No to “ketuanan rakyat Malaysia” – BN abandoning Bangsa Malaysia?


I will move a motion under Standing Order 43 to challenge and review the ruling of Deputy Speaker Datuk Ronald Kiandee condoning the gross breach of parliamentary privilege by former Minister and Barisan Nasional MP for Rompin Datuk Jamaluddin Jarjis in trying to sabotage my speech during the 2009 Budget debate on the Ministry of Unity, Culture, Arts and Heritage on Monday in misleading the House by falsely claiming that I had said “the Malays treated the Chinese like slaves” when referring to “ketuanan Melayu”.

Jamaluddin was being most mischievous, irresponsible and racist when he deliberately repeated at least ten times in various variation of the false accusation that I had said the Malays regard the Chinese as slaves to try to paint me as racist and anti-Malay – when he was the one who was demonstrating his worst communal colours.

He even challenged me to apologise and withdraw the allegation when this is verified in a check with the Hansard the next day.

A check with the Hansard has proven that Jamaluddin was telling a big lie, which he compounded by repeating it ten times in the House on Monday, and it is now clearly confirmed that I had never said that the Malays treated the Chinese as slaves.

This is a gross breach of parliamentary privilege, compounded by his deliberate repetition of the lie ten times, hoping to turn a lie into a truth by sheer repetition!

If a Pakatan Rakyat MP had done to a Barisan Nasional Minister what Jamaluddin did to me in Parliament on Monday, the Pakatan Rakyat MP would have been stopped within seconds and suspended from the House, let alone being allowed to repeat the lie ten times, or referred to the Committee of Privileges for more serious disciplinary action to be meted out to him.

Why should there be one rule for Pakatan Rakyat MPs and another rule for Barisan Nasional MPs in the Malaysian Parliament?

I call on all right-thinking and justice-loving MPs, regardless of party whether from Pakatan Rakyat or Barisan Nasional, to take a common stand to censure Jamaluddin for his gross breach of parliamentary privilege in Parliament on Monday.

It is most pertinent that when I repeatedly asked in the House on Monday whether UMNO MPs would support the concept of “ketuanan rakyat Malaysia”, there was total silence and strenuous evasion with Jamaluddin trying to distract the issue by lying that I had accused the Malays of treating the Chinese as slaves in “ketuanan Melayu” concept.

In actual fact, it is the Umno leaders and Umno-putras who have enslaved all Malaysians – ordinary Malays, Chinese, Indians, Kadazans and Ibans – by trotting out the “ketuanan Melayu” concept, which has nothing to do with the position of Malay Rulers and is not to be found in the Merdeka Constitution.

Last year, the government spent RM100 million to celebrate 50th Merdeka anniversary of the nation. Why are the UMNO and Barisan Nasional leaders not prepared to come forward to state clearly and unequivocally that they are in full support of “ketuanan rakyat Malaysia”?

In refusing to fully endorse the concept of “ketuanan rakyat Malaysian”, aren’t the Barisan Nasional government abandoning the Bangsa Malaysia concept of Vision 2020?

It is sad that Umno leaders are not prepared to endorse the concept of “ketuanan rakyat Malaysia” -, which show that they are not yet prepared to become fully Malaysian leaders. They should give serious thought to the very eloquent and heart-wrenching speech by the DAP MP for Batu Gajah, Fong Po Kuan, in the debate on Monday who asked on behalf of all Malaysians why they are not regarded as full Malaysians when their sole loyalty is to this country and no other!

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  1. #1 by simon041155 on Friday, 5 December 2008 - 8:18 am

    Looking at the situation, maybe it’s best for non-Malays to accept Ketuanan Melayu and look for greener pastures elsewhere. Why should non-Malays be loyal to this country with Ketuanan Melayu? The ruling coalition does not honour the Social Contract. Wasn’t Tunku very angry with that Mamak when he raped the Social Contract and came up with the concept of Ketuanan Melayu? And who knows better about the Social Contract than Tunku who negotiated it? And why was Hussein Onn angry too? And I bet he turns in his grave each time his son comes out with a new antic. He is still waving his Java keris, a symbol of antiquity, when the Americans can just press one button and down goes the Petronas Twin Towers, the pride of South Korean and Japanese technology, and they will be wondering who did it until the Russians come and tell them?

    It’s no point claiming Ketuanan Melayu when you are nowhere near world class. They (not we) send a passenger to space by paying through their nose, thinking that they finally have a Malay astronaut, while the whole world laughs at our silliness! Subsidizing a space mission, with nothing to gain in return, except a boring trip to nowhere, LOL. Did that stupid guy come out with anything for his so-called experiments with bacteria or was it virus? Or he just came back in mental disarray, recuperating from space-lag?

    There are two kinds of Chinese who join politics. The type who cares about himself joins MCA while the kind that cares about society joins DAP. I am not an expert at face reading but you don’t need to be one. It’s written all over their face.

    China and India are both developing very fast and will definitely become the economic powers of the future. The Wheel of Fortune turns and the good times are coming back to the East again. DAP should explore China and India for business and employment opportunities for the non-Malays (ie. Chinese and Indians) and non-Malays can wait and see what Ketuanan Melayu will ultimately achieve.

  2. #2 by simon041155 on Friday, 5 December 2008 - 9:31 am

    I guess it is better to dismantle parliamentary democracy and go back to the time of the Sultanates. Maybe all the rakyat will have a better deal! Just a thought, may and may not work, LOL. UMNO is not practising democracy anyway. 100% control of the media. Is that democracy or anti-democracy? What difference does it make then with Communist China? Malaysian is really an Animal Farm where some animals think they deserve more rights than others!

  3. #3 by AhPek on Friday, 5 December 2008 - 11:12 am

    ‘Why should non Malays be loyal to this country with Ketuanan Melayu?’.Simono41155.

    And why not? Being loyal to this country does not mean accepting Ketuanan Melayu, a man-made device used by a very corrupt group to perpetuate the robbing of the country.Far from it,rather being loyal would mean that you have an obligation to rid your beloved country of such practices.
    Why do you think Obama Barak can finally arrive to be sitting in his country’s highest office if not for the fact that there are enough African Americans who have chosen to stay put to fight inequalities.The African Americans have in fact more reasons to run away from American than you running away from Malaysia!

  4. #4 by AhPek on Friday, 5 December 2008 - 11:14 am

    American to read America.

  5. #5 by frankyapp on Friday, 5 December 2008 - 1:09 pm

    Hi,you guys,are you still there ?Still talking about solution to this Ketuanan malayu. What about this win win solution ? Ketuanan malayu,ketuanan cina,ketuanan india,ketuanan kadazan/dusun/murut and ketuanan dayak/iban,thus we all created a wholly complete ketuanan society in the country.Fair and square to all five major races in malaysia.we all become ketuanan of our country. Liked a fairy tale story in the land of belehland we all live happily together forever and ever .Sound crazy eh,but sometime crazy thing or idea works.

  6. #6 by frankyapp on Friday, 5 December 2008 - 1:49 pm

    Hey guys,for a change,let’s get in to hard talk. I tend to agree with Imranj78 when he said that “equally Dap should focus on more important matters and not fall into such useless confrontation”. True in the first part of the statement and partially not correct in the second part. Yeah,DAP.please tell us what major problems have you guys solved since taking over Penang ,Perak, Kedah,and Selongor for the rakyats’interest in respective of races ?. Please don’t tell us about this longkang and that longkang have been patched up and cleaned,ok.Tell us your current short and long term plans as such the poor rakyat housing ,the unemployment,land for landless,water and electricity,small and medium bisiness problems etc etc etc.These are some of the most important problems the rakyat under you and PR watch are interested and are looking forward to you to solve them for them[rakyat] Please walk the talk if you guys want to win the hearts and mind of the people in the states under your watch.You can go ahead and discuss and argure with the federal UMNO/BN guys,we will be with you in person or in spirit. We expected change ,we got 5 states but we need the whole country . We pray ,hope and support you DAP and PKR to take over from the evil one soon if not the 13th general election.

  7. #7 by simon041155 on Friday, 5 December 2008 - 11:47 pm

    Hi Ah Pek, you are right. Being loyal to this country does not mean accepting Ketuanan Melayu. And being forced to accept Ketuanan Melayu does not mean you have to be loyal either.

    Non-Malays, including non-Malay bumiputeras, have to think outside the box. Malaysia is such a small country, a snot on the world map. Let them have their ketuanan and all of us go and look for opportunities outside the country. The world has become a global village and political boundaries are getting blurred by the day. Once this is done, Kuala Lumpur will look like Putrajaya and Cyberjaya, two ghost towns by nightfall. And once the oil runs out of this country, there will be no money to finance the economy and we will truly become a real banana country.

    Why stick around like MCA? With the ketuanan Melayu and shit thrown on their face, they are still hanging on to Barisan. For what? To represent the Chinese community or to represent themselves? See how “our” Ling Liong Sik’s son can buy up two public companies for was it RM1.2 billion at the age of 29?

  8. #8 by ykcir on Saturday, 6 December 2008 - 1:13 am

    “Ketuanan” my foot. No such thing !!!

    Not in our constitution. Not in anywhere else …. except in the stupid minds of those in UMNO.

  9. #9 by simon041155 on Saturday, 6 December 2008 - 2:28 pm

    Why are all my comments under moderation? Overshot, is it? LOL.

  10. #10 by AhPek on Saturday, 6 December 2008 - 3:57 pm

    “And being forced to accept to accept Ketuanan Melayu does not mean you have to be loyal either.”.simon041155.

    First there is nobody forcing you to accept Ketuanan Melayu and your objection can be best demonstrated by putting an x on the ballot box next to any of the
    emblems of Pakatan Rakyat on election day.And if you think one does not have to be loyal,then perhaps the best thing to do is to move to a country where you can be loyal to!
    Being loyal to a country is not synonymous with supporting any ruling party and
    can never be.There are many Republicans loyal to America and who would never want Obama Barak as their President will wait for another election to prove and register their point.

  11. #11 by simon041155 on Monday, 8 December 2008 - 8:35 am

    Quote from http://www.islam101.com/rights/hrM2.htm :

    “Islam not only recognizes absolute equality between men
    irrespective of any distinction of colour, race or nationality, but makes it an important and significant principle, a reality. The Almighty God has laid down in the Holy Quran: “O mankind, we have created you from a male and female.” In other words all human beings are brothers to one another. They all are the descendants from one father and one mother… Assuming airs of superiority is in itself a reprehensible vice which no God-fearing and pious man can ever dream of perpetrating. Nor does the righteous have more privileged rights over others, because this runs counter to human equality…”

    “From the moral point of view, goodness and virtue is in all cases better than vice and evil. This has been exemplified by the Prophet in one of his sayings thus: ‘No Arab has any superiority over a non-Arab, nor does a non-Arab have any superiority over an Arab. Nor does a white man have any superiority over a black man, or the black man any superiority over the white man. You are all the children of Adam, and Adam was created from clay’ (al-Bayhaqi and al-Bazzaz). In this manner Islam established
    equality for the entire human race and struck at the very root of all distinctions based on colour, race, language or nationality. According to Islam,God has given man this right of equality as a birthright. Therefore no man should be discriminated against on the ground of the colour of his skin, his place of birth, the race or the nation in which he was born.”

    “Malcolm X, the famous leader of African Negroes in America, who had launched a bitter struggle against the white people of America in order to win civil rights for his black compatriots, when he went to perform the pilgrimage, and saw how the Muslims of Asia, Africa, Europe, America and those of different races, languages and colours of skin, were wearing one dress and were hurrying towards God’s House-the Ka’bah and offering prayers standing in one row and there was no distinction of any kind between them, then he realized that this was the solution to the problem of colour and race, and not what he had been trying to seek or achieve in America so far. Today, a number of non-Muslim thinkers, who are free from blind prejudice, openly admit that
    no other religion or way of life has solved this problem with the same degree of success with which Islam has done so.”

    Based on the foregoing, Ketuanan Melayu is clearly un-Islamic. Yet after spending millions and millions of ringgit each year to perform the Haj, many did not see what an African Negro saw in Makkah. But then again, Malcolm X was launching a bitter struggle to win civil rights for his black compatriots, while the Malays are blinded by greed and therefore could not see. The proponents of Ketuanan Melayu are not only a disgrace to Islam but has made the religion gain ill-repute. And the “best” part is they are blaming others for that!

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