It is quite common to see the oppositions in Asian countries to fight
for something that is totally against the cultural reality of their
country. Even in our country, the calls for absolute freedom are cried
by mostly the oppositions. This mindless attempt to enforce western
ideologies and values upon a country like ours of which is against our
culture and beliefs is just another form of colonization that some of us
failed to realise. These so called activists refuse to acknowledge the
presence of opinion other than theirs. Thus, the confrontation of these
reformists as they would like to be called and the people is inevitable.
Backed by the political power of western countries, these activists
create social movements in order to promote western ideologies and ways
of thinking. When faced with retaliation by those who represent the real
thoughts of the people, they will easily claim that those who oppose
them are racist, extremist and are afraid of change. The modus operandi
of these western backed movements can be seen in many incidents.
In an article posted in Lim Kit Siang’s blog, the DAP leader were
concerned with the reports made by USIF (United State Commission on
International Religious Freedom). Saying that he was concerned that
Malaysia was inducted into the USIF watch list, the article then rants
on and on about how the government failed to tackled the Kalimah Allah
issue, Shia’, Al-Arqam and other issues regarding the freedom of
religion in Malaysia.
Lim Kit Siang and the writers in his blog should’ve known better than
to have the Americans dictates what is good or bad for our country.
Malaysia as a sovereign country has been dealing with racial issues for
57 years, and obviously the government have been doing a very good job.
The last racial riots that we have seen was 45 years ago and Mr Lim Kit
Siang played a very important role in it. We know that he tries very
hard denying this, but the facts are still clear.
Now let us turn to USIFR, the international body which Lim Kit
Siang’s looked upon highly. The USIFR was created in 1998 under the USA
law “International Religious Freedom Act”. Why on earth that we would
be “scared” by the laws of other countries. Are we an annex of the
United States of America? Since when did we have to answer to the
Americans? We should not be afraid of the Americans, they can put us in
whatever list that they want, but we Malaysians have the power to decide
our fate and the fate of our country.
Let’s compare the effectiveness of the Malaysian method of governing
racial and religious issues against the Americans. In the last 45 years,
Malaysia only has one account of racial riots, while America has more
than 20 mass violent riots during that time. During the time that the
American still practices segregation and discrimination against the
African Americans, Hispanics and other ethnics, Malaysia or Malaya was
already ready to accept everyone without prejudice. We accepted the idea
of a multicultural Malaysia long before the blacks were permitted to
sit at the front seat of the public bus. Do we still think that we need
the Americans to tell us what to do?
The USA should learn from Malaysia on how to govern a
multi-ethnic/religion country. It shouldn’t be the other way around.
Maybe, only then they can reduce their crime rate, avoid deadly riots
and finally become a country that is respected (not feared) by the
world. We as a Malaysian, regardless of our political beliefs, should
safeguard our sovereignty and have faith in our government. It is not
wrong to criticize the government, but what Lim Kit Siang and his
writers wrote in his blog is close to treason. Lim Kit Siang should be
thankful that he is indeed lives as a citizen of Malaysia. If this were
to happen in the USA, he would have spent the remaining days of his life
in Guantanamo Bay, next to a bunch of jihadist while being tortured by
sadistic American soldiers.
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Population Malaysia about 30 million. Population USA about 300 million. 10 x?
2. You miss the Kg Medan incident. But we're still slightly better after multiplying 10 x.
3. So when Malaysia going to get rid of the Ku Klux Klan gangs and religious bigots?
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