PUTRAJAYA: Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said that his statement about the Chinese votes at the recent by-elections in an interview with a Malay daily were taken out of context.“My Bahasa is very clear and straightforward. I was just making an assessment about the situation in Bukit Selambau and Bukit Gantang.
“I said it very clearly in my interview. When you twist what I say and put me in a bad light with the Chinese community, that is something serious,” he told reporters after the handover of duties from former education minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein at the ministry Tuesday.
He was asked about statements that he had said the “Chinese were ungrateful” in an interview with Mingguan Malaysia last Sunday.
“I think it is the Chinese paper. I don’t read Chinese but I have people who report to me, who said that (it) had twisted what I said.
“If you don’t understand Bahasa Malaysia, we can send you to school,” he said.
Muhyiddin said he had also spoken to MCA president Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat about it.
“Tee Keat said there was nothing wrong with my statement,” he said.
Muhyiddin said the interview had to be read in the whole context.
“You can’t pick up like that as it is in the context of the statement I made... that is the real meaning of what I said.
“I think I am good in Bahasa but some people do not understand my Bahasa unfortunately,” he said.
Muhyiddin said he was comparing the results for the recent Bukit Gantang by-election to the one in 2008, which had deteriorated in terms of support for Barisan Nasional.
“For me that is serious .... although we tried to resolve the problems, it’s as if (seolah-olah) what we have done is not appreciated,” he said.
Muhyiddin said it was a post-mortem on the recent by-election results.
“If the Chinese are not supporting (us) ... I said in my interview we have to understand why that is so.
“I think I am very frank about it as I want to understand why Chinese thinking is like that, why the Malay is not like that. I am not saying that the Chinese are good or bad; we have to analyse (the situation),” he said.
Muhyiddin said the Barisan Nasional had yet to establish whether the lack of non-Malay support in Bukit Gantang was reflective of the overall sentiment in the country.
“This has yet to be seen as we have not made any assessment of the overall situation. This is only in the case of Bukit Gantang and Bukit Selambau,” he added.
tunku : this is the problem with some of our media, they tends to take things out of context.they want to sell so they write whatever sell it high.i have read muhyiddin's interview in utusan and he had never accused the chinese community as ungrateful. he was commenting on bukit gantang's campaign in chinese area not about the whole chinese community in malaysia.hope that the media will be more responsible or if you(the reporters) don't understand the language take night classes to polish it up.muhyiddin is not stupid to make such ridiculous statement in the media.
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Tak perlah itu hanya mahu meguji kekentalan Muhyiddin sebagai TPM dan berhati-hati bila bercakap, sama ngan kami nak test Tan Sri , melatah atau tak , tenguk kat sini
ANWAR TERSENGIH, ERDOGAN KUASAI PAS
Serangan sudah lama bermula. Jarum sudah dimasukkan dan kini buah daripada 'hasil' perjuangan 1998, sudah boleh dituai.
Nik Aziz sudah pun secara terbuka pada 13 April di Machang, 'menyerahkan kepada perwakilan muktamar untuk menentukan barisan kepimpinan termasuklah bagi jawatan Yang Dipertua.' Nik Aziz sudah pun menunjukkan belang sebenar di belakangnya walaupun khabar-khabar angin tentang dalang bertangan ghaib itu sudah lama kedengaran dan cuba dinafikan bukan sahaja dari kalangan para pemimpin kanan, bahkan para pengikut totok yang tidak tahu apa benda yang mereka katakan.
Hasilnya, Roslan SMS yang merupakan salah seorang daripada pembantu utama Hadi Awang, kalah di Kelana Jaya. Taib Azzamuddin yang menegaskan bahawa kalimah Allah milik 'mutlak' umat Islam bagi kes di Malaysia, juga dipenggal di Baling.
Siapa lagi yang akan kena penggal?
Nama-nama seperti Mustapha Ali, Ahmad Yaacob, Haron Taib, Nasharuddin Mat Isa pastinya sedang kepanasan memandangkan gelombang Anwar Ibrahim sedang melanda PAS dengan begitu hebat.
Masih di peringkat awal... tunggulah dalam seminggu dua lagi. Pastinya barisan kepimpinan bayangan PAS yang baru akan berubah menjadi fizikal liberalisme, sekularisme dan pasaran terbuka dan bebas, sesuatu yang sangat-sangat bertentangan dengan perlembagaan PAS sendiri!
Jangan harap para pembloggers pro-pembangkang akan menyiarkan berita-berita sebegini. Apatah lagi kebanyakan bloggers pro-pembangkang merupakan pemuja Anwar Ibrahim nombor wahid. Mereka lebih senang bercerita tentang Najib, tentang kemelut di Terengganu, tentang Muhyiddin Yassin yang menimbulkan kemarahan kaum Cina, bahkan tentang Suhaili Abdul Rahman di Labuan. Seboleh mungkin mereka akan menutup kelemahan PAS dan kemelut di dalamnya dengan menimbulkan masalah di dalam UMNO dan BN.
Bukankah itu cara dan taktik politik yang diamalkan oleh Anwar Ibrahim dan juak-juaknya? Perhatikan sahaja pengkomen-pengkomen dari blok pembangkang dan bagaimana caranya mereka mengkomen... rumusan mudah, koyakkan orang lain punya kain supaya kain kita tak kelihatan koyak
p/s: Timbul persoalan apa yang mendorong kecenderungan Mursyidul Am mempertahankan kumpulan moderat-liberal dalam gerakan Islam itu. Apatah lagi, Nik Aziz tanpa berselindung telah turun padang melancarkan buku aktivis Islam Liberal yang bagi sesetengah ahli PAS begitu menyentuh maruah selaku umat dan pejuang Islam.
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ada betuilah apa depa kata tu cakap...pas in deep shit
SU presiden PAS, tokoh ulama tewas
Abdul Rahim Sabri | Apr 14, 09 3:43pm
Setiausaha akhbar presiden PAS gagal mempertahankan jawatannya sebagai yang dipertua yang disandang selama dua penggal, sementara seorang tokoh ulama PAS tewas di tangan seorang pesara guru.
Roslan Shahir Mohd Shahir gagal di Kelana Jaya, manakala ahli parlimen Baling, Taib Azamudden Md Taib kalah sebagai timbalan yang dipertua.
Pegawai Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang itu gagal mempertahankan jawatan tersebut yang dipegangnya sejak 2005 – sebagai kawasan parlimen yang baru – di tangan timbalannya Izham Hashim.
Kenaikan Izham, yang juga ahli Majlis Bandaraya Shah Alam, dianggap suara akar umbi PAS yang menolak Roslan kerana didakwa sering mempertahankan isu rundingan dengan Umno.
Izham memberitahu Malaysiakini, Roslan tewas akibat dua faktor utama – pertama, kecenderungan ahli-ahli menolak isu kontroversi tersebut, termasuk cadangan Abdul Hadi menganjurkan kerajaan campuran, dan juga beliau dikatakan tidak rapat dengan pemimpin-pemimpin cawangan.
Dihubungi hari ini, Roslan menafikan kekalahannya itu "ada kena-mengena" dengan isu rundingan PAS-Umno dan kerajaan campuran.
"Kalah menang adat pertandingan, mungkin akar umbi mahu pemimpin (yang) lebih baik daripada saya, bekerja lebih kuat daripada saya," katanya.
Roslan, yang juga ketua penerangan PAS Selangor, tewas 10 undi di tangan jurutera itu daripada 102 perwakilan.
Kelana Jaya mencalonkan Datuk Husam Musa sebagai timbalan presiden, manakala Mohamad Sabu, Datuk Seri Mohd Nizar Jamaluddin dan Taib Azamudden sebagai naib presiden.
Taib Azamudden, bekas imam besar Masjid Negara, tewas kepada ADUN Kupang, Johari Abdullah dengan majoriti lebih 40 undi daripada lebih 600 perwakilan.
Bagaimanapun, jawatan yang dipertua bagi kawasan tersebut yang disandang Abdul Wahad Hassan dan naibnya Hassan Saad tidak dipertandingkan.
Kawasan itu tidak mencadangkan nama-nama untuk mengisi pemimpin atasan PAS, sebaliknya menyerahkan kepada barisan pemimpin Baling yang baru dilantik.
Mesyuarat kawasan-kawasan PAS yang bermula 9 Mac lalu, akan berakhir hujung minggu ini. Manakala mesyuarat ketiga-tiga dewan - Pemuda, Muslimat dan Ulama - di peringkat negeri akan berlangsung antara 20 April hingga 10 Mei.
Pemilihan barisan pemimpin atasan parti di muktamar ke-55 di Stadium Malawati, Shah Alam antara 3 hingga 7 Jun dijangka menampilkan pertarungan sebenar aliran-aliran utama parti itu, khususnya golongan pro-muzakarah dan pro-Pakatan Rakyat (dikenali juga "kumpulan Erdogan").
Ia dijadual disertai lebih 1,000 perwakilan dari 175 kawasan PAS di seluruh negara.
Pemilihan dan persidangan Pemuda, Muslimat dan Ulama dijadual berlangsung sehari pada 4 Jun.
(Resend. Not sure earlier post send)
Tunkuaisha said...
"if you(the reporters) don't understand the language take night classes to polish it up.muhyiddin is not stupid to make such ridiculous statement in the media."
Tunku,
I'm an avid reader of your blog for the past 2 years and never once commented here.
But tonight (morning already morning here xcually), I would like to share something.
To address what I'm trying to say would definitely gonna take a center spread but i will try to be brief.
From the quote above, it's liken given the opposition an ammo. Instead of we retaliated back, why don't we address or re-address the 'misunderstanding'. Nobody likes to be scolded in public, even though the scolder intention is noble or justified. End of the day what we created is a chain of hatred and retaliation.
We should take heart from the 'hadiah penyapu' incident.
What we should do is back to the drawing board, and re-address the nation. I strongly with you regarding eliminating the corruption. Currently we are labeled as a corrupted government and need to be change.
Change is good.
Bu instead of changing the government, why don't we as a government change or a better term, RE-BRAND our self that we can govern the country as per rakyat required.
Currently, base my on observation, the MAIN and NUMBER ONE antagonist labeled to us is corruption.
We are addressing it currently with SPRM, but that's not enough. What's SPRM doing right now is liken to 'business to business' (B2B) in financial term. The impact is not felt by rakyat. We need to address the B2C... 'business to customer/consumer'. I do not need to elaborate further as I'm sure u and majority of this blog's followers will understand.
Once the MAIN antagonist addressed, then we move to the next in line. The SECOND and the THIRD and so on and so forth.
We have nothing to lose in addressing the said problem(s) but we, and the whole nation are definitely gonna lost a whole lot more if it's not gonna be addressed!
So it's indirectly a task fell upon us to create awareness in a professional manner to create a +ve environment so that we don't felt into emotional trap that would hinder rakyat further away from us... thus, undoing all the good deeds that has been done.
wassalam.
Tunku,
1. Kudos to the TPM for his views
on the non-malay voters at
Bt.Gantang and Bt. Selambau.
2. TPM is calling a spade a spade
just like what Dr Mahathir
would have said if he is still
the PM.
3. Those who voiced out their
disagreements are actually
feeling the heat from the chili
(siapa makan cili dialah yg
terasa pedas)
4. The govt.should not be too
accomadative towards those who
bit the hands that feed them.
5. We need a leader like TS
Muhyiddin.
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