in Malaysia? Who monopolize the Hot Roll Coil market? The Malays? Who monopolize the sugar cane market? The Malays? Who monopolize the construction industries and let the law protects them from being sued by the buyer/consumer/bancruptcy? the Malays? Who got most the licence of 3G or the WiMax industries? oohhh the Malays? ya rite!
salam Tun,
some people are just plain ignorant.They do not care to do some research first before commenting.
botakzchin is stupidly funny..
quote;
just wanna ask some question here..according to ur write up, the below statement seems to be interesting..
“If we still want Malaysian Unity we need to be willing to make sacrifices regarding what we consider to be our racial rights. Everyone has to do this.”
Question is..
Can MALAYS sacrifice the HAK BUMIPUTRA?
No more quota on the admission of Public University?
No more special discount on this and that?
no more special care under the goverment?
no more special right to owned land?
and many more…. too many sampai tak dapat habiz kan!!
LET ME HYPOTHETICALLY ASK YOU;
Can NON – MALAYS sacrifice;
their name?Just like in Indonesia and Thailand..
their vernacular schools?no more chinese or tamil schools..
their cultural identity?no more chinese or indians,only Malaysians..
their cultural practices?
their public holidays?
CAN OR CAN NOT? SACRIFICE IS NOT ONE WAY ROAD!
STUDY OUR NATION’S HISTORY,BOY!
Jeng3
Salam Tun,
I would like to add on to your point 12.
I’m from Kebangsaan School, but I do understand why parents like to send their children to Jenis Kebangsaan School especially Chinese Ed School. Even the Malays and Indians do send their children to chinese school. Why? Its not about they abandoning their own culture nor their race nor chinese wanted to dominate other races. It’s just simply because of the quality and professionalism in Chinese education school! Chinese schools are popular with their efficiency and mathematical subject. Furthermore, Non-Chinese parents wanted their children to learn mandarin due to the popularity of China business market and also the uniqueness of Chinese Philosophy.
What Tun mentioned is true. Chinese would not simply give up their identities no matter how neither do Indians. You know why vision school is a failure? Think bout it again, the non-malays worried it may silently “brainwash” their children and later become another “Indonesia”. Non-Malays already dont have their equality rights in this country so chinese and indian school is their only treasure they have. It’s also because of the Malaysia policies which make Chinese and Indians felt they have no sense of belonging to this beautiful country. Yes, non-Malays have no right to change the policies or ask for equality BUT they never question about it.
If Tun or whoever malay leaders wanted to create more unity in Malaysia, the first thing is not to dominate the non-Malays but is the Malay own race themself. If Malays cant even dominate their own race then dont talk about leading the nations and the non-malays are losing the confidence in Malay’s administration. That’s why non-Malays are so frust! So were Tun right! During Tun’s administration, do we see any racial issues? No right, that means when all people enjoying the country’s prosperity, racial was not an issue anymore…
If some of u here felt that non-malays are making lots of fuss and troubles. Pls dont blame them, you’ll need to blame our past PMs whom permitted the Chinese and Indians to be a Malaysian. BUT If u will the past PMs, what will you do about non-Malays? At that time, Malaysia really need them to run the country because of their natural talents in business and economy. If I’m not wrong, Tun Tan Cheng Lock and our FIRST and former Finance Minister Tun Tan Siew Sin(1959-1974) contributed alot in Malaysia Business. Without them, Malaysia will not become what it is today…Now can we say “Kacang Lupakan Kulit” just like what Tun said Malay are so forgetful?
Strangely after Tun Tan Siew Sin, we never see a chinese holding that position again…
Salam Tun,
I would think your comment here should be read by all malaysian. Also this info should be pasted in every opposition notice boards.
Tun,
I am proud to be known as having the blood of Baba Nyonya, mainly because of what we used to practise back home in those days; My grandparents used hand to eat, spoke fluent Malay ( even adopted Malay words into Hokkien language ), Wore Sarong, Mixed with lots of Malays friends.
My Grandparents were proud to be known as Malaysian Chinese in stead of China Chinese even during those days. This proved that it was all working in the PAST in the assimilation process.
I personally think that partly it failed later because of the government’s policy that tend to make ppl like myself alienated. Soon after, one by one of my close relatives and friends migrated from once our proud country, Malaysia. Even me myself is now working oversea but I really hope that I will retire one day in my one and only country, Malaysia – seeing everyone united.
Assalamualaikum Tun,
Seperti yang di jangkakan dari dulu bangsa lain sentiasa menunggu orang melayu lemah untuk menonjolkan siapa mereka yang sebenar, ini mungkin berbunyi racist tapi ini lah hakikat yang kita dapat lihat sekarang ini. Islam, Raja-Raja melayu, Hak Orang Melayu dan hampir semua yang dimiliki orang melayu dicabar dan dipersoal.
Orang melayu sekarang ini bukan lagi majority, kita berpecah kepada beberapa puak. Umno, pas, pkr dan ada sesetengah yang sanggup menjadi barua DAP. sedangkan bangsa lain sekarang bersatu dibawah parti mereka. ini menjadikan bilangan orang melayu tak banyak beza dengan mereka sekarang ini. Jelas sekali dalam isu Tan Hoon Cheng reporter Sin Chew Jit Poh. kita dapat lihat mereka bersatu tanpa mengira fahaman politik. MCA & Gerakan yang dulu nya parti politik orang cina kini hilang pengaruh. jelas sekali Orang2 cina kini menyokong DAP yang perjuangan mereka bercanggah dengan kehendak orang melayu.
Kita telah lupa tentang perjuangan orang melayu ditanah air sendiri sehingga sanggup bersekongkol menghancurkan bangsa sendiri. kita telah lupa tentang kisah natrah dan banyak lagi kisah tentang betapa melayu yang dahulunya mempunyai satu hati.
Dear TDM,
I am speechless at everything you write.
The way you compose everything that you post on this blog reflects on your flow of thoughts, and it is that of a very learned intellectual mind with clarity in his thinking.
No wonder Malaysia is here today, having been steered by you.
Please do write more, and on more topics, so as to enlighten us young ones, in your ways of thinking, Education and reasoning.
Salam Tun,
Can I know how much you know about the Malays in Singapore? I am a Malay in Singapore and we are living well here. If you always thought that the malays in singapore are marginalised, let me tell you, you are wrong. Maybe in the past, during your time in Raffles there was a certain degree of discrimination, not by law, but the society.
But the government’s increasing advocation of racial harmony has changed the society’s mindset and now we are living in harmony. For us, being a minority group, we receive various benefit, ranging from discounted housing to free education. What about the minority Chinese and the Indians in Malaysia? I wonder… Even my aunt supports Pakatan Rakyat now.
Getting more and more irritated by the front page Malaysian news on Singapore papers… Best of luck to ur country!
Salam sejahtera Tun,
Selamat perpuasa.
Salam Tun,
You were spot on some of the issues. But religon must not be politicised nor nasionalized because religon is personal. That is why you find more inter marriages between chinese and indians whilst lesser between malays and the other races. Religon must not be forced.
And lastly, why only say this now???
Perhaps we should learn from those from East Malaysia…something about unity and tolerance.
Same country, yet utterly different
CULTURE CUL DE SAC
By JACQUELINE PEREIRA
East is East, West is West and though they be as one together, each is not the other.
Each in his place,
By right, not grace,
Shall rule his heritage. âRudyard Kipling
Thus began the introduction to a fashion spread contrasting past and present, modern and traditional, East and West.
Unexpectedly, Kuching emerged as the perfect location for this unique heritage narrative.
That seasonâs scorching summer clothes and accessories blended seamlessly into the exteriors of magnificent colonial edifices such as the Sarawak Museum, General Post Office, the Court House and the Charles Brooke Memorial.
The result? Spectacular, thought-provoking images.
Sarawak is in some ways an absorbing aberration of the British Empire and the Brooke familyâs private realm.
Steeped in an incomparable history that still irrevocably binds the stateâs people with their culture and land, it is an entity that others sometimes find unfathomable.
Which is why, whenever Iâm there, I feel as if Iâm in a foreign land.
I find it hard to relate to Sarawakians (and, by extension, Sabahans) as fellow Malaysians. Though just the other side of the South China Sea and less than two hours by air, the Land of the Hornbill seems a world away.
It is not just the resort-style, laid-back languor or the strident patriotic pride in their lands. Nor is this unfamiliar feeling due to their impossible-to-place accents or their often unusual names.
Even the peopleâs general behaviour can be quite different, if you know what I mean.
For instance, I found myself in a private club at the end of a rather pleasant late-night dinner. The club had been established so that friends could drink, talk and enjoy an evening together in the company of like-minded people and not complete strangers.
âCome on, have a drink,â someone entreated me shortly after I got there.
Before I could turn around to see who it was, there was a bottle of whisky in front of me. My colleague and I could only look on aghast; we were expected to drink straight out of the bottle. Just like everyone else around the bar that night, merrily swigging from the bottle, with not a mixer in sight.
No standard rules apply here, I thought, as we hastily beat a retreat before the fast-emptying bottle headed in our direction.
Strolling through the dusty streets, peeking into century-old tradersâ shops, talking to people, you get an intriguing insight into the culture of this remarkable land.
I found it bizarre that I could not neatly categorise each one of them into the tidy little ticked boxes that we Peninsularites are so used to.
Their names donât necessarily tally with religion, and their skin colour gives not many clues to their race.
And, with everyone celebrating every cultural and religious festival, itâs a real rojak. You can never tell who worships where by just looking at them or talking to them. This is very disconcerting to the Peninsularite.
Even more galling, their lives do not revolve around Kuala Lumpur and what goes on in West Malaysia. They donât even attempt to disguise this dismissiveness with polite small-talk enquiries.
They prefer to shop in Hong Kong, visit family in Sydney or bank in Singapore, if I may relate a few tales Iâve heard.
I continuously marvel at these degrees of separation. We are tied together in a federation but that frequently seems to be the only link.
As regards behaviour, their riotous individuality stands out and an independent streak colours every strand of their multi-ethnic lives.
Surely these recalcitrant citizens must be taught to become true Malaysians? Or do they already inherently possess an unquenchable spirit woven into their heritage and patriotic pride, resembling an exquisite piece of ikat?
It canât be a simple task when Malaysiaâs largest state cradles 27 ethnic groups and 45 languages.
Yet they celebrate their diversity with as much equanimity as sheer unadulterated joy.
Heritage naturally draws on the past, but should also make the present meaningful and pave a path for the future. Could that be their secret?
Or could it be that, as Kipling meant, they know their place, their rights and their heritage and revel in them, rather than perpetuating the prejudices that still stultify us in the Peninsula?
People, places and perceptions inspire writer Jacqueline Pereira. In this column, she rummages through cultural differences and revels in discovering similarities.
Dearest Tun,
Another brilliant article!
1. True enough that each of us must be willing to compromise (BERTOLAK ANSUR) and not to be so âKIASUâ in getting whatever we consider as our racial rights.
2. Hopefully all BN/UMNO leaders read this article. They should seek Tun Mahathirâs advice in handling racial issues.
DSAAB, please resign. You have done enough damage.
May Allah bless Tun and family.
Dulu bangsa cina & india saja, sekarang takut terjadi pada pendatang-pendatang indon, myanmar, bangla dan ramai lagi.
Takut betul keadaan sekarang.
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Dear Tun and bloggers,
I read this article with fear and frustration. It seem instead of turning our richness/diversity into the strength that any sound organization or country would envy.
We are making this into something that are potentially shameful/ the fall of multi-cultural Malaysia. For those none-malay origin whom are born and grew-up in the tanahair. This is not fair. Not fair at all. I (we) did not choose to be born here (the land of our birth right) and why are we ‘punished’ based on our origin (we not even talking about foreigner who are born else where). After all the different sacrifices that our parent, forefather had contributed to the tanahair (direct or indirect). Is this how we are rewarded?
It is such thinking that get us nowhere. We need to go beyond the color and origin. Even though at your end of your article you tried to tempered your message but the fact is revealing. One can blame this (happening) on their environment. It come off like a ‘weak’ excuse. Combined this will the ISA act. What type of tanahair are we becoming. How can we be proud in front of our children?
I cannot accept this. Rakyat out there, if we don’t act we will be lost. We will be part of all this. I know I do not want to be an accomplice to this. If you believe you can make a different please write to malaysiafuturenow@gmail.com
Yours respectfully,
Denny
Dear Tun
I agree 1000% with you on this issue. It is the education system that keep Malaysians racially divided. I hate that I am racist but that was how I was raised in a racially divided society. Multi-racial unity among the Malaysians is superficial. It is just what the government what us to believe. We know the root causes of the problem. We are concentrating too much on the arguing about effects of the problem instead of solving the root cause of the problem. We have to revamp the education system that separate our children or else we pass down the racial issue to the next generation.
Hello Tun
Much as been said about UNITY but damage has been done partly or indirectly amongst the rakyat of Malaysia.
During the period of 50′s and 60′s, there were no incidences of any disunity among the different races in our country. I for once did not encouter this predicament and mind you Tun, everyone was like brothers and sisters in schools which incidentally was in the English medium.
While in schools back then, we spoke the common language and that is English and neither did the Malays speak Malay….. the Chinese speak Chinese…….the Indians speak Indian and the Eurasians speak Portuguse. Everybody was happily chatting away and there were nothing to hide and it gave us a sense of security whereby we felt that we belong to the same community. I am very positive that they only speak their mother tongue at home and perhaps some chose to speak English with their parents ! What have these students of different races acheived ? Yes they have acheived the common language to communicate with each other but still remained their respecitve identities
Correct me if I am wrong. If everyone speaks Malay, it would not be justified for the Chinese, the Indians and the others. Likewise if Chinese is spoken, it would not be justified for the Malays, Indians and others and lastly if Indian is spoken, it would also be unjustified for the Malays, Chinese and others. Everybody would understand each other better if a common language is spoken. Subsequently everybody will be tolerant and understanding for each other in terms of culture, religion and race.
Were there any fruitful episodes of unity in the implementation of NEP and lately the National Service training ? None that I can recalled. Just look at the attitude and aggressive reactions of the Malay youths when the Menteri Besar of Selangor Tan Sri Khalid made some suggestions regarding the entrances into their colleges. One thing for sure, they don’t like to be united as true rakyat of Malaysia. Neither was wealth enjoyed equally by the rakyat but only a handful……. you know who they are ! ! !
So how do one define UNITY ? Unity will only be seen and acheived on the last day of time in this world.
Being a honourable and respectead statesman, you can contribute to the unity of the rakyat. Let the past be history and mistakes made by Tun must be learned in this present time of ours.
Disseminate more information and ways for UNITY in your blog.
Thank you.
( TomThomas )
Dear Tun,
Your historical account only serves to cement the fear based on racial dominance. After 60 years of independance, the reality is that Malaysia is a multi-cultural nation. It is very possible for unity to arise from a rich diversity. Diversity and multi-culturalism do not need to be feared. In a multi-cultural society, each community can retain their identity but at the same time sign up to a large cohesive identity. This larger cohesive identity if anything else, should be about a common language, shared universal values such as fairness, equality, liberty, meritocracy and so on. All these values sadly is missing in Malaysia. When there is no fairness and accountability, there will never be cohesion even if Malaysia is made up of only one race. I think therefore you have missed the point completely.
My best wishes
T
salam Tun,
kepada AMS,
awak orang Melayu Singapura ye?samalah kita…kot2 sedara.
Awak cuba nafikan fakta ini;
Melayu Singapura golongan minoriti termiskin!
Cakap awak membayangkan golongan yang sudah menyerah kalah dengan keadaan dan manipulasi PAP.
Pemimpin Melayu senior di PAP sendiri mengaku fakta ini apabila berbual secara tertutup dengan saya.
Sila baca komen saya sebelum ini.
Wassallam
Jeng3
Mahathir,
I have some disagreement about some points that you written here. It sounds like that Chinese and other race is trying to bully Malays in a corner of no turning back on their backyard. This is totally NOT YOU! – Other race depends on this defence mechanism to safe guard their right and safety. It is the same as Malays who defence their right whenever some ethnic critisis them.
UNITY, harmony and Peaceful of the country need sacrifice of every component of the country. Eg. Malays right/Ketuanan Melayu)topics have such huge rebound by Malays whenever someone mention about it. It shown that Malays, themselve unwilling to sacrifice – what more about other race. Like what I have previously comments on some of your blog. UNITY is a topics for politician to raise a blank talk. It need action by every component of the country. If neither willing to give way then UNITY is totally will never exist in the Malaysia dictionary.
Taking 1st step is difficults but it will shown courage & determination by this component to activate another components to move as well. Running a country is just the same as engine works – without the key been turn, the engine will not start running. So now the driver seat is at the Malays hand. Whether they want to make the effort to turn the keys or not. Is Malays to decide how they want this country to move into the 21st Century Malaysia. It’s the Malays Calls NOW – either to keep the 1957 pre-agreement thinking or moving forwards for a better Malaysia.
Fikiran sempitlah kau,Hasmas !
Tun ! Please stop all these history teaching and do things that can unite all the races.Abolish the cronyism,nepotism and so on………
Assalamualaikum Tun……..
Betulkan saya jika saya silap. Yang Baik itu datang dari ALLAH dan yang buruk itu datang dari kelemahan diri saya sendiri.
Pernahkan rakyat Malaysia (tak kira apa bangsa) memikirkan kenapa British membawa masuk orang Cina dari China apabila mereka menjumpai bijih timah di Tanah Melayu, membawa masuk orang India dari India apabila ingin memulakan perladangan getah? Kenapa tidak mengambil anak tempatan untuk bekerja di tempat tersebut? Sebenarnya Pihak British ingin menguasai Tanah Melayu selama-lamanya.
Mereka amat yakin orang Melayu, Cina dan India tidak mungkin dapat bekerjasama untuk mempertahankan negara ini. Itulah sebabnya ketiga-tiga kaum ini dipisahkan samada dari segi pelajaran dan ekonomi.
Ketika Al Marhum Tenku Abdul Rahman memohon kemrdekaan Tanah Melayu, salah satu syarat yang dikenakan adalah ketiga-tiga bangsa yang berbeza ini mesti boleh bekerjasama. Anggapan mereka meleset, berkat kebijaksanaan kesemua pemimpin ketiga-tiga kaum tersebut kerjasama dapat dijalinkan. Oleh kerana itu kemerdekaan Tanah Melayu diberikan pada 31 Ogos 1957 dengan satu lagi syarat, jika ada rusuhan kaum dalam masa 10 tahun British akan datang kembali ke Tanah Melayu. Kerana itu PM Malaysia yang pertama tersebut terpaksa melepaskan Singapura dan mengambil tindakan yang tegas pada kejadian 13 Mei 1969.
Kita di Malaysia amat bertuah dikurniakan Tuhan tiga bangsa yang utama di Asia iaitu India, Cina dan Melayu yang mempunyai kekuatan masing-masing. Kita boleh lebih berjaya sekiranya semua kita dapat bekerjasama dengan melihat persamaan bukannya perbezaan.
Kelemahan orang Melayu sekarang bukanlah disebabkan oleh orang Cina. Orang cina berhak merasa terpinggir dengan polisi yang telah ditetapkan, dan mereka sentiasa mencari ruang dan peluang untuk mengubah polisi tersebut. Yang salahnya adalah orang Melayu sendiri termasuk kepimpinannya. Yang kononnya memimpin hanya mengimpikan jawatan bagi memenuhi hawa nafsu mereka sahaja. Yang dipimpin pula hanya mengikut secara membabi buta tanpa pemikiran yang waras.
Orang Melayu akan terus menjadi lemah jika berkelakuan seperti ini. Parti tertua orang Melayu (UMNO) akan berkubur jika inilah perangai orang Melayu. Kita semua perlu kembali kepangkal jalan. Tidak ada jalan lain bagi menguatkan orang melayu melainkan perpaduan dan meletakkan kepentingan agama dan bangsa lebih dari segala-galanya.
ketika ini orang melayu terpisah kepada tiga kumpulan. Satu, Orang Melayu yang hanya mahukan Islamnya. kedua, Orang melayu yang mengingini kedua-duanya (Melayu dan Islam) dan ketiga, orang Melayu yang tidak lagi mengamalkan Agama Islam atau masih mengekalkan identiti bangsanya.
Fikirlah bangsaku. Lihatlah kepada kelemahan diri kita dan janganlah menyalahkan orang lain. Marilah kita memperbaiki diri bagi masa depan anak cucu kita nanti.
Wasallam.
Dear Tun,
Forgive me if i am wrong but i remember you mention that for 22 years you have failed to change the mentality of the Malays. You have tried your very best and yet it did not work. Perhaps you already know the answers why it did not work since you have made a lifetime dedication to this cause.
No dispute. I am a chinese and i for one agree on the NEP. There are majorities out there that is in need of guidance and finance. But for close to 50 years NEP have been implemented and yet it has been constantly abused. It does not benefit everyone and only some selected few. How long do you want the NEP to be implemented? Let’s assume all our natural resources suddenly vanish from the face of the earth, do you think our country still can afford to give NEP? or the non malay should be tax more? Once all the resources died, there is only one thing that could keep Malaysia alive and well and that is human resource (the capabilities of people). I m sure you agree many professionals have left this country to work elsewhere and quite a numbers too have migrated overseas. We see scholarship given to those undeserving. Those that work hard been ignored and fend for themselves. We see corruptions getting more and more rampant. I do not know whether you have been stop by a police or customs or any government officials but i can give you 100% truth that all the readers here agree that all these officials are always asking for kopi-O. When i abide the speed limit, i get stop and ask to give kopi-O. my wife work in a pharmacist shops and health officials find faults in any way to get kopi-O. In distribution channels, we have to give kopi-O to save time. In JPJ, sigh…you get my drift.
We the rakyat are tired Tun. Ever since you left, there is nothing new being proposed by government. All we see is more and more money pump into the economy but zero results. Corruptions and crime getting higher and higher. All these problems do lead to racial tensions. There is no dispute that people would question everything when their wallet is hurt along the way.
Lastly, i am happy that you be joining UMNO. Hopefully, you can be like an advisor to the government and we implore you to help us by fixing those that needs fixing. Please get rid of corruptions and crimes for us.
From,
concerned citizen
Salam YABhg Tun,
What I have observed nowadays Tun, If mostly Chinese in majority state i.e. Sarawak, and etc, I do observe they seldom watch Malaysian Tv programs, they preference to watch Astro programs or independent-parabola TVs from Hong Kong, China and Taiwan.
This very upset us YBhg Tun, It look like our effors to enhance malaysian unity goes into drain. Because unity start from home.
Even they are not fluent to speak BM compared to Indonesian Chinese who they are fluent and proud to speak bahasa indonesia.
How should we blame Tun?? Adakah salah ibu mengandung??
What about Orang Asli?? A forgotten community…
http://www.malaysianbar.org.my/human_rights/orang_asal_walk_halted_despite_clearance_from_police.html
Dear Tun,
We have been reminded every now and then that we are immigrants. For those of us who were born after 1957, we don’t appreciate such remarks. We had passed the millenium but we are still living in the 60′s. Dividing the citizens into first class and 2nd class marks the beginning of a nation. Then, as days passes by, we were put nearer to the edge of the cliffs. Some people said we want more and more, but it’s not true, in fact we have to work harder and harder to make a living.
In my humble oppinion, unity through affirmative actions whatnot force will never be realised. At least in real life, no one likes to be treated unfairly. Freedom is the only key to success.
We should look at how all races should respect one another’s differences, cultures, and languages. Maybe one should look back in history how our Bapa Perpaduan did it. I still remembers going to malay friends house to house during raya and vice versa, but now it seems the malays do not like to visit chinese during the chinese new year for some reason.
If you say, abolish all vernacular primary schools whatnot demolish them, the result is even unexpected. The birth of Hindraf is an example. We certainly do not want another aggressive group Chindraf, do we? Chinese language has proven to be really effective and superior in delivering maths subjects, now even non-chinese sent their children to these primary schools. It sets a great foundation for engineering minded students.
The sekolah wawasan is a good vision. But it’s success boils down to trusts in each other (the government and the chinese schools founders and the chinese themselves). However, if people is saying malay, chinese, indian each have their own primary schools is the main cause of disunity, I don’t agree to that. Anyway, more than 95% of the chinese and indian go to Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan, that that’s where all races mix well.
Of course, in the end having only one type of schools is ideal, but the model must be practical enough in real life so that they are acceptable by everyone so that they don’t feel their culture’s at stake. And you cannot look light on the cultures of the people. It is something that ties up the family members. Without these values, the family members are not close anymore. That is the main reason we do not throw away our cultures, and national typed schools don’t teach that kind of values. Some people would refer to this as we want to maintain our identity (i.e. as if we are from china? this is hilarious!).
In fact some chinese are willing to forgo their cultures, and they don’t even celebrate festivals such as chinese new year, tanglong festivals, etc, because they don’t even know the meaning of it. My family members are such. Other than myself my brothers and sisters all go to sekolah kebangsaan, now they don’t even know what is family values, just like western cultures. If not because of my father, we wouldn’t even have familty gathering during chinese new year.
The only way to get unity is the government must promote respect for each other’s differences and not for MP’s to say things that create more tension among the people of difference races.
SALAM AYAHANDA RAKYAT TUN,
Penjunjung falsafah perjuangan Bangsa!
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Salam Tun,
I think, Malay, Chinese, Indian in Malaysia have more common things than we care to admit. Our Manglish, foods, mannerisms, sensitivities and even things that make us tick are generally the same. So what’s the big fuss?
I had a few friends from continental India,China, Taiwan, etc during my shooling days in the US. They are nothing like our Indian and Chinese, brothers and sisters.
After having live together for so long, we have a culture that are uniquely Malaysian, a culture that we have called our own. Let’s build from there, rather than overly emphasize on our differences.
Salam Ayahanda Tun,
Terima kasih kepada Ayahanda di atas maklumat yang bernas dan tepat ini. Terima kasih juga, ke atas tokoh-tokoh perjuang tanahair yang telah menjadikan sebenar Malaysia sehingga hari ini. Sedarkanlah diri anda semula dan berpijaklah di bumi yang nyata. Kita bukan bermimpi di siang hari lagi. Kita sudah medeka….dan berjuanglah demi pembangunan dan moral negara dari sumber ekonomi, taraf hidup, alam sekitar, sosial dsbnya. Jangan jadi hipokrit bangsa dan negara!!! Tegakkan panji-panji Malaysia di mata dunia. Jangan jadi bangsa hina, daif dan jahil!!
Saya berharap dan mendoakan agar semoga rakyat yang mempunyai kerakyatan warganegara Malaysia membuka balik sejarah silam tanah air, Tanah Melayu dan Malaysia amnya.
Bagi Rakyat Beragama Islam pula, diingatkan dan digalakkan membaca Kitab Quran dan membaca Sejarah Islam di mana Nabi Muhammad S.A.W membawa keamanan semasa zamannya. Fahamkan maknanya dan ketahui sejarah Islam lebih-lebih lagi di Bulan Ramadhan yan berkat ini. Jika dikehendaki berperang sekali pun, NABI S.A.W masih mementingkan keamanan dan kesepakatan umar dan rakyat.
Nasihat saya kepada rakyat Malaysia dan kaum Melayu khasnya, Kenalilah diri anda sendiri, Bangsa anda, Sejarah dan Tamaddun anda serta negara tumpah darah tercinta anda sendiri. Jangan jadi seperti pepatah, “Sebab hanya nila jatuh setitik, habis susu sebelangga”. I luv be a Malaysia. Maafkan saya sekiranya tulisan saya menyinggung perasaan seseorang.
Ayahanda Tun,
Kita perlukan rakyat yang bersemangat Nasionalisme, Patriotik dan mempunyai jati diri. Baru rasanya aman dan makmur negara Malaysia ini…
Terima kasih Ayahanda Tun kerana tuisanmu. Teruskan perjuangan ini demi maruah bangsa, negara dan wawasan…
Dari
PIDC Group,
Ho Chi Minh City,
Vietnam.
hai tun,
I WOULD LIKE TO ASK YOU ONE THING ONLY,WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS WRITING ABOUT RACIALS THINGS NOWADAYS.TALKING ABOUT THE RIGHTS OF MALAYS AND HOW THE INDIANS , CHINESE CAME HERE AND ALSO ABOUT THE HINDRAF?I THINK THE INDIANS N CHINESE ARE MORE PATRIOTIC THAN MALAYS.I CAN BE SURE CAUSE WHEN DURING THE MERDEKA ARRIVES YOU CAN SEE MANY INDIANS N CHINESE WILL BE DOING SOMETHING DIFFERENT TO SHOW UP LIKE THE TAXIS FULL OF PRIME MINISTERS FACE,FULL OF FLAGS,DOING FLAGS USING KOLAM AND MANY MORE…….IN JB FOR EXAMPLE YOU CAN RARELY SEE A TAXI OR CARS FLAGGING OUR MALAYSIAN FLAGS DURING MERDEKA CELEBRATIONS…..MY ADVICE TO YOU IS PLEASE STOP WRITING ABOUT MALAY RIGHTS OR RACIAL SENTIMENTS ANYMORE OR ABOUT HINDRAF OR ABOUT CHINESE.AS A POWERFUL AND GENIOUS LEADER N ALSO AS AN EX-PRIME MINISTER,YOU SHOULD WRITE ABOUT HOW TO UNITE PEOPLE OF ALL RACES INSTEAD OF INSTIGATE THE MALAYS ABOUT THE OTHER RACES.STOP THIS NOW BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE OR IT CAN’T BE STOPPABLE FOREVER.STOP WRITING BOUT THE RIGHTS OF ONE RACE CAUSE YOU DON’T HAVE THE RIGHTS TO TALK ABOUT ANYONE’S RIGHT IN THIS WORLD……..THE PEOPLE WHO ARE LIVING IN THIS WORLD HAS EVERY SINGLE RIGHTS TO BE GIVEN NOT ONLY FOR ONE RACE………….TQ FOR GIVING ME THIS OPPORTUNITY.
Previously I wrote that “CIA trying to wreck Malaysia?”. The news was reported in Nov 2007. Refer the link: http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2007/11/cia-trying-to-wreck-malaysia.html I can see it happening now.
To succeed they will try to get the Malays fight the Malays, just like the Iraqis. This way they’ll be able to transfer the political balance to the other races. I think Malaysia has real problems if the leaders do not take firm action. The recent arrests are widely reported all over the world – obviously the major newspapers are working together with the Americans.
It is possible the the opposition is funded by the CIA.
The only thing that can save Malaysia now is if the USA collapse economically and go bankrupt, before it can succeed in wrecking Malaysia.
It is a trying time for Malaysia. It’s targeted for being a Muslim nation.
Perhaps it should start buying weapons from the USA!!
Assalamu’alaikum warahmatullah Tun,
1. Really love ur no. 20. It proves that the way they rejected the National school really indicates how racist they are.
Next time when they talk about national unity, patriotism & etc. Tell them to shut-up!
2. As historical facts tell us, they had proved to us that they were not even patriotic to their own motherland when they left her hundred of years ago when she was in distress. So.. the blood that flows inside them now didn’t even carry any gene of patriotism. They claimed that they are Malaysian but ironically when talking about their mother tongue they point their finger to a different location across the globe.
3. We need someone with the capability like u to manage this country & Anwar Ibrahim is not one of them.
May Allah bless u with good health.. Tun,
Wassalam.
Salam kpd semua,
Biar saya jelaskan…jikalau Melayu Malaysia seperti perangai Tun, tak mengapa. Biar saya jadi Melayu Singapura.
Tun, dari mana dapat fakta yang kami rakyat Singapura, khususnya Melayu Islam, tertindas ni..
Keluarga saya berasal dari Johor, tapi atas kebijaksanaan Kerajaan Malaysia menendang Singapura keluar dari Malaysia, atas sebab yang Tun saja tahu duduk pekara yang sebenar.
Arwah bapa saya memilih Singapura. Alhamdulilah atas “foward thinking” beliau.
Sekarang anak2 beliau ,rakyat Singapura semuanya, berjaya, bertempat untok melihat anak2 membesar jadi orang Melayu Singapura.
Terus terang saya katakan..
TUNJUKKAN BUKTI bahawasanya orang Melayu Singapura sungguh malang sekali seperti Tun mengatakan.
Takda bukti jangan jadikan kami sebagai alasan! Alasan KEGAGALAN TUN sebagai pemimpin.
Its pathetic and demeaning for a man of your stature as an elder statesman to incite falsehood and deceit and putting fear into people who love and look up to you for guidance in this period of testing.
I am a Singaporean Malay…and I am not rich nor belong to any political party. But I am sick and tired of your ranting and finger pointing to blame and create fear.
Please TUN..just retire, retire with dignity that you deserve.
To Azlela,
Your foot should be in your mouth. If a job requires certain language skill because of dealings with foreign partners in China, Japan, India, US etc. and obviously the preferred language(s) will be stated in the advertisement…and you consider this to be ‘racist’…use your brain a little before it continue to deteriorate.
To genius,
POPULATION ratio: Malays = 65%, Chinese = 25%, the rest = 10% BUT what about personal income tax contribution to our beloved country…was it also according to this ratio? I think NOT. Mutual respect is key.
Dear all bloggers,
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I found this quite interesting..
By crazyidiot on September 15, 2008 10:06 AM
You and Umno, you go out, you come in, you go out, then you come in. Common man. Make up your bloody mind. And you’re calling Badawi Flip Flop? Look at yourself man. Pot calling the kettle black. If you can go in and come out as you wish, why are other MP’s given restrictions, when they go out, they won’t be able to come in? UMNO is not like Islam man. Don’t make a mockery of yourself.
Crazyidiot, apparently [while refering to ur pseudonym], this is kinda cute of you… Can u call this; a great masterpiece of your own stupidity?? I’d love it! Wish to see more n more of u.. It’s quite entertaining “here” to see such angst within yourself..
Tok Det,
We all love n support u.. keep on blogging!
p.s: Tok Det, if u’re making a monument[which will be visited by most of Malay Singaporeans],lets invite jamesloh(By jamesloh on September 15, 2008 9:54 AM), I think he’ll be flattered more than I am.
Sayalah..
LydiaMohdRusli
UiTM Alumni
no more pseudonym!
Lagi cepat Tun kembali ke UMNO, lagi cepat negara ini maju kembali ke depan. Sekarang ni asyik politik dalaman, pembangkang nak kuasai negara melalui pembelian MP, tahanan ISA. CI pun asyik turun je. Mana rakyat tak resah?
Insiden Ahmad Ismail menunjukkan betapa rapuh and jauhnya persefahaman dan tahap toleransi antara kaum di Malaysia.
Pada hemat saya,
Ahmad Ismail hendak menunjukkan kebenaran sejarah atas status Orang Cina dahulu demi meluahkan ketidakpuashatiannya terhadap “kehilangan” yang sedang berlaku di Pulau Pinang.
Manakala, orang Cina sensitif terhadap kenyataan sebegini kerana mereka telah menganggap bahawa Malaysia ialah Tanah Tumpahnya Darah meraka.
Sebenarnya, berlakunya insiden ini hanya memberi satu mesej kepada kita. Sikap toleransi dan kesederhanaan telah semakin pudar dan kepercayaan kepada hak asasi terlalu menular sehingga lupa akan sensitiviti antara kaum.
Tun, sampailah masa Tun membuat sesuatu secara langsung atau tidak langsung demi keadaan sebegini tidak berterusan.
“Kita mungkin tidak serupa tetapi kita adalah sama.”
SALAM AYAHANDA RAKYAT TUN,
IZINKAN,
By RegHiOp on September 15, 2008 8:43 AM
Salam Ayahda Tun;
barangkali itulah disebabkan oleh Bahasa Melayu ditukar kpd Bahasa Malaysia…
BETAPA MURNINYA PENGORBANAN ‘BAHASA’ MELAYU.. ITU PUN MEREKA TIDAK MAHU TERIMA, KAUM TAK SEDARKAN DIRI!
Izin kami ulangi,
By hattourie on September 15, 2008 8:42 AM
Assalamualaikum TUN,..
Together we unite TUN!~
By gengbuah on September 15, 2008 8:43 AM
once again we need to unite…
by Dr. Mahathir Mohamad at September 15, 2008 8:27 AM
26. Provided we can roll back the present unhealthy trends and redirect it towards more positive non-racial objectives, provided we do this slowly by small steps we may be able to create a truly Malaysian identity where race would gradually become less important. It will take time but with sincerity we may reverse the present trends and move towards increasing co-operation and integration.
By samuraimelayu on September 15, 2008 5:32 PM
rakyat berbilang kaum Malaysia boleh!
ALFATIHAH, AMIN
Dear Tun,
You are historian. This is an additional information besides what we have learned in school.
Anyway we hope and pray that we can live together harmoniously and together strengthen our economy rather than debating on sensitive issue which has no added value .Let the chosen one handle the issue wisely and tactfully.
Malaysian must understand and respect whatever has agreed in the constitution and privilege given .
For Malays be thankful of what you have and let helps each other for betterment.
Dear Tun,
I am not sure what you are saying is so right although you are much more experienced.
1. I am sure all Malaysians, including Orang Asal, Malays, Chinese, Indian, and other ethnics groups from Sabah and Sarawak are fluent in speaking Bahasa Malaysia. Most of us are also practising basic culture of livings of Malays such as greetings, respect to the elderly, dressing, even the manner we speak. But in Malaysia, as long as you are not a Muslim who practising malay culture, they are considered not willingly to be absorbed and assimilated and identified with the indigenous people. That is why only those immigrants who accepted intermarry with Malays, or those who are just merely converted to Muslim without intermarriage, are considered to a truly Malaysians as by your definition.
2. I am very sure all Malaysians, especially those non-bumiputra have long time and still recognizing and accepting the fact that they are true Malaysians, who learned and speak fluent Bahasa Malaysia as their national language and living as Malaysians. None of us is willing to betray to our King and to the nation. As Malaysia is a country where the freedom of religion is allowed, then most of us choose to practise the religion that we believe in. As the culture of livings is much related to the religion itself rather that the actual or primitive way of livings, i total disagreed that current practice of culture in non-Malays are reflecting their ancestors’ belief solely. Even Malays are not practising the primitive ways of livings as part of their culture, as most of them are Muslim, where these practices are prohibited. When you Sir, introduced Wawasan 2020, to have one united nation of Bangsa Malaysia, i am very supportive to that as i believe all Malaysians should be identified as Bangsa Malaysia from now and forever.
3. I don’t think so multi-racial politics is rejected by the people. If so, can you tell me why GERAKAN can survives so long in BN? If only leaders can understand the needs of the people and their aspiration to become a nation of Bangsa Malaysia, they as leaders must willing to formulate ideas and practices that promote unity and co-operation in a multi-racial ways.
4. I am sure this can be changed. If you ask Muslims, they will tell you the national schools did not teach so well about their religion that S.K Islam. If you ask a Chinese, besides learning the mother tongue, they are exposed to better teaching methods especially in Mathematics. the teachers are more willing to bring excels in their children. That is why even more Malays are sending their children to Chinese school, not because they are against national school. If only government is willing to bring excellent education system in national type of school, i am pretty sure they can be as famous as English school during early years of our independence. It is wrong to say the failure to bring three language streams schools together is due to the Chinese who is against national integration. The failure may be due to the unwillingness of the government to allow freedom in the administration. The success of a school is not because they are Chinese, Indian, etc schools, but dedicated and quality administrator and teachers.
5. This is extremely not true, unless if you are saying when they are involved in their religious activities. I believe most Malaysians do not too. Even if it does happen, it is the role of an effective government to improve this and not blaming the people for such act, as they are the policy maker, to determine the ways Malaysians should live their lives.
6. âThose who reject racialism simply lost popular support. But those who embrace racialism won.” It this is the case, then PAS should have ruled this country for decades. Remember, BN is a coalition, not a single-party.
7. This is only among politicians of different parties. No Malaysians are attacking any other races or called them racism. Only those people who want to be a champion among people of his our race, willing to bring out racial remarks. I believe if any Chinese who reject or not willing to learn and speak Bahasa Malaysia and accepting themselves as Malaysians, should let go their citizenship.
8. I am totally agreed with your last statement. Any argument on racial issues especially with what have been done previously by the government will not bring any benefit to the nation. We should aim to create a country free of corruption. As a rich country with natural resources and well-educated people, if we can eliminate corruption, the equal share of country wealth to be shared by all Malaysians could be achieved. Although 50 years have been wasted, we can still go on provided radical people willing to give up their position to those who are smart, with vision to bring Bangsa Malaysia a reality to administer the country. With God blessings, I am sure Malaysia has much potential to excel, if not be better, at least equal to the achievement of Singapore minus the imbalance share of wealth, if it does ever happen.
Salam Tun.
1. I agreed with what you said. Malaysia cannot followed Singapore type administration. Like I said before, affirmative action is a must to correct social inequilities, but I do hope that it is also extended to other minorities, and right now I think Indian needed it also.
2. Malaysian unity unity does not necessary means that we must followed American boiling pot assimilation. We could still be integrated and yet retain our different identities.
3. Canada seems to follow a cultural mozaic must like a salad bowl, where you still have all the different vegetables mixed up which taste quite good percisely because of the varieties. There is strength in diversity.
4. Canada I think is one of the most cultural diverse country in the world. There are China town, Japanese & Korean town, Portugese street, Vietnamese town. In Toronto the minorities are French, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portugese, Italian, Hispanic, Negro, Arabs, Jewish, Greeks, Vietnamese and more.
5. Incidentally, banks in Toronto uses Chinese language besides English and French. You see a minority can still retain its identity in Canada. By the way, the mayor of Toronto is a Chinese if I remember correctly.
6. Canada is also a country that manage to attract a very diverse and talented immigrant from all over the world. Their none discriminating policy make that possible. Yet they still have affirmative action policy in place for those who lose out in a capitalist society.
7. In Canada the non discrimination policies goes all the way to ensure that even animals are not subjected to discrimination.
8. Yet human beings are the same every way you go. During my school days I have met English racists and Black racists in Canada. But I must say they are only very few. I think every race love their own kind and has something to complaint of another which is where tolerant comes in.
9. You see the very word ‘tolerant’ has to do with some form of racism kept in the heart. To me, in a multi cultural society, maturity means tolerance.
10. Embrace diversity and learn from it.
Thank you Tun for your article.
Salam Tun,
Daripada dasarnya, memang rakyat Malaysia nampak bersatu. Semua kaum kelihatan nya hidup aman dan damai. Tetapi kita tidak tahu apa yang ada di dalam hati mereka. Apakah semua kaum ini berpuas hati dengan kedudukan masing-masing terutama dalam segi ekonomi? Kita boleh lihat sendiri dimana letaknya kedudukan ekonomi bangsa yang bergelar “BUMIPUTERA” atau “MELAYU”. Kita seperti sudah kehilangan arah untuk mengejar kaum yang selama ini menguasai ekonomi negara kita. Semakin kita cuba kejar… semakin kita merasakan diri kita semakin ketinggalan.
Dimana silapnya?….
Dear Tun,
United we stand,
Divided we fall.
That’s all I have to say.
Give and take applies to every aspect of Life.
We are all Malaysians and if there are people out there who says their race is better than the others? They do not deserve to call themselves Malaysians…
Best regards,
Jessie.
YAB Tun,
I do agreed with some of the issues, but however, I do not agree in certain.
Your comment on the Chinese educationist who wanted a stronger role for chinese language doesn’t mean that they are rejecting the national school and the national language, Bahasa Malaysia.Tun as former PM, you should know, how much allocation given to the the chinese and indian schools, so why the chinese fler are so keen to come up with the independent schools, collecting funds & donations here & there. For your information their syllabus covers B.M (the national language), your quotes sounds like these bunch of chinese people are not loyal to our country because of they wanted their children to study chinese language & from a chinese stream school.
Open your eye, mind & heart, and if you really can’t just look at the system of how these school taught & educate the pupils, not enough asks some Malay people who have sent their children to these school, I bet with you, you will be surprise.
For your information, real case senario, some private organization employ some uni-graduate from the one the university which do not open it doors. Tun you know, how this graduated work, 7 days working , 2 days MC, going out to do field work, can’t even catch up in walking distance, this is due to what is the culture inculcate in their university life.
Training received, home work & attitude moulding are different in the chinese schools, this is what the chinese educationist fler care for and not rejection of national language, they never teach, quote and called other races by funny remarks, they teaches the children as human being, we should at least respect each other no matter you’re rich or poor, from noble family, be humble & tolerate with others, they teach these children with human values & incalcate moral values with them, “Confucius” teaching -how to be good son & responsible citizen & towards our country (this confucius fler lives 2000 years ago for your infor./ also can refer to wikipedia if you need to know more) So you think by becoming a good person under this system make these flers not loyal to Malaysia.
Please understand the chinese school system before you simply comment, the students from these schools can speaks very good languages – B.M., English & of course Mandarin – mother tongue & as a tool for communication in business transaction with china (you aware Mat Salleh also learning Mandarin for that purpose – is that means they love their country less or unpatriotic). Even they cannot gain entry into university for some good reason, these people can still excel very well in private colleges & universities oversea. (especially singapore the “bad guy” very happy to take them, give them free education up to university level & even pocket money, because other people know what good in them, you don’t know -you check around)
Tun, who is this Baba & Nyonya, please check, before drawing the comment & conclusion on “reverting back” culture, which is really inherited by them. You not sure, please check “wikipedia – full expalanation”
What about competing with Singapore? Better don’t talk about globalization.
Do singapore have NEP, no, but do you see Malay beggar in singapore,
you should know they are open, Malay fler is the finance minister.
Not sure please check it yourself.
Why talk bad about Singapore, talk about what we can’t do better, self critismn and improvement are better,these Malay fler in Singapore have freedom in practising their religion (islam), freedom of speech, freedom in making money & most important, “freedom in accumulating of wealth”, have you heard Singaporean complain of cronismn, like wise not like our home grown with Mr Tan, Mr Ananda, Mr Yeoh, & etc, we heard a lot.
When a leader has lost grip on the gross root, they are the one who play the racial issue card, no one of the flers outside there like to quarrel with each other. It is the bunch of idiotic leaders who are trying to be the logger head and created issues to divert the attention of Malaysian on their weaknesses, corruption, wrong doing, especially cronism & scandal.
Tun, you still believe the Malay still lives in kampong like those days, sekarang Melayu sudah jadi professional, they stay in town, in taman-taman, ada hyper market, ada internet & macam-macam.
Who says we do not integrate with other races, go home & stays only among each other? You? Please go out & have a real look. You are wrong, we really enjoy with the people around us, whether those stays in rumah pangsa DBKL, San Peng flats, or places like in Ukay Heights, PJ or Cheras, Melayu, China, India & lain-lain stay in the same area and next to each other, we see different cultures & way of life daily & we do mix together. We buy goodies for them when raya come, if they balik kampung we enjoyed their kampung fruits, we enjoyed their lemang during raya. You know every time we got festival celebration, the whole nation celebrates together.
How about you? You mix around with Samy & Liong Sik even you are now no more working together? I’m very interested to know.
So the real problem lies in some idiotic leaders who are playing with the human sentiments, as a senior leader of modern Malaysia, please ensure the country is on the right path of modernization, put up more constructive advice on how to improve one self & you
by writing comments in blogs can really help, especially like the articles you put up today, you think really can help!!!!. I have being following-up with alot of your articles, you’re indeed in a way “RACIST” and “IN SENSITIVE” to others, at times what you have have written before are sentive enough to stir up issues, you too are igniting a lot of issues.
I was thinking, you’re one of them or not?
Any way, before I finish, I would like to wish all Malaysian “Selamat Hari Raya” , let all our children of modern Malaysia (bukan Tanah Melayu – already dalam Sejarah Hari Ini / RTM)enjoy a prosperous & peaceful day a head.
Thank you.
DFKL
Lets move forward.
I know remembering the history is important, however, how to move forward when our taughts are haunted by the past like a bad marriage. Get on in life and move forward positively. What has happened already happened, how to “undo” such incidents and no points arguing? A child has been borned, raise him up. Move forward.
Remember, a child is colour blind until you tell them so.
Mr Nash n others,
Semua yang berlaku ada hikmahnya, dengan syarat semua Melayu guna akal fikiran dan jangan emosional sampai tak boleh berfikir waras. Melayu bukan UMNO sahaja, PAS dan PKR pun Melayu juga. Pemimpin Melayu memainkan peranan utama sama ada nak menjahanamkan masa depan bangsa Melayu dan generasi Melayu masa hadapan atau meninggikan lagi martabatnya.
Pemimpin bangsa lain cukup menjaga bangsa mereka tanpa fanatik kepada parti. Pemimpin Melayu terutama pembangkang tak boleh nak tengok mukapun, yang rugi akhirnya bangsa Melayu=Islam sendiri..
Fikir-fikirlah…
Dear Tun,
you are right in saying that malaysia can only achieve unity if all races make some sacrifices…that is why i think we will never achieve satu bangsa malaysia..because the non malay would not want to abandon their identity..but i want to know what is so wrong with the present condition where all races can live together with their own identity..i think that is what make malaysia unique to the outside world..
i’m a malaysian chinese and i’m born and stay here all my life..i went to sekolah kebangsaan and i can speak malay language very well..i know where we non malay stand..and all these years we have accepted the fact that we will always be second class citizen…yes..we are pendatang..but do you have to shout it to our face everytime and threaten to send us back to where our ancestor came from? do we not contribute to the country? when you needed us..you will say all of us are anak malaysia but when it suited you suddenly we non malay became pendatang…
and in the case of ahmad ismail i think we are being made sacrificial lamb for him to gain support from the malay…that is why i am so against him for those comment..please bear in mind the majority of chinese here does not want to create more chaos and misunderstanding with the malay people..so we hope the UMNO people understand the sensitivity of the issue and do not use other races as a pawn to gain support from your own race..
dan Tun adalah PM Malaysia yang saya rasa paling berkaliber, so please dont make us lose the respect for you..we still believe in you to make things right…
thanks and i wish you good health and happy all the time..
cheers
Dear Tun,
I am where I am partly because of you. I am a product of your Look East Policy and for that I am thankful to GOD and to you. I do not belong to any political party nor do I support any.
People voted for the opposition because the general ‘PERCEPTION’is that majority of UMNO senior leaders are untrustworthy and corrupt.
These days ‘PERCEPTION’ is ‘THE TRUTH’.
I am ‘alergic’ to politicians (BN or PKR). They can get away with quite a lot. You can carry millions in cash undeclared through airports and get away with it. You can erect a huge bungalow without permit from local council and get away with it. You can sodomize people and get away with it. You can molest young girls and get away with it. You can have your secret affair video leaked and get away with it. You can award questionable projects (pls check the numbers of traffic lights per km in Sungai Petani, we can easily break the world record, changing of McAdam road to cobblestone, changing of new streetlights while the current ones work perfectly well etc)to your preferred ‘contractors’ and get away with it. I can go on and on… but the list is almost endless.
These are the things that formed my ‘PERCEPTION’ about politicians. It doesn’t matter whether they are found guilty or not. We the public already perceive them to be as such.
Politician is actually a noble profession. They are supposed to represent the public and yet time and time again we will find cases like these (abuse of power & position) being flaunted in the media.
Honestly, I think we Malaysians would not think about ‘racism’ if the economy is booming and the wealth does not ‘congregate’ to only certain ‘people’ in some of the ‘political parties’.
Remember, PERCEPTION IS THE TRUTH!!
Askum ayahanda..semoga sihat sejahtera kehendaknya..
mr.nash on September 15, 2008 4:01 PM… agak nakal dan ‘b…h’ komen mamat nie..tun, ini lah contoh melayu yg dipertontonkan kepada rakyat msia..dan terima kasih juga kepada rakyat seperti dia kerana dia jiran sesama jiran tidak bertegur sapa, kerana dia sedara mara tidak sebulu, majlis keramaian kenduri tidak diperdulikan.. sy mengagumi zaman perkongsian hidup dikampung2,teguh dan bersatu padu.. kini tiada lagi,politik dijadikan no 1..kencang hanya di kedai kopi..kutuk mengutuk dan sebagainya..
sebagai rakyat malaysia, siapa rajin dia mmg hidup..tidak kira melayu cina india mahupun sesiapa.. biarlah politik seperti Tun dulu menjelma kembali.. lebihkan autokratik kepd sesetengah isu tidak seperti skg, politik tidur awal,kurang membaca serta lemah tindakan…viva TUn!! askum..
Salam Tun..
1. I’m glad to have leader like u, thinking beyond others & willing to share the knowledge…
2. Buttt, why now u are stress this points to Malaysian. It actually a part of history fact and a big issues, but it seem no formal education about it in the education silibus since independent. WHY???
3. What the youngster become todays are came from previous hand of leaders and not to 100% blame them for thinking of other side because they dont have being feed enough with the patriotism spirit & ‘true’ history of this country. These knowledge and spirit are very important.
4. As i can see, the Malays are already sacrifices things for others, but is not even appreciate at all by others. SO, why need to sacrifice more… Even the national language is an unsettle issue till now. No sacrifices from other races.
thank u.
p/s: bila agak2 nak bbuka puasa dgan Tun
n leh borak2 sambil mkn kuih
Assalammu’alaikum Yang Amat Dihormati Tun,
Ekoran tidak bersetuju dengan penggunaan ISA dalam penahanan terbaru Zaid Ibrahim meletak jawatan sebagai Menteri di JPM.
Sebenarnya peluang ini digunakan selepas kesemua cawangan selesai bermesyuarat, Zaid hanya memperoleh 16 pencalonan, manakala saingannya, Pemangku Ketua UMNO Bahagian, Datuk Mohd. Fatmi Che Salleh sebanyak 87 pencalonan. Belum apa-apa dah mengaku kalah.
Zaid gagal mempertahankan PERLEMBAGAAN daripada terus dipertikai oleh anasir-anasir tertentu. Tak ambil pusing langsung berkaitan dengan forum Memeluk Islam. Pembayaran ex gratia kepada hakim-hakim yang dipecat dengan mengambil dana rakyat. Tidak menghormati TUN yang begitu banyak berjasa.
Ataupun Zaid sudah dapat signal yang TUN akan kembali menerajui Kerajaan Malaysia sekiranya terima semula keahlian UMNO.
Allah Maha Besar.
Wassalam.
Yang Berbahagia Tun,
There is no other way out if Malaysia wishes to remain stable and progressive but to strive for national unity and a truly MALAYSIAN IDENTITY.If our fore fathers were able to sit down and worked it out and resulting in achieving Independence from the British, I dont see why we can’t do it today.
I agree with you Tun, that to unite people of the various races and to make the country move forward in one common direction requires strong and respected leadership and a stable government.The last time we were strong was between 1981 to 2003.Where did we have racial tension,the keris incident,the Hindraf or Anmad Ismail during that time? We were progressing as a nation and very proud to call ourselves Malaysian.
By your returning to Umno, we hope that you will be able to bring back the wisdom and point that party to the right path.Only you alone will be able to truly command the respect of the other Barisan components and make everyone sit down and take stock of the current situation and move forward with one common puopose.
The longer the present leadership remains in power,the worst the situation will become.
I wonder if the present leaders have all read your book entitiled “The Way Forward”. Well, for the love of the country they should and that is a good start.
i have to say that Tun’s comment is too extreme…
We are Malaysian now, not the malay and non-malay at ur time..
Anything about the history is history,we should move forward..
Sometime i feel that people at ur time should forget about what had happened,don’t pass all ur feeling down to the next generation..
After seeing all the comment given by your blog’s fan,u should understand this…
Best regards,
A True Malaysian
Looks like the more this matter is dealt with,the bigger the problem arises.Just one wronged Politician is enough to scratch the face of History.Just one ultra-nationalist is enough to scar the fabric of society.Assimilation here has not taken place because of the Individuality and the the Politics that have thrived along with it.First the British,then came along,UMNO,MCA,MIC……the power overlords had to ensure they remain separated.These tribal like Politics has only one reason to exist.Some intelligent Politicians who had proposed the merge had been brushed aside. Too much power with the Overlords.
Any tribal like politics will one day come to age and face the fastest changing current.The seggregation now runs too deep.
I still can’t consider HINDRAF as racist as they are simply the result of deprivation of one class which is the natural course for any suppresed society.There is one case where the a Malaysian Indian lady was detained by the Immigration for not being able to produce her IC,recall the No,nor speak Malay,etc.There are more people like these. Of course HINDRAF is not all right,but they do have a point t ponder, and as we know,they consist of educated people who had tried their best in every venue possible before they went rampage.
Poverty has done no good for anyone.A hungry man needs food and not religion.But the tribal politicians survive on this issue.Obviously the Modern day has other issues to feed on, but the loop remains the same, they thrive on others need.Promises and hopes simply cloud the judgement of people.Self proclaimed executors and modern day Talibans who wear coats and suits and ties.
The Home Minister says it’s despite him the journalist was arrested under ISA.He was not involved.But we held the notion that the demarcation between Political and civil power is the ISA.Without the Minister’s nod, the Police could not have acted on their own.That would simply make us a Police State.
Time’s UP.BN has done irrepairable damage beyond economical repair.Everyone in it should just resign like our honest de-faco law minister.
SALAM TUN DAN SEMUA BLOGGER CHEDET.COM
PERPADUAN MEMANG PENTING DALAM KEHIDUPAN.
TAPI MALANG, SEKARANG SUDAH BERUBAH. SEMUA ORANG AMBIL KESEMPATAN ATAS KELEMAHAN PEMERINTAH (POLITIK)
LEKAS…BETULKAN KEADAAN. BERSATULAH.
‘WE HOPE THAT’
JANGAN SAMPAI ORANG LUAR / NEGARA BARAT CAMPUR TANGAN. MASYAALAH….JAUHKANLAH.
HORMAT-MENGHORMATI ANTARA KAUM AMAT DIPERLUKAN.
*Tun, Artikel Tun tu tolong buat versi BM, senang sikit nak tunjuk pada orang yang tak p blog tun ni.
Tun,
The Chinese have always retained their identity and everything else. Look at the Chinese overseas.. there is a Chinatown literally in every country! And I am sure you also know that even in the great US of A, Chinese people have their own schools too. I have seen Chinese schools in Hawaii, San Francisco, etc… So, when you mentioned assimilation to the point of leaving the culture and practise totally, I am sure the Chinese will never do that unless of course, they are forced to. Countries like Indonesia and Thailand are fine examples and even then, the Chinese never totally abandon their culture and roots. You still see sneak previews of their cultures and heritage.
Your point number 4, you are pinning the blame on the inability to assimilate to the fact that the late comers, which I assume you meant the Chinese, are more dynamic and better equipped to progress. Arent these great tools desperately needed in the game of worldly survival? Why cant it be put on a different perspective.. such as the indigenous people could and should have aped/learnt from the late comers aka Chinese in order to assimilate?
The story is this.. it is not that the Chinese are not willing to assimilate or want to play high and mighty. The Chinese are very clever people… if there are lessons to be learnt and for the betterment, they will jump into it whole heartedly. However, if there isn’t the Chinese will not be bothered to even try. Just take a look at schooling for example. Look at the ding dong policies that is happening in all Sekolah Kebangsaan schools. As parents, do you think you want to risk your child’s future with such crap? Of course not! And I dare say, this is one of the main reasons why many late comers type of people prefer to send their children to their own type of school which is Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan. At least, there is less ding donging and you gotta admit it, the quality of education is much better.
If you are talking about assimilation in Malaysia, I suppose it is not too late.. it can happen but the indigenous people aka Malays have to stop thinking they are LORDS! There are no LORDS in this land.
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Salam Tun,
Thank you for this great article.
Then, to ‘Zahid’
Selamat Hari Raya…but i think you’re wrong.
ISLAM is NOT ALWAYS MALAY!
There are chinese muslims, indian muslims, european muslims, american muslims, african muslims, and obviously Arabic muslims.
Same as for Christians, Buddhists, Hindus and even atheists.
Weak leadership is the key to instability.
Everyone acts their own preferred way and voices out their demand for equality – having a bigger slice of the cake. In the end, what was once a strong united multiracial multireligious nation, crumbles and falls to the hands of the opportunists.
Dear Tun and fellow bloggers ,
Out of topic but OOOOPPs! look like our Hero of judicial reformation have been out favoured by AAB .
Judge Chin go for earlier retirement and our fellow de facto law minister tender his resignation. It’s seems that the goverment’s gimmick so called to reform the judicial reformation have failed!
Or perhaps , Zaid realised that he is just a puppet of AAB and wanted to cut off the strings now.
Dear Tun,
Your article this time is very interesting to read and commentable and thus your article no 25 refers.
Yes its true that we need to sacrifice but I think we the Malays have sacrificed a lot also to other races since independent day to make this place we call Malaysia a beautiful country to live in.
But just look at the recent incident over a mosque in Puchong and Kota Damansara. How can we (Malaysians) stay united when at this point of time after 51 years of independent there are people who are so-called urbanist, self-centred and RACIST like the one in Puchong, Sunway(predominantly chinese) and Kota Damansara (maybe some other area) who still cannot compromise and tolerate on the religious aspect of another race? If we can tolerate and sacrifice with the ear-tearing fireworks sound during the CNY or burning incenses which emitted thick smoke during the Hungry Ghost Festival that could make the Air Pollution Index Level drop by ten percent, or the loud trumpet sound from the temple and the used coconut shell during Thaipusam that dirty the roads to my neighbourhood, can’t they do the same? Where is this so called “sacrifice” supposed to be shown by these people?
Wassalam
Assalamualaikum Tok Det…
Semoga hari nie lebih baik dr hari2 yg lepas…
Sy tertarik dgn kata2 beberapa org bloggers di sini..
“Takkan Hilang Melayu di Dunia”…
Melayu takkan hilang,
Melayu akan terus bertambah,
Tapi..
Melayu cuma layu,
Melayu pijak melayu,
Melayu tipu melayu,
Melayu tindih melayu,
Melayu bodohkan melayu,
Melayu khianat pd melayu,
Melayu bunuh melayu,
Pendek kata…
MELAYU MUDAH LUPA!
Tok Det,
Selamat m’jalani ibadah puasa yg tinggal setengah bulan lg nie.. Smoga Allah S.W.T mengurniakan kesihatan yg baik, umur yg panjang dan rahmat yg berlipat kali ganda ke atas Tok Det n family..
Raya nanti Tok Det jaga makan dan minum… Dan jaga kesihatan baik2.. Sy dan smua bloggers di sini akan sntiasa sokong Tok Det. Perjuangan yang takkan selesai.. Allahu akhbar!!
Sayalah..
LydiaMohdRusli
UiTM Alumni
no more pseudonym!
Dear Tun,
I strongly believe that this issues became big is because Anwar. He wanted to change the democracy in this country. I believe that he wanted to change the title of PM to President like other countries. Then the sultan will become weak and the power will lies to him, the president.. He will then rules for atleast 5 to 8 years and step down (filthy rich) and others will come up and ofcourse during his rulling he will take away Malay priviledge by appointing other races to be his assistant and successor. By then… we will dissapear.
Dear Tun,
I dont want to see this happen.. like I said before we do not have anyone who is capable to challenge him rite now. Only you can. But unfortunately you are already tired and out of UMNO. Then to bad.. we all and our children will definately face the circumstances if he won in the future. Please come back
Salam TUN.
Saya berpendapat apa yang TUN posting hari ini adalah sesuatu pertejemahan yang perlu di ketahui dan di fahami oleh rakyat Malaysia.
Dan juga satu harapan dan pandangan yang sangat ikhlas dari TUN.
Rakyat Malaysia mesti ada semangat bersatu demi kejayaan negara.
Mesti ada toleransi dan hormat antara satu dengan lain. Bersedia mengamalkan perinsip negara Malaysia. Budaya Malaysia. Kehidupan Malaysia. Segala2 nya berbentuk Malaysia.
Lupakan dari mana asal usulnya datuk moyang. Lupakan bahasa ibunda.
Tidak ada lagi sekolah jenis kebangsaan.Kaum2 dari keturunan lain selain kaum melayu dan bumi mesti juga sanggup menjadi tentera di barisan hadapan untuk mempertahankan negara.Bukan hanya mahu sama rata dalam soal masuk IPT atau peluang ekonomi sahaja. Soal memperthankan maruah negara hanya terletak pada orang2 melayu sahaja. Kalau adapun kaum lain hanya berminat untuk jawatan2 tinggi sahaja. Prebet semua orang melayu dan bumi sahaja.
Jika ini bolih di lakukan olih golongan2 ini, saya rasa tak ada lagi masaalah perkauman antara kaum. Barulah cakap kami anak Malaysia.Bangsa Malayaia.Susah sama susah,senang sama senang.Janganlah hanya nak senang dan kaya raya sahaja. Tidak perihatin pada kaum lain yang masih tercicir. Itu cuma pentingkan diri sendiri dan kaum2 sendiri sahaja.
Saya rasa TUN bolih lakuakan ini. TUN boleh mengubahkan ini dan menyatukan semula rakyat Malaysia kearah lebih cemerlang.
Pak Lah jangan tidok lagi dan dok asyik cakap nak menunaikan kehendak rakyat. Kehendak majority rakyat la ni nak kan PAK LAH letak jawatan. Itu sahaja. Yang cakap sokong tu cuma pengampu2 yang ada kepentingan diri sendiri sahaja di dalam kerajaan atau pun politik. Rakyat kat luar tak kata macam tu .
sekian wasallam.
melayuku takkan hilang;
malaysiaku gemilang.
p/s-zaid dah letak jawatan~ ha ha ha
Salam Tun,
Selagilah masih ada ahli-ahli politik dan penyokong seperti ahamd ismail, selagilah tidak perpaduan di kalangan rakyat malaysia.
Salam Tun,
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Seperti yang pernah saya katakan, mereka yang menentang Tun akan tetap juga menentang, tak kira apapun yang Tun tulis. Baca ajelah komen2 mereka yang terus anti Tun di atas. Orang2 yang sama, dan mereka quote satu dua ayat tanpa ambil the whole context ayat2 itu di gunakan, dan hentam Tun.
Yang heran tu, mereka tetap juga baca Chedet.com 3-4 kali sehari ! sebab mereka dok hentam 3-4 kali sehari, waktu yang berlainan. Kalau dah tak suka, tak payahlah buka dan baca. Heran…Tak tension ke ?? atau mereka sengaja nak orang lain pun turut tension mcm mereka?
Artikel yang bagus terutama kepada jenerasi muda kita yang tidak faham kenapa adanya hak2 istimewa Melayu. Bacalah berulang2 kali, perlahan2 dan secara tenang, fahami apa yang Tun cuba perjelaskan.
Sekali lagi, tuan2 yang sibuk dok kata ‘kami menyokong Tun’, ‘buatlah sesuatu Tun’, kenapa itu kenapa ini… saya ingin mengimbas kembali artikel Tun yang bertajuk
KENAPA SAYA TAK BUAT APA-APA.
no. 12 – …..berpuluh ribu lagi yang meninggalkan komen dan menyokong saya
no13 – Tetapi kebanyakkanya nampak risau dan tidak mahu tinggalkan nama mereka. Biasanya mereka guna nama samaran. Jadi sokongan tidak begitu berkesan.
no14 – Saya tidak boleh lakukan semuanya seorang diri. Saya perlukan sokongan….
DARI 307 KOMEN setakat ini, HANYA 26 SAJA YANG GUNA NAMA PENUH.. MAKNANYA TIDAK SAMPAI PUN 10% !!
Apa ni ? sedihnya saya.. dan saya dapat bayangkan perkara yang sama juga berlaku ketika Tun keluar UMNO baru ni. Laungan dan kata2 sokongan berkemundang di merata tempat, dan kedai2 kopi, tapi ia hanya suara2 yang tidak punya tuan. Akhirnya Tun bersendirian juga..
Marilah tuan2 sekelian.. jangan takut, kita ramai2 berikan sokongan yang berkesan pada Tun. Kita jadikan Chedet.com sebagai satu2nya laman blog yang punya kredibiliti dari jumlah sokongan yang benar2 wujud. Tulislah nama sebenar kita. Tun pasti bangga ! dan barulah Tun benar2 rasa punya sokongan yang berkesan dari rakyat !
Dear Tun,
LIMKITSIANG’s recent blog on “Continue Teaching Science and Mathematics in English”. Very scientifically analysed.
For your perusal. Take care.
P/s: blog.limkitsiang.com
nie lah melayu..bila sume ase nk mampus baru nk cakap soal bersatu..bersatulah kita…bersatulah kita.bersatulah kita..demi bangsa..demi bangsa..bangsa kepala pungkok hang..dah lebih 50 tahun merdeka…lebih 50 tahun jgk BN berkuasa…apehal nk bersatu lagi..cakap jelah bila perut pemimpin melayu..pemimpin UMNO mula kempis sekarang…xde projek untuk dikongsi sesama kroni…sesama anak beranak brulah nk cakap org melayu mesti bersatu…xboleh nk salahkn Pak Lah jika negara kita hancur…Pak Lah cuma mewarisi legasi kronisme dan nepotisme Tun Mahathir jgk…Pak Lah cuma menyambung kehancuran yang Tun bina dahulu..Tun jawab ah soklan nie dlu sebelum bercakap mengenai Melayu lg…
1.kenapa Tun mendiskriminasikan pembangunan negeri2 melayu pada zaman Tun dulu (perlis,kedah,kelantan.terengganu)?
salam perpaduan…
to TUN and all readers,
thanks TUN for this sharing…hope that all Malaysian can really understand what is the message that TUN try to delivered…
to achieved our national unity,all of us must willing to share and sacrifice because this is the only formula that i can see at this stage to bring up our nation and prevent it keep falling like what we experience right now…
so,to all Malaysian that love this country,please move a small step and share this important message to others…only through cooperation we can make our national unity a reality…
salam perpaduan
regards,
LKS
Assalam Tun,
1) I deeply believe that Malaysian are living in harmony, peaceful and united. But, who starts this racism issue, not a small fry like us.
2) This rhetoric issue of racism is getting bored and unhealthy. Why? Politician like to move with cheap and quick impact for easy publicity. They do care about others but mostly they are too care about themselves.
3) Above the rest, strong leadership is fundamental and a must to be learned.
Good day Honorable Tun,
God bless Tun & family with good health & happiness.
I wish to say I am proud to be a Malaysia, bangga dengan Malaysia. In order to become Malaysian, truly Malaysian, we need to respect our Malaysia, then we can be a real Malaysian. I am chinese, I knew some Chineses in fact, they don’t even know how to speak bahasa. Shame on them, memang saya berasa malu terhadap orang yang tidak tahu Bahasa Kebangsaan Malaysia.
I hope Tun can do something about the current UMNO, UMNO under your leadership has brought various prosperity for the Malaysian. Telling the actual history is good. Letting the Rakyat know the history is good. But I always believe in future, history is dead, future is yet unwritten.
Now UMNO, internally is in trouble, aren’t Tun going to do something about it??? For the past half century, UMNO & BN has done a superd job bringing the harmony, peace, propserous to the Rakyat. Who can rescue UMNO, the Rakyat can, Tun can. Continuing critisizing the government won’t help a lot, a person need to stand out to lead the Rakyat to lead the country well. I applaused those ministers who stood out to voice out on behalf the Rakyat “Syabas”.
Races accusation of weak malay is poor excuses, I am driving proton. now a day, day in day out, you can easily see a successful Mr. Malay drive BMW 1,3,5,6,7 series pass you by on the federal HW, is an ordinary visual now a day. Mr/Mdm/Ms. Malay driving Mercedes AMG on the road. Today our fellow Malays have proven in certain business have achieved tremendously, scored well internationally, Syabas…competition makes us grow. Everyone needs work hard earn the rezeki so they are entitle to enjoy the luxuries. On the other hand a lot of chinese middle class driving Proton, does not mean proton is cheap then chinese use Proton. Chinese can afford Korean cars, better features & etc. Patriotic Heart:)…still it proved chineses supporters of Proton not like MB terengganu, duduk dalam Mercedes siok…daripada Proton perdana…sigh…
Walaubagaimanapun, Perpaduan adalah kunci ke arah Kemajuan. Tak kira sama Melayu, Cina, India, Iban, Kadazan, Bugis, Bajau, Malanot, dll, kita semua harus bergading bahu menbawa kemakmuran ke Malaysia, menjadikan Malaysia berjaya. Bersama sama Kita menjayakan Malaysia. Kemakmuran akan menbawa kebahagian kepda Rakyat. Bukankah ini kemahuan Rakyat Malaysia.
Malaysia Boleh!!!
Chuck68
Salam Tun dan keluarga. Semuga sentiasa dirahmati Allah hendaknya.
1. Di bumi Malaysia yang bertuah ini, orang-orang Melayu sudah terlalu banyak berkorban. Memberikan sebahagian daripada apa yang mereka ada kepada kaum Cina dan India.
2. Malangnya kaum Cina dan India tidak pernah berasa syukur dan berpuashati dengan apa yang telah diberi. Mereka menuntut lebih lagi dalam segala bidang.
3. Perlukah orang-orang Melayu melayan tuntutan ini. Sememangnya tidak perlu lansung. Kepunyaan orang Melayu semakin terhakis. Yang hilang tidak akan berganti lagi.
4. Lebih malang lagi apabila ada orang-orang Melayu menyokong tuntutan ini. Kononnya atas dasar demokrasi. Atas dasar keadilan dan kesamarataan. Tidakkah orang Melayu sedar akan perkara ini?
5. Lihatlah sekarang betapa kaum Melayu semakin terpinggir. Bukan saja dari segi harta, malah budaya dan bahasa. Kaum Cina dan India sekarang sudah tidak lagi menghormati kaum Melayu, budaya dan bahasanya. Malah agama Islam pun sudah mula diganggu gugat oleh mereka.
6. Mengapa pemimpin Melayu yang ada membiarkan perkara ini berlaku. Mengapa mereka semakin takut. Di mana jati diri mereka yang melaung-laungkan untuk mempertahankan agama, bangsa dan tanahair?
7. Pengorbanan kaum Melayu tidak akan dibalas atau dihargai oleh kaum Cina dan India. Peristiwa yang berlaku sekarang membuktikannya.
8. Sudah sampai masa nya untuk kaum Melayu bangkit. Jangan lagi asyik mengalah dan menyerah. Tunjukkan ketegasan dan kekuatan jatidiri.
9. Kita melihat betapa pemurahnya kaum Melayu, di daerah yang majoriti penduduk Melayu pun wakil rakyat diberi kepada orang Cina atau India. Bukankah begitu bodoh dan lemahnya perbuatan pemimpin Melayu itu?
10. Cuba lihat, di tempat yang majoritinya Cina atau India ada diberikan kepada orang Melayu untuk menjadi wakil rakyat? Memang tiada lansung.
11. Kalau diperhatikan, memang tiada satu lokasi pun yang ada majoriti kaum India. Mereka ini tidak berhak untuk menjadi pemimpin di kawasan majoriti Melayu. Kawasan majoriti Kaum Cina mungkin ada.
12. Tetapi apa yang berlaku? Pemimpin tertinggi Melayu memberikan kawasan yg majoriti Melayu ini kepada orang India untuk menjadi wakil rakyat.
13. Adakah orang-orang India berterimakasih kepada kaum Melayu? Tidak. Malah mereka menuntut lagi perkara yang bukan2.
14. Kepada para pemimpin Melayu di atas sana. Sedar lah dan bangkitlah. Ketuanan Melayu semakin terhakis kerana perbuatan anda. Ingatlah kehidupan anak cucu kita dimasa yang akan datang.
Teruskan berjuang, Tun.
Selamat berpuasa Tun………
semoga Tun sihat sentiasa…
Izinkan saya mengimbas kembali sajak Tun, sebagai pedoman kita bersama…..:-
Sajak Dr. M: Perjuangan Yang Belum Selesai
Sesungguhnya tidak ada yang lebih menyayatkan
dari melihat bangsaku dijajah
Tidak ada yang lebih menyedihkan
dari membiarkan bangsaku dihina
Air mata tiada ertinya
sejarah silam tiada maknanya
sekiranya bangsa tercinta terpinggir
dipersenda dan dilupakan
Bukan kecil langkah wira bangsa
para pejuang kemerdekaan
bagi menegakkan kemuliaan
dan darjat bangsa
selangkah beerti mara
mengharung sejuta dugaan
Biarkan bertatih
asalkan langkah itu yakin dan cermat
bagi memastikan negara
merdeka dan bangsa terpelihara
air mata sengsara
mengiringi setiap langkah bapa-bapa kita
Tugas kita bukan kecil
kerana mengisi kemrdekaan
rupanya lebih sukar dari bermandi
keringat dan darah menuntutnya
Lagi pula apalah ertinya kemerdekaan
kalau bangsaku asyik mengia dan menidakkan,
mengangguk dan membenarkan,
kerana sekalipun bangganya negara
kerana makmur dan mewahnya,
bangsaku masih melata
dan meminta-minta di negaranya sendiri
Bukan kecil tugas kita
meneruskan perjuangan kemerdekaan kita
kerana rupanya selain memerdekakan,
mengisi kemerdekaan itu jauh lebih sengsara
Bangsaku bukan kecil hati dan jiwanya
bukankah sejak zaman berzaman
mereka menjadi pelaut, pengembara
malah penakluk terkemuka?
Bukankah mereka sudah mengembangkan sayap,
menjadi pedagang dan peniaga
selain menjadi ulama dan
ilmuan terbilang?
Bukankah bangsaku pernah mengharung
samudera menjajah dunia yang tak dikenal
Bukankah mereka pernah menjadi
wira serantau yang tidak mengenal
erti takut dan kematian?
Di manakah silapnya hingga bangsaku
berasa begitu kecil dan rendah diri?
Apakah angkara penjajah?
Lalu bangsaku mulai
melupakan kegemilangan silam
dan sejarah gemilang membina empayar
Tugas kita belum selesai rupanya
bagi memartabat dan
memuliakan bangsa
kerana hanya bangsa yang berjaya
akan sentiasa dihormati
Rupanya masih jauh dan berliku jalan kita
bukan sekadar memerdeka dan mengisinya
tetapi mengangkat darjat dan kemuliaan
buat selama-lamanya
Hari ini, jalan ini pasti semakin berliku
kerana masa depan belum tentu
menjanjikan syurga
bagi mereka yang lemah dan mudah kecewa
Perjuangan kita belum selesai
kerana hanya yang cekal dan tabah
dapat membina mercu tanda
bangsanya yang berjaya
One definition of unity is oneness of mind, feeling. I think we are all united in many ways. Many of us have common thoughts about the issues we are facing today. That shows that we a united in our thoughts. If you go to the Mamak stalls is Damansara, Taman Tun, Bangsar…you can see that the children are united among each other. You can see the Malays, Chinese and Indian befriend each other. As a Malay myself, my circle of friends are mostly non-Malays. Why? I don’t choose a friend based on skin colors. So do they, my friends. We can see eye-to-eye, we have the same level of thinking, so we become friends. My neighbours are multi-racial, Indian marrying Chinese, Malay marrying non-malays. This is the norm among the teenagers nowadays. If this is not a sign of unity, I don’t know what is.
The only group that is not united is the government, UMNO to be specific always see opportunity as threats. Our government has failed to see themselves as serving the rakyat. They are now against the rakyat. Pak Lah’s mission to address the rakyat grievences is a total hype. He is closing his eyes and denying whatever grievences that we are having. So I can say, that the only person who fail to unite himself with us fellow malaysians is AAB and his supporters. So much of UNITY!
Dearest Tun,
This is interesting history. But we must deal with tomorrow. The Malays, like the Arabs, cannot narrate the past as a panacea to right their future.
The fact is the Indians and the hinese are here to stay. Yesterday I met a young Indian (under 40) who had few avenues open to him. No university education. So he started collecting wood and making wooden pallets that are used by warehouses on which they stack up the boxes. This was just a few years ago. Now he is contemplating retirement at age 40. I dont think he will. He owns a small oil palm plantataion in Perak as his ‘simpanan hari tua’.
Quite recently he met a European who showed him to collect the saw dust (a byproduct of his pallet manufacturing) and compress it into ‘wood cubes’ which are now exported to Europe as ‘fire place’ fuel in the homes of the rich.
What is happening here is that the Indian man has learned to work hard and compete. This is what the Malays need to do. They must learn to compete.
We have failed to achieve this. Instead the language policies, the education policies etc have driven the Malays and others apart from each other in a condition of inequality. The non Malays have gone on to become better economically and socially. They can also compete.
As long as the Malays are not equipped with the requisite market oriented skills to compete there will be the divisions and the prejudices in our society. We have failed to do this.
We have to cut the rhetoric and get started on thinking how to do this.
Hi Tun,
I really believe malaysia have done well in term of living together in such diverse Multi-Racial community for many years. I have been living oversea most of my life, when I met a malaysian in other people soil, whether they are malay, chinese or indians we all share the same feeling, we are proud to be Malaysian. I feel really sad back in our own soil, racial tensions amounted.
Let us all not forget about the past but accept the past, everybody who born in Malaysia, contribute to Malaysia and treat evety other Malaysians as their own countrymen should work hard together. The rich should help the poor, the gifted should guide the not so gifted and the leader should lead the follower.
I know is easier to say than done, I am no politician and do not have enough experience or power to fix the problem. But I do believe if Malasysia is prosper, there will not be such problem or at least minimise.
I sincerely hope Leaders of Malaysia can lead our unique country to show others racial differences do not matter when you are living in Malaysia.
Best Regards
Proud Oversea Malaysian Chinese
Dr Syed Alwi Ahmad,
It seems you are relentless in proving how successful Malays have been in Singapore. There are currently a mere 10,000 Malays in Singaporean universities. Compare that to 40,000 Indians.
While Singaporeans are migrating to western nations, Indians and Chinese are migrating to Singapore and taking over jobs in Singapore. These people who themselves are saved from poverty (in their native lands) later become citizens and staunch voters of PPP.This is how PPP engineered its victory for the coming 30 years.
Just recently a Chinese blogger who has been arrested for calling Singaporean Malays as an eyesore to a first-world city state of Singapore.He also said Malays are lazy and have the blood of satay sellers in them. This hatred and stereotypes towards Malays are alive in Singapore – something you tried hard to deny and hide.
Yes Singapore has come very far. We Malaysians too have come very far, we are among the happiest nations in the world – ranked 17th. Compare that to Singapore, the kiasu land where mental disease and zoloft are national culture and food.
9 out of 10 Singaporeans fear of losing their jobs to foreigners because foreign talents are more hardworking and willing to work for less than say,native Singaporeans.
You know Dr. Syed Alwi, we Malaysians recognize that we can still push ourselves but that does not mean we want to emulate or be another Singapore – too fake and too shallow.
Singapore is a racist nation by core. Ask Indians who have to endure ” Not for Indian” rent ad there.
salam Tun,
Some commentators here attempt to portray Singapore as a perfect example for Malaysia to follow.
REALLY?
to qwerty,
you wanted to produce an article by a Singapore Malay..well,where is it?
If you want I can also produce an article by a Singapore Chinese..
RACISM IS ALIVE AND KICKING THERE,IT’S ONLY BECAUSE THEY HAVE PERFECTED AND ELEVATED IT TO AN ARTFORM.
quote;
‘All these measures undertaken ensure that the Malays in Singapore, no matter how dissatisfied, can never gather enough electoral support to push for their agenda. This is the classic ‘divide and conquer’ strategy. With such a strategy, Malay interests would now be primarily articulated and represented within parameters determined by the PAP government and its Malay MPs (pp. 72-76). It also ensures that the government can afford to continue its minimalist approach to the Malay community without suffering any electoral backlash.’
for further info read;
The Charade Of Meritocracy
FEER, October 2006
By Dr.Michael D. Barr
This article is long and I hesitate to post here lest it bore some shallow headed readers.But I will post upon request.
Some people stressed that Singapore was a back water with no natural resources.
No natural resources i agree,but they got a practically free water agreement with us.But to say backwater is furthest from the truth.
Singapore was the best and most developed city in Malaysia then.It was a busy port and had a most strategic location for shipping industry to flourish.LKY knew that very well.
They had a head start far before any of us learn to walk.
So do not try to fool us when you cite Singapore as an example.
Our democracy is on a better track than theirs.God forbids what will happen to commentators in this blog if we were Singapore citizens.
BTW have you guys read their constitution?Let me refresh.Here’s an excerpt;
Article 152 Minorities and Special Position of Malays
(1) It shall be the responsibility of the Government constantly to care for the interests of the racial and religious minorities in Singapore.
(2) The Government shall exercise its functions in such manner as to recognize the special position of the Malays, who are the indigenous people of Singapore, and accordingly it shall be the responsibility of the Government to protect, safeguard, support, foster and promote their political, educational, religious, economic, social and cultural interests and the Malay language.
Article 153 Muslim Religion
The Legislature shall by law make provision for regulating Muslim religious affairs and for constituting a Council to advise the President in matters relating to the Muslim religion.
NOW CAN ANYONE TELL ME IF TUDUNG ISSUE IN SCHOOLS,AZAN IN MOSQUES,LIMITING THE NUMBER OF INTAKE TO RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS (the list is almost endless)IN LINE WITH THEIR CONSTITUTION?
Oh yeah,if you are wondering,I am a Malay born in Singapore but lucky enough to be a Malaysian citizen.I can recall hundreds of relatives ,friends,acquaintances and famous personalities who are now proud to be Malaysian citizens.Just think of M. Nasir,S. Amin Shahab etc.
WOULD WE SIT BACK AND WATCH MALAYS IN MALAYSIA BECOME LIKE OUR COUSINS IN SINGAPORE?
I DON’T THINK SO.EVEN TUN HAS MENTIONED SINGAPORE MALAYS PLIGHT HERE MANY TIMES.
OF COURSE SOME MALAYS THERE WILL NEVER ADMIT AS MOST DO NOT WANT TO ROCK THE BOAT.BUT WE’LL SEE WHAT HAPPEN IF AND WHEN THE BOAT IS SINKING..
As i’ve posted before..we can never be sure what the next 50 years could bring.The Malays might become successful in business,Singapore might rejoin the federation…
p/s- Americans have no moral right to interfere with this country’s affairs as they still operate in Guantanamo Bay.ISA is nothing compared to what they are doing over there!
WE LAUGH AT THEIR SO-CALLED CONCERNS…
Want to fight for justice?Then might as well start there..oops! then there’s this little tiny issue about the Iraqi Invasion…wait!there’s more.. I think we must also deal with Palestinian refugees..apartheid policies of Israel..
MAN!THESE AMERICANS…
Wassallam
Jeng3
Ybhg Tun,
The Malay leaders and business communities must have action plans to strengthen the economics of the Malays and make them “Merdeka” from this aspect. So, this is first and foremost. Then we talk about Malaysian Malaysia. rgds,
Salam Tun,
Saya dah bosan dgn scenerio politik kita sekarang… Orang melayu sendiri yang menhancurkan melayu.Berapa banyak lagi yang mereka mahu beri balik hak-hak kita org melayu… Sekali diberi balik , sampai kiamat tak kan dapat balik… Bersatulah…
Kami masih memerlukan Tun…
Salam TDM yang dihormati,
Walau apapun dikatakan sekarang, kita jelas berada dalam suasana yang tidak keruan dan amat luar dari kebiasaan. Dulu kita impikan harmoni dan paling tidak 50 tahun kita bolehlah dikatakan agak harmoni, syukur ke hadrat Allah s.w.t.
Selain dari mempercayai itu adalah anugerah Illahi, kita patut juga bangga kerana ia adalah hasil usaha semua pihak termasuklah pemerintah tertinggi,menengah dan rakyat sendiri yang tahu peri pentingnya keharmonian sebagai asas kepada pembangunan ekonomi, sosial dan politik.
Sekarang kita diuji.Pertama dengan kerajaan yang agak kurang tegas dan dipersoalkan integritinya. Kedua dengan keberanian kumpulan-kumpulan tertentu yang dahulunya mungkin mengumpul tenaga dan dendam, kini mula mencabar dari segenap sudut. Ketiga dengan kelemahan orng-orang Melayu sendiri yang sememangnya berpenyakit dengan penyakit dendam, hasad, dengki, tamak, gila kuasa, nak cepat kaya dengan jalan mudah dan singkat, lupa asal usul, lupa pengorbanan orang dulu, gelap mata bila tengok duit, cetek ilmu agama dan berbagai-bagai penyakit kronik yang lain.
Itu belum penyakit sawan yang biasa seperti mudah lupa, sikap tak apa, terlebih tolak ansur, terlalu mengalah, takut nak menegur, pendam sahaja, tak mahu lukakan hati, bodek, ampu, ada kabel, kroni dan lain-lain.
Tun, mampukah kita tangani semua ini? Adakah Melayu akan hanyut dan bertambah hanyut dalam 10 ke 20 tahun akan datang? Hampir semua permasalahan Melayu dan sejarah negara telah Tun sentuh dan bincangkan, tetapi ke mana arah kita? Siapa yang akan mengepalai kita untuk memperbetulkan ini semua? Kalaupun tak menjadi seputih kain putih sekurang-kurangnya lumpur dan kekotoran yang terpalit haruslah dibersihkan dahulu.
Tun, saya masih teguh berpendapat Tun harus dan perlu kembali ke arena politik main stream untuk memulihkan keadaan. Dulu mungkin ramai yang tak berapa setuju dengan cara Tun sebab mereka tidak tahu maksud sebenar mengapa Tun mentadbir dengan cara begitu. Nah, sekarang baru mata mereka terbuka. Baru mereka sedar dan insaf bahawa belum ada cara lain yang terbaik untuk mengharmonikan Malaysia. Kalau terlalu berlembut, terlalu bertolak ansur, terlalu memberi ruang, terlalu memaafkan, terlalu mengalah, ia akan berakhir seperti melepaskan anjing tersepit.
Semoga dengan kembalinya Tun kepangkuan UMNO, Melayu dan Malaysia akan kembali cemerlang. InsyaAllah.
Wassalam.
One definition of unity is oneness of mind, feeling. I think we are all united in many ways. Many of us have common thoughts about the issues we are facing today. That shows that we a united in our thoughts. If you go to the Mamak stalls is Damansara, Taman Tun, Bangsar…you can see that the children are united among each other. You can see the Malays, Chinese and Indian befriend each other. As a Malay myself, my circle of friends are mostly non-Malays. Why? I don’t choose a friend based on skin colors. So do they, my friends. We can see eye-to-eye, we have the same level of thinking, so we become friends. My neighbours are multi-racial, Indian marrying Chinese, Malay marrying non-malays. This is the norm among the teenagers nowadays. If this is not a sign of unity, I don’t know what is.
The only group that is not united is the government, UMNO to be specific always see opportunity as threats. Our government has failed to see themselves as serving the rakyat. They are now against the rakyat. Pak Lah’s mission to address the rakyat grievences is a total hype. He is closing his eyes and denying whatever grievences that we are having. So I can say, that the only person who fail to unite himself with us fellow malaysians is AAB and his supporters. So much of UNITY!
SALAM BUAT TUN SEKELUARGA.
TUN,
Sekarang ini masa terlalu suntuk untuk dibazirkan.
Berbagai bagai telah dibahaskan, diterangkan dan hakikatnya, Orang MELAYU tetap MELAYU, Orang CINA tetap CINA dan Orang INDIA tetap INDIA. Begitu juga dengan bangsa2 lain di Malaysia ini.
Lantutan ini juga RAJA tetap RAJA, Kontrak Sosial tetap Kontrak Sosial.
Yang lupa diri tetap akan kekal sedemekian dengan hujah2 mereka.
Yang lupa janji pun begitu termasuk yang nak merampas hak orang lain tak akan berganjak dari hujah2 mereka. Soalnya sejauh mana mereka ini akan mendapat sambutan bagi menjayakan niat masing masing.
Tapi tak semua yang lupa janji. Masih banyak yang menghormati Perlembagaan dan Kontrak Sosial.
Dari dahulu lagi (beratus tahun) Bangsa MELAYU telah diasak dengan pelbagai cubaan termasuk dari kuasa2 besar dan MELAYU MASIH DI SINI. Cuma bagaimana kita akan kekal di sini akan ditentukan dengan bibit bibit yang akan mencatitkan sejarah.
Dahulu MELAYU membina rumah di TANAH MELAYU dan membinanya melaLui RAJA RAJA zamam silam. Orang Asli pada masa itu pun rela diperintah oleh RAJA RAJA MELAYU. Kalau tak diperintah oleh RAJA melayu, mereka akan diperintah oleh orang lain juga akhirnya. Dan TAKDIR menentukan mereka diperintah oleh MELAYU.
KALAU CINA DATANG DULU UNTUK MEMERINTAH, MAKA CINA LAH RAJA KITA, BEGITU JUGA JIKA HINDU DATANG DULU DAN MEMBENTUK EMPAYAR MEREKA MAKA HINDU LAH RAJA KITA.
RAJA RAJA MELAYU telah membawa pembaharuan pada masa itu di dalam ketamadunan dan sistem FEUDAL telah berjalan begitu lama.
Dalam mengharungi perjalanan hidup kita (MELAYU), kita didatangi oleh tetamu tetamu dan kita memperlawa mereka masuk rumah kita.
Kebiasaannya tetamu yang datang rumah disambut baik oleh orang MELAYU kerana ini lah resam MELAYU.
Ada tetamu yang begitu seronok tinggal di rumah kita sehingga mereka ini tidak mahu pulang dan ingin menjadi sebahagian dari keluarga kita.
Ada juga tetamu yang berlagak baik pada mulanya untuk mendapat kepercayaan dan kemudiannya terjermalah akan sikap sebenar mereka setelah mendapat kekuatan.
Orang MELAYU ini penuh dengan belas kasihan, kalau dia nampak orang lain merempat, tiada pertolongan dari sesiapa dan tiada tempat bergantung di tepi jalan kat luar rumah, mereka akan pelawa orang yang susah ini masuk dan beri makan asalkan orang yang merempat ini baik dan tiada niat jahat.
Sikap ini masih diamalkan hingga sekarang, saya sering memberi makan seorang India yang tiada rumah dan meminta belas kasihan orang ramai. Saya suruh isteri saya bungkus nasi untuk dia dan dianya akan berdoa dalam bahasa Tamil untuk kami tanda kesyukuran, kami tak kisah sangat dengan doa dia, cuma kasihan saja.
Di kampung saya pon ada, dimana Ibu mertua dan saudara saya selalu bungkus lauk dan nasi untuk seorang India yang selalu merayau sana sini tiada tempat tinggal kerana keluarganya (adik beradik) tidak memperdulikannya dan sekarang ini beliau tidur dalam pondok kebun di belakang rumah dan orang India ini amat berterima kasih kepada keluarga mertua saya. Dia sekarang menolong membersihkan kebun yang tak besar sangat pun, sekangkang kera saja di belakang rumah mertua saya. Dia juga dapat pakaian walau pun tak baru malahan duit juga dapat walaupun tak banyak dan dia tumpang mandi di bilik air luar rumah.
Sekarang orang India ini ada sedikit ruang tanah yang dibenarkan oleh mertua untuk dikerjakan bagi menanam sayuran dan dia pada suatu masa telah membawa banyak jenis sayuran untuk diberi kepada keluarga mertua saya. Mertua saya hanya ambil sedikit dan yang lain dia suruh Orang India tu jual untuk buat belanja2 rokok dia. Orang India ini sangat berterima kasih sehingga menitis air mata. Sehingga sekarang dia masih ada di pondok belakang rumah dan keluarga saya tidak pernah menganggap orang ini sebagai satu ancaman. lagi pun dia ini telah dikenali oleh semua orang kampung. Cuma yang tidak dibenarkan ialah jangan ada apa2 tokong kecil. Kalau nak sembahyang kuil banyak di persekitaran, itu pesan Ayah Mertua saya.
Dia beragama HINDU dan berumur dalam 50an. Saya pernah bertanya kepada kedua mertua saya macamana kalau tiba2 satu hari orang ini meninggal dunia. Mertua saya kata “tak pa la kalau takdir dia mati kat belakang tu nanti kita panggil la mana-mana SAMI HINDU untuk urus dia .. kan banyak tokong HINDU dekat dekat sini”. Mertua saya orang Sungai Petani.
Saya cuma tak boleh bayangkan satu perkara saja dan ianya tak mungkin berlaku. Jikalaulah lah orang India ni ada waris dan satu hari waris dia datang dan menuntut bahawa pondok dan sebahagian kecil tanah yang telah dikerjakan untuk bercucuk tanam tadi adalah miliknya.
BEGITU JUGALAH KEBIMBANGAN SAYA TERHADAP NEGARA KITA YANG TERCINTA INI.
WASSALAM TUN
Tun,
I am very disappointed with your blatantly political statement disguised as “analysis”. Spoken like a true chauvinist constantly reminding people of other races that one should assimilate but only on terms which are very advantageous only to your ilk. Under your rule, everyday the non-Malays are constantly reminded of their “inferior” status – I definitely learnt that lesson well during my days in the Malaysian school system – yet you want the non-Malays to assimilate, give up their traditions and culture?? You blame the non-Malays for making their race and culture political yet it was chauvinists like yourself which made the racial platform the basis of your political career and power – theirs is only a reaction to your action. An enlightened ruler would have emphasized Malay political primacy but treat other non-Malays citizens with fairness and work hard to foster national unity. Why perpetuate the divisions created by the British? Is is your wish to be a colonial power like them? Afer 51 years of independence, why is this race issue is still being dredged up to protect the prosperity of the few at the expense of the many?
Tun, aren’t your forebears muslims from India – do you deny your ancestors were migrants like mine? I suppose politcs and power make people do the darndest thing.
I am seriously saddened by your comments for if it is the path this country is taking – Malaysia can only end up as a 3rd rate nation still reminiscing of its past glory. How can a country be prosperous if it keeps discriminating against 60% of its population – it is unprecedented in history. For those of you who think Malaysia can recapture its past glory, open your eyes and witness the giant sucking sound of countries like China, India, Vietnam, etc.. hoovering all the FDI….
Dear Tun,
Saya “terkejut” kerana sampai sekarang kita tak dengar dan tak nampak Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
Assalamualaikum Tun DR. M,
Well ill just go straight to the point. Te notion of people spending a lot of time arguing with each other about these issues is due to state of mind that they are in now. In my opinion;
1. we have a lot of free time not working hard enough to achieve the nation’s target to be a developed country (although some parties wont want it to happen) by the year 2020. Why is this a factor? Well there’s a lot of money dumped to individuals rather than corporations. Hance the government looses in taxes which leads to government projects being cut, and there’s no work. So now, no work means a lot of dissatisfaction, who to blame? The government, what issue to use? Racial related issues (the simplest! its natural talking about other people.. rite?). Its like “kedai Kopi” talk that has been blown out of proportion.
2. DSAI- 1 person, says it all. why in the 1st place he was freed, i cannot say. But he thinks that he is innocent. What a joker. I would like to stress here that ” DSAI WAS NOT PROVEN INNOCENT BY ANY JUDGE OR COURT! INSTEAD HE WAS PARDONED “. In other words, we dont know weather the charges put to him was true or false. Ok enough of his convictions. Why is he a prominent factor in this particular discussion. Well i dont know weather we realize it or not, after he was freed, theres alot of racial related incidents, ie. HINDRAF, BAR council Public Forum about Islam, etc. Before that, theres no mention of these cases ever being brought to especially to the mass media. DSAI has a reputation of stirring up sentiments against people. When he was in the University he was stirring up unrest among students, the record shows clearlly who he is. I think thats why Tun braught DSAI into his cabinet, so that he can be controlled, can be atleast tamed, or atleast cannot stir up things/sentiments. “Keep your friends close, and your enemy closer”. I think that is the approach that Tun did to tame him. DSAI is not a tiger, or a mighty lion, he is just an annoying dog that barks alot, but hebarks not bcause he is brave, because he is scared! Poor little puppy.. (Mind my sentiments to DSAI, but i just get bloody annoyed by people like him)Talk about wanting to be the next PM too hard. I admire his ditermination, bt for Goe’s sake man! You dont have to rub it in! (Hadap!). If you ask me, ill put him in jail, and throw away the key. He is a snake, cloaked by a snake’s charmer’s skin.
3. DSAAB- What else i can say about him other than the things that has been mentioned by Tun all this while. I will not go deeper. But im interested to point at the “i have no balls” policy, where by he cant even keep his Barisan together, let alone keep the diverse cultures together. That tells alot about the caracter of the person, plain and simple, he cant decide the best for the nation. Indecisive, we cant trust his decisions without thinking tomorrow he will change everything. His warnings are tame, feeble, people are not convinced at his warnings. If he were to put his foot down and decide, he would have been respected instead of being called feeble or weak. Is this indecisiveness that leads to people taking advantage at the most sensitive issues in Malaysia, racial issues.
The main thing is the public (i use public not people cz for me, the term people/rakyat is for the Yang Dipertuan Agong to be used for Malaysians) shhould not be so caught up in these things. We have people that always raffels the fethers of the sensetive issues of racial nature. Its the job of the goverment exspecially our Mr. PM, to take stearn action againts these people. To hell what the US or Britain want to say about our human rights! They can say what ever they want. Its not that we never go againts them. Look where are we now! We gained soo much ground in terms of development, and its brought to a screeching halt. And all DSAAB can comment is, the infamous “i dunt know anything bout it??” or “we are developing!” yet the malaysians suffer.
Im sorry Tun, my comments are not really spot on to the subject.
The bottom line, it is these main factors that contributed not only for this subject, but many-many more problems.
tq, for letting me speak out!
just my 2 cents
Selamat Berpuasa Tun. I wish you all the best!
Salam Tun and everyone.
I vote for Malaysia Multiracial Unique Unity. Can’t find a mixed racial unity anywhere in Asea.
All other countries have their own language in teachings.
Malaysia should only use Malay Language as an honor to Malaysia itself. Other language to be learned by themself privately.
Malaysia has already been good to all races.
Politician must find ways to inssiminate all races into on big family.
Religion, practice freely their own.
Thank you.
Assalamualaikum and salam sejahtera my fellow Malaysian,
Please let religious matter be handled by religious authority. Don’t mix it with politics. This statement may bring uneasiness among Muslim. Marriage and family institution are very important in Islam so that marriage between Muslim and any other religion is strictly forbidden. Muslim can marry Chinese, Indian or any other race as long the couples are both Muslim. Just don’t try messing around with religious matter, END OF THE STORY!
Originally posted By Bravo Echo Echo Romeo on September 15, 2008 9:06 AM
Dr M,
This article is indeed written from the heart. Assimilation in Malaysia is indeed difficult due to one and only single reason. True freedom of religion. One must be allowed to choose and practice whatever religion he or she professes and not forced into a religion with no way out. Malaysia does not have a true sense of freedom of religion. I’m not trying to slam Islam or anything as Islam is a beautiful religion that preaches peace. It is the religious interpretation of the religion that has people scared and sticking to their own kind.
I see easier assimilation in the Phillipines, Thailand, USA and other countries of the other races than in Malaysia due to the fact that the people can choose to get in and out of religion if they chooses. Intermarriage in also a common thing but not in Malaysia due to the religion reason. Until a compromise is reached in this level, Malaysia will always be polarized as Malay, Chinese, Indians and will never truely accept each other.
As much as I like to see the best for Malaysia, I do not see it happening in our life time.
drama hari ini
tajuk: kaum
ahmad : dulu kau pendatang.
repoter: ok ada nilai berita ..masuk suratkhabar.
ahkoon : kamu tk boleh cakap mcm tu.aku report sama paklah.ini sensitif..perkauman.
paklah ; mana boleh cakap mcm tu..bahaya pd negara.ahmad aku gantung kau 3 tahun.yg lain urusan polis
polis: aku dh tangkap raja pet & teresa k..repoter pun aku tangkap mahu siasat..
pakmid: kita telah bebaskan repoter tu yg lain kita tahan dulu.
rakyat: pening kepala memikirkannya..kami tiada masalah antara kaum..ahli politik yg memanaskannya.
Thank you Tun,
It is time to end this sekolah jenis kebangsaan.
Apa dia nih? Komplain bukan main lagi bab Melayu not working towards unity etc. Good that Tun bagi flashback sikit .. baru semua tau history.
If we want unity .. our kids must be able to go to school together. Other wise .. Tolooooong lah .. forget about unity! It is a joke. Kalau nak sangat, lets teach chinese and tamil in all schools. You can go home and speach chinese all you want but again the message is ONE SCHOOL for all.
UNITE!
Dear Tun,
Blogs, media and politicians are the real culprits that are causing unnecessary tensions. These tensions are created in the minds of some who really bother to read these nonsense. The majority of the people are enjoying life as usual as though nothing is happening.
If abolishing vernacular schools could unite everyone why not force it? ISA may be justified in this instance, perhaps. If ISA could be justified to protect someone from death threat, why not? But the BN government had always been trying to please everyone just to be in power.
Tun,
We need you back to office. Please come back. Going back to UMNO is a frst step. The situation may need you to be an advisor for the next PM to be.
Dear Commenters,
I strongly believe Tun is badly required to lead Malaysian government back to its glory.
Pls pledge your support and pray Tun will be back.
Salam Tun.
Di sebalik beberapa tindakan yang agak kontroversi, akhirnya Zaid Ibrahim meletak jawatan sebagai Menteri Kabinet…..
Walau apapun kedudukannya, dia mesti jawab dan bertanggung jawab atas tindakannya sebelum ini.
drama hari ini.
tajuk; aku tk takut
mohideen: aku tk akan letak jawatan.aku suarakan pendapat akar umbi.
paklah : sebagai pm aku ada kuasa utk buangkan kau.
mohideen: kalau kau buang aku,nanti saham aku naik mendadak.kau juga yg susah.. Cubalah buang.
paklah:ugut nampak..melawan taukehlah kau nie.
mohideen: aku iklas..ini pendapat umum…bukan gila kuasa.Ikut cakap Tun berhenti sebelum kenyang.
paklah: nak ajar aku pulak.
mohiden: oklah kita serahkan pd ahli umno biar mereka yg tentukan kedudukan kita.ada berani??
Assalamualaikum to Dearest Tun and to everyone else of beloved Malaysia.
My comment might be within the jungle of comments sent by readers but I want to state my mind here as a record that I voiced out.
I believe Tun has furnished the true fact on how Malaysia was incorporate.
True to the facts, its the political leaders of that time who should have put up strong efforts to insimilate various races into one Malaysian Malaysia but they couldn’t because of unreadiness contributed by various doubts and unforeseen future.
But it is now, after 51 years of independence, the turning apportunity is here once again. The present leaders should not maniplate for their own political interest and gain and come to a conclusion to issimilated all races into one Malaysian Malaysia without jeopardy to Malays races. The Malay races has excepted the immigrant then as citizen of Malaysia open heartedly.
Malaysia is truely Asia, make it happen.
Malaysia Boleh.
assalamualaikum Tun, Selamat berpuasa dan selamat hari raya. I’m very happy with the article. It seems to me that Tun are answering my comments a few blog away. But that is not important. The idea given by Tun is more important, especially for all of us to chew.
Firstly, I would like to say that I readily accepted Tuns explanation on the track of history. But I do have another way of seeing this Malay or Malaysian history. Of course, as a muslim who adhere to whatever happened in Islamic history, and of course Al-Quran and Hadis, will tend to interprate it in this light. This is because the history, or human fate, is repeating itself over times, and relentlessly, for that matter.
Secondly, the lessons from Al-Quran tell us that man tend to forget to what had happened. And Al-Quran revealed it for all of us, since 1400 years ago, on the rise and fall of any human race or nation. But of course, not many muslims, and especially the modern human race, will appreciate these ‘stories’ from Al-Quran.
Thirdly, I found out that the question of race could not be taken lightly, and I had to say it that Tun idea of redirecting the present trend ‘towards more positive non-racial objectives’ (para 26) is just a wishful thinking. The reason: God created man racially, and they will adhere to their racial wants and aspirations.
Fourthly, if we give due recognition to this fundamental aspects of human, then the question is not about racial unity amongst various human race in one nation. Its about racial understanding and performing to whatever they have agreed upon. In other words, our perpective about human race must be on the dot at all time. Any deviation must be tackle promptly.
Fifthly, this fundamental aspect also means that we do not have ‘to make sacrifices’ (para 25). Instead, we just respect one another. Its just like how the Ansar respect the Muhajirin during the Prophet time. And so was with the understanding, that was being documented, with the Jewish clans. It must be adhered…
In other words, what I am saying is that, we Malays and Malaysians must reach an agreement that is responsive to the present situations.
As for the Malays, who are muslims, they must be on the siratulmustaqim as set by Allah. This is their only survivle kit. And as during the Prophet time, the zakat is being managed in accordance to Allahs teaching. Zakat is about muslim wealth, money which is about to turn to power. Presently, the zakat do not make such a turn. So, the present zakat is not in accordance to Allahs presciption. Very simple!
Well, for Tuns info, Tajdid dot com, had published my writing and thoughts. Wallahu a’lam. Wassalam.
Dear Tun,
I am a non Malay who can;t speak or write in my mother tongue language. I speak in Malay to my dad and spoke English to my late Mum. My parents believed as Malaysians being fluent in Malay is important and of course English is required in order to survive in this world. Till today I have always felt I am Malaysian,never felt that I belonged to my ethnic grp ever, I am after all 4th generation Malaysian here. when I am told I am immigrant I dont know what to say anymore. but now I have realised that no matter how Malaysian I am, I am not a Malaysian as long as I am not the special race, Malay. now having a child I am going to make sure she knows the langnauge of my ethnicity apart from English and Malay. as for us not wantign to accept National School, please Tun go and see how the schools are administered. and yes my child doese not attend National school and never will- enough, my heart has been broken.
this is the exact situation of to love and not to be loved in return.
You will not understand cause you belong to the privelege race.
Salam buat Tun serta keluarga,
Siapakah orang yang bertanggung jawab untuk menukar nama Tanah Melayu atau Malaya kepada Malaysia? Tahukah kita makna Malai c ya (Malaysia) dalam bahasa cina? Tak kan Melayu hilang didunia?????Gurau aja. Hehehe…..
Hidup Tun!
Hi Tun, very true you said it in a very balanced view. But let me add something. Again, this world is of people with different opinions. I have indian friends who do not agree with Hindraf. And I myself think we should have one school system where all races come together under one roof. (Because I am a product of it, I realize the experience is something I’d trade for nothing). I also have a very close Malay friend who told me this. He is my colleague actually and just started his job. The company we work for is majority of non malays. He tells me that he never thought he’d work in a company with more non-malays than malays. And when he joined he realizes everyone is friendly and helpful. All his life he has always thought this certain group of race are very arrogant and ‘kedekut ilmu’. But I can’t blame him cos he came from a school where he has very minimal chance of mixing with other races as well.
Among my own chinese friends, I also realize those from national schools mix better with other races. I’d say I agree with you that one school system is the best way to intergrate all. The more chances we get to mix with a diverse group the less ignorant we are of each other. We appear more similar to each other and we learn to love each other more. I’m all for one school system. But then again I will never understand why some chinese educationist will insist on maintaining their chinese schools… I don’t understand because I’m not in their shoes. I never went to a chinese school. So you see? if we never live something, sometimes it is just too hard to put yourself in the other person’s shoes and see from their perspective.
Assalamualaikum Tun dan para pembaca.
Nampak nya, dah jadi tugas Tun pula memberi keterangan seperti ini..
kenapa ianya tidak dilakukan oleh menteri2??
Tun, kami mengalu2 kan kembalinya Tun dalam Umno dah selamatkan lah ia sebelum ianya hancur lebur.
Hidup Tun!!
You are a great thinker. 10 years ago, many people too slow to catch and understand how you handle Anwar’s case. So some people supported you but other said he is innocent.
When people do not understand you, they may react differently. They will reject your ideal.
A great leader not only have strong support from one race but also gain the trust from other races to built the co-operation and integration.
A TRUSTED LEADER from all races and desire to built the harmony of nation is very important.
Salam Ayahanda Tun;
Alhamdullilah, akhirnya dapat juga saya melakar kata dilaman blog Tun.
takkan melayu hilang didunia, kata tuk tuah,
tapi melayu mudah lupa, bicara ayahanda.
di kala bangsa lain mula sedar mereka perlu bersatu sesama mereka untuk kehidupan mereka yang lebih baik, kita pula bertelagah sesama sendiri, untuk lihat siapa lebih hebat. mudahnye kite lupa peristiwa yang seakan sama berlaku suatu ketika dahulu, yang akhirnya kita jatuh dihina, bongkaknya british lagak umpama tuan, kita merayu bagai pengemis dijalan. susah payahnye membina negara ni, hari ini senang senang diperkotak katikkan.
cukup senang diucapkan, kita tukar kerajaan demi rakyat, tapi rakyatkah yang bersuara atau hanya seorang insan yang gilakan kuasa.
beria ia dia berkata, seluruh dunia dilaungkan, hebatnya dia sehingga menjadi pujaan. tak boleh disentuh malah diusik, seluruh bandar di amuk macam orang kehilangan akal.
kalaulah kerana kuasa dia ingin memimpin, maka melayu memanglah lupa, kalaulah kerana kegilaan dia menjadi peminpin, maka melayu susah untuk bernyawa.
wahai sedara ku sebangsa, bukalah mata hatimu, lihatlah dengan akal mu bukan dengan nafsu mu.
mahathir
* utk maklumam Tun saya dilahirkan pada hari Tun menjadi Perdana Menteri Malaysia Keempat Malaysia, dan ayah saya menamakan saya sempena nama Tun, MAHATHIR.
* saya telah membuka laman blog saya sendiri silalah rakan rakan melayari blog saya http://bangsaku-malaysia.blogspot.com/
WOW!!!! GREAT Documentary.
Shld screened this in discovery channel .
******* See it****** Made me shred a tear.
The 4-parts documentary ’10 Tahun Sebelum Merdeka’ can be watched in Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNZzZlVgWxY
I urge all Malaysian to watch it. Thanks.
*** Great doc historyrevisited.
Dear Tun!
I take my hats off to your comments, in general!
By taking the occassional swipe at Singapore and worse still, compare their malay conterparts across the causeway, is and will not do any good to Malaysia and above all, your goodself!!!
There are some useful points appended below you should ponder on :
Since Independence, Malaysia’s as well as Singapore’s, please bear in mind that there is a gap of 8 years which I believe you are too well aware of, who or which amongst the 2 has “progressed”…economically, socially, the list will be endless!!! Can you imagine Lee Kuan Yew making Mandarin the national language of Singapore, being a Chinese? I am no pro PAP as I say this, do you have the “Singapore phobia”?! I sincerely think so! For a man of your stature, to compare Singapore malays with Malaysia’s….I, for one, am certainly lost for words!!!!
With due respect to you, Tun, let’s start to look at each other as human beings first and then with our ethnic difference! Let this be a launching pad before we can proceed! If the “intelligent” ones in this world talk of race, creed, colour etc etc…what more can you expect from the lay man?!!!
Let better sense prevail, Tun! I personally find that, after reading the various blogs, Malaysians have grown up, matured in their way of thinking but at the same time regret the fact that the Malaysians who “control the corridors of power” still have a long way to go to attain maturity!!!
Das
Sir,
The refresher course on our political history is very informative. I believe May 13 1969 was an important turning point which afforded the then leaders a golden opportunity to set things right. Unfortunately, the NOC under the honorable Tun Razak(May his soul rest in peace)did not, or could not, look too far into the distant to realize what the repercussions of the decisions they made would have on the present, 30 years later. Economically, at that time undoubtedly the Chinese were dominant in most aspects with the Malays and Indians lagging far behind. The Malay presence in business was visible only with makciks dominating the roadside kueh-mueh and nasi lemak market. I talk here about the urban scenario, not the rural areas although I know that in every kampung, there would be ubiquitous Chinese owned grocery and sundry shops. And the Malay customers were always in debt with the towkay. Under the NOC, the NEP was born to address the economic imbalance. All good and fine but why was not a bit of affirmative action afforded the Indians. This lot were still in the estates although a few got in the act and sold fragrant flowers for religious purposes and putumayam on bicycles. The other businesses, like barber shops and dhoby and money lending(chettiar) and bread sellers(rotibhai) were dominated by foreigners(non-citizens). We all know these jokers always went back for visits to India when they accumulated enough dough(pun intended). So the Indian leaders of those days never really looked into this while they had the chance. They still don’t really bother about the welfare of their own kind today. We have the former Works minister and MIC as a classic example. Whatever achievements by them could have been done by anyone who happened to be in power, maybe even better than them. Today, MIC is almost history. In 4 years time they certainly will be history, as well as MCA, Gerakan and other race based parties. UMNO better fix itself now or face the same prospect. So, Hindraf was born out of frustrations, major ones. For your info, sir, not all Indians here agree with Hindraf. They come across as a bit too extreme for some of us. I do not support their views although I don’t mind being paid a million bucks by the Brits for leaving us in the lurch. No wonder their supporters came out in full force for the demonstration. A million ringgit is a very good carrot but their leaders got the stick instead and ended up in Kamunting. As a result, they got a little more political clout after GE13 but still no money.
Your suggestions on the remedy for the nations ills are all very sound and workable. If only the respective leaders of old had the foresight to implement them 30 years ago, today would be a vastly different Malaysia. Now it is a bit too late. There is a free for all going on in this country with everyone jostling for more wealth and power. Even on the roads, one can sense a feeling of contempt and hostility, what with everyone not giving any hint of courtesy. It is I/me first and to hell with the others. Anyway, while on the subject of roads, I wish all Malaysians a safe journey home for the Raya holidays. Please care for your own safety because there are madmen/women loose on our roads. Selamat Hari Raya. Maaf zahir batin.
Salam Tun,
Thank goodness every government school in our country provide Malay and English languages class. These 2 languages are the languages which bonding us(The Races) together now.
No doubt that the minorities have adopted the Malay language, if you simply pick a minority and talk with them in Malay, they could understand you and most likely they will response in Malay. So, this shows us something isn’t it?
We have to understand that Malaysian Culture means the culture of all the races in Malaysia. This is what makes Malaysia such an unique country. Many people miss-thought that Malaysian Culture = Malay Culture, which is totally wrong. If other races lost their racial identical, then what is the uniqueness of Malaysia?
I’m sure Tun will agree that we must not forget our culture. By saying our culture I don’t mean about Malay culture or Chinese culture or Indian culture, I mean about Malaysian culture.
What could Malaysia look like if one day every Chinese doesn’t know how to speak Mandarin and every Indian Tamil doesn’t know how to speak Tamil? That is no longer Malaysia cause it has lost its unique beauty.
The rejection of National School is mainly because the National School fails to provide security to the minority culture and languages.
Imagine that the school teaches everything in English and Malay language subject is not a main subject. And the Malays will have to sit for the sub-class after school hour to attend the Malays language class. How will you feel? The same feelings occurred in the minorities’ heart when the National School concept was introduced.
This explained why the Chinese and the Indian want their own school. But even though they have their own school, they still teach Malay as a main subject and I do believe many do well in their UPSR, PMR and even SPM.
I do agree that when the racial spirit grow stronger, Malaysian Unity become weaker. That’s why some category of people have to stop thinking too much about their race and start putting for effort in Malaysia unity. The Chinese and Indian WERE pendatang IN THE PAST, but they ARE Malaysian Citizens TODAY. I hope many could really understand this fact.
Welcome back to the political world. I hope with your wisdom, the racial problem could reach a healthy fair equilibrium.
Have a nice day
Salam Tun,
Absolutely right and hopely all Malaysians will understand it without any bias.
smash
Salam Tun,
All Malays and Malaysian should read this articles.
Our young generation should know & understand the Malaya history.
Also for elders who are ‘buta sejarah’ or too sluggish to search for facts& info.
Tun, you should be an advisor or mentor for Malaysia, especially in managing the national issues and crisis, which I donât think current top leader could do…
Tun, you are the best, support you 100%.
Salam Tun,
Saya inginkan Malaysia yang harmoni.
Tidak mengapalah kaum-kaum di Malaysia mengamalkan adat dan agama serta bahasa mereka di rumah atau sekolah khas.
Pokoknya, semua harus faham bahawa negara ini dikongsi bersama atas ehsan penduduk asal.
Hormat-menghormati menjadi teras.
Hormati bahasa Malaysia dan semua wajib mempelajarinya, menggunanya dan memartabatkannya.
Dan usaha ini bukan sahaja harus diletakkan di bahu orang Melayu sahaja malah semua kaum di Malaysia.
Saya rasa tak susah. Malah tak rugi apa-apa cuma yang ada adalah keuntungan bagi semua pihak.
Terima kasih Tun atas segala jasa dan pengorbanan
Assalamualaikum wr wb,
Dear Tun Mahathir,
What is so wrong about the Malays in Singapore ? I am a Singaporean Malay who has worked for about 2 years in Malaysia. Malays make up only 15 % of Singapore’s population and hence – they do not have much political clout to begin with – on account of their small number. Especially in view of historical circumstances.
Singapore Malays have made many strides forward. The successful among them – are truly worthy of merit since they competed on equal terms with everyone else. And there are many successful Singapore Malays who have made their mark.
You cannot possibly expect for a Malay General in the Singapore Armed Forces. Personally I would NOT want to be a General in the SAF. Why ? Because it is very difficult to uphold the political interests of the Non-Muslim majority of Singapore without a conflict of interest. I would not shoot at my Malaysian side of the family just because I am loyal to Singapore. The truth is – Malaysia wants a Malay General in Singapore – only to help set up a fifth column ! You want to pressure a hypothetical Singaporean Malay General to do your bidding !
The problem with Malaysia is NOT unique. Most other Muslim countries who tried to follow a path of Modernisation and Industrialisation also failed. Why ? Because Islam as we know it today – is NOT compatible with a modern, industrialised and progressive society.
What keeps the races truly apart ? Religion of course ! Had the Chinese embraced Islam – things would have been very different. But its too bad that you have no control over the Islamic faith. Indeed all the controversial events regarding Islam over the past few years (Lina Joy, Moorthy, etc) shows that Malaysian Malays still cannot balance between traditional Islam and Modernisation.
Your ideas may have been fruitful for the era between 1969 and 1997. But after that – you above all people – should know that racialism is no longer tenable.
Let me publicly ask you this question – Who stops Muslims in Malaysia and elsewhere from acquiring technology and emulating Japan, Korea etc ?? No one ! Yet Muslims blame everyone else for their own shortcomings.
I suggest that you encourage Malaysian Malays to pursue Science & Technology instead of bad mouthing Singapore. At your age – there are better things to do.
Best Regards
Dr Syed Alwi Ahmad
I think everyone will have to understand that we are different – each one of us. So, if we discuss our differences with an open heart and open mind with the aim of understanding each other’s different needs, we will likely come to a workable solution accepted by all. If one party aims to be stronger than the rest and push to impose their own wishes on others, then that leads to bullying which is not a right thing to do.
Tun, my honest salutation to you for writing up such an enlightening topic today.
1. I plea to all Malaysians in whatever race you prefer to be indentified please do read the simple and factual essay of Tun’s with an open mind at least for this one time, before you jump to a conclusion that Tun is a ultra Malay racist.
2. My sole purpose of writing this time in English (very sorry – poor English) is to let the non Malays understand before they brand me as a racist.
3. I strongly believe I am a pure Malay born in the Malay heartland in Malaysia. I am married to a pure Chinese girl and let her retain her Chinese surname in her identification card.
4. With the Grace of Allah, now she could read Al-Quran much better than I and recently was elected as vice chairperson for lujnah muslimah in our local surau committee.
4. Even though my Chinese wife is quite a devouted Muslimah, I allowed her to invite her non Muslim parents to stay with us until this very moment.
5. When her mother passed away a few years ago, we both contributed in helping her mother’s funeral from the start until the end, even though we had to risk ourselves to being branded as un-Islamic couples or Islam Hadhari couples or very liberal Muslim couples.
6. During this month of Ramadan, we both faithfully practise our fastings. But everyday, I allow my Chinese wife to cook without fail for her father’s breakfast, lunch and dinner.
7. Recently, I being a pure a Bumiputera felt so disgusted and agitated, when some Malaysians publicly questioned or blantantly challenged the constitutional right of “Keistimewaan Bumiputera”.
8. As such, could I be labelled as a Malay racist, a Malay nationalist, or a Malay oppurtunist?
9. So please read the writing of Tun’s today before branding me as whatever you all like.
10. Lastly, please take a note that being Bumiputera is not the same as being Umnoputera. Do not shoot at the wrong guy or else we all will be in great trouble.
Maafkan kami – Maafkan kami – Maafkan kami.
Totally agree with your diagnosis and prognosis.
All races in this country are to be blamed for the current instability.
But I do not agree with your evaluation of America today, it is as divided racially as Malaysia but it does have laws that prevent or punish discrimination. The US allows for each community to maintain their own language both at home and in schools, and communities still pretty much live in enclaves.
The cause of Malaysia’s instability is more to do with a corrupt government and the component parties within the ruling coalition that has not taken steps to creates laws to reduce discrimination. The reverse is true, politicians are given complete freedom to pursue a racialist agenda and is rewarded for it.
Affirmation action was initiated to enrich one race without other qualification like need or national strategy. This created an elite class of Malays. While the Chinese business class and Indian estate workers under MCA and MIC pursue a isolationist policies that ensure their survival as a party by using Mandarin and Tamil respectively as the unifying factor. After a some years, its leaders were happy enough sharing the spoil while doing their job of “controlling” their communities.
BN in its 50 years in power has sought to remain in power rather than to create a stable nation.
Instead of defining laws that will help all communities to work and live together, the government left this important task to be defined by the Islamic scholars and teachers.
While the US has their share of racial strife and do on occasion still face riots. The US does have laws that prevents continued strife because the courts and the laws provides a solution.
A fair and independent judicial system is the single most important component for a multi-racial country.
Agreed with D2 that getting Pak Lah to step down doesn’t necessarily save UMNO and Barisan Nasional. Which one person in UMNO who would be able to bring UMNO out from its present predicament? The whole party is just rotting from the grass root level (Ahmad Ismail and gang) to the highest level (Syed hamid albar et al). UMNO just does not have any credible leader at this moment and we cannot expect Tun to resume the PMship, he is over 80 years old, and could be gone any time, although I do wish Tun can live forever.
BNâs failure is not due to race. Non-Malaysâ votes are not that influential. Fear not, for the Chinese is only 26% of the total population and is further diluted into MCA, Gerakan, and others. Indianâs vote is even lesser to make any impact.
The only reason for the United Malay to fail is the Malay Unity. So, please do not use âraceâ to reason the fall of BN. I still love my Malay neighbours & friends.
You mention that the Chinese want to retain their mother tongue and their culture, but this is not entirely true. The baba & nyonya maintain the Chinese culture but not mother tongue. My fatherâs generation did not try retaining the mother tongue or much of the culture. Now we realize the disadvantage of not learning Chinese. Although we can speak some dialect but cannot read Chinese at all, we now realize our shortcoming in doing business with China, and even during our tour in China!
If the Malays want ketuanan, then earn it through respect. Tun earns my respect and I accept you as my Tuan whole heartedly. However, what the general public are more concern with is not who is going to be the Tuan; but food on our tables, money in our pockets and stability in the country for us to enjoy our everyday life. The newer generation be it Malay, Chinese, Indian, or mix, we just want fair treatment and equal rights.
We see injustice in recent incident. A walking disaster like Ahmad Ismail gets a light slap on his hand and is allowed to continue his racism crusade. His people tearing Dr Kohâs photo is so humiliating in the face of the Chinese, only a saint allows the other side of his cheek to be slapped again On the other hand, the reporter telling the truth gets arrested under ISA for âher own safety protectionâ. By the way, is there any way we can fire the stupid SHA? He is a disgrace in the country.
We want equal right because every year, we pay the same tax, irrespective of our race, color of our skin or the religion we profess. If we make more money, we simply pay more tax.
If an election is called tomorrow, BN will be a total loss with the current mismanagement of the racial issue, ISA, fuel hike, murder etc. We have lost faith in our government and there is nothing Tun alone can do.
To bring up a child, is not to stop him from falling.
To build a nation, is not to protect a race. See âthe 3 stageâ written in one of the postings.
By the way, the petrol price increased 40% (from RM1.92) when the crude oil price was more than usd140. Now the crude oil price is less than usd100. Will we be getting a 40% reduction in petrol price (back to RM1.92) tomorrow?
An absolutely excellent entry which reaches to the core of the problem, paired with a most practical and logical solution. Worthy of a man of your stature. I have not been the most ardent fan of yours for a while now, but you will always have my respect and gratitude for your contributions. I think it would be downright unwise if the Malays are the only ones to sacrifice and compromise in creating a united Malaysian rakyat. All quarters have to embrace the aforementioned social restructuring. The Chinese and Indians will have to do away with vernacular education since it is the single most dominant factor for racial divide in my honest opinion. This should be first step in moving towards establishing a Malaysian identity. The next steps may be taken little by little and with caution. Allah created all the different races so that His subjects could mix and learn from each other. I would certainly like my children to learn, a chance I missed during my vital years.
Tun
You seem to harbour slanted view of the Malays in Singapore by this article of yours, titled “Malay Unity and Malaysian Unity” as if to indicate that the Singapore Malays do not enjoy social status. I empathy the current political situation in Malaysia, admittedly the sensitive ‘racial issue’ if handled badly could lead to disastrous result. Save for the turbulent times during the 60s, Singapore has not encountered, not once so far (touch wood) similar racial (dis)harmony situation Malaysia is facing now. You and many Western critics can downplay Singapore as ‘undemocratic’ but we can hold proud that the social cohesion among races in Singapore is the envy of many nations including Malaysia, I am sure. And yes, I am a Singaporean and proud to be one too.
Hi Tun,
I’m wondering.. during your stint as the premier, did you not uphold our education system policy which is to only have the national school? Why was it during Najib’s stint as the Education Minister did he continue to fight for the chinese school? Now, I’m a Malay and I don’t want to see schools that goes by the skin colour. Why didn’t you push for a unified education as what the it was initially stipulated?
I hope you can quench my curiosity and prove my assumption of your administration wrong. For now, I stand corrected by I believe Najib has partly destroyed the education system we have today.
Thanks and hope you continue writing to educate the young Malays like me.. Have a nice day, Tun
Dear Tun,
Saya baru balik dari rumah mentua dan dapat cerita ni. Dulu mak mertua berjiran dengan seorang Indian lady. Bertahun lamanya mereka menjalinkan persahabatan yang baik. Tiada prasangka dan hormat menghormati malah selalu bertukar-tukar juadah. Sekarang jiran itu telah berpindah jauh mengikut anaknya. Namun yang paling mengharukan beliau masih sudi mengingati mak yang sudah tua itu. Kadang-kadang dia ada mengirim pakaian iaitu baju kurung yang telah siap berjahit melalui anaknya dan pernah juga men’sedekah’kan wang RM20.00 melalui menantunya. Pemberian itu mungkin tak seberapa tapi yang penting ingatan dan keikhlasan seorang sahabat yang berlainan bangsa dan agama. Tentunya masih ramai dalam masyarakat kita yang masih boleh menghargai kemakmuran dan menghayati tatasusila hidup dalam masyarakat berbilang kaum. Kalau mereka ini boleh hidup aman damai, kenapa kita generasi sekarang tidak mampu untuk berusaha mengekalkannya?
Tun,
Biar apa pun, ayahanda telah berjaya sebagai PERDANA MENTERI MALAYSIA.
SELAMAT BERPUASA. WE STILL NEED U
Dear Yang Berbahgia Tun,
Welcome back to UMNO. You are the only one whi can make things right. The present leaders are only taking care of thier bloody ass ‘ Cakap Rak Serupa Bikin ‘ Some of the top leaders need to go then I think UMNO will be back on track like before.
Take good care of your health Tun & Dr Hasmah.
ZAIMI ZAKARIA
Salam Ayahanda Tun,
1) The crux to the issue is: A weak government has got nothing to offer other than just worrying about its own probability of seeing tomorrowâs daylight again. Sad but thatâs the truth to all this.
2) When the Malaysian Malays began to adopt Islamic conservativeness, commonly- one very important aspect of Islam was left out – tolerance. This pushed them further apart from the non-Muslims (vice versa) and coupled to few haughty Islamic politics making its round (and chauvinistic attitudes of the opposites); it had only served to widen this gulf.
3) Abolish all SRJKC and SRJKT. Gradually de-polarized all educations.
4) In extremely controlled and monitored steps, commence to recognize all Malaysians as Bumiputra.
5) Time, patience, (and let us all go back to our each and every religious teaching) tolerance- is much needed to see this all the way through.
6) A suitable time frame with active check control mechanisms and authority must be set up and given due recognition and authority.
7) Majlis Raja-Raja Melayu indeed has a very strong role to play ahead of them.
8) There is never a need to abolish the NEP; there is simply no need at all. Letâs think out of the box, all there is to it are just some modifications left wanting.
9) For a convincing Bangsa Malaysia to happen, it requires strong economic foundations. A bigger cake so that the widened NEP could be meaningful.
10) I go back to point number 1, sad but true, a weak government (like the government we have today) really has nothing much to offer except to worry about its very own uncertain fate tomorrow. Iâm afraid my fresh milk delivery uncle brings us more certainty than they ever did, could or will.
Dear Tun Dr. Mahathir,
For the most of my life you have been the Prime Minister and i do not remember you expressing this different-race-not-assimilating issues while in power.
Everything seems to be fine and you were very happy with the way things were going. In fact the unique situation in Malaysia where different cultures were co existing peacefully were the toast of the world.
So now i m perplexed that you who helmed the country for 22 years. seems to have had a deep resentment of the other races practising different culture in thier own way and with thier own peolpe.
The way you describe it, it looks as if the races do not want the others to join in the fun. That is a false and distorted perception. The participation of different races in each others functions and festivities are welcomed with open arms.
Not all humans are the same, just because you could totally assimilate, forget your roots from india and declare yourself malay does not mean all others should do the same or that by doing so unity is guaranteed.
Why limit ourselves to one language when we have the easiest way of earning 3 languages? Because of our culture a child who goes to kindergarten could speak 3 languages easily.
Malaysian the way i see, are already cross practising each others’ culture and way of life thru thier own ways and this could further blossom if only the politicians does not meddle so much.
Being popular comes with a heavy responsibility of being just, and that means not shooting your mouth when you have strong prejudices for others. For a lot of dumbwits fighting for 1st place honour on your comment list that could only mean one thing, instigation.
Kasthury
Dear Tun,
Lebih banyak artikel yang Tun tulis, lebih banyak kelemahan yang terserlah dlm kerajaan dan negara sekarang. Ia menunjukkan kerajaan sekarang ni tak tau apa dan tak tau nak buat apa. You are right, PM doesn’t seem to know anything now. Dia kata nak tunggu untuk bekerja dan selesai masalah, lebih banyak lagi masalah akan timbul. He will do a great service if he leaves now. Kita juga berhadapan dgn masalah Anwar yang kemaruk nak jadi PM at whatever cost. Siapa tak kenal politik anwar, jumpa cina cakap lain, jumpa india cakap lain, jumpa melayu cakap lain, jumpa senyap2 cakap lain dan jumpa sorang2 cakap lain. Orang UmNO boleh confirm cara anwar yg brutal ni..
Tolonglah guna kebijaksanaan yang ada pada Tun untuk kembali membaiki semula negara ini, tidak semestinya UMNO sahaja. Cepatlah sebelum kita menuju kehancuran.
Salam.
The only way to have a true Malaysian race is when every citizen is accorded the freedom to live the way they want. Only than we will see a natural evolution of Malaysian race.
The only way to have a true Malaysian race is when every citizen is accorded the freedom to live the way they want. Only than we will see a natural evolution of Malaysian race.
TUN,
BEGITULAH ADANYA, WALAU BERBUIH MULUT BERCAKAP TENTANG BERSATU ATAU PERPADUAN NI, MAU TAK MAU TETAP AKAN ADA JUGA SEMANGAT KEKITAAN.
APA YANG PENTING IALAH KITA PERLU ADA SATU MATLAMAT YANG SAMA IAITU SALING MEMAHAMI ANTARA SATU SAMA LAIN BARULAH AKAN ADA KEMAKMURAN, KESEJAHTERAAN DAN KEBEBASAN.
Dear TUN,
as a student from the controversial UiTM, i felt really sad of our current racial situation. I as person am against racial sentiments, but from what i see here in UiTM, even the lecturers inject us with racial hatred by implicating the post-graduation problem of employment as we are all malays and that it’s hard to compete in the corporate world that is dominated by the chinese. If those lecturers intentions are to motivate us to ensure competitiveness, but most of them failed as they only make the malays here harbor hate towards other races.
I can’t imagine 13th may happening all over again as i do have chinese and indian friends and i appreciate being friends with them as i have been bored of the malays stereotyped character: pessimistic and envious of others while they have done nothing to earn what others have.
Please Tun, most of the people i know do dream of the Malaysian Malaysia. And we know you can make it happen. You’re always able to pull of such miracle like the 1997 economic crisis. Perhaps you would pursue in becoming ‘Bapa Keharmonian’.
To all people, let’s just stop generalising and learn to appreciate this country. For ourselves, and for Tun!
Good Day to u Tun,
just wanna ask some question here..according to ur write up, the below statement seems to be interesting..
“If we still want Malaysian Unity we need to be willing to make sacrifices regarding what we consider to be our racial rights. Everyone has to do this.”
Question is..
Can MALAYS sacrifice the HAK BUMIPUTRA?
No more quota on the admission of Public University?
No more special discount on this and that?
no more special care under the goverment?
no more special right to owned land?
and many more…. too many sampai tak dapat habiz kan!!
Well well… actually if we say or take United States as an example.. they can do it.. cos the goverment is being fair to others.. well i dont totally agree with all they doings. but at least something that i think its good to learn is.. Compete with each other.. education.. economy.. and many things..
with competition only u can see who is more eligible to have such priority… and from there only u will saw it urself who is more capable and deserving… for e.g. Why do Malays scared to open up UITM to non bumi? scared loss? scared no face? or cant face reality that those go in is not really the best?
ok ok.. this is wat my opinion is.. TUN, its good for u to say we sacrifices our sepcial rights.. but have u think if without the special right can some races survice??
P.S … OOPPss i Scared ISA dentention!!! Scared to speak more cos this is malaysia, MALAYs talk but other races kena tangkap… just like the poor reporters Tan!!!
Dear Tun..
You always compared Singaporean Malay with Malaysian. And sometime your article very sensitive or can I said menyinggung perasaan for Singaporean Malay. I still have my uncle who being Singaporean Malay and when you do comparision like this he just mention that ‘Melayu Singapura dh lm buang tongkat dan boleh ikut arus globalisasi’. Shame on me because still use Tongkat Ali.
Salam Tun,
“Bersatu kita teguh, bercerai kita roboh”
Salam Tun,
Ramai yang menyokong Tun…
Layu
by: Malique
“Sesungguhnya tidak ada yang lebih menyayat
dari melihat bangsaku dijajah
tidak ada yang lebih menyedihkan
dari membiarkan bangsaku dihina”
Aku lihat layu dalam Melayu
Aku pasti bukan aku seorang sahaja yang nampak
Ada juga bercadang bertanya tuan punya
Tapi bercampur risau dengan tak tergamak
Nanti di kata tak bersyukur
Di kata tak sedar diri
Jadi aku menyendiri memerhati
Dan akhirnya mengakui
Yang kita sendiri membiarkan bunga raya layu ke kanan
Dan dibiar bunga tak cantik mekar di kiri
Aku lihat layu dalam Melayu
Tanah air kita yang punya kita siram kita baja
Tapi angin api kita lupa
Mereka merancang masa menjilat bangsa
13 Harimau bertukar menjadi mangsa
Kita lupa nenek moyang kaya raya
Jangan sekali- kali di gadai harta bendanya
Ku lihat layu dalam Melayu
Ku lihat layu dalam Melayu
Ku lihat layu dalam Melayu
Takkan Melayu hilang di dunia
Ya.Tapi apa guna tak hilang di dunia
Kalau kewujudan tidak dirasa
Petah berbahasa kudrat tak berjasa
Orang berbudi kita hanya tahu merasa
Selalu lari bila di rapat
Selalu malu bila soalan di aju
Selalu segan memberi pendapat
Rela mengikut dari meneraju
Belum nyanyi sudah bersorak
Suka berjanji dalam borak
Bukan kata tak ada otak
Cuma tak berfikir di luar kotak
Ku lihat layu dalam melayu
Ku lihat layu dalam melayu
Ku lihat layu dalam melayu
Aku jadi sayu
Bunga menangis dia mendayu
Mahu jadi cantik tapi ragu
Aku merayu
Bangunlah semula hidup kembali
Jangan tunggu matahari mati
Cepatlah mekar sebelum terlerai
Perjuangan kita belum selesai
Perjuangan kita belum selesai
Perjuangan kita belum selesai
“Perjuangan kita belum selesai
Kerana hanya yang cekal dan tabah
dapat membina mercu tanda
bangsanya yang berjaya”
p/s: lagu ini untuk kita sama2 dgr (terfikir sama ada Tun dpt royalti ker sbb gune suara tun dlm lagu ni..) from : http://mrfinal.blogspot.com/2008/09/pra16september-layu-malique.html
bagus Tun, saya setuju macam kita bincangkan 2 minggu lepas..
sayalah orang yang berada diluar kotak itu,
Think outside the box or ??
Agreed in full with your views on national unity. and the best way is thru a single national schools system. would that happen and if so when, Tun?
what will u do for today chaos of if u still PM???
Salam Tun
Good articles,
All chief editor of newspaper must reproduce or reprint in their papers.
Well done Tun, we need more writing of this nature,keep it up.
OLD EDWARDIAN
KULIAH SUBUH TAMBUN,
Salam Tun,
Thanks for your detailed imput.
And for beema, winkie, rosnah007, kamal, Das & Kochebin, thank for still being strong MALAYSIAN although our malaysian spirit and relationship were being tested to the highest degree by non others than our own politicians.
I attened a kuliah subuh in Tambun which ended with the conclution that even the GOD doesn’t bless any one community which only think the welfare of that particular community only without due consideration of other community staying within. Remember to what happen to the community of AUD and FIRAUN.
Those early day of barisan, the malays were given too many opputurnities in all fields under the NEP ( sometimes due to political connection, the undeserving ones gets them) where else the others were forced to work hard to achieve their goals. The hard earned money and opputunities alway last and this are fruits that are enjoyed by the non malays now.
Tulisan yang banyak menyedarkan masyarakat malaysia..tahniah tun
Assalammualaikum Tun,
Well said and I couldn’t agree more..
Selamat Berpuasa & Selamat Hari Raya
Salam Tun
Thank you very much once again for your blog.
1 – This blog is an excellent article, well and concisely written. It has taught me what I did not know during the times of the Malayan Union and the giving away of free citizenship. I did not read this thing in my history books when in school and only know I know. This is the condition all (or most) Malaysians like me go through. Even though we attended secondary school and learn History, we do not actually know what happen during the building of our country. Sorry to say but the national curriculum for history is very poor. This is also the reason why many (if not most) Malaysians do not understand Malaysia as it is today and this is also the reason why racial polarisation has increased. Tun, one of the reason is the story of our country is not being told factually, accurately and completely in our schools to our children!
2 – My second point is very important and I think should be considered a fact. My point is : Chinese, Malays, Indians will never give up their identity to become Malaysians. You will never see me able to miss out on my kari kurma and nasi lemak just to eat boiled soup and noodles all day and to watch Chinese TV. You will never see me abandon speaking Malay, etc. Similarly, for the Chinese, this feeling may be greater. The Chinese civilization started far earlier than us and the Chinese have managed to maintain their identity (language, food, etc) no matter where in the world they settle down. So it is very hard (I would say impossible) to ask them to abandon being Chinese to be Malaysians. Similarly with Indian and their curries, sari and practises.
So the alternative of maintaining racial identity but forming a coalition IS to me the best choice.
However, from your blog I would have to truly blame Tunku Abdul Rahman and the Malay leaders at that time for giving the free citizenships just as I can directly blame Tunku for giving away Singapore unaware of its potential to become a world class port.
3 – I am really angry with Hamid Albar for using the ISA to take out RPK, Teresa Tan and the SCJP reporter. But I am also angry with Teresa for asking the Subuh azan to be abandoned and for questioning the use of Jawi in roadsigns. That is as far as I know. I am pretty sure there are MORE things I do not know. I think this Teresa person is a person to watch out. She maybe anti-Islam.
As I have said so many times before, I do not trust PKR. I prefer to trust PAS for now.
terima kasih kerana mengingatkan kembali sejarah dan kebenaran..
Ada diantara kita rakyat Malaysia yang tahu tapi buat tidak tahu/menidakkan kebenaran..
sedih melihat perkara sebegini masih bertrusan sehiinga selepas 51 tahun kemerdekaan negara kita Malaysia.
Dua kaum pendatang utama ini memang tidak ade rasa bersyukur lansung dengan ape saja layanan diberi.. malah dengan ade nya DSAI/AIDS ini yng menyokong mereka maka tindakan mereka berlebihan,tidak sabar melihat negara kita ini seperti singapura..
sblum mederka lagi mereka dgn selamba menubuhkan persatuan/tmpat ibadat/sekolah utk golongan mereka”khas”.selepas mederka mereka masih lagi mewujudkan benda yg sama..
walau baik bagaimana pun PM n kerajaan terdahulu namun itu semua tidak cukup bagi mereka”mungkin merasakan mereka lebih berhak sebab mereka pandai bisnis/loyar/doktor. malah jutawan malaysia pun dari golongan mereka” namun mereka lupa bahawa kebaikan kita dgn nenekmoyang mereka terdahulu menyebabkan mereka hidup senang/rumah beraircon/minum coca-cola. CUKUP LA..KALU ANDA DITAKDIRKAN DINEGARA LAIN BAYANGKANLAH PE ANDA DAPAT
kami walaupun penduduk awal negara ini namun kami tidak pernah menuntut lebih..jadi jangan pula kamu yang lewat masuk menyibuk cuba keruhkan suasana..
kalau anda ingin memperalatkan DSAI?AIDS itu sebagaialat.. lol GO LA TRY IT. mungkin ade dikalangan org di semenanjung menyokong namun kami disini jgn harap..
kenapa tak anda semua duduk baik2..
KaLO DAH LEWAT MASUK TU.. HORMATILAH KETUA
Hairan juga kenapa ada yg membandingkan kita dengan negara maju dari segi income/tax/dsb nya..
Senang cakap PINDAH LA. sebab disini banyak lagi yang inginkan negara yang aman n sederhana sebegini..
KALO PINDAHNYA ANDA KAMI DAPAT LEBIH SIKIT OKSIGEN/HASIL BUMI/TEMPAT/PELUANG. biarla anda yang terlampau maju berhijrah keluar..
skian..
ps/LEBIH BAIK NEGARA INI SEDERHANA TAPI AMAN JGN MAJU TAPI HURU HARA..
Dear Tun,
A very good write up.
There is no Malaysia Unity now…50 years of inter racial goodwill is about to go down the drain . Between Anwar populist move, UMNO percieve arrogance & Badawi poor leadership the situation is getting worse. I cannot see we are turning the curve.
The ISA was suppose help calm things down…But we let incompetence fools like Syed Hamid use it…it get worse. Yes, please use it on RPK to cool things off… BUT why Theresa & the Reporter. This is damn stupid of him. He has no PR at all…he seem not capable to handle his Ministry..he blunder all the time. HINDRAF he fail to nip it in the Bud & he response to Anwar action/remarks etc. is always a joke. HE SHOULD RESIGN!
Agreed with you, the race leaders should meet up in private & discuss UNITY. I suggest assimilation and;
1) I propose we should only have NEW national school, no more new chinese school, new Tamil school & new Sekolah Agama Rakyat. What is in existence we just maintain. All subject should be in English except for the religous, culture & languange classes as in old days i.e. MCE & HSC exams.
In all new & old National school we must have Chinese/Tamil/Arabic classes & culture. Let the Chinese & Tamil teachers, Ulama respectively manage their programs accordingly. The Govt must pump money for this to work. Billions spend on UNITY program like this is NEVER a waste.
2) Then we must have University entrance exam. No Matric & STPM.
Suggest U entance quota 55: 45 until 2020. After that, it must be purely base on Merit. This is the sacrifice Malays have to made for the assimilation programs.
3) The govt must also spend billions on moretechnical/vacational schools & apperentice programs like in Germany. The target should be 50% of the population. Entrance open to all..no quota.
4) The PSD oversea scholarship should be ONLY base on merits. Only top universities should be selected.
Education is the key to Malaysian UNITY and assimilation.
Dear Tun please do what possible in your power to turn the curve.
Thank You
unless we agreed in some form of assimilation.
1. Penjelasan yang mudah difahami kepada mereka yang masih mahukan Anwar sebagai pemimpin.
2. Segalanya sudah di perjelaskan dengan bahasa yang mudah. Kalau tidak hendak paham…maknanya anda memang tidak suka pada “unity”.
3. Jika tika suka pada “unity”…bahasa pasar “ko bole blah dari Tanah Melayu ini”..termasuk yang rizab.
4. Ikut cakap yang baik ini. Sebab yang cara lain saya rasa kurang berkesan.
5. Orang Melayu bole tolenransi, tapi kalau ekonomi kami pun belum sampai 30% sebab bangsa lain dek tamak – sekali lagi “ko bole blah”
6. Peluang untuk ekonomi perlu capai 30% walau macam manapun. Yang sedang menguasai & monopoli ekonomi perlu kurangkan penguasaan anda dan beri peluang kepada yang berhak.
7. Jalankan ini dulu, baru bole cerita yang lain. Baru takde gaduh, berdarah, sindir menyindir, maki memaki, tunjuk perasaaan berlaku.
8. Perut mesti kenyang baru hidup harmoni. Tapi kalau perut yang buncit jee makin kenyang nie lah …jadinya.
9. Benci kepada bangsa yang tamak!
terima kasih kerana mengingatkan kembali sejarah dan kebenaran..
Ada diantara kita rakyat Malaysia yang tahu tapi buat tidak tahu/menidakkan kebenaran..
sedih melihat perkara sebegini masih bertrusan sehiinga selepas 51 tahun kemerdekaan negara kita Malaysia.
Dua kaum pendatang utama ini memang tidak ade rasa bersyukur lansung dengan ape saja layanan diberi.. malah dengan ade nya DSAI/AIDS ini yng menyokong mereka maka tindakan mereka berlebihan,tidak sabar melihat negara kita ini seperti singapura..
sblum mederka lagi mereka dgn selamba menubuhkan persatuan/tmpat ibadat/sekolah utk golongan mereka”khas”.selepas mederka mereka masih lagi mewujudkan benda yg sama..
walau baik bagaimana pun PM n kerajaan terdahulu namun itu semua tidak cukup bagi mereka”mungkin merasakan mereka lebih berhak sebab mereka pandai bisnis/loyar/doktor. malah jutawan malaysia pun dari golongan mereka” namun mereka lupa bahawa kebaikan kita dgn nenekmoyang mereka terdahulu menyebabkan mereka hidup senang/rumah beraircon/minum coca-cola. CUKUP LA..KALU ANDA DITAKDIRKAN DINEGARA LAIN BAYANGKANLAH PE ANDA DAPAT
kami walaupun penduduk awal negara ini namun kami tidak pernah menuntut lebih..jadi jangan pula kamu yang lewat masuk menyibuk cuba keruhkan suasana..
kalau anda ingin memperalatkan DSAI?AIDS itu sebagaialat.. lol GO LA TRY IT. mungkin ade dikalangan org di semenanjung menyokong namun kami disini jgn harap..
kenapa tak anda semua duduk baik2..
KaLO DAH LEWAT MASUK TU.. HORMATILAH KETUA
Hairan juga kenapa ada yg membandingkan kita dengan negara maju dari segi income/tax/dsb nya..
Senang cakap PINDAH LA. sebab disini banyak lagi yang inginkan negara yang aman n sederhana sebegini..
KALO PINDAHNYA ANDA KAMI DAPAT LEBIH SIKIT OKSIGEN/HASIL BUMI/TEMPAT/PELUANG. biarla anda yang terlampau maju berhijrah keluar..
skian..
ps/LEBIH BAIK NEGARA INI SEDERHANA TAPI AMAN JGN MAJU TAPI HURU HARA..
I really need this article to be read by my colleagues. Let them learn how this country was founded and the struggle of Malays to fight their rights!
hi sir,another very facinating & well said artical which i pray that this day will come.malaysian unity!
i would like your goodself to elabrate on (para 21) singapore malays.
i born & living in singapore.today the singapore malays are in a better position than the indian of singapore,in general terms.in early days,they were the only ones had the prevalage of free early education.our goverment had made a point that rule of law applise to everyone equaly.every voice will be heard.today we are living in happiness reguardless race or religion.
im not here to challenge your goodself.i do believe in facts & justice. i do adore you. if u have time please reply me.
may Allah bless your family & yourself with all blessings!
samba
Salam.. Ayahanda yang disanjungi.
Pemikiran yang amat bernas dan perlu diambil pedoman oleh semua. Dimana kah ..wakil-wakil rakyat kami yang dipilih mac lalu?..sedarlah dan nyatakan apa yang dikatakan ini di medan perdebatan. kembalikan kegemilangan kita. Bersatulah kita.
Salam sayang Anakda untuk TUN.
Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Fitri daripada ABJAD MALAYSIA
MELAYU itu ISLAM dan ISLAM itu MELAYU
For the sake or our children, and the children of our children of our children of our children ..of our …, we have to opt for it.
Make it (this Malaysian unity) our top priority, all other interests come second.
Malaysia is more than enough for us all … for all times.
But for it to work, we need a very very strong government, may be for ten or twenty terms ahead.
If we feel very strongly to want it (this unity), Malaysia has the raw materials for such a government.
We were stagnant, if not slipping back since 2003. Too much time is wasted. For most of us senior citizens, we may not last tomorrow even. We too want to see this storm in the cup to blow over.
Mesti baca.. kalau takmau org melayu pupus di negara sendiri ->>>
http://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peristiwa_13_Mei
Everybody can make a living in this beautiful country.We have food,shelter,family,friends,good health,religious to choose from,peace and harmony.We can work and make the cake much bigger so that whatever percentage that any of us hold in the share will also grow.We already have lots of freedom and yet we want to demand more and more which is the trait of being greedy.We forgot about history,we even forgot that being in our own race enclave is what we want eventhough we are Malaysians.Don’t destroy the things that we have achieved and we all should be grateful.We can’t and shouldn’t be other country because we are Malaysia.We know what is best for us.Welcome back Tun into UMNO !
Assalamualaikum Ybhg Tun & famili selamat menjalani ibadah puasa.
1. Perpaduan BANGSA MALAYSIA adalah asas kepada kesejahteraan, kemakmuran dan kemajuan negara.
2. Untuk menikmati hasil perpaduan – Pengorbanan keatas tuntutan ‘hak bangsa’ adalah perlu dan dipersetujui oleh semua bangsa. Ini jelas dlm kenyataan Ybhg Tun di bil. 25.
3. Saya amat bersetuju usaha segera Ybhg Tun untuk memulihkan kembali keadaan perpaduan bangsa yg semakin bermasalah. Seperti Ybhg Tun saran di bil 26. âProvided we can roll back the present unhealthy trends and redirect it towards more positive non-racial objectives, provided we do this slowly by small steps we may be able TO CREATE A TRULY MALAYSIAN IDENTITY WHERE RACE WOULD GRADUALLY BECOME LESS IMPORTANT. It will take time but with sincerity we may reverse the present trends and move towards increasing co-operation and integration.â
4. Cuma penjelasan yg lebih terperinci terhadap petikan di bil 26 adalah perlu seperti dibaris ini … TO CREATE A TRULY MALAYSIAN IDENTITY WHERE RACE WOULD GRADUALLY BECOME LESS IMPORTANT.
5. Cuma saya khuatir ianya akan digunakan untuk menikam Ybhg Tun oleh mereka yg kurang senang dgn kehadiran semula. Kerana selama ini partix komponen BN memperjuangkan kepentingan bangsa yg diwakili.
6. Mudah-mudahan sempena bulan yang mulia ini Allah SWT akan memberi pertolongan dan pertunjuk kerana DIA yg lebih mengetahui apa yg terbaik utk kita semua (melayu/cina/india/kadazan/iban).
Wuallahualam.
Salam Tun,
Lemah nya perpaduan Melayu adalah punca segalanya.Perpaduan Melayu berada pada tahap terendah ketika ini angkara perebutan kuasa dikalangan Melayu sendiri. Semua pemimpin pemimpin Melayu yang berkaliber telah dibunuh personalitinya. Najib dengan altantuyanya,Khairy dengan tingkat empatnya,Anwar dengan liwatnya,Hishamudin dengan kerisnya,Syed Albar dengan homonya,Muhyidin tak berkecuali,Paklah dengan kuat tidoqnya, Tun pun mempunyai label tersendiri..Rekaan siapa semua ini?
Cukuplah semua ini Melayu.. Balik kepangkal jalan. Perkukuhkan ekonomi kita tanpa berharap kepada kerajaan dan kaum lain. Usahakan satu formula untuk kearah itu. Melayu terdiri dari lebih 60%. Kuasa membeli ditangan kita.Mustahil kah? Payah sangat kah? Ya, itu mustahil kalau Melayu tidak bersatu.
Saya tertarik dengan perpaduan kaum China kebelakangan ini. Kalau depa kata boikot nasi kandar,semua boikot. kalau depa kata boikot station minyak ni, depa semua boikot. Boleh kah Melayu buat macam tu?
Lantik peguam Melayu saja? Beli daripada kedai Melayu saja, walaupun harga mahal 50sen? Raya ni shoping di Mydin saja? Beli rempah Adabi saja? Beli beras Faiza saja?
Tun, saya benar benar berharap….
Salam Tun,
You are right once again for this “The ideal of having a non-racial Malaysian nationality has now been almost forgotten”
At least we are not so bad any now as we have liberated our races from the place, we Malays are found in cities. But we are still divided in race since our politics think it is good for Malay to unite, Chinese to unite and Indian to unite but just talk about Malaysian unity… what the heck! it works right… So forget the first world mentality, third world will do….
Salam Tun
Rasa-nya amat perlu sekali semua rakyat Malaysia terutama sekali Bangsa Melayu mengetahui dan mempelajari apa yang Tun telah perkatakan ini.
Perpaduan bangsa Malaysia untuk rakyat Malaysia hanya akan tercapai jika semua rakyat Malaysia menghormati asas-nya (asal-usul Tanah Melayu dan bangsa Melayu) dan jika bangsa Cina, India dan lain-lain:
1. Menghormati hak orang Melayu sekurang-kurang-nya sehingga tercapai matlamat perkongsian ekonomi yang telah dikucar kacirkan oleh British dengan mempraktikan “Divide and Rule”. Mengikut ideal-nya perkongisan bersama mengikut kadar peratus penduduk …. atau sekurang-kurang-nya mengikut kadar NEP.
2. Lumrah-nya adat orang Melayu serta juga Cina dan India ia-lah menghormati yang lebih tua atau yang memulakan …Itu-lah yang patut dipraktikan… Menghormati Bangsa Melayu dan Bahasa Melayu dan Adat Istiadat Melayu serta Agama yang dianuti hampir seluruh orang Melayu sebagai asas dan hak yang tidak boleh dipersoalkan.
3. Menghormati perlembagaan yang telah ditetapkan
4. Bangsa Cina dan India sanggup menyatukan pendidikan. Bersama-sama menggunakan Bahasa Malaysia(Melayu) dan English sebagai perantaraan. Memperkenalkan pelajaran pilihan utuk Bahasa Cina, India dan Arab untuk mereka yang masih ingin mempelajari bahasa lain. Lebih mudah mencapai integrasi Bangsa Melaysia dengan ada-nya sistem persekolahan yang sama.
6. Selagi Cina dan India berkeras untuk hak mereka dan terus mencaci Melayu… ini menunjukkan mereka memang tidak ada niat utuk menjadikan Malaysia untuk rakyat Malaysia.
7. Bangsa lain (terutama-nya Cina) menghormati etika bersatu dan tidak mencemuh, mengata dan mendingini orang Melayu terutama sekali didalam komunikasi dan perhubungan di jabatan swasta dan perniagaan.
8. Orang Melayu selama ini sungguh berlembut dan hanya bersungut apabila hak mereka diambil sedikit demi sedikit… Kelembutan ini jangan-lah diperlekehkan kerana biasa-nya semua ada had dan berbatas. Dan itu juga-lah salah satu puncanya Melayu bersatu menerusi Agama dan boleh menerima bangsa lain asalkan agama Islam.
9. Orang Cina terutamanya seharus-nya tidak malu bertutur bahasa Melayu. Sekarang ini kita dapati ramai kaum Cina sengaja tidak mahu bertutur Bahasa Melayu sedangkan kita tahu yang mereka mengambil SPM.
Isi hati,
Che Mah
Salam TUN,
well done.We need to something with our educations system.
salam Tun,
Your opening statement says it all;
1. Malaysia has a multi-racial population but is quite unique in that the division is not just by race alone but by religion, language, culture and economic situation. Unity in such a diversity is extremely difficult to achieve.
furthermore..
25. If we still want Malaysian Unity we need to be willing to make sacrifices regarding what we consider to be our racial rights. Everyone has to do this. The leaders must be given some mandate to discuss these matters in private and to make concessions. After each step the lower rung leaders of each race must be given full briefing as to why the concessions have to be made. It would be useless if they don’t agree.
Every citizen of this country must truly understand this fact although many deliberately choose to ignore.Some commentators here think they are clever by spinning their own versions of the social contract,NEP like rarunasalam (ravi whatever) who is actually an idiotic devious person.They never care to look at the bigger picture.
They choose not to uphold the spirit of ‘willing to make sacrifices’,'give and take’ and ‘tolerant’.They only think of their grievances.Don’t they ever stop to think we Malays have our grievances too?
We have proven that we are the most tolerant race on the face of this earth.We did not go the way of Thailand,Indonesia,Ceylon,Myanmar etc. at the birth of our nation’s independence.
But thankfully not all think like rarunasalam,which means there is still hope for racial harmony and stability for our future generations.
Wassallam
Jeng3
Salam,
Tun, sila kembali ke arena politik
YABhg. Tun,
Orang-orang Cina di negara ini tidak tahu bersyukur. Mungkin dalam bahasa mereka perkataan syukur tidak wujud, sebab itu hari ini orang-orang Melayu melihat mereka sebagai satu bangsa yang semakin diberi semakin mendesak untuk mendapat lebih banyak lagi.
Saya telah berpeluang juga ke luar negara, ke beberapa negara di Eropah. Di France dan Great Britain sebagai contoh, orang-orang yang asalnya dari Afrika dan India yang menetap di kedua-dua negara berkenaan bukan sahaja fasih berbahasa negara yang mereka ‘adopt’ tapi juga mengamalkan budaya tempatan sekali. Walaupun begitu, mereka tetap menghadapi diskriminasi dalam pelbagai bidang.
Di Malaysia ini tidak berlaku. Lihat sahaja, di mana-mana sahaja, toleh kiri atau kanan, kekayaan dan kemewahan adalah milik mereka. Tapi mereka tetap mengatakan mereka ditindas.
Orang-orang Cina dan India inginkan kerakyatan dan inginkan supaya mereka diterima sebagai rakyat dengan hak yang sama dengan pribumi tanah Melayu ini. Tetapi kita lihat semakin hari semakin menebal amalan bahasa dan budaya yang mereka bawa daripada negara asal mereka.
Orang-orang Cina di Pulau Pinang contohnya hari ini mahu supaya papan tanda jalan juga di tulis dalam bahasa Cina. Perkara-perkara seperti ini bukannya kecil. Ia mencabar kewibawaan bahasa kebangsaan dan maruah orang Melayu. Tetapi orang Melayu dididik supaya bersabar. Namun bak nasihat orang tua-tua – jangan biarkan cacing naik kemata. Maksudnya orang Melayu akan bertindak kalau didapati masalah akan menjadi melampau.
Orang-orang Cina tidakkah mahu sedar bahawa di negara Filipina dan Thailand mereka bukan sahaja tidak lagi dapat menggunakan bahasa ibunda mereka tetapi nama mereka juga menggunakan nama pribumi negara berkenaan.
Memang benarlah rata-rata hari ini orang-orang Melayu menganggap orang-orang Cina mengambil kesempatan di atas kepimpinan UMNO yang lemah. Ini adalah bukti kepada orang-orang Melayu bahawa tidak ada perasaan setia kawan di kalangan orang-orang Cina terhadap bangsa Melayu.
i had lot of respect of Tun due to your past record as PM but i hope you understand that history is already passed and we should look forward and no point talking about what’s already passed for such a long years.
i understand what u trying to convey. this country belongs to malay but don’t forget without the another races, i’m sure this country condition will be like myanmar or vietnam or any poor third world countries. don’t even think about vision 2020.
sadly to say, all the malay just ‘kiasu’ and spoon feed race… everything is place on the table for them.
if anyone want to talk about unity, be fair to all races then only talk about unity. everyone born in this country or pendatang had done something good for what Malaysia are today.
everytime u read the paper, million and million of ringgit wasted here and there, what a pain to all the rakyat. why not give all this wasted million to the poor. u know how hard to earn a decent living this day? corruption is worst that u thought out there if u really go down the street to find out.
anyone with simple common sense also know that the DPM already appologize openly meaning Ahmad is at fault, if not why appologize and punish him. stupid right? why detent the jounalist under ISA? double stupid fool..! so both are wrong? then who is right??
our politic is really a laughing stock!!
Assalamualaikum Tun….
Adakah kerajaan kita effective?………
Lihatlah perbalahan Syed Hamid Albar (KDN) dengan Zaid tentang penahanan ISA….apa kata Pak La?
Pak La tahu ke, atau tak tahu?…….menterinya sendiri bertelaga, Pak La nak cakap apa?……PM dan kerajaan tak effective….
PM mesti tahu perkara ni…..tetapi kenapa jadi begini?…. tidak effective……….
Selalunya PM akan mengambil jalan tengah, dia tidak berani menyatakan perkara sebenar keputusan yang telah diambil…….
Diharap Pak La menerima hakikat bahawa dia perluh berundur sebelum keadaan semakin buruk……ahli-ahli UMNO perluh sedar….
Salam sihat untuk Tun sekeluarga…..selamat berpuasa.
Inilah kelemahan yang nampak dalam kerajaan Pak La…….
Tidak salah kalau TDM mendesak Pak La letak jawatan……sokong Tun,
Sepatutnya kita unity, saya harap semua parti dan kaum tidak terlalu sensitif kepada isu-isu perkauman…..
Untuk mencari keamanan dan keharmonian hidup, kita perlukan pengorbanan dari semau pihak……..jangan kerana mulut badan binasa…..
Jangan kerana seorang dua tahanan ISA atau Anuar nak jadi PM, kita berselisi faham dan bergadu……..
Kerajaan perluh mengadakan sumber rundingan atau forum tertutup untuk menangani masalah dan isu-isu yang berbangkit terutama isu agama dan perkauman……..PM mesti memainkan peranan utama.
Why didn’t you stop all this sekolah jenis india and sekolah (j) cina and merge into one sekolah kebangsaan. Dah 17 – 18 tahun baru nak hantar pi Bina Negara buat ape?
you Tun, was the menteri pelajaran and the PM for so long.
YOU should have done something.
Salam TUN,
1. Sangat mendalam pandangan Tun.Alangkah Bagusnya jika pemimpin hari nie masih mempunya pandangan dan buah fikiran seperti Tun.
2. Bagi melaksanakan perbincangan yang Tun cadangankan tu, saya rasa Umno perlu menghantar “negotiator” yang dihormati,berintergriti dan berkarisma serta berilmu, jika ia terjadi,pandangan beliau akan dihormati kerana sekarang terdapat pandangan dari bangsa lain yang mengatakan yang Melayu ni korupsi, tidak boleh dipercayai dan haprak.
3. Saya mengatakan ini kerana saya pernah mendengar satu pepatah yang diucapkan oleh kawan yang berbangsa asing (selain melayu) kepada saya secara berseluroh (bergurau) “Selagi lembu makan rumput, kita orang C*&% takkan apa-apa”. Walaupun saya tidak terasa hati, tetapi jauh didalam saya sedih dengan pandangan yang dilemparkan itu, apakah sampai begini teruknya bangsa aku ini, adakah duit itu segala-galanya sampai maruah tergadai.
4.Saya berharap agar pemimpin yang kami pilih kemudian hari tidak lagi terlalu berlembut dengan tuntutan kaum lain tetapi kaum sendiri dipinggirkan.
5. Mereka mahukan hak yang sama rata didalam berbagai hal, seperti jawatan pegawai kerajaan, biasiswa, sekolah mereka sendiri, dan berbagai lagi, tapi pernahkah terfikir oleh mereka perasaan kami orang melayu kepada layanan yang diberikan ketika hendak mencari kerja disyarikat swasta. “Ooo for that managerial post we need someone who can speak Mandarin maa..” atau pun apabila Pemimpin mereka melaung-laungkan yang Malaysia ini negara sekular dan kami tidak sekali-kali akan menerima Islam sebagai rule of state.
6. Kenapa pemimpin kita membisu apabila hak-hak kita di hentam depan dan belakang.tetapi bertindak tegas kepada bangsa sendiri apabila ada yang bangun untuk mempertahankannya.
maafkan saya Tun kalau terkasar bahasa, cuma melepaskan apa yang terbuku dihati selama ini.
Salam TUN.
Satu posting yang mesti dibaca dan difahami oleh setiap lapisan rakyat Malaysia.
Tapi masaalah nya mungkin ada segelintir masyarakat sengaja tidak mahu memahaminya, walau pun ia nya satu fakta sejarah dan kebenaran.
Malang nya ada segelintir masyarakat yang telah menjadi penghasut dan cuba bertindak jaguh untuk memesungkan fakta2 ini.
Mereka ini lebih rela melihat keteganagn antara kaum. Mereka ini ada agenda berkepentingan politik.
Apa yang dapat kita lihat suatu masa dulu perkara sebegini tidak pernah berlaku. Hubungan kaum disekitar 70han dan 80han amat baik.
Semasa saya mula bekerja di Pulau PInang dan berkenalan ramai kawan dari keturunan kaum lain.
Saya pernah berkongsi bilik dengan kawan seorang keturunan India. Tak ada masalah. Dan ada satu masa saya pernah tinggal serumah dengan kawan keturunan Cina. Tak ada masaalah. Pernah tidur di rumah kawan Cina di Ipoh kerana ingin merayakan Kong Xi Fatt Chai besama keluarganya. Tak ada masaalah.Menghadiri majlis perkahwinan mereka.Tak ada masaalah.
Tapi sekarang saya tak nampak lagi perkara2 sebegini bolih lagi berlaku dikalangan rakyat Malaysia.Di mana silapnya dengan genarasi hari ini. Sepatut nya hubungan antara kaum di Malaysia bertambah baik selepas 50 tahun merdeka.
Copy and Paste. 26. Provided we can roll back the present unhealthy trends and redirect it towards more positive non-racial objectives, provided we do this slowly by small steps we may be able to create a truly Malaysian identity where race would gradually become less important. It will take time but with sincerity we may reverse the present trends and move towards increasing co-operation and integration.
Saya setuju akan pendapat TUN diatas. Saya yakin TUN ada formula untuk menyelesaikan perkara ini andainya setiap golongan masyrakat ikhlas mahu menuju kearah itu.
Teringat kenangan2 manis semasa di Pulau Pinang…..
Salam Tun,
This is a very insightful piece indeed, sir. To all students of political science, this rear gem is a master piece of the thoughts of a great mind.
I must say in the short passages Tun had explored indepth into the topic of Racial Integration.
All of us must NOT believe that UNITY means becoming one race. It is not a Chinese become a Malay and losing his chineseness, similarly an Indian!
Unity is about coming together of all the races in the country to aspire toward a common goal.
Granted we need to make concessions and compromises to downplay the difference and pay up the similarities.
In this blog many had lamented the old days when friends of different races could live and play together like brothers and sisters.
I will not be surprises if a study were to be done in respect to this feeling – the the finding was that these “old” people actually had a common ground to share – it must surely have been the old Engilsh Schools!!
We need a strong Goverment to set into motion this new agenda.
For a start Wawasan 2020 is as relevent as ever to unite all Malaysian towards a common goal aspired by all races.
A strong goverment willing to give and take (without fear of repercussion from the race bases grassroot) to relook the policies that will play up the sameness and down play the differences.
A goverment (not unlike BN with all the major races represented) to have the comittement to work out the policies that will bring all the races together and unify all Malaysians.
Can we perhaps have a single school with Malay as the first language, Indian or Chinese or Punjabi or Iban or English is the second Langusge and Science & Maths thoufght in English?
Or students (parents) can opt to have Malay as second Language and their mothers language as first.
The unity takes place in the Maths and Science Classes.
A goverment that are not afraid to introduce policies that finds way to integrate the races. Remove enclaves where possible. When we are forced to mix with each other – only than will be able to understand each other better.
Unity in Diversity. Malaysia Can. Malaysia Boleh
Who said Baba/Nyonya wanted to drop Malay language & their culture.
They are bumiputra but are force to drop bumi status by BN govt.
Dear Tun
No point you write again so much unuseful article.
Damage already done, racist politician…
Racist politician…. as per your article Mohon Maaf.
I saw allot of comments only support you, aS i feel that you had blocked all the commnets not favour to you…
DEAR TUN, RETIRED AND ENJOY YOUR LIFE…. AAB is still strong in UNMO…
let the young generation to take care it…
Dear Tun
Thanks for your insightful comments.
I think no Malaysian Unity will be achieved unless there’s equal opportunities to every citizen. Tell me, how do you feel when you are treated differently becouse of your race in your own country?
We have to recognise the fact that economic disparity will never cease to exist, even among the same race or in an homogenous society.
While majority of Malaysians agree with the objectives of New Economic Policy with its affirmative actions. However, the implementation of which is purely racial based. Don’t you think that has consequences on the Malaysian Unity.
Dear Tun,
You are right!
The History has told everything
In order to unite, there must be some sacrifices….to be made by each everyone of US…
Tun,
As a Sabahan Bumi..
I want to tell you about something else. Why some of my Malay friends still regards us as an outsider? Since some of us are studying here and worked in Peninsula Malaysia…Everytime they will say…”Waa..dah syok dah tinggal kat Malaysia. Bila nak balik Sabah?” Deep in my heart says” Haloo…i’m also Malaysian ma..”I know maybe they dont really mean it or just completely being ignorant.But most of the time, we will be tolerant and tried to explain and they just laughed it easily. I’m not trying to ask for a special treatment because when I met another of friends, they wont be saying the same thing.It varies to their level of understanding.
My sister in UITM also faced the same situation. While I was studying in my Uni in Terengganu. Most of them will regard…Sabah..like we are not part of Malaysia. I’m not a Historian but I do aware how Malasia was formulated and of course by your articles and explanation, it becomes more clearer.I wonder whether they have read their history book which I believe everyone in school should be aware of.
Like you said, I can see that the assimilation process and the sabahan slowly acceptthe Bahasa Melayu very wll. But I must say,I hope that the ministry of education can put more syllibus to understand the culture of Sabah and Sarawak. Because we learned a lot for the malays history but what happened to Malacca..all the way to the Independence Day. But when comes to us, most of them do not understand our culture
Like me I’m not very fluent with my mother tongue, but I understand it very well. Like my grandma,she used Dusun language and I can use malay. I grew up in Sabah and I know that most of us have no issue on the language and we adapt the culture of Malaysia. But at the same time preservaee our own culture.
Before I come to Peninsula Malaysia, I did not know that we are separated by the status of Bumi and Non Bumi. And now I know how importance to understand it and it goes with history and nothing can change that.
I’m proud f being Sabahan and being a Malaysian. I know it’s difficult to satisfy everyone.
Thanks Tun!
Asalamualaikum wbt,
Apa khabar Tun..??
Terima kasih untuk info ini.. saya bersetuju.
Sepatutnya pemimpin yang akan datang mencontohi sifat2 terpuji yang ada pada Tun Dr. Mahathir, ( berwawasan & berpandangan jauh )semuanya untuk bangsa & agama jauh sekali untuk kepentingan diri sendiri.
Kalau boleh saya nak lihat penulisan Tun berkenaan pandangan Tun Mahathir berkenaan Masyarakat islam sedunia kenapa tidak boleh bersatu padu dan kenapa OIC tidak ada suara tidak ada sikit pun kekuatan (keberanian bersuara) untuk menentang (Islam = penganas ) dan pagar apakah yang telah memisah2 kan mereka ???????????????????
Sekian,
DelimaMasamManis@yahoo.com
Do we need to ask Teresa Kok to say sorry of her statement? Why no sound from Kota Damansara people!
saya ada kawan Cina. Dia selalu sebut Tuhan Alah tengok apa kita buat. Tolong orang susah nanti Tuhan Alah tolong kita. Kita tarak boleh lari dari dia. Tapi ada kawan saya Melayu Liberal (PAS). Kita tak boleh salam dengan orang Cina nanti batal wuduk. Saya ingat orang Melayu (liberal) yang tak faham.
Bila saya joging jogger (Cina) akan sebut ‘selamat berpuasa’. Tapi orang Melayu (PAS) kata heh! tak puasa ke.
Kadang-kadang orang Melayu banyak prejudisnya.
My concern is why recently terlalu banyak pihak blaming each other, isu perkauman jd satu tajuk hangat?? i am malay.. becoz my father malay, but my mom’s dad is indian and her mom is chinese.. but still we ALL are MALAYSIAN even dulu dorg hanya pedagang yg menumpang di Tanah Melayu.. it dulu-dulu ttg sejarah Zaman Kesultanan Melayu Melaka. bukan zaman sekarang.
i’m headache about what happen in Malaysia nowaday.. cuba baca akhbar hari ini ?? whats the content.. less improvement achievement news in media, less motivation for youngster like me, less fact compare to rumous/ gossip/ petikan ucapan YB… less movie tentang semangat kebangsaan. yang dok sibuk sekarang asyik nk tukar bahasa dlm matapelajaran Sains dan Matematik.. isu yang tak selesai.. macam trial n error pd anak2 bangsa.. saya yg bersekolah dari tahun 1988-1998 dulu guna Bahasa Melayu sahaja sbg bahasa pengantar tetapi kami berjaya menjadi golongan elite negara skrg..
Semua berlaku kerana kepentingan sesetengah individu itu sendiri utk tunjuk kehebatan masing-masing tanpa fikir long term effect yg akhirnya menimbulkan konflik pada rakyat.
hal yg kecik jgn dibesarkan, perkara terhad ttg pergolakan dlm kerajaan jgn duk hebah2 kt org awam, gado2 politik ‘adik beradik BN’ dan isu tersalah cakap jgn disensasikan. gelagat YB berbalah di Parlimen tak usah siar kt TV . I believe everything can be okay.
remember.. wheter ur Ahmad, Ramasamy, Tan Ah YAm, rentap .. with different skin colour, race, religion.. but WE R ALL MALAYSIAN!!
Dearest Tun,
If there is Malay unity, then nothing is wrong with having Malaysian-Chinese unity, Malaysian-Indian unity, Malaysian-Indon unity and others.
Malays have NEP to keep them protected in all fields. What about other races? Getting valued education in local universities is a dream for most non-Malays.
If Malays keep on harping on protecting their interest, which they already have in abundance, what is left for other races?
Just be mindful of what other races contributed in nation-building. Snatching away non-Malays’ businesses via NEP is no different from other criminals.
Of cos there are a lot of rebuilding to be done. Nobody want themselves or their children to live in a racist-charged society.
The thin red line beckons.
http://wtfmalaysiangovernment.blogspot.com/
We must keep on updating ourselves to compete in today’s challenging world. We have to learn new things regardless of where/what/which it belongs as long as we keep our pride in ourselves. We learn (only the good things) from those who are better than us regardless of their races. E.g: As a Chinese, I’m proud of my Malay friends that they are very strong united, their ways of practicing ‘ Maaf Zahir Batin’, the way they are helping their relatives…& so much more. I have Malay friends that envy the abilities of the Chinese, in terms of their surviving tools, their capabilities in mastering at least 3 languages, their hard working mind set which require minimum help from the GOV…& etc.
We can learn & exchange experience as long as we are all united for a better life & achievement. Our leaders from the good old days were trying their best to unite us, why are today’s leaders trying their very best to spoil all their hard work?? We as Malaysian must be alert at all times & not to fall into traps that leads to segregation, discrimination & abuse of power.
Be optimistic & open for new challenges, that’s when the word ‘learns’ came in.
To be Honest:
Base on your views on Malay in Singapore, i do have a lot of singapore Malay friends that i befriends with in overseas and they have living a better then average then malaysian counterparts. Your statement had been very bias. As you can say that malay had not attacked Chinese “please” had your Fact right. Who in Parliment lauded ” Chinese should get out of this country” Well for average citizen, Indian, Chinese or malay, we still call ourself “Malaysian” Please be mindful that Religion and Culture is 2 different entity. A citizenship don’t entitle someone to change their ethnic. Tun Mahathir, it is time you let Malay to stand up for themself, our rivalry is not Chinese or indian, our rivalry is the whole world.
On religion, the government including yourself trying to convert this country as a Muslim country during your era. All the legislation include taking 10 year to approve a church building, temple and trying to demolished where every you could. All this create an insecurity and forcing the other race to resort to protecting themselves. There is no religious freedom as over the year there is alot of malay that trying to convert have to migrate overseas just to escape punishment.
Tun Mahathir, Religion should be taken as a believes and not as political benefit. Throughout the world other country are creating genius and scientist, malaysia are creating far too many “imam & Ustaz” I’m requesting you to judge all the situation by yourself, Chinese nor indian in Malaysia is Peaceful loving people just like malays. Don’t be blinded by your so call we are immigrant and trying to turn someone into something they are not.
Yours Sincerely
Overseas Observer
Dear Tun,
well said. History should never be forgotten. The british are primarily to be blamed for their divide and rule of malaya. They did far more damage to india. I totally agree that all races should unite as a malaysian race with less emphasis on ethnic backround. This is the only way out and all parties responsible must reverse the present trend and think and behave as true Malaysians. I love this country so much. Never a better soil in any part of the world. Hidup Malaysia, hidup malaysians. We should be bangsa Malaysia. Wasallam and may allah swt grant you good health and wisdom
This is the most enthralled post ever on Malay unity from Tun. It is perhaps wise to say, “As a matter of good time and bad time” the unity of Malay should be made stronger.
No generation has a right to contract racial issues greater than can be sacrificed during the course of its own existence.
In Malaysia, I am Malay. But going abroad, I am Eurasian. It is confusing sometime – but everywhere I go, I would just say, “Na-ah, I Malay!”
The racial issues in Malaysia are very unlikely to be imitate elsewhere. With freedom and I mean 100% freedom without any prejudice; Malaysian be they Malays, Chinese, Indians, Indigeneous – should be proud and appreciate of what they have.
I remember the ads: Malaysia Truly Asia.
Our situation in uncomparable to America, where the people knows that they WERE all settlers (except for Red-Indians) – their govt says, the official language is English, but at the same time, people are allowed to speak any other languages as they like. So, the people didnt asked for more.
Likewise in UK. Err… This case is a little bit different too in UK. Learning that their old generation colonised other states, they are now allowing migration from old colonised states to come and live in the UK. Still of course they still have the strong racial intense issues, not amongs the white against black or asian, but amongs their own inter-state people (Scotts, Irish, etc).
I wonder if Malaysian can be truly Malaysia. But, only time will tell…….
DR M,
I think most of the NOW non-MALAYS do not have any intention to go back to their mother land, the current situation now is being purportedly blown out is due to some POLITICAL GAIN of someone.
On the other hand to make the non-MALAYS more pro-active the concept of KN(Khidmat Negara) should be for all & not only selected student, I have written to you before that we should follow the steps of our neighbour S’pore in conduction their National Service. Their’s didn’t include female, while ours we could incooperate the female to the nursing & others civil servant NOT as the current National Service, yang saya pikir betul2 membazir kan duit kerjaan aje.
asalamualaikum Ybg Tun Dr Mahathir dan Ybhg Tun Siti Hasmah.
what highlighted above by Tun are direct and very concise to the point regarding our national unity. unfortunately, people like karpal & sons + co and lim kit siang & son + co, certain BN component parties leaders and some present NGO leaders are always in denial mode to accept the truth especially if their particular race is involved.
sometimes the whole situation just make me very disappointed and fed up to see these new citizens’ ungrateful attitude as though they did not have enough wealth, freedom, rights, education and so forth when we the malays are forcefully persuaded by the british to accept them as citizens of tanah melayu after WWII.
we malays had sacrificed so much of our rights to be so acommodating to these new citizens but after few generation lapsed, some of them start to become “kurang ajar” and hurled all kind of accusations towards the malay especially umno (an indirect way to get to the malays rights via political deceit).
the cina now start questioning the malay rights in the guise of human rights, so are the indians. what hindraf wrote in their memo to the QE is totally disgusting and very uncalled for, claiming islamic extremist and ethnic cleansing by the malays towards indian community. as a malay i am really very disappointed to know that the new citizens of these two ethnic background are not only questioning my rights but also bears grudges against me the malay that at one time gave the the shelter and life to stay in tanah melayu. we malays should request to king to revoke the citizenship of these new citizens for they are outright traitors and liars making such claims. it is obvious that these two ethnic groups are statistically doing well.
malays should not be too acommodating especially when dealing with immigrants. look around now, there are just too many bangladeshis, indons, africans, chinese, filipinos, myamars and what have you not in almost every corner of our country and in almost every industries here. these (il)legal immigrants are starting to become “kurang ajar” already.
back to our issue on national unity, we should need drastic actions taken to see immediate results. there is no more reason for it to be done slowly, it’s already more than few hundreds years since they first arrived here. their educationist should be ignored and stop all those cina/indian based societies, organistions, schools, corporations and so forth.
everything must only be malaysia based.
salam.
Assalamualaikum to all…
Could’t agree less of what you said Tun.. this is what it should be by living in a multicultural country. But sincerity is scarcely to be found nowadays.. only talks of nonsense is airing on the news and papers… people are none the less sad about all those craps…
Salam Tun dan Penyokong Che Det,
Ingin saya bertanya perlukah Malaysia menjadi seperti negara jiran Indonesia yang menghapuskan sama sekali identiti kaum cina bagi mencapai cita-cita bangsa Indonesia??
Harap dapat maklumbalas daripada Tun.
Morning Tun M.
Just wondering what will happen, if all non-malays gave up their intention of retaining their roots, culture, religion and language. If all non-malays willing to become a true Malaysian (instead of what chinese malaysian, indian malaysian etc.) with capability of speaking in Bahasa Melayu and convert to Islam.
So do we equal rights by then? By then are we non-malays considered as Malays? or we create a new race, Malaysian? No more Malays, Chinese, Indian etc… Where everyone have equal rights. No more bumi or non-bumi difference. No more ISA arrest anyone making racist remarks, as there will be only one race left – MAlaysian.
True united Malaysian.
So non-malays are you willing to scarifice your roots?
Malays, are you willing to share all the benefits from government with us?
Anyway, all this just my wondering thoughts. No need take it too seriously. No offence.
Regards
myn.
Salam Tun..
Pandangan dan huraian Tun sentiasa mempunyai asas yang teguh. Tun mempunyai daya ingatan yang cukup baik sehingga dapat mengupas setiap isu dan pandangan yang cukup bernas. Saya sangat mengkagumi dan menghormati Tun.
Saya sangat berharap agar Melayu ( dari setiap peringkat umur, latar belakang ) agar celik dan sedar yang bangsa kita kini hampir dijajah “semula” dengan cara yang sangat licik sehingga kita terpaksa menelan apa yang dilontar dan dikritik ke atas bangsa kita ini. Sayang seribu kali sayang adakah kita tidak sedar atau takut untuk menyuarakan atau sengaja hanya mengambil sikap tunggu dan lihat dengan perkembangan terkini di Malaysia, bumi bertuah ini.
Jangan sampai bila tiba “saat” itu, semuanya telah terlambat dan segala yang kita peroleh sekarang hilang dalam sekelip mata.
Kekadang saya sering terpikir, apakah sangat yang ingin diperjuangkan..Untuk negara kah? , untuk negeri kah?, untuk daerah kah?, untuk bangsa kah?, untuk semua kah atau untuk diri sendiri kah? Sedih, dalam semangat perjuangan kini, kita terlalu leka sehingga lari dari makna sebenar perjuangan.
Kekadang suara, pendapat yang baik tidak diambil perhatian dan tidak diendah…Setiap hari Tun menulis tajuk demi tajuk menjelas dan memberi panduan tetapi tiada yang nampak apa yang tersirat…
Salam buat Ybhg Tun dan rakan bloggers,
1. Macam mana nak bersatu Tun, Syed Hamid ambil tindakan Zaid tak setuju. Pak Lah maseh tidur lagi ,inilah akibatnya ambil menteri yg digangtung kerana politik wang. Agaknya maseh mabuk lagi tak….
2. Macam mana nak buat kerja Pak Lah, baru timbul issue sikit sahaja dah tak boleh kawal menteri di bawahnya. Ini menunjukan anak buah Pak Lah tak hormat Pak Lah sebab Pak Lah flip flop. Lagi lama jadi PM lagi besar pekong dan kelemahan Pak Lah dipancar keseluruh dunia. Malu Pak Lah…tapi ada jalannya YB, berhenti cara terhormat. KJ dan lain yang seangkatan dengannya pandai pandailah mereka bawa diri.
3. Tapi Tun macam yang saya katakan selalu di blog ini bahawa Tuhan dah tutup pintu hati orang yang macam ini. Dihatinya nak buat macam macam pada hal dirinya tak berkemampuan. Negara nak hancur pun maseh tidur lagi. Tun masuk UMNO semula pun saya tak nampak perbezaannya kerana Presiden dan pengampu beliau masing masing dah butahati kerana kuasa.
4. Apa kata ramai ramai kita buat sembahyang hajat minta Tuhan buka pintu hati Paklah untuk turun sekarang…..kalau Tun sudi jadi penaung atau adakan tempat,insyallah ramai yang datang.
ayuh kita bertindak….
Dear Tun,
Speaking on MALAYSIAN UNITY,
Does it should include malaysian citizen in Malaysian Borneo States?
But as read,
Again it always the tri-racial nation country. Malay, Chinese and Indians. Does Malaysian Unity only represented by these 3 races?
East Malaysian feel neglected of their existence for contributing in the malaysian unity. For respect of their alliance in nation in West Malaysia @ Tanah Melayu.
Once, georaphical separation between these land and island by South China Sea may one day afraid or someday wish to appear a border-line… an international border-line.
Sabah and Sarawak helps to form the federation and being with the federation for 45 years, always mistaken by joining the federation of which comply to 2 diffrent meaning…this meaning is a prime significant to these two states(once was a nation). Correct me if im wrong.
“Remember us tun, give us our share” says Malaysian Borneon.
sincerely yours.
Raja Pangeran of Borneo.
Assalamua’laikum YAB Tun dan Keluarga, sihat dan gembira hendaknya dan senantiasa diberkati ALLAH s.w.t.,Amin.
Thank You, a well narrated history and suggestions on racial integration.
Though what you had mentioned this time was raised by me more or less in your previous post but it is a good thing that you had put it in a more convincing phrases.
In a plain language what you are trying to say was, BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER.The question now,how are we going to concentrate this water to be as thick or thicker than that of the blood?
My suggestions with a limited abilities:-
1. Take for example a retail business.The shopkeeper has his goods in his shop and ready to be sold,but if his pricing is not reasonable,coupled with quality of service and product not to the mark, he will soon closes his business. So from here what we need to adopt is the sense of “INTER-DEPENDANT”.
2. May be, even after 51 years the malay still need the walking stick due to their complacency. If so, NEP need to continue, but with a more sincere, transparent implementation policies and with a time frame.
3. Affirmative Action Policy must also be extended to all deserving rakyat not like the petrol subsidy even the rich enjoying it and last but not least,
4. The enforcement of all rules,regulations and laws must seen to be enforced earnestly. There should not be double standard.I am very empathized with the law enforcement agencies,at times they are torn between two lovers and being hacked by the third group mercilessly. This will surely demoralise the implementors and resort to lack of enthusiasm in performing their entrusted duties.
I have seen there are countries with harsher laws and perceived more draconian to what we have, but these draconian laws only used for a real serious crimes,rather on just a mere threat perceptions. Why there was less uprising or demonstration because the rakyat’s belly is well fed.
Wassalam
Khairul Zaman
http://www.warongkopi56.blogspot.com
In the past, they brought Indians and Chinese to Malay Land..nowadays Malaysian bring peoples from Bangladesh, Myanmar, Vietnam, Philippine and Indonesia. Some of them stay here, open their business here and married with their people and still stay here. In the future, we might have Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Bangla?
Malay Land
Dear Tun,
I hope this message can go to every nook and corner of Malaysia. The government have to launch this National Unity Campaign as soon as possible.
Best Regards,
Selamat Hari Raya.
Tun….
saya setuju perjumpaan dan perbincangan secara ilmiah dan logik berkenaan isu perkauman dan hak bumiputra,bincangkan akibat yang akan diterima negara jika isu ini berlarutan,panggil pemimpin politik,ngo,bar council (yang tak demokrasi & tak faham hak bumiputra & islam) dan patut diadakan secara terbuka dan siarkan pula di televisyen secara langsung supaya rakyat faham betapa pentingnya mengekalan apa yang telah sekian lama ada yang telah diputuskan oleh pemimpin terdahulu agar negara ini terjamin keamanan selamanya.kalau boleh Yang Dipertuan Agong menjadi pengerusi perbincangan ini agar kata2 kejian dan kecaman dapat dihindari biar mereka hormat rakyat yang sedang menonton tidak seperti di parlimen.
cuba kita lihat baru sedikit saja isu perkauman tercetus maka ketegangan antara kaum mula menjelma bayangkan jika isu ini berlanjutan,oleh itu kerajaan harus proaktif buat forum secara terbuka dan siaran langsung di tv 3 atau 4 jam pun tak apa asalkan rakyat faham hak dan kedudukan setiap kaum,dan akhir perbincangan letakkan titik noktah minta perkara ini tidak diungkit lagi sampai bila2.
As’kum Tun dan keluarga,
Sekali lagi, semuga Tun dirahmati Allah s.w.t.dan diberikan kesihatan yang baik serta dipanjangkan umor untuk menempuh pergolakan hidup di mukabumi ini.
Memang kita akui apa yang Tun tuliskan adalah sangat tepat dengan fakta dan betul dari segi rentetan sejarah sejak mula Cina masuk ke Tanah Melayu sebagai pedagang atau pekerja dilombong bijih timah maupun sebagai pekebun sayur. Begitu juga dengan India yang di datangkan untuk kerja sebagai buroh estet dan buruh buat jalan.
Tapi walau beranika cara, kita sebagai orang Melayu buat pun, kalau kita mudah kata ‘tak apalah’ , sampai bila-bila pun kita akan di pijak kepala sehingga terjadinya pergolakan kaum semacam ini. Walaupun nampak macam tak berapa menggugat ketenteraman negara tapi ianya macam sekam dalam padi. Dan keadaan ini mungkin akan lebih teruk lagi kalau pemimpin-pemimpin lembut yang ada skrg lambat sangat bertindak sehinggakan bila keadaan dan hampir-hampir tak terkawal baru nak bertindak dengan tegas.
Macam tak berkuasa untuk patahkan sebelum tumboh. Marilah `kita’ fikir-fikirkan supaya sesuatu yang drastik boleh dilakukan supaya `kita’ boleh betul-betul mengaku ‘kita’ adalah bangsa Melayu dan warganegara Malaysia yang sebenar.
Semuga banyak lagi komen-komen yang boleh Yang Berbahagia Tun tulis dan lontarkan kepada kami untuk membuka fikiran kita.
Terima kasih YBG Tun dan wasalam.
*sigh* nanti komen len..ngantuk nye..selamat berbuka tok det..
Saya sokong Tun.
Org. Melayu telah banyak bekorban.
Saya harap bangsa lain dapat memahaminya.
Sekian Terima Kasih.
Selamat Berpuasa Tun.
Assalamualaikum YABhg Tun,
1. Peringatan sejarah yg ringkas tapi padat. Semua rakyat patut hayati catatan Tun ini.
2. Saya masih ingat sewaktu bersekolah aliran Bahasa Inggeris dahulu. Saya mempunyai rakan-rakan berbangsa Cina, India dan lain-lain. Pergaulan kami begitu akrab hingga kami mempunyai nama-nama timangan lain; saya misalnya ada nama Cina kerana mirip wajah saya seperti orang Cina. Kami bertidurbaring di rumah kawan-kawan berlainan bangsa tanpa rasa curiga. Tetapi keakraban seperti itu jelas tidak kelihatan lagi sejak dimansuhkan sekolah aliran Bahasa Inggeris. Sekolah-sekolah tersebut malah telah ditukarkan ke sekolah jenis kebangsaan, yg beraliran Bahasa Melayu. Ramai ibubapa yang enggan menghantar anak-anak mereka ke sekolah-sekolah aliran ini kerana takut di’Melayu’kan. Kemudian timbul kesedaran terhadap Islam. Bermula dengan ustaz-ustaz dan ustazah-ustazah yg begitu tegas dengan tatacara berpakaian hingga membuatkan bertambah ramai pula ibubapa bangsa lain enggan menyekolahkan anak-anak mereka di sekolah-sekolah ini kerana takut di’Islam’kan. Dasar pelajaran negara pula terlalu dipolitikkan hingga membuatkan ibubapa, terutama berbangsa Cina lebih condong menyekolahkan anak-anak mereka di sekolah-sekolah aliran Cina.
3. Rentetan-rentatan sejarah yang inilah yang membuatkan polarisasi kaum makin kian melebar. Diambilkesempatan pula oleh orang-orang politik dan yang berpengaruh dengan memainkan isu-isu kononnya untuk kepentingan kaum masing-masing; maka terjadilah apa yang kita lihat dan alami sekarang ini – rasa curiga dan hasat dengki antara kaum.
4. Walaupun PLKN diwujudkan untuk mengatasi polarisasi kaum ini, namun ianya hanya melibatkan sejumlah kecil anak-anak remaja kita. Bagaimana kepada mereka yang tidak berpeluang untuk mengikutinya?
5. Pihak kerajaan, terutama Kementerian Pelajaran, perlu menggubal satu dasar yang holistik untuk penyatuan anak-anak bangsa kita yang bebagai kaum ini. Anak-anak inilah yang akan menjamin keutuhan negara kita Malaysia. Subjek sejarah negara perlu dititikberatkan demi menimbulkan semangat nasionalisme. RUKUNEGARA janganlah dijadikan sebagai hafalan sahaja malah perlu dihayati dengan pendidikan dan pembahasannya dilakukan untuk setiap peringkat pendidikan hingga ke pusat pengajian tinggi. ‘JANGAN DIPOLITIKKAN PENDIDIKAN ANAK BANGSA’
6. Sekian. Wassalam.
Salam Tun,
Saya dah lama tidak nampak apa lagi yang dapat UMNO lakukan untuk kaum melayu. Jadi saya lihat PAS dan PKR beri idea dan nafas baru untuk melayu terus menjadi kuat dan dihormati. Pandangan Tun terhadap pembentukan bangsa Malaysia amat betul. Kita sebagai rakyat Malaysia tidak boleh lagi terus-menerus menjuarai kaum sendiri tanpa memikirkan keadaan kaum lain. Kita semua dijadikan Allah dalam pelbagai rupa, budaya dan perwatakan sudah tentu adalah untuk sama-sama kenal antara satu sama lain. Allah Maha Agung lagi Bijaksana. Saya setuju dengan Tun supaya kaum di Malaysia lebih bertolak ansur bagi memastikan bangsa Malaysia yang tulen akan wujud. Saya berpendapat bahawa bahasa adalah faktor terbaik untuk perpaduan semua kaum. Walaupun idea ini bukanlah baru, malah Allahyarham Tan Sri P.Ramlee dalam filem Seniman Bujang Lapok turut melontarkan kata-kata ‘Bahasa Jiwa Bangsa’. Oleh kerana Bahasa Malaysia adalah bahasa kebangsaan, adalah layak dan wajib ianya dipelajari dan digunakan oleh semua rakyat Malaysia. Jadi, untuk menzahirkan itu, cadangan saya ialah;
1) Hanya ada satu jenis sekolah sahaja iaitu sekolah kebangsaan dengan menggunakan bahasa Malaysia sebagai bahasa penghantar. Bayangkan berapa banyak bahasa penghantar yang ada di Malaysia sekiranya semua masih mahu menggunakan bahasa ibunda masing-masing, mandarin, tamil, iban, dayak, dusun, kadazan, ….
2) Bahasa ibunda seperti mandarin, tamil dan dialek lain hendaklah diajar juga di sekolah tersebut. Ini akan menggalakkan kaum lain turut sama berminat belajar bahasa tersebut.
3) Matematik dan Sains diajar semula dalam bahasa Malaysia. Bukan untuk menidakkan kepentingan bahasa Inggeris, tetapi sesuatu bahasa perlulah diajar dalam media bahasa, bukan dengan menggunakan platform Sains atau Matematik.
4) Peruntukan masa bagi mata pelajaran bahasa Inggeris hendaklah ditambah. Selain itu, bolehlah dikhaskan dalam satu hari setiap minggu untuk pelajar diwajibkan bertutur dalam bahasa Inggeris.
Cadangan ini saya fikir dapat membantu bukan sahaja perpaduan dan keamanan negara kita (penggunaan bahasa Malaysia), malah akan menyiapkan rakyat Malaysia untuk terus dapat bersaing di pentas dunia (penguasaan bahasa Inggeris).
Wassalam
Semoga Tun sekeluarga sihat sejahtera
SALAM PERJUANGAN BUAT TUN YANG DIKASIHI.
1)Tahniah…Satu artikel dan kupasan yang cukup baik.sangat setuju dengan point no 23,24,25,26.
2)melalui tulisan tun ini…membuktikan tun seorang pemikir dan penulis yang hebat….kami amat merindui kepimpinanmu ayahanda ….
3)Selamat kembali kepangkuan UMNO…pada hari yang mulia 17 ramadhan…bersempena dengan nuzul al quran…
4)Semoga dengan kepulanganmu membawa sinar harapan dan kesejahteraan kepada seluruh rakyat malaysia.
5)Walau apa orang kata…tun adalah Dr Mahathir yang saya kenali…semangat kental perjuanganmu memberi nafas baru kepada hayat perjuangan bangsa ini yang sememangnya masih belum selesai…
6)Terima kasih diucapkan kerana sanggup terjun semula ke medan tempur politik negara biarpun kudratmu tidak seperti dulu…namun saya cukup percaya percaturan bijak dan sentuhanmu kali ini pasti berjaya…insyaAllah…dulu pun tun pernah kata…untuk turunkan paklah ada banyak cara….satu cara tun keluar umno secara bersyarat…namun paklah tetap begitu…kemasukan tun semula kedalam umno juga adalah satu cara…dan mungkin banyak lagi cara yang tun ada selepas ini memandangkan tun punyai pengalaman politik yang luas dan antara tokoh politik terbaik dunia islam….sama sama kita nantikan…
7)Sesungguhnya…pejuang tulin sepertimu tidak sanggup melihat masa depan anak bangsa hancur dan layu ditanah air sendiri…apa lagi melihat bangsamu bakal dijajah dan merempat di tanah sendiri…
semoga Allah sentiasa memberi kesihatan pada tun untuk meneruskan perjuangan ini…
“Buat tok guru nik aziz dan hj hadi…saya merayu…tinggalkanlah PAS dan endorgan…masuklah umno dan berjuanglah bersama tun demi untuk agama,bangsa dan negara…kerana ini lebih mulia dari terus hidup berpura-pura dan menjual agama demi habuan dunia….betulkan kembali niat….carilah ihsan bersama kamaliah…biarpun masih belum boleh memandang ketahap La takyun atau boleh menyelami rahsia sirru sir…sempena bulan ramadhan yang mulia ini…carilah kerehdaanNya sehingga diakui Allah sebagai golongan al-muqarrabun…..kemasukan kalian berdua kedalam UMNO akan mengembalikan kegemilangan melayu islam ratusan tahun yang lampau….semoga melayu kembali bersatu..agama islam kembali dijulang.mungkin kita boleh berfikir semula sistem demokrasi Vs sistem raja-raja/khalifah…
wokyoh.
Tun,
Smalam ader baca paper, Si Anwar suruh BN jgn main2kan issue racial.
Kelakarkan, sebab pada pandangan majority, kem PR (PKR/DAP) yang selalu memainkan issue perkauman ini. Ada hati nak tegur….klakar klakar…
kenapa Teresa Kok jer yang kena? KS biler? LKS?
*sigh* nanti komen len..ngantuk nye..selamat berbuka tok det..
Salam Tun,
Once again Brilliant Analysis on Malaysian Unity and what has to be done to achieve them that certainly current people sitting on chair of powers lake this quality. Hope you can return to clear the damage done by present leaders on our 51 years old country.
But I want to suggest that this could be done to enhance unity between Malaysians:
1. The quota that Malays dominate government position should be eliminated so as not to convey wrong message to other comunities. By having greater intake of non-Malays into govenment sector, government will be conveying two messages: first, non-Malays are recognised in handling country affairs which will make them feel more affiliated to this country and secondly, younger Malays will think this is an opportunity for them to compete on equal footings and thus increases thier self-confidence by not being spoonfed.
2. School system should be revamped into making only Malay as medium during primary and English as medium during secondary [this was proposed last time] while other languages class like Chinese and Indian being offered to those who are interested regardless of race. So, Chinese and Indian medium school should be ceased. Although, critics may oppose this suggestion, But by taking this step long term unity could be build while also enabling students to gain knowledge about the world which is mostly taught in secondary in English medium while lessons about this country which are often taught in primary using Malay as medium.
3. Finally, quota system should be slowly abolished and everything from university enrollment to government tender must completely be based on meritocracy because this is what some younger generation of Malays are demanding. This would also reduce brain drain whereby many profesionals from other races and some from Malays are migrating and contributing to other country development.
Salam dan semoga Tun berada dalam keadaan yang bahagia dan sihat..
Saya tertarik dengan coretan kali ini. Sebenarnya kita dalam keadaan yang amat genting (betulkan saya jika salah). Apa yang terjadi sekarang adalah kerana kita tidak menjadikan sejarah sebagai pengajaran terhadap pembangunan negara kita. Sebagai contoh golongan yang sebaya saya (lahir selepas tahun 1979) tidak didedahkan sangat dengan peristiwa 13 Mei yang mana sesiapa yang pernah mengalami peristiwa terseebut pasti tidak mahu ia terjadi kembali. Selain itu banyak peristiwa luar negara yang boleh dijadikan iktibar. Contohnya Bosnia, Rwanda yang mana kesan ia adalah untuk tempoh yang lama.
Pada pandangan saya apa yang tercetus sekarang kerana ‘kegilaan’ politik yang ghairah mencari pengaruh masing-masing lalu mencetuskan perkara yang berkaitan dengan perkauman. Isu ini berlaku sebelum YB Ahmad dari Penang. Setiap tindakan ada tindakbalas dan ini menyebabkan ia berterusan sampai sekarang. Ia pula disemarakkan oleh media kedua-dua belah pihak.
Ia pula disemaikan dengan rasa tidak hormat kepada kaum yang lain dimana perkara ini semakin pudar dalam masyarakat kita. Itu merupakan ramuan yang baik untuk mencetuskan ketegangan seperti yang kita rasa.
Itu saja pandangan saya yang tidak seberapa. Teriama kasih.
Taat Setia
Dear Tun, Selamat Berbuka Puasa. The sensitivity, respect & consideration is that one race is already protected by certain rights, privileges and benefits that is unquestioned and understood by all. Therefore the rest will just have to honour it and any ‘sacrifices’ as Tun refers to may basically end as a compromise, unconditional acceptance and ‘give-in’. This is certainly not a full win-win situation an a united Malaysia. I have been raised in a military and government school since primary, but do not feel the minority races as ‘welcomed’ as a Malaysian, taught by the school and religious teaches. The recent comments by certain parties also give sense that many minorities born, educated and raised in Malaysia as a citizenship of Malaysia with Malaysian IC and passport are still ‘not warmly welcomed and accepted’ into the nation as a happily united Malaysian family.
A’kum Ayahanda Tun M…
ramai rakyat yg bersependapat hanya Ayahanda shaja boleh mengembalikan keadaan yg stabil di negara kita tercinta ini…
Assalamualaikum Dear Tun
You have brought a very important subject, the national integration program. With the present system of sharing power between the three major races,it barely works, even in the beginning as shown by the incidence of 13 May 1969, later some modification is included, races are not to be identified with economic achievements, a policy known as NEP was created in order to reduce disparity, economically, between the races. We start the policy with great enthusiasm, in the early seventies and now we barely reach the target of our dreams. Suddenly we realized identification of people according to races become enhanced and our wishes of national integration is actually drifting away. To echieved national integration we have to works towards making the people having the same religion, languages and culture. No assimilation is possible without similarity. No one can change their races , but they can change their religion. One can learn languages and change to adopt a different culture but ones cannot change their races. The Government should adopt dakwah with love and affection to the non muslim and muslim as the national agenda. The non muslim should be invited to embrace islam and the muslim should be invited to obey the orders of Allah. In all the national school Malay, English, Chinese, and Tamil are thought from standard one to form five. Culture can be learned through mingling between the different races and this will become much easier when everybody understand each other. Later on in Malaysia, a situation exist, where we still have different races but the majority will have the same religion, knowns many languages and adopting basically the same culture. In this situation ,we may dream of achieving national integration and the choice of leaders are no longer on the basis of race but on the basis of good qualities. During that time we do not need a party based on race and the concept of sharing power is no longer relevant. Please give thought to this, thank you and I love you.
gud article TDM…
salam sejahtera tun,
buat pertama kali saya memberi pendapat.
samada melayu, india, china atau kaum2 lain. adalah satu hak seseorang untuk mendapat pendidikan bahasa bangsa tersendiri. Mereka tidak seharusnya disekat dgn menggunakan alasan perpaduan sahaja.
Soalannya, rakyat Indonesia(& Thai) tidak diberi peluang utk sekolah lain daripada sekolah kebangsaan mereka, tetapi, adakah perpaduan antara kaum mereka jauh lebih baik daripada Malaysia, tidakkah rusuhan kaum berlaku?
Tun, tidakkah Tun setuju bahawa yang baik saja kita belajar drpd Amerika Syarikat? kenapa pula kita berbanding dgn mereka? tidakkah jauh lebih baik, dari segi daya saingan jika negara kita, mempunyai kaum2 yang dapat menguasai bahasa2 mandarin, hindu atau tamil, sedangkan negara2 ini kian membangkit? alangkah baiknya kaum melayu juga dapat menguasai BUKAN hanya Melayu, English sahaja?
Perpaduan antara kaum BOLEH dicapai, dengan membuat dasar2 lain, selain memaksa kaum2 hanya mempelajari di sekolah kebangsaan. kaum lain berasa gelisah apabila digesa utk belajar di sekolah wawasan, dgn memberi alasan utk perpaduan negara, semua dikira merepek.
kawan2 melayu s’pora, mereka memandang rendah dan suka menghindir melayu tanahair kita, dengan menyatakan kaum melayu ambil tongkat, sedangkan mereka berjaya berdikari di s’pora. Sindiran sebegini, didengar di kalangan semua rakyat malaysia. Sudah tiba masanya, kita menunjukkan bahawa rakyat malaysia, samada melayu, cina, india, kadasan… boleh memberi saingan hebat kpd mereka, BUKAN HANYA membina Jambatan Lengkok di bahagian kita, tetapi, membuat sumbangan kepada mereka, kita hadiahkan kepada mereka bahagian dia, tetapi, itu hanya boleh dicapai, dengan malaysia sebagai pemain ekonomi serantau / asia tenggara.
banyak yang boleh beri dari segi pendapat, tapi, sekian buat kali ini.
Salam ayahanda Tun,
Memang benar dan tepat sekali huraian ayahanda Tun. Sayangnya, huraian yang bernas dan tepat bagaimana sekalipun, tak akan dapat di terima oleh khalayak yang telah sengaja membutakan mata, memekakkan telinga dan menutup hati untuk mengakui sesuatu kebenaran. Mereka hanya akan dapat melihat apa yg mereka ingin lihat, dan mendengar apa yg ingin mereka dengar sahaja. Hidangkanlah apa jua bentuk fakta atau bukti sekalipun, nescaya sia2 usaha ayahanda.
Apa yg perlu sekarang ialah suatu tindakan berdasarkan situasi semasa. Sebagaimana yang telah sering ayahanda lakukan semasa di tampuk pemerintahan dulu… buat sahaja dulu. Pedulikan segala kritikan dan tohmahan. Selepas beberapa ketika, masyarakat pasti akan dapat menerima bahawa tindakan itu adalah tepat (terutamanya apabila hasil/result telah menjelma di depan mata). Ketika itu baru lah org sedar dan akui bahawa tindakan tersebut mmg tepat dan perlu.
Malangnya, tidak ternampak oleh saya org lain yg mampu berbuat sebegitu buat masa ini. Hanya ayahanda sahaja…
Oleh itu, saya rasa kepulangan ayahanda ke pangkuan UMNO adalah sangat tepat. Tawarkan diri bertanding sebagai Presiden. Kita tahu tentang syarat utk mendapatkan sejumlah pencalonan Bahagian bagi melayakkan seseorang itu bertanding. Kita juga tahu bahawa segala usaha busuk akan dijalankan bagi memastikan ayahanda tidak mendapat pencalonan secukupnya…
Tapi…
Percayalah, masih ramai yang kini menagih kebijaksanaan dan kepimpinan ayahanda ketika ini. Yang ramai inilah yang sebenarnya merupakan KUASA pemilih UMNO. Walaupun yg RAMAI ini kelak mungkin akan diperlekehkan suara mereka oleh pucuk pimpinan Cawangan atau Bahagian, biarlah…
Ketika itu yang ramai ini akan dapat melihat wajah2 sebenar pemimpin mereka. Wajah per’juang’an kah, atau wajah per’wang’an kah. Dan jika wajah per’wang’an yang menang, maka yang ramai ini tahulah siapa yang sebenarnya wajar disokong…
Tak cuba tak tahu ayahanda… Saya percaya masih ramai penyokong ayahanda, walaupun kini dalam diam. Sebaik sahaja ayahanda menawarkan diri utk bertanding, saya yakin yang diam ini akan mula menunjukkan muka, membunyikan suara. Insya-Allah…
To cut a long story short independent Malaysia recognised the citizenship rights of the non-Malays and gave them quite freely. This is unlike many countries in the region where strict conditions were imposed. In fact, some immigrants were actually expelled.
>>>> These has been the compromised by UMNO but not others which fight for independence 51 years ago. Right ???
Salam Tun,
All these while we have been tolerable towards each other regardless of our races and beliefs. The politicians should have a consensus on this matter and to curb it at their level.
Salam Aidilfitri to you and family.
skj(c) dan skj(t) tak patut ada kalau betul semua nak satu bangsa malaysia. hipokrit sama itu olang
A’kum Ayahanda TUN
…bersatu semula itu bagus…tetapi harus diingatkan kepada kaum2 lain supaya memahami serta menghormati serta mematuhi segala bentuk perjanjian dan jangan sekali-sekali cube mengingkarinya lagi…
One of the biggest issue in Malaysia is that now the others don’t recognise that the Malays are the indigenous people of Malaysia.
May sound funny but its not funny anymore to the Malays as such we will face much more trouble from the look of it.
Assalamualaikum Tun,
Saya memang tak setuju bila Tunku Abd Rahman memberikan kerakyatan kepada non-bumi. Bagi saya, taraf penduduk tetap pun dah kira bagus. Tetapi Tun Jugak yang cakap, melayu mudah lupa, itu pasal lah melayu ari ni makin layu lebih-lebih lagi bila dapat rasuah, jgn kira banyak, RM20 pun jadilah. Terus diam membisu. Lagipun melayu memang malas nak hidup. Lebih senang hidup susah dari bersusah-payah untuk senang. Yang mana ada, bagi kat orang abis macam MB Slangor tu. Bodoh punya melayu. Sah-sah hak melayupun dia nak bagi kat bangsa lain. Apa yang bangsa lain bagi kat kita? tak ada melainkan merampas sikit demi sedikit tanah dan harta orang melayu. Orang melayu pulak duduk kedai kopi bangga dok cerita, “oo, tokeh tu sanggup beli tanah aku yang kecik tet tu sampai 3 juta”. Tapi dia tak sedaq yang taukeh cina tu boleh dapat 30 juta dari tanah sekecil itu. Saya anak melayu yang sangat sedih dengan melayu la ni.
Tun,
My personal opinion, we really need to do away with Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan. Make everyone go to Sekolah kebangsaan with Bahasa Malaysia as the medium. Everyone have to be fluent in Bahasa Malaysia. That’s what I call Bangsa Malaysia.
Dear Tun,
The way things are going we feel very worry about the next generation.
After 51 years of independence ISA is used for the safety of
an individual what mockery is this………………
have this ever happened b4………………
Now we have some brave people in UMNO who dare to speak but
where will they end up……………….
No where I beleive………………..
You will be the right person to put things in order but the big
doubt still there?????????????????
Anyaway TSMY have the guts to open up how about the rest???????????
Assalamualaikum Tun,
setelah 51 tahun merdeka timbul persoalan mengapa soalan Bahasa Melayu UPSR sekolah kebangsaan dan sekolah jenis kebangsaan tak sama? soalan bahasa melayu sekolah jenis kebangsaan lebih senang lagi. soalan macam soalan untuk budak darjah 4. pelik tapi benar.
Good day, TUN.
I do agreed with you that the unity between races now is weaker than before. But however, I believe, regardless malay, indian or chinese, want a harmony, peaceful living environment
As you said, the upon level leaders have to do their jobs. But sometimes, we feel these leaders are more concern of their personal interests rather that unity between races. Out government should have a “Gotong Royong” to ensure we have a better future.
Selamat Berpuasa Kepada semua kawan-kawan Melayu.
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TUN,
Benar sekali TUN, Malaysia memang unik.
Tidak ada tempat di luar sana seunik Malaysia.
Kita hidup dalam berbilang kaum dengan Identity yang masih sama Melayu, China, India,Kadazan dan lain lain.
Walaupun berbagai, Negara Maju dan Aman serta rakyat yang sejahtera.
Kalau semua rakyat Malaysia berusaha memajukan diri tanpa mempersoalkan perlembagaan(social contract) yang sudah dibentuk datuk nenek kita masing masing, Malaysia akan terus maju. Dan WaWasan 2020 akan terrealisasi.
Malangnya dengan kelemahan kerajaan sekarang,
musuh musuh Negara yang dahulu dalam selimut sudah berani keluar dan bersuara malah mula bertindak. Ini secara tidak langsung meracuni fikiran rakyat. Rakyat jadi tidak selesa dan gelisah dengan semua ini, mengakibatkan perpaduan yang di kecapi dulu tercalar.
Tindakan benar dan tepat harus dilakukan dalam menyekat pengaruh yang merosakkan ini. Demokrasi yang kila amalkan dulu di cemari oleh fahaman Demokrasi liberal mereka.
ANWAR DAN 16 SEPT: part 1-3
http://isteri-mamak-tua.blogspot.com
Selamt berpuasa
dan salam perjuangan
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TUN,
Benar sekali TUN, Malaysia memang unik.
Tidak ada tempat di luar sana seunik Malaysia.
Kita hidup dalam berbilang kaum dengan Identity yang masih sama Melayu, China, India,Kadazan dan lain lain.
Walaupun berbagai, Negara Maju dan Aman serta rakyat yang sejahtera.
Kalau semua rakyat Malaysia berusaha memajukan diri tanpa mempersoalkan perlembagaan(social contract) yang sudah dibentuk datuk nenek kita masing masing, Malaysia akan terus maju. Dan WaWasan 2020 akan terrealisasi.
Malangnya dengan kelemahan kerajaan sekarang,
musuh musuh Negara yang dahulu dalam selimut sudah berani keluar dan bersuara malah mula bertindak. Ini secara tidak langsung meracuni fikiran rakyat. Rakyat jadi tidak selesa dan gelisah dengan semua ini, mengakibatkan perpaduan yang di kecapi dulu tercalar.
Tindakan benar dan tepat harus dilakukan dalam menyekat pengaruh yang merosakkan ini. Demokrasi yang kila amalkan dulu di cemari oleh fahaman Demokrasi liberal mereka.
ANWAR DAN 16 SEPT: part 1-3
http://isteri-mamak-tua.blogspot.com
Selamt berpuasa
dan salam perjuangan
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We Malaysian must ‘give and take’ to stay unite. BN hanyalah satu parti yang ada sistem “give and take” that is why multi racial Malaysian can stay unite for so long until ia dipimpin oleh pemimpin yang lemah. Pada pandangan saya DAP-hanya untuk kepentingan cina, PAS-hanya untuk kepentingan islam dan PKR-hanya untuk kepentingan DSAI so PR adalah no no untuk Malaysia.
Assalamualikum Tun…
Once again we must UNITE among our self….
Like Tun said to unite we must have give and take. Malay already give the citizenship to Indian and Chinese, we give them space, they want to preserved their culture we give them. Why some off them still bothered about Malay privilege (hindraf, BAR etc).
But some of the Malay are not unite becoz of their politics differences. Shame of them. Please guys, we must UNITE to become more strong nation.
Furthermore, not only Malay has to unite but all Malaysian including all the races in this country have to UNITE.
Also not to forget, we must UNITE to bring down current PM that already showing his ability to drain our country to the rock bottom…..
To unity
Please take care TUN and Selamat berpuasa
Salam Tun yang disayangi,
Demi kesejahteraan negara yang dicintai, demi mengekalkan keharmonian dan perpaduan diantara kaum2 di Malaysia, kami sangat-sangat berharap Tun akan kembali ke pangkuan UMNO!!! saya rasa semua pemimpin UMNO termasuk PM akan terima Tun dengan hati yang terbuka, memang hasrat kami mahu Tun berehat setelah banyak berjasa kepada negara dan parti, namun memandangkan situasi pada masa sekarang pandangan dan nasihat Tun amat di perlukan, kami berharap Tun akan menyerahkan borang secepat mungkin…Insyaallah saya sangat2 berharap media arus perdana pada jumaat ini akan melaporkan yang Tun telah kembali ke pangkuan UMNO amin…, UMNO terus mara untuk rakyat Malaysia!!!
Salam Tun,
Sudah 51 tahun Merdeka…namun sistem pendidikan kita masih berbentuk sistem pentadbiran penjajah…”dasar pecah dan perintah” …sama juga dengan sistem pendidikan di negara kita. Susah sangat nak tengok india dan cina bersekolah di sekolah kebangsaan….maka tak hairanlah ada cina atau india yang lahir 20-30 tahun di negara ini gagal bercakap fasih bahasa malaysia dan paling malang ada yang tak boleh bertutur langsung dalam bahasa malaysia. kalau tak silap perempuan india yang tersalah tangkap baru-baru ini langsung tak boleh bercakap dalam bahasa malaysia (menurut tv3)…tambah malang lagi…kaum minoriti di malaysia lebih fasih berbahasa inggeris daripada berbahasa malaysia. seumur hidup saya, belum pernah lagi saya berjumpa orang cina yang bertutur menggunakan bahasa malaysia apabila bercakap dengan anggota keluarga atau kawan sebangsa mereka. malangnya, saya sering melihat mereka berkomunikasi dengan menggunakan bahasa inggeris sesama mereka. saya juga belum pernah melihat orang cina atau india membeli surat khabar berbahasa malaysia lalu membacanya. hakikatnya aspek kebangsaan (bahasa, pendidikan, budaya etc) yang cuba diterapkan selama ini hanya berkesan kepada orang melayu saja. Maka saya tak hairan kalau idea sekolah wawasan ditentang selama ini dan saya tak hairan jika polisi iklan di tv turut direncamkan dengan pelbagai bahasa kaum sehingga hilang maruah bahasa kebangsaan. agak-agaknya orang cina di malaysia tak faham kot bahasa kebangsaan.
PERSOALAN SAYA: LAYAKKAH MEREKA INI DIGELAR WARGANEGARA MALAYSIA, SEDANGKAN ORANG VIETNAM, BANGLA, PAKISTAN BOLEH MENGUASAI BAHASA MELAYSIA LEBIH BAIK DARIPADA WARGANEGARA YANG DILAHIRKAN DI NEGARA INI?
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YAB Tun,
Assalamualaikum dan selamat berpuasa.
Once again thank you for such a comprehensive writing. I sincerely feel that apart from posting your thoughts and opinions such as this one in your blog, it should also be published in all mainstream newspapers to make Malaysian masses understand and hopefully, change their mindset, especially the younger generations.
I couldn’t agree more with your statement which says that ‘if we want Malaysian unity, we need to be willing to make sacrifices regarding what we consider to be our racial right. Everyone has to do this.’
We use to chant slogans such as:
‘Besatu Kita Teguh, Bercerai Kita Roboh’
‘Berat Sama Dipikul, Ringan Sama Dijinjing’ and
‘Unity Is Strength’.
What has happened to the spirit of Berkerjasama, Bertoleransi, Hormat Menghormati, Tolong Menolong and many more good deeds that could help us moving towards achieving National Integration.
What we are withessing today and being highlighted daily by the media, is the unhealthy trend of Malaysian leaders too preoccupied with local political scenarios. Very little action is seen to tackle the real issues that are faced by Malaysian, namely, the ever increasing hardship of ordinary people on the road to cope with life due to the increasing cost of living. They have to cope with high cost of fuel, food stuff, travel etc.
Please have some thought for those people who are living in the rural areas, estates and the urban poor as well. These are the people who voted for you. Don’t just ‘turun padang’ when election is coming around the corner.
I am waiting for the day when UMNO will officially accept Tun’s application to rejoin the party. Judging by the responses from veteran and present UMNO leaders, I think Tun has made a wise decision to rejoin UMNO demi Agama, Bangsa dan Negara.
Dear Tun,
I believe that this is the answer that people are looking for.
Your article is superb.
Wish that all Malaysian can read this.
Fellow bloggers, do we have anyway to make this article available to others?
Bleached_4ever a.k.a Mahadi
Salam sejahtera Tun,
Fakta sejarah sememang nya perlu didalam membentuk tamadun bangsa. Impian untuk menjadi kan “Malaysian Malaysia” atau Bangsa Malaysia dari semua kelompok bangsa adalah amat sukar sekiranya semua pemimpin pemimpin politik masih mempergunakan isu perkauman bagi kepentingan politik mereka.
Pada suatu ketika, Melayu di wakili oleh UMNO tetapi di sebabkan oleh hala tuju serta kepentingan politik pemimpin pemimpin tertentu maka UMNO terpisah menjadi UMNO dan PAS yang masih memperjuangkan kepentingan Melayu melalui cara yang berlainan.
Kemelut politik UMNO di zaman 80an juga secara langsung memisahkan lagi ahli UMNO kepada dua iaitu UMNO dan Semangat 46. Walaupun Semangat 46 telah di bubarkan, tetapi masih ada lagi pemikiran serta ideologi Semangat 46 di dalam UMNO.
Begitu juga dengan MCA, perpecahan serta kepentingan politik pemimpin pemimpin tertentu maka wujud nya Gerakan yang juga masih memperjuangkan kepentingan serta hak orang orang cina.
Tidak terkecuali juga dengan MIC dimana atas agenda yang sama maka ahli ahli MIC terpisah kepada MIC dan PPP. Dan sejak akhir akhir ini kemelut MIC di ganggu gugat lagi dengan isu HINDRAF.
Dari fakta sejarah ini juga sekiranya di perhalusi, maka boleh di buat kesimpulan bahawa semua pemimpin pemimpin politik masih lagi mempergunakan isu satu satu kaum di dalam memperjuangkan kareer politik mereka.
Kita sudah 51 tahun merdeka dan seharus nya pemimpin pemimpin politik sudah matang di dalam menangani masalah ini. Mereka perlu tahu bahawa kedudukan sosio ekonomi sesuatu kaum banyak membawa kepada kestabilan sesuatu negara.
Dan UMNO sebagai parti yang mewakili bangsa peribumi perlu kuat untuk memimpin parti parti lain didalam membentuk masyarakat Malaysia, menentukan kestabilan politik dan juga kemajuan ekonomi.
Sekiranya UMNO lemah maka kehadiran UMNO yang di lihat sebagai pemimpin bagi parti parti lain juga akan tergugat.
Dear Tun,
Thank for remind all the non-malay, how grateful and generous the malay race are..
We the other race should realise how great and big hearted malay race are. they are the onwer of the malaysia, they have given us the citizenship. what can we all ask more??? dont be ungratefull bastard ok all non-malay.
All the non-malay should work hard and support the one & the only owner of malaysia. they have the right to get all the special right. who are we the non-malay question their right???
Shame on we all non-malay. by the way, we should work hard and contribute to the nation. The malay should enjoy the fruit of our hard work. because they are the owner and we are the servants or workers. feel contened and work hard for our master. dont diobey the master or else master will send we all back to china or india.. then at that time, even we cry or apologize would not be accepted and we would only have ourself TO BLAME.
Wake up all the non-malay. Tun had spoken… Open your big eye and see who is the owner of the country… shame on you.. kacang lupa kulit..
by the way, i am the first non-malay to pledge my royalty to the owner of the country and shall work hard for the nation so that my master would koyak kaki and the fruit of my hard work.
i am so so so so so contented…
Kebanyakan penulisan Ayahanda memang tepat seperti menguraikan kata kata dari dada dada kami anak bangsa keseluruh pelusuk Nusantara. Tetapi walaupun kita perlu fasih dengan bahasa sejagat yang kini, seperti Ayahanda. Jiwa kita tetap teguh dengan Bahasa itu jiwa bangsa. Ia masih gah hingga hari ini dan masih lagi segar diseluruh sanubari. Mari kita dengan nilai sejagat yang bertepatan dengan nilai Islam yang tiada tanding kemuliaan nya mengangkat mertabat Bangsa kita ketahap yang tinggi dibumi warisan ini. Atas nilai baik hati yang sejagat bangsa yang bukan asal Nusantara telah di terima sebagai keluarga kita untuk membentuk Bangsa Malaysia, tetapi apakah mereka mahu lebih lagi? Mereka yang oportunis menggunakan segala sudut untuk melemahkan perpaduan anak anak bumi ini dengan nilai sejagat yang palsu. Pemuda yang mencium keris yang telah menjadi adat kemegahan bangsa pun dipersoalkan? Apakah jiwa bangsa Melayu tidak sensitif lagi atau telah kecut hati? Tidak sekali-kali!. Jadi dalam perbincangan untuk membentuk bangsa Malaysia yang sejati kita tidak boleh berkompromi sehingga tergadai harga diri. Jangan hanya berkata Gazali yang ku cari tetapi tidak memahami dan tidak mengenang budi. Salam untuk Ayahanda yang di sayangi.
Very thought-provoking and historically factual. Should enlighten the the hardcore disbelievers, the crisis creaters (CC) and the so-called reformists with hidden agendas of their own. The Malays,the Bumiputeras, the Chinese and the Indians should read and digest Tun’s expose’if all of them are sincerely keen on talking about Malaysian Unity or even Malaysian Malaysia. It’s so easy to dismantle what had been solidly built by our fore fathers! The younger generation would be foolish to disregard history ! They would perhaps realize this truth when they themselves are faced with the younger generation of their time, say in about 20 to 30 years time.
assalamualaikum Tun,
Untuk pengetahuan Tun, saya sekeluarga adalah pengundi BN, tetapi undi kami semua hanya berdasarkan corak pemerintahan PM, betullah kata Tun, orang ramai bukannya reject BN tetapi reject PM sekarang.
Di Selangor sticker Umno tidak lagi selamat di guna, sesiapa yang menampal lambang sticker Umno pada kenderaan mereka, nescaya ada saja musibah yang tiba-tiba berlaku. Di dalam tempat kerja pun sama, saya sendiri dikecam kononnya menyokong membuta tuli,bahkan kedua2 orang tua saya tetap memangkah Umno di kawasan paling ramai DAP voters. Saya juga pengundi Cheras, Tun pun tahu , Cheras tu area sapa, saya the only malay yg berjalan masuk kedalam dewan undi .
Cuma satu aja saya nak tanya Tun, kenapa berhenti jadi PM? Dimasa Tun memerintah, saya rasa aman dan tidak takut untuk kemana2, walau ke kawasan kongsi. Tetapi sekarang jangankan nak jalan-jalan kt area kongsi, nak melalui kawasan tu pun takut. Untuk pengetahuan Tun, keadaan perasaan rakyat kolar biru amatlah runcing, ibarat bara menunggu disimbah petrol, tak kiralah UMNO ke PKR-DAP ke PAS tolak tepi..sebab tak function pon..ulamak politik pengecut.
Akhir sekali, saya lega mendengar Tun nak kembali ke arena politik, atau Tun tunggu Pak lah nak blah dulu?
Apa pun saya gembira dapat menulis kat Tun, saya tahu, Allah SWT panjangkan umur Tun, ada sebabnya..
Saya doakan kesejahteraan Tun dan keluarga dan selamat berpuasa.
Wassalam
Hashimah Hashim
Cheras
Untuk membina sebuah negara yang aman dan berbilang kaum, yang hidup secara harmoni dan saling menghormati antara satu sama lain, satu kerajaan yang focus diperlukan. Kerajaan sekarang memang tidak focus dan hanya pentingkan saku keluarga sahaja tanpa memperjuangkan isu seperti perpaduan kaum.
Tun, bila nak kembali pimpin negara ini?
Dear Tun,
After getting used to the lacklustre and incompetent Prime Minister the Malaysian public was shocked to see that he is not alone. Syed Hamid Albar is now a show stealer. His incompetence first became evident on the interview with BBC’s Hardtalk early this year. It has been down the drain for Syed Hamid ever since.
As the days go by, and in the high profile job of Minister of Home Affairs, Syed Hamid Albar never ceases to surprise us further.
Reeling over the public outcry over the ISA arrests of Blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin, MP Theresa Kok and reporter Tan Hoon Chen, Syed Hamid has simply said, ‘I am not responsible, dont ask me, go and ask the Police’.
In every civilised country, every arm of Government, especially something as important as the Police, report to some Government Ministry or Department. In Malaysia the Police report to the Minister of Home Affairs, which is headed by Syed Hamid Albar. The daily duties of the traffic cop are set by the local Traffic Chief but something as weighty as arrest under the ISA needs the approval or knowledge of the Minister and the Prime Minister.
Realising now that the arrests of Paja Petra Kamaruddin, Theresa Kok and Tan are backfiring Syed Hamid is trying to dig himself out of the hole. He is only digging himself deeper into the hole. He is now blaming it on the Police.
Complicating matters for Syed Hamid are the contradicting statements by Cabinet Ministers (seven of them now) particularly de facto Law Minister Zaid Ibrahim who has said pointedly that he does not agree with the ISA detentions. To show his displeasure and disagreement, Zaid has even offered to resign his post.
Minister of Information Datuk Ahamd Shabery Cheek has said that since Syed Hamid has blamed the Police over the ISA arrests, it is the Police who should give an explanation on the rationale behind the detentions. So far the Police have remained mum.
This puts the Police on the spot because everyone knows that the Police are now without the IGP. The ‘former’ IGP Musa Hassan is on long leave. The “acting’ IGP did not bargain for this type of publicity. He also does not seem to possess Syed Hamid’s talents. But Syed Hamid’s statement now puts pressure on the ‘acting’ IGP to start ‘acting’.
Syed Hamid has said that Ahmad Ismail the Bukit Bendera UMNO Division chief need not be arrested because he had already been chastised by the UMNO political party. By this logic, then why not just ask the DAP party to also chastise their MP Theresa Kok? Or ask Marina Abdullah, Raja Petra’s wife to chastise her husband for whatever it is that he has done? This is what the public is now saying. I really cannot understand how Syed hamid can say such things.
Syed Hamid’s statement that the reporter Miss Tan was arrested for her own safety and then released 24 hours later is insulting Miss Tan and the Malaysian public and also making the overnment look lie total fools. Since the Police have obviously neutralised the death threat against her, where are the criminals who made the death threats against Tan? Why havent they been arrested?
The spate of ISA arrests have made the faltering Government of Abdullah Badawi look more silly than ever. They are the laughing stock. Malaysians wake up everyday not knowing how much more stupid the Government can become today, compared to the day before. So far the Government has not failed to meet the public’s incredulity. The Government has completely lost the respect and the trust of the people.
I would liken the whole racist issue, or the term racism in theory, are largely attributed from ones upbringing and societal environment. The way we act, behave, perceives, identify and most unlikely being different in our unique selves are moulded into us from young and by the very condition of that habitat.
I may be wrong in the above statement, but we can never remove a face from a human being let alone strip his identity of what he is. Malaysia does have race segregation in very subtle form by mere cultural differentiation. I said subtle because once you’re prepared to look beyond the religion and the colour of their skins, what we have are basic necessity for survival, merge and like you mentioned, integrate.
While integration itself is achievable, albeit all obstacles and perhaps time, we are seeing a trend now of racial territorial encroachment which must be dealt with first. Such events did not just unfold itself overnight. Integrity was at stake and far from being tolerant; we make defenses and seek for justice with our sentiments. All sides contributed in some way. It takes two hands to clap. As always, the initiators are deemed to be the culprit.
The race identity in my opinion is nothing more than a dwelling for us to return to at the end of the day to be with who we want and what we want. And all of us, including the rest of the world, submit to this ideology of territorial ownerships.
If ever integration, here for that matter, were to succeed, there should be a single law and constitution applied to encapsulate the general Malaysian to work towards, complied to and assimilates into. As it is, our country have various laws governing the differing races where one cannot applied simply on the grounds of ethical or identity reasons. We ourselves are practicing and adopting different set of principles and morality disguised as code of conducts passed down from generations of belief.
A common national goal got to be set. Not by driving the laws of integration right into the face of every Malaysian, but with adopting policies and creating a new way of thinking and acceptance with no bias implementation of that objective. Projects that are not “race based” or policies that applies to all irrespective of one identity and colour. We cannot proceed or even think of such prospect as long as the very fundamental mentality of the Rakyat clinging on to the grassroots idea of superiority and competition over the other.
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Salam Tun,
Info yang cukup padat dan menyerlahkan erti “Malaysian Unity”. Apa guna Malaysian Malaysia, jika satu pihak saja yang untung. Melayu tidak pandai berbahasa Mandarin, India kurang pandai juga berbahasa Mandarin mahupun Bahasa Melayu. Maka integrasi tidak berlaku dengan baiknya.
Di Indonesia, bangsa bukan etnik tempatan diasimilasikan dengan Bahasa Indonesia dan sehinggakan identiti bangsa yang mendatang juga terlupus dalam amalan mereka akibat kekuatan politik untuk memacu Indonesia Raya ketika itu. Berbanding di Myanmar, seperti kata Tun Sambanthan, tidak menerima Kaum India sebagai warga negara, mengucapkan jutaan terima kasih kepada Tanah Melayu kerana membenarkan mereka tinggal di sini dan terus berbakti untuk Tanah Melayu disamping mendapat sekolah, bahasa yang dikekalkan serta hak-hak beragama dengan bebas.
Ini semua menunjukkan toleransi yang tinggi pemimpin Melayu di waktu itu. Untuk menjadikan Malaysia sebagai sebuah negara yang tidak prejudis ke atas kaum, kami sering menekankan kepada eksterimis Melayu, Cina mahupun India agar sekolah2 venakular itu haruslah dihapuskan dan diserap ke sekolah Kebangsaan (National School) yang mengintegrasikan pelajar semua etnik dari peringkat rendah.
Saya masih ingat akan idea sekolah wawasan yang diilhamkan oleh Tun, sesungguhnya idea bernas ini ditentang oleh eksterimis kaum2 bukan Melayu. Kerana apa? Kepentingan politik. Kini mereka pula mencanangkan Bangsa Malaysia. Kenapa fikirkan bangsa Malaysia sekiranya sekolah dan pemikiran/Thought diserapkan dengan kebangsaan etnik tertentu? Tidak adil meminta hak dan kesamarataan tetapi hanya kaum asal (Melayu/Islam) saja yang mengalah.
Kaum dan bangsa lain juga haruslah mengalah dengan mengurangkan identiti mereka terlebih dahulu dan menyerap nilai-nilai Malaysia, barulah dikatakan Bangsa Malaysia.
mfa
Tidak bijak, tetapi pintar.
Dear Tun
Your View of things from an apex position is sorely missed. The current situation is testament to that. A few key points from your post that has to be read by ALL.
1. The vast difference between Racist and Racialist thinking.
2. The difficult task of administration of a multi racial,multi religious, mutli cultural, multi linguistic and economically stratified society
3. Historical baggage from the last 200 odd years.
4. Forging a national identity and and nation building in the light of the above.
5. The state of the govt of the day and the failure of addressing point 4
But Sir. What is the remedy? What do MALAYSIANS/The GOVT have to do now to get back on track. Please post a step by step plan .
Thanks. and good health
Tun,
Some people has to be taught how to behave well in multi-racial society. The historical facts must be recognied, understood and adhered to by everyone. Please respect each other on that basis, and from there we move forward together. nookvillage.
Assalammualaikum Tun,
Saya sentiasa mengikuti penulisan Tun sejak kali pertama.
Ini adalah kali pertama saya menulis .
Semua rakyat Malaysia harus membaca sejarah dan tulisan Tun.
Semasa Tun menjadi PM dan selepas Anwar disingkirkan,ramai rakan saya mengutuk Tun dan mengharapkan Dato seri Abdullah yang lebih Islamic dapat menguruskan kerajaan dengan lebih baik.
Selepas kecewa dengan PM sekarang, PR 12 menunjukkan bukti yang nyata dan 9 dari 10 sahabat saya mengundi bukan BN.
Kini ada rakan menyatakan dan mengakui Tun jauh lebih baik, tapi kepercayaan kepada pemimpin BN masih kabur.
Kini rata-rata semua orang meluat dengam percakaran sesama ahli politik, kecewa dan malu dengan sikap pemimpin Melayu,dan masih ramai yang ragu-ragu dengan setiap tindakan kerajaan.
Saya dan ahli keluarga di besarkan dalam era DEB, dan berterima kasih kepada pemimpin Melayu terdahulu dan berharap perpaduan akan terus berkekalan.
Jangan kita melihat Melayu Singapura sahaja, lihatlah Melayu di Pulau Pinang? dimana mereka sekarang?????
Yang berbahagia Tun
Saya harap rakyat Malaysia tidak mengira apa jua asal mereka perlu menghormati kontrak social yang telah dimentrai semasa kita merdeka dahulu. Kontrak social ini sebenarnya telah berjaya mengekalkan kerhamonian antara kaum selama sejak kita merdeka lagi.
Saya harap janganlah orang cina mempersoalkan lagi isu ini kerana samaada sedar atau tidak mereka juga sama menikmati persepakatan ini kerana dari segi ekonomi, pendidikan dan sbb mereka lebih jauh kedepan. Bukan Melayu harus sedar dengan memberi kerakyatan bukan saja mereka mendapat status warganegara malahan mereka boleh melibatkan diri dengan politik dan menjadi wakil rakyat.
Bagi orang Melayu yang menjadi rakyat raja tidak dapat apa-apa Cuma meminta mereka menghormati hak yang sedia ada seperti hak istimewa orang Melayu seperti hak dari segi ekonomi, pendidikan, tanah rizab Melayu penggunaan bahasa Melayu sebagai bahasa pengantar dan mereka perlu menumpahkan taat setia kepada raja-raja Melayu yang diamanahkan melindungi hak keistimewaan orang Melayu seperti termaktub talam artikel 153. Jika mereka mencabar hak istimewa orang Melayu sama juga mereka menderhaka kepada raja-raja dan juga Yang DiPertuan Agong.
Saya berharap janganlah di label Melayu racist semata mata kerana mempertahankan hak kami yang termaktub dalam perlembagaan. Lihatlah orang Palastin dipanggil pengganas semata mata kerana mereka berjuang mempertahankan tanah air mereka.
Harapan saya janganlah diperbesarkan lagi isu ini dan ambilah ikhtibar dari Negara lain tiada siapa yang untung jika insiden seperti May 13 berulang lagi.
Should set up only one type of school, which all 3 major languages are available. Mandrin, Bahasa Tamil & Bahasa Malaysia.
Is a must for student to learn Bahasa Malaysia, however have to select another language as a second language either Mandrin or Bahasa Malaysia.
Separating them in different schools, making the race gap wider.
Min…
SALAM TUN,
Saya pecaya kepada PENGALAMAN.
PENGALAMAN ADALAH ILMU TERBESAR DALAM KEHIDUPAN.
PENGALAMAN TUN selama lebih setengah abad sebagai pemimpin dan negarawan menjadikan TUN lebih matang dan berpandangan jauh daripada semua pemimipin yang ada hari ini termasuklah DSAAB dan DSAI.
Tidak akan adanya sebab TUN menolak kepimpinan hari ini jika TANPA ASAS YANG KUKUH.
Dikhabarkan TUN akan menyertai semula UMNO pada 17hb ini.
Mungkin TUN bercadang membawa perubahan dari dalam UMNO tapi pada awalnya saya agak TUN akan bertindak selepas RAYA AIDILFITR ini.
Bermula dengan ‘TINDAKAN’ BARU DAPAT MERUBAH KEADAAN.
Jadi ingin mengajukan TUN bertindak DEMI NEGARA MALAYSIA.
CADANGAN SAYA:
1. TUN perlu mendapatkan sokongan calon pengganti PM yang TUN rasakan layak bertanding melawan PRESIDEN pada EGM UMNO akhir tahun ini dan mencalonkan beliau dengan sokongan MT UMNO seramai mungkin.
2. TUN boleh mencabar PAK LAH supaya SATU PETI UNDI KHAS DIADAKAN semasa EGM UMNO nanti bagi melihat sama ada ahli-ahli UMNO masih yakin dengan presiden atau tidak.
3. TUN juga boleh mencadangkan atau mencabar satu poll online diadakan di website PEMUDA UMNO atau website UMNO sama ada mereka masih yakin dengan Presiden hari ini atau tidak.
SAYA YAKIN TUN LEBIH BIJAK DARI SAYA MENGENAI INI.
TERUSKAN MENGUNDI MENDESAK PAK LAH SUPAYA MELETAK JAWATAN:
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/PakLah/
VOTE SEGERA DEMI MALAYSIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Penulis: TRADEMARK PEMERINTAHAN PAK LAH ‘BERTINDAK ATAS DESAKAN’ dan ‘MERAWAT BUKANNYA MENCEGAH’.
Dear Tun,
As far as Malaysian unity is concerned Malay must unite and remain dominant.
I fear that Malaysian Unity may not be achieved if the Malays still feel that they are oppressed in their Motherland.
I also believe they will be much more oppressed when their political dominance are forgone in support of irresponsible politicianâs ambition.
In Malaysia, interracial dialogue with regards to racial rights are often discouraged as it is deemed sensitive, but this does not mean it is going solve the problems in achieving unity. Like it or not it may be the cause of the problem in the first place.
As one race discontentment and resentment accumulates without proactive measures taking place, all hell will break loose with a flick of a switch or one foolish step.
Dear Dr M we need cure for the disease completely and not merely something to reduce / eliminate the symptoms. Malaysia needs a doctor for that, I must say.
Enjoy your Ibadah Puasa.
Take care.
Wassalam.
Tun
Dengan ilmu dan kebijaksanaan dikurniakan Allah S.W.T. pada Tun, adalah menghampakan bahawa Tun masih berfikiran bias dan mementingkan agenda diri sendiri tanpa memikirkan kesejahteraan semua jangkamasa panjang. Kata-kata Tun mempunyai impak besar kepada masyarakat Malaysia dan harus ditelitikan agar dirahmati Allah S.W.T. Segala tindak tanduk yang adil, baik, menyebalahi yang miskin tanpa mengira bangsa dan agamma dan dipenuhi kemurahan hati dari Ilahi harus dilaksanakan.
Hendaklah rahmat Allah,
Takutkan api neraka.
Kata-kata biar diberkati Allah
Melaksanakan yang adil dan saksama.
Ulil Albab
Salam..
Tun, in 1946 the Malays had united and fought against the establishment of the Malayan Union.
I believe, it is now the time for us, Malaysians to unite and fought against people who are voicing out racism statements.
For the sake of achieving the Vision 2020 that you had initiated, it is very important for us to remain together as Malaysians.
HESMEL FAZNEE FAISAL
Salam Tun yg d kasehi,
Saya marah sunggoh ngan amerika ni..apa yg depa sebok ngan kita punye rumah tangga..nak panggil plak duta kita p sana tunjuk sebab pasai ISA ni..habih yg depa tahan rakyat kita kat guantinamou buat apa..lepas kan lah depa..ha rais panggil pulak duta depa tu mai tunjuk sebab….ini semua gara2 anwar brahim la nih…hancus lah malaysia kalau mcm ni dek anwarrrr…awas rakyat malaysia..berhati hati lah ngan org mcm ni…
This issue always makes my eyes watery…why
Assalamualaikum YABhg Tun.
Saya telah membuat kajian mengenai toleransi pelbagai kaum dikalangan mahasiswa di Universiti Malaya pada tahun 1990. Hasil kajian tersebut didapati mahasiswa Cina dan India berlatar belakang pengajian sekolah jenis kebangsaan jauh tidak bertoleransi berbanding mahasiswa Cina dan India dari sekolah aliran kebangsaan.
Keadaan ini menyukarkan proses asimilasi dikalangan pelbagai kaum di Malaysia.
Allah telah menjadikan manusia pelbagai suku dan bangsa supaya kita saling mengenali diantara satu sama lain, tetapi hakikatnya setiap kaum saling membena tembok pemisah. Manakala orang politik pandai ambil kesempatan dengan menjadi juara pejuang kaum untuk kepentingan politik. Malangnya mereka tetap diterima masyarakat yang kononnya memperjuangkan bangsa Malaysia.
Semoga YABhg. Tun sekeluarga dirahmati Allah.
Askm YAB Tun & All Family
Quote..
“provided we do this slowly by small steps we may be able to create a truly Malaysian identity where race would gradually become less important. It will take time but with sincerity we may reverse the present trends and move towards increasing co-operation and integration”.
Unquote..
A farsighted vision that can be relied upon.
Assalamualaikum Tun!
Very good & clear explaination. Hopefully whoever read this will understand and circulate to others.
Assalamualaikum Tun & keluarga…
memang betul apa yang Tun katakan tetapi Tun jangan lupa, Tun jugak yang kata bahawasanya bangsa melayu ni mudah lupa, kaya dengan alpa dan lebih senang makan gaji dari berdikari seperti masyarakat pendatang tu. Kerana Tunku Abdul Rahman seorang melayu yang terlalu baik, beliau setuju memberikan kerakyatan kepada mereka, sesuatu yang tak sepatutnya pada saya. Saya cuma boleh terima jika sekadar diberikan taraf penduduk tetap sahaja itu pun dah too much tetapi sekali lagi bangsa melayu yang terlalu kaya dengan adat sopan sanggup berkorban. Hari ini terlalu banyak anak bangsa melayu yang semakin layu apabila rela berkorban kepada along-along cina.
Salam Tun
Sacrify is the key word! but do you think Malay willing to give ways for the below mention?
How suppose a “True Malaysian” look alike, I wonder!!!
So long the mind set of below never take places then your vision will not be materialized.
Malay = Muslim
Prime Minister = Malay + Muslim
Allow mixed marriage to take place with no restriction choice of religious.
and of couse there are list of other important or utmost issues, such as education,NEP and etc, need to be straighten or else, dgn kata yang mudah di paham iaitu:-
“pi mai, pi mai tang tu juga”
I wonder there is a day, where true Malaysian are as below:
Malay = Islam, Christian, Hindu, Buddha or other
Cina = Islam, Christian, Hindu, Buddha or other
Indian= Islam, Christian, Hindu, Buddha or other
Kadazan, Iban dan lain2 = Islam, Christian, Hindu, Buddha or other
but do we ready to have that kind of sacrification?!!
siapaku ini!!!!
Semoga Allah sentiasa merahmati kamu Ayahanda Tun,
Sesungguhnya seorang pemimpin (Kerajaan Memerintah) perlu memikirkan cara untuk mewujudkan Malaysian Unity ini dari peringkat akar umbi, dan pemimpin yang mempunyai nilai Malaysian Unity yang sebati dengan jati diri dijadikan teladan sewajarnya. Pemilihan pemimpin yang cenderung membangkitkan isu-isu bersifat racist perlu ditolak kerana ia tidak baik untuk Malaysia. Pemilihan calon pemimpin yang cenderung kepada isu-isu perkauman sekarang ini adalah tanda-tanda kuat perasaan Malaysian Unity ini semakin kurang. Jika tidak dibendung akan menjahanamkan negara dan perkembangan ekonomi. Semuanya bermula dari satu rantaian yang sama. Pengorbanan dan tolak ansur perlu ada untuk menjayakan semua ini. Semua bangsa masing-masing mula terasa terancam dengan keadaan sekarang ini. Semoga setiap pemimpin yang dipilih boleh duduk semeja dan memikirkan perkara ini. Bukan kerana mereka adalah Kerajaan atau Pembangkang tetapi kerana mereka adalah orang yang akan merencanakan Malaysian Unity ini.
Persoalannya adakah mereka mempunyai rasa yang sama untuk memujudkan Malaysia Unity ini?
Unite, we progress and grow stronger… Disintegrate, and we shall fail.
i am ready for the sacrifice for the long term progression of our nation.
I am in this same boat with all my Malaysians with disregard to race..religion.. language ect.
In today’s highly competitive environment, we shall all work together for the common good of all malaysian. Lets move forward and not backward.
Salam Tun Dr.Mahatir
Unity in diversity will bring properity but how to achieve this.
Shall we have an open forum on this issue.
I admit I am a racist but a good racist , I am attached to my race identity and tradition inherited from my ancestor, but I also have great respect for malay people and Malay culture.
I got mad when I was told that DSAI was involved in a campaign to boycott BEIJING OLYMPIC.But when Malaysia player played against Chinese Player in badminton final my full support is given to Malaysia Player
Yg Bhg Tun,
I couldn’t agree more with your statement. The non-malays should be thankful and grateful to the malays for the FOC citizenship bestowed on them. Without the generousity of the malays, non-malays would not have prosper as what they have enjoyed now. It is time the non-malays do a muhasabah and rethink about their proposed action to demand unreasonably. Do not pour more fuel to the fire!
As the saying goes…dah diberikan betis, nakkan peha pulak. Let’s share the cake with appropriate demarcation. Look at the analogy of a family of a pair of parents with 3 boys and 3 girls. As much as possible the father would want to give same and equal gift to each child. But to give a toy car to the boys and the girls so that they are treated equally and fairly doesn’t seem practical.
I just hope that Penang will not be like Singapore though the trend is inclined to this path. It is an open secret that everybody knows about the treatment given by the previous government. Tepuk dada tanyalah selera…
Assalamualaikum Ayahanda Tun ,
Saya telah terbaca dalam 1 artikel tahun lepas bahwa orang Melayu walaupun tidak ramai yg menjadi jutawan tapi Melayulah yg mempunyai ‘purchasing power’ yg tertinggi di antara 3 kaum utama di M’sia . orang Melayu juga paling bertoleransi . Kalau takde org Melayu jgn harap tukang jahit Cina , kedai kraf dan barangan perkahwinan org Cina , kedai fabrik org India (yg banyak terdapat di Jalan TAR) dan byk lagi yg lain2 akan laris.Apabila org Cina berniaga di kawsan yg majoritinya Melayu , org Melayu tidak pernah pun halau mereka . Pernahkah mereka ini menyedari akan hakikat ini dan berterimakasih kpd org Melayu ?
Isu lain , yg sy nak nyatakan di sini sy dengar 18 Sept akan ada hari UMNO iaitu hari penentuan kdudukan TS Muhyiddin dan juga peralihan kuasa . Kemugkinan besar Pak Lah akan berdegil juga . Sy juga dengar si Khairy sibuk nak melobi nak jadi Presiden Petronas nak ganti TS Hassan .Betul ke? Nauzubillah … kalau tidak habis lingkup Petronas dikerjakan si budak hitam dan Temasek Group yg akan ambil alih .
Wassalam .
Assalaamualaikum Tun,
Your 5th point, that the “..British are partly responsible for the separation of races in Malaysia..” But that is the most important part, surely the British who has 200 years of experience since their Industrial Revolution knew that most opportunities can be made in urban areas, thus giving advantage to the Chinese, do they have something in mind when they did this? to spite the Malays for rejecting the Malayan Union? I don’t envy the Chinese because of this. I thanked you and the previous PMs for taking us out of the rurals to where we are now, it was a great concerted effort by you and your predecessors. We did our part too. As you said, Perjuangan Kita Belum Selesai..
Assalamualaikum Ybhg Tun dan Keluarga
Gembira dapat membaca tulisan lagi. Wadah dan buah fikiran Tun saya amati amat berguna untuk dijadikan pedoman untuk mentadbir negara Malaysia yang tercinta ini. Kalaulah dapat dibukukan dan dijadikan sylabus kepada PM yang memerintah mesti ada kebaikannya. Ia juga boleh dijadikan asas yang penting kepada ahli politik dan pemikir negara. Seingat saya masa Tun nak retire in 2003 last time depa beria-ia nak tubuhkan Institut Pemikiran Mahathir. Saya tak tau ini dah dilaksanakan atau ‘gimick’ sebelum dapat kuasa. Sayang sekali kalau buah fikiran yang baik disia-siakan.
Akhir kata moga Tun dan keluarga sihat dan selamat berpuasa.
Salam Tun,
This is my first time leaving a comment to chedet.com. Clearly, you are a man of vision. Clearly, you are the man that thinks too far ahead of others. You’ve really put so much thought on the reactions of every action and also the reactions of those reactions.
For short minded leaders, giving in on all demands requested by every races is really a short cut solution to every racial problems. Unfortunately, it is only for temporary satisfaction on one race, while raising dissatisfaction to the others. You are right, and you said it so well, that such act actually putting the races in Malaysia much further apart.
What I see is this. Too much time, Pak Lah making decision so quick, so unthoughtfully, and tolerate to too many people. A leader can never make EVERYONE happy, especially in a country like Malaysia, home of multiple identities.
And I have notes to top UMNO leaders.
Pak Lah, please drop your ego, and drop your position as the PM. The most noble thing you can do now is to admit that you are not capable to improve the situation simply because you have lost your reputation. 2010 will be too late for your successor to fix all the damages that occur during your tenure. And mind you, things are not getting better. It keeps getting worst exponentially as long as you are the PM. By 2010, you may just handover a rotten Malaysia to your successor. Muhyiddin has said it right and don’t be surprised to what he has said because it’s true.
Najib, please consider not to be the next PM. You and your wife have such a big scandal that is not properly settled. A scandal too big that your and your wife’s enemy can use against you. You may jeopardize the effort to ‘repair Malaysia’ by being the next PM because you will be putting to much effort in denying the accusations. You will not be able to focus.
Finally, untuk Tun, saya doakan Tun & keluarga Tun selamat selalu serta dipanjangkan umur. Dan terima kasih Tun, kerana sedikit-sebanyak, sentuhan Tun sepanjang 22 tahun membina Malaysia dapat saya nikmati. Terima kasih Tun.
Sambungan komen saya…
memang ramai yang tak tahu sejarah serta memang ramai tak minat sejarah. sejarah hanya diketahui oleh sejumlah kecil rakyat samada Melayu, Cina atau India atau lain-lain kaum.
Memang matapelajaran matematik dan sains penting namun dalam menangani permasalahan kini matapelajaran sejarah atau tawarikh amat penting. namun kini mungkin terlampat kerana generasi muda kini taiada pengetahuan dalam sejarah. Sejarah negara ini masih belum berkembang dengan pesatnya. Buku sejarah masih ditakok lama. Tiada sebarang perubahan. Saya meninggalkan alam persekolahan telah hampir 20 tahun tetapi buku sejarah kini dan dahulu masih sama.
Kerajaan tak seharusnya melindungi atau menyembunyikan sejarah. Lebih parah jika sejarah diputar belit untuk kepentingan sesuatu kaum atau parti. Generasi muda akan menyalahkan sejarah walaupun sejarah itu ditulis secara salah oleh orang yang tak bertanggungjawab. Kerajaan pemerintah harus sedar bahawa sejarah tidak boleh dilitupi kerana lambat laun ianya akan terbongkar juga. Jika perlu dinyatakan para pejuang kemerdekaan dari sayap kiri adalah juga penyumbang kepada kemerdekaan negara maka katakanlah. Jangan disorok. API, AWAS atau MPAJA, masing-masing mempunyai perjuang tersendiri. Nyatakan secara telus corak perjuangan mereka daripada dilebelkan sebagai penjenayah. Kita lebih terikut-ikut corak penjajah dimana Dato Maharajalela, Mat Kilau, Dato Bahaman, Tok Janggut, Mat Salleh dianggap sebagai penjenayah namun sejarah membuktikan mereka penjuang dan Birch sebagai penjenayah.
Sebagai pemimpin mereka harus sedar ketika mereka berkuasa dalam kepimpinan. Kesemua pemimpin yang sedia ada sebelum ini dan kini, kurang menyatakan sesuatu kebenaran tentang sejarah negara. Saya harus berterus terang dimana Tun juga kurang menimbulkan soal sejarah. namun setiap tahun hanya sejarah UMNO sahaja yang diulang tayang. Rakyat harus mengorek sendiri bagi mencari sejarah mengapakan Shamsiah Fekeh dan Rashid Maidin menyertai MPAJA. setelah dibaca maka tiada sesuatu yang boleh mempengaruhi kami generasi kini sepertimana yang ditakuti oleh kerajaan pemerintah. Itu corak perjuangan mereka dimasa mereka. saya menghormati perjuangan mereka berdua walaupun negara tidak menghormati mereka hanya kerana pertubuhan yang mereka sertai.
Perlu diketahui negara Russia juag adalah negara komunis satu ketika dahulu. Sejarah negara tersebut tidak boleh diubah kini tetapi rakyat tetap menghormati sejarah negara tersebut yang dilahirkan dalam era kekuatan dunia sebagai negara komunis.
Saya minta agar matapelajaran sejarah negara disemak semula agar ianya diketahui umum. sejarah negara milik rakyat Malaysia bukan UMNO, bukan BN, bukan PAKATAN RAKYAT tetapai milik rakyat negara yang bernama MALAYSIA.
Assalammualaikom tum
Tun memang minda kelas pertama
Terima kasih atas sejarah yang kami tak pernah tau sebelum ini
Melayu terlalu bersopan santun lah tun
Kena pijak pun masih boleh senyum
Nasib badan,
Terima Kasih
Sesungguhnya TUN salah seorang PEMIKIR AGUNG, memberikan informasi yang berharga dan menggerakkan perubahan minda masyarakat berbilang kaum. Mohon TUN dapat kekuatan untuk meneruskan perjuangan walaupun ada di kalangan pemimpin kini yang mengkritik.. Saya percaya TUN bukan sekadar melihat jauh kehadapan dan berkeupayaan lebih daripada mereka membimbing masyarakat pelbagai kaum namun pemimpin sejati yang pernah dilahirkan di bumi Malaysia. Tiada keraguan.. Aura perjuangan TUN sentiasa membara dan dirasai oleh semua lapisan masyarakat.
Dear Tun,
The disunity amongst Malays are not caused by the non-Malay Malaysians.This disunity is their own doing, history will bear witness to this fact. Also I think, greed, indiscipline, selfishness and lack of strong and positive cultural strength are all the causes of this disunity amongst the Malays.
The non-Malay Malaysian rely on their civilization that dates back some 5,000 to 7,000 years compared with the Malay’s that is hardly 500 years. The ancestors of the non-Malay Malaysian have traveled this land (including ruling them!) long before the Malays came to existence.
I sympathize with the Malays for the problems that they are into but it is entirely their own doing. Only they themselves can rectify it. Stop blaming the others. The non-Malay Malaysian will move forward in their life notwithstanding. Any attempts to pull the Non-Malay Malaysian into the problems of the Malays will not succeed. The Non-Malay Malaysians are not that naive to succumb to the disunited Malays attempt to cloud the issue.
Long live Malaysia!!
A’kum Tun & Chedet readers,
In my view, the Malaysian Malaysia concept brought by Pakatan Rakyat will create even a bigger gap between Malay and other races. By their definition of Malaysian Malaysia, ethnic identity associated with each race will be strengthened. The recent proposed of multi lingual sign board is an example. Only God knows what else will follow suit if Pakatan Rakyat is in power. This partisan stand will reverse the social hormany bridged for the past 51 years. Would Malaysian want to see their country divided?
Regards,
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Assalamualaikum Tun,
The main point is our present GOVERNMENT!!! really…really weak!!! Very sad to our people.
Ayahanda Tun,
You have said it very clear and for so many times you have repeated your self..how ever a lot of Malaysian seems to ignore the fact…recently the Orang Asal had a demo in KL…why they are not call racist? They were here before any of us…
The point is the people that pointing fingures to others and claim that person is racist he him self is 4 time racist actually..
As long as everyone know and understand from where their grand father or great great grandfather come from and accept that they are immigrant actually than our country will save and all of us will live happily ever after…
Dear Tun
once again, you remind us the important to study history to look where are we right now.
Selamat Hari raya Puasa
Assalamualaikum Tun,
Semoga sihat selalu
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It is sad indeed that this is Tun’s opinion on racial unity. The various races that make this nation only want to be treated with respect. I think that is a right of all humans. How is a passion to propogate ones language and culture an act against unity? All races, irrespective of religion take pride in their language, customs and practices, and always strive to inculcate them to the younger generation, not to separate them from the other races, but merely so that they carry on with them the teachings of their ancestors.
Tell me Tun, is it not a proud feeling, when a Malay can speak Mandarin with his Chinese friends, or when a Chinese can speak Tamil to his Indian friends? Isnt it inspiring to see an Indian wearing a Baju Melayu to a Hari Raya celebration and a Chinese lady wearing a baju kurung to work? This are only small examples of unity from a cultural level, and this is surely not a loss.
The question of rejection of national schools and the national language is a subjective one. Not all of us feel that way. I am an Indian who studied in a national school, and am proud of it. I have Malay friends who went to Chinese schools and can speak Mandarin better than the Chinese. Are we any less Malaysian?
The politial turmoil thats happening now has little to do with race. It has to do with a lack of respect for one another,masquerading as race issues. What a certain politician said recently at the Permatang Pauh rally that has created furore was more demeaning than racist. How can one person be so blatant and ask his ‘friends’,maybe even his ‘neighbours’ to ‘get out of’ this country? Could a person call up his friend from another race and say,’Get lost, you are not a native here!’. What kind of behaviour are we encouraging?
Our home is Malaysia, and our loyalty is here. We only call ourselves Chinese and Indian by virtue of race,the same of our Malay brotheren, not for any sneaky agenda. I had gone once to the National Registration Department and asked if i could put my bangsa as Malaysian, and was scolded and frowned upon. Am i so wrong?
If we start looking at this whole issue as ‘one human treating another with respect’, and not ‘one race belittling another’, we have at least begun walking the right path.Racial and religious understanding is only the beginning of a tolerant nation, who love one another equally based on the basic principles of humanity. To judge not based on colour and religious affiliations is supposed to be a very basic belief, but not practised by shallow Malaysians of all races, politicians included. How are we to become a united Malaysia if we cant event respect out human brotheren?
Is this so hard?
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