Thank God you got the point. So at least now you are aware that non Malay rights are respected in Malaysia. That no one is trying to take away non Malay rights.

So, some credit must be given to the govt of the day. In this case the government led by UMNO.

As for SMs, you got it right. However not complete assesment of what Reid Commision said. Persekutuan Tanah Melayu in 1957 is a land of many races. Reid Commision ( just like UMNo and Malay Rulers) recognised such fact. And the Malay Rulers agreed to one fact unheard in this world. They are willing to grant citizenship en bloc to non Malays to pave way to independence. Such generosity is a unique phenomenon even by today standard.

And the British also recognised one fact; that this country at its arrival leading to colonisation was originally a Malay country. Hence some unique clause such as Malay Royalty, position of National Language and Religion, Custom of Malay community.

Nowhere in the Commision about vernacular school. It however guarantees the right to speak in mother tongue and the practice of one’s faith. There is no compulsion here.

Vernacular school exists because Malays being generous people agree to it. I wonder Dap, being so concern about racial unity and hate anything about filling your “race” in official document , is so silent about this unique phenomenon by world standard.

UMNo never question non Malay rights. It never prevent Chinese or Indians from practising their customs so. And I or no sane Malay would do that. It is against Islam to force your way or belief onto others.

However, certainly Malays do not wish that their rights questioned under veiled “freedom of speech”. Certainly Malays are upset that they are accused of committing “etnic cleansing” when verybody knows that Hindraf lied. Certainly Muslims are angry that non Muslim NGO questioned their ban on destructive “penkid” element.

Certainly they are upset that BAR Council did not invite learnt Muslim scholars to speak onSocial Contract . And no sane Malay ever recognises Farish Noor as qualified to speak on their behalf.

It is an insult to predict that JAKIM will ban sarung. Islam recognises diversity. aptly mentioned in Kuran that “We made human of different races, tribes, color, attributes so that you can learn from each other….”.

As for Najib calling next election, that is not a concern now. He has more than 4 years to declare election.

The Independent Father Tunku and the Malay rulers had asked the Reid Commission to ensure that “in an independent Malaya all nationals should be accorded equal rights, privileges and opportunities and there must not be discrimination on grounds of race and creed,”

Ask them! because they do not even know the above statement stated by their Independent Father Tunku and the Malay rulers.

It is your rights to ask them to honor it.

The basic rights of non-Malays are enshrined in the Federal Constitution. I haven’t thoroughly studied the Perlembagaan, but I know that non-Malays have the rights to education, including the rights to study their mother tongues. So, any government that governs this country has to preserve the rights of the minorities, am I right? Nowadays a government cannot change the names of its peoples because it is against the UN Charter and the violation of human rights. In the case of Thailand, it implemented its assimilation policy long before the UN came into existence. Indonesia also had its assimilation policy but under its constitution, Pancasila, all Indonesians enjoy equal rights, no special rights for any ethnic group. I remember reading in the newspaper years ago about Mahathir saying the Chinese and other minorities in this country are fortunate in that their rights are protected under the Constitution.
Correct me if I’m wrong.

My take is that Najib will call a snap election early or mid 2010. Running top in his mind after taking over the front seat from Abdullah is to solidify and regalvanize UMNO’s internal and external strengths. UMNO has been quite badly injured, arising from what some may say, weak leadership under Abdullah to electoral wanting change in the government. Dr. Mahathir’s incessant critical views on Abdullah had also in a way helped chipping away some support from UMNO to Pakatan Rakyat(PR). However, one musr realized that the majority Malays were quite solid behind UMNO in the recently concluded general election. A big chunk of the Indians and some 55% Chinese abandoned Barisan Nasional(BN) for PR. At best, only 35% Malays crossed the opposition instead of BN and I would safely say that the figure is dropping by the days since after the election. UMNO has successfully painted a very bad picture of PR ruled governments to the Malays. Utusan Malaysia, RTM and TV3 had been airing news on how unjustified the Malays were treated by PR. And I think it is a fair assumption that given the absence of any effective counter reporting by PR, the Malays had been taken in by the news played up by UMNO. PR governments had been projected to be lack of experience in administrating, uncohesive among themselves and extremely unfair to the Malays as well as not prioritizing Islamization concepts. These are all but nothing nimble election campaign to dislodge PR from all 5 states won by them.

The frequent and wide publicizing on arrests of PR’s politicians and councillors had further darkened public’s views on PR. The rapid reduction of petrol prices will be extensively used by BN this time around, leaving them one less worry on which PR had effectively exploited this issue in the last election. Hindraf has been outlawed and MIC is rebranding itself to reach out to the Indians. The PR governments had been projected to be not doing enough for the Indians.

If one were to dig deeper into history, they will find out the trend of moving away from communal politics were amply demonstrated in the Singapore’s 1963 general election where none of the communal parties including UMNO were returned. I was told that 3 ardent UMNO areas in Singapore then were broken down and the supporters threw their support behind PAP. However, UMNO didn’t change then as they continued harping on racial issues till riot broke out in 1964 and they will never do despite losing a chunk of its power to PR in 2008.

PR has to pull up its socks if it were to think of defending the 5 states in the coming snap election(my take as it may not happen), let alone the federal government. Without the media on its side, the battle would be long, hard and ardous.

how much did umno pay him for campaigning during the election?
in boleh, one gets corrupted very easily when having a name and/or power

If I remember his path correctly, most of his positions were given or pass on to him. He has yet to engaged in bitter struggle like Mahathir or Anwar to attain position of importance so perhaps he might be contended with what will be passed on to him for the time being.

If we look at the name of our first PM, Rahman is followed by Al-Haj, right?

So

Anwar Ibrahim
Lim Guan Eng
-
Harris Ibrahim
A (still in university)
J (still in secondary school)

…..?????…..
;-P

Malaysian should create a tsunami wave to those who divide the Malaysian into racial issue with 51 years equal right issue unsolved.

Overthrew them to the Strait of Malaca.

Let there be peace and united in the Land of Malaysia.

Khaled: Get laid-off academics back

PASIR GUDANG: Local universities should take the opportunity to hire Malaysian academics retrenched by foreign universities.

Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Khaled Nordin said many Malaysian academics currently serving in foreign universities were expecting to be retrenched due to the recession in several developed countries.

He said local universities could benefit from this by employing these academics.

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Anwar Confident Of Uniting Opposition Parties In Sabah, Sarawak
from Bernama.com

KOTA KINABALU, Nov 21 (Bernama) — Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) advisor Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is confident of uniting the main political parties in Sabah and Sarawak, which are in the opposition front, to field a single candidate against the Barisan Nasional (BN) in all constituencies in the next general election.

Time to review this “Recaptcha”. Make it to one word instead of 2 words.

Rest assured only idiots will ever give “Rahman” notion a serious thinking. Among Muslim Malay community, nobody can deny that it is a mere coincidence that all PM of Malaysia have names start with Rahman notion.

As for early election, that is the right of a head of govt( meaning PM) to decide. And UMNO does not need to be racial in order to win election. THe record speaks for itself. It stood fast for decade in allowing MCA, MIC, Gerakan leaders to win in Malay areas; something that PAS has always find time to condemn as sinful in mosques.

As for racial politics, DAP treats its as its hallmark. It continously incite the Chinese that any alliance between UMNo and MCa, Gerakan , MIC is a symbol of weakness for the latter. It incites the Chinese to resent the dominance of UMNO. But it conveniently forget that UMNO’s dominance is due to simple logic; that it is the strongest among BN components. And why. Number talks. Malay forms the biggest community in Malaysia. As such they hold the most influence in politics. In short, UMNO earns its dominance. And its dominance is accepted and recognised by component parties.

There is nothing wrong about that. However, UMNO never bullies the non Malay communities. As such, there is no need to change your name like what heppened in Thailand and Indonesia. And i, in magnaminity, it allows a unique phenomenon in the world; that is allowing separate vernacular school and funding them too.

In magnaminity, it allows non Malay to win in Malay areas. Something that none of my colleaques in foreign country fail to understand.

As for DSAI, he is a laughing joke now. And if you care to accept the truth, you will find more than 90% of Malay people who vote for PKR regretted it .