just a moment said – “Latest joke in Bolehland: Now, Ahmad is missing”.

He better be. He not only caused many Malaysian Chinese distress by referring to them as ‘pendatang, orang tumpang’ (MCA, Gerakan and now DAP have lofdged police report against him – he has also caused the premier and the BN equal if not greater distress…..

Sure, we have heard racist remarks before from politicians of ilk about which UMNO had done nothing, one example of the many : “Malaysia is an Islamic state, you don’t like it, you get out of Malaysia!” attributed to Badrudin Amiruldin (BN), July 2005 – Debating on the status of Malaysia as an Islamic state – or worse than that “Datuk Hisham has unsheathed his keris, waved his keris, kissed his keris. We want to ask Datuk Hisham when is he going to use it?” spoken in UMNO Assembly November 2006.

Where it is unfortunate for Datuk Ahmad Ismail is the timing he made these remarks much more than their contents. He could have chosen a worse timing. It was a time just before Merdeka on which the PM main theme was “solidarity” of all Malysians. “No one citizen is recognised as being of a higher position than another in this nation. This nation belongs to all of us. Whether we rise or fall depends on all of us,” the PM said. Besides, it was also spoken in Permatang Pauh by election campaign in which Opposition leader contesting on the banner of multiracialism won spectacularly against BN’s campaign based on race; it was a time when the victor Anwar is rooting for cross overs from BN’s side and will find what Ahmad said most favourable to engender support especially from MCA and Gerakan’s rank and file.

In a political commentary Wan Hamidi (political editor) of MalaysiaInsider puts it best : Is Ahmad’s tongue undermining the BN???? Will his racist remarks be trigger and catalyst for rank and file topressure MCA, Gerakan and other BN component parties to heed DSAI’s call to defect BN to PR’s side, especialy when he made remarks in presence of BN chief Whip Najib and the PM is perceived to have apologised for him by the statement : “I will tell him (Ahmad) not to do it again. You know in a campaign all sorts of things can come up. I don’t think he meant it. I’ll make sure to tell him not to use it again.”

These events lend credenceto Opposition allegations that non Malay componet parties within BN especialy MCA are subservient to UMNO and hence cannot represent and in fact betray their constitutencies’ interest making it more untenable for these parties to remain within BN’s fold when DSAI is calling……….

What Ahmad has done is to unwittingly deliver to Pakatan Rakyat a bountiful plate of political capital that Pakatan needs to meet its 16th September deadline. :)

Repost : the latest joke Datuk Ahmad Ismail has joined ranks of Private detective Bala & Hospital Pusrawi’s Dr Muhamad Osman Abdul Hamid and gone (reportedly) “missing”. He better be. He not only caused many Malaysian Chinese distress by referring to them as ‘pendatang, orang tumpang’ (MCA, Gerakan and now DAP have lofdged police report against him – he has also caused the premier and the BN equal if not greater distress…..
Sure, we have heard racist remarks before from politicians of ilk about which UMNO had done nothing, one example of the many : “Malaysia is an Islamic state, you don’t like it, you get out of Malaysia!” attributed to Badrudin Amiruldin (BN), July 2005 – Debating on the status of Malaysia as an Islamic state – or worse than that “Datuk Hisham has unsheathed his keris, waved his keris, kissed his keris. We want to ask Datuk Hisham when is he going to use it?” spoken in UMNO Assembly November 2006.
Where it is unfortunate for Datuk Ahmad Ismail is the timing he made these remarks much more than their contents. He could NOT have chosen a worse timing. It was a time just before Merdeka on which the PM main theme was “solidarity” of all Malysians. “No one citizen is recognised as being of a higher position than another in this nation. This nation belongs to all of us. Whether we rise or fall depends on all of us,” the PM said. Besides, it was also spoken in Permatang Pauh by election campaign in which Opposition leader contesting on the banner of multiracialism won spectacularly against BN’s campaign based on race; it was a time when the victor Anwar is rooting for cross overs from BN’s side and will find what Ahmad said most favourable to engender support especially from MCA and Gerakan’s rank and file.