Thursday, July 23, 2009

MCA: Dr M’s remarks not helping racial unity

PETALING JAYA: Tun Dr Mahathir Moha-mad’s claim that the Chinese are the masters in the country will not help foster racial harmony, said the MCA.
MCA secretary-general Senator Datuk Wong Foon Meng expressed regret over the former prime minister’s comments, saying they would only increase confusion.
He said such comments on racial issues would affect the harmony and did not contribute to nation-building.
“We regret Dr Mahathir’s statement that appears to criticise our Prime Minister’s initiative to liberalise the economy,” he said in a statement yesterday.
“The liberalisation measures showed that Najib had the courage to carry out necessary reforms for the good of the country and its people.
“The reforms do not mean that the Government no longer helps bumiputras. They are using another method to achieve the same target, through the setting up of Ekuinas, which aims to consolidate bumiputra participation in the economy,” he added.
Gerakan also expressed disappointment over the comments, with its deputy youth chief Oh Tong Keong saying that Dr Mahathir’s latest blog presented a simplistic yet distorted understanding of Malaysian society.
He added that such statements could provoke sentiments among Malays that they were being exploited and oppressed, while the Chinese might feel that they were superior and smarter.
Oh said Dr Mahathir only made statements and presumptions, and did give any reasons for them.
He also questioned Dr Mahathir’s claims that whatever the Malays had now was being taken away from them.
“Who has taken what and how has not been explained,” Oh said.

tunku : nowadays people don't like others saying the truth and facts. they want to listen to fictions.the truth is always hard to swallow.mca and gerakan should start joining hands and face the opposition not the other way round.

6 comments:

Shuhaimi said...

The spelling of the word Moha-mad's in the Star is very demeaning since it purposely stress the word MAD. The is so kurang ajar.

Anonymous said...

Hi
Confused! No lah, may be MCA but not me. How come we cannot talk about racial issues, everybody else can. How come when we talk it affect racial harmony, but when every other ah chong and muniandy says it it's not.

Yes lets "liberalise" the economy every sector is ratio at 60:26:14
This will be good for the country as it is "so fair". No need to help the bumiputera any more, they have their share.

To Gerakan, there is no other simpler method then to lay the facts. There is no distortion if its the facts. Provoke sentiments, you mean to tell me, all this while we have NON! Yes malays are exploited and chinese are kai-su.

“Who has taken what and how!" My god, you need us to spell it out, then its to late my friend.

akb

Somenone said...

Yeah.. i agreed with u Shuhaimi. This is truly an insult to the Muslims with that name. i m quite sure it's not typo error but it was spelt on purpose. i hope someone out there with authority would raise this issue with the Star Publication and aski for an apology. MEMANG TERSANGAT KURENG AJEER...

Anonymous said...

So this is a WAKE UP call.

They will deny everything that is not to their benefit.

Tun is always right. He has the facts and history to prove his statements.

They have even started to disrespect the sultans.

And they are just humouring PAS, coz thru PAS the Malays will be divided.

Kudos to Tun Dr Mahathir for his guts to speak the TRUTH.

Anonymous said...

Salam,
Kita ni bila cakap pasal hak, puak2 ni asyik tuduh kita racist. MCA & Gerakan lah yg betul2 DURI Dalam Daging BN. Kita ikhlas bila berjanji power sharing, tapi depa yg sbetul nya benefit dari sistem NEP ini.
Semua kontrak2 besar Kerajaan/GLC depa yg sapu guna frontliner pengkhianat2 Melayu. Kalau check setiap BOD GLC, ada se ekor wakil MCA/GERAKAN sudah cukup, habis BOD Melayu yg lain kena lelong.Ada pula tu yg dah 20 tahun lebih pun tak bertukar wajah. Yg wakil Melayu come and go and tak serius nak bantu bangsa Melayu secara ikhlas
Habis tu bisnesman Melayu pun jadi lah pengemis kpd Tuan Baru Kapitan2 Cina ni.
Underworld belakang puak2 ni lagi hebat.

stonehead

Anonymous said...

dr.M is just like the watak in Watchmen dr.Manhattan.....cool habis......