Monday, March 23, 2009

MCA Youth Chief slams Dr M

KUALA LUMPUR, March 23 - MCA Youth Chief Datuk Dr Wee Ka Siong today condemned Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad for saying the Malay community was under threat and for his attack on Chinese educationists.
Yesterday Dr Mahathir called the Chinese educationist group Dong Jiao Zong (DJZ) racists who practised apartheid.
"That is apartheid, not us. We proposed that everyone study together in one school then only can you have bangsa Malaysia.
"They did not want to mix with the other races especially the Malays. They did not want their children to mix with Malays and that is apartheid, not us," Dr Mahathir had said.
Wee believes that Dr Mahathir's statement was baseless and that he had ulterior motives when he made it.
"If the Chinese educationists do not like to mingle with the Malay community, I would like to inform him that almost 90 per cent of the students that finish their primary school at SJKC ( Chinese vernacular schools) enrol into national secondary schools, " he explained.
Dr Mahathir's administration had proposed the formation of Vision Schools to group national, Chinese and Tamil primary schools in one single compound, but his idea was opposed by DJZ and only a few such institutions were ever set up.
The MCA Youth Chief refused to acknowledge that the government had failed in integrating the different races and gave the Youth Integration program as an example of government efforts.
He mentioned that national unity should not be measured against the failure or success of the Wawasan school but racial integration should be examined at all educational levels including in universities.
Wee also defended Chinese vernacular schools and said, "SJKC (Chinese vernacular schools) syllabus is created by the Ministry of Education, we sing the same national anthem and swear to the same national principles (Rukun Negara)."
When he was asked about The Malaysian Insider's report that Datuk Hishammuddin Hussein plans to show the keris during the opening ceremony for the Umno youth assembly, he declined to make any direct comments.
"I would not make any comments regarding any speculation. When the time comes then I will give my response.
"I am confident since the last few years that public reaction will be taken in consideration because we are a multi-racial county.
In Barisan Nasional, we respect each other's rights to hold a general assembly and we wont get involved. But we must be aware of the current political scenario and what will be political scenario after party elections," he replied.

tunku : if you respect each other then you should not jump like a monkey. what Tun Dr Mahathir said yesterday was right, whenever malays talk about themselves , they will always be labelled as racist.see today out of all the mca youth jumping like monkeys.why the demands from indians is not racist, why the demands from chinese is not racist but if it is from the malays..is racist.be fair.in a chinese forums, they talk all sort of things about their community, why it is not racist? in indians forums, they do the same too, why it is not racist? the time has come for the malays to wake up and stand united.read the whole text of tun dr mahathir speech yesterday here.

4 comments:

PARPUKARI said...

KURANG AJAR PUNYA WEE KA SIONG, WE DEMAND HIM TO APOLOGISE TO TUN, SAMPAI BILA NAK DIAM NI...ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

Anonymous said...

Cdo harap pemimpin UMNO buat sesuatu dalam hal ini. Sekurang-kurangnya kasi peringat sama dia....Cdo setuju Siong ini dlam kategori"kurang bijak"...dia sepatutnya dengar sampai habis apa TDM kata dan buat analisa bukannya terus "menyondol macam makanan kegemarannya aje..."

Anonymous said...

In a related development, Perkasa president Ibrahim Ali, who held a press conference in Parliament, said Umno must take a stronger position in defending the rights and privileges of the Malays as enshrined in the social contract.

The Pasir Mas independent MP added that Perkasa would be submitting their 10-point resolution, asserting the rights and privileges of the Malays, to the Agong and incoming premier Najib Abdul Razak soon.

The resolution endorsed by 66 Malay non-governmental groups incorporates the special positions of Malay rulers, the national language and Islam as the official religion of the federation.

"Perkasa would act as the watchdog and we are going to fight for our rights... we not asking anything more than what was endowed to us," said Ibrahim.

Anonymous said...

I wish people would take the trouble to read closely what TDM said instead of just yelling "racist".
If anything, he made remarks critical of Malays themselves to "menyedarkan".
Yang lain lain ni melompat kenapa?