//The speaker also revealed a greater Chinese conspiracy where the Chinese Malaysians were working together with Singapore to topple the Malay government.

“Do you want to become like the Malays in Singapore?” he asked.//

The Conspiracy Theory of Singaporean Fever (a term being borrowed from “Yellow Fever”) has been in existence in Malaysia since Dr. Mahathir’s reign as the Prime Minister. Most Umnoputras are indeed bankrupt in commendable new political idea. Therefore, they like to make use of Singapore as an imaginative enemy in order to stir up the hatred among the Malays and motivate the Malays to unite under Umno in order to fight against Singapore. These tricky tactics sometimes looked quite effective for Umnoputras to achieve the goal of winning political support during Umno party election. However, the incitement of hatred against Singaporeans had also caused the psychological problems among the Malays. Most Malay businessmen would find that they had good excuse to explain off their business failure in international business competition by putting the blame on Singaporeans. For instance, Dr. Mahathir would put the blame of his failure to prevent currency crisis and failure to prevent stock market collapse during 1997-1998 on the unproven accusation of Singapore Government’s lending Singapore facilities to foreigners for use as an international foothold for carrying the activities of currency trade and for launching the currency attack on Malaysia’s Ringgit.

Nevertheless, Dr. Mahathir should have had the opportunity to prevent drastic collapse of Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange Market during 1998 if he were to give advice or instruction to KLSE to avoid over-intervention in KLSE trade that was caused by KLSE’s adopting the measure of barring shares trade of 100 KLSE-quoted companies through the practice of black-listing 100 companies and calling them “designated shares”. The designated shares measure had caused many Stock Brokerage Houses to exercise margin call on the retail investors who borrowed to buy shares, and hence caused fast collapse in KLSE market. On the nation’s financial predicament during the 1997-1998 financial crisis, Dr. Mahathir did not put blame on his subordinates’ stupidity in over-intervention in the stock trade. He only found two good scapegoats, namely the Singaporean Government and George Soros,
both of whom were good choices of imaginative enemy for purpose of diverting Malaysian people’s attention from fighting in Umno’s party election to fighting against George Soros and the perceived Singaporean Threat.

Due to the Umnoputras’ fonding in citing Singaporeans’ success in international business especially in the sector of international financial services as the reason for the Malays’ failure in banking and monetary management, it is no surprised for us to find that many Malaysian Malays hate Singaporeans due to their jealousy on Singaporeans’ national infrastructural success and Singaporean individuals’ personal wealth show-off by travelling frequently world-wide including within Malaysia’s boundary. The irrational jealousy among the Malaysian Malays is indeed a severe psychological sickness which requires much attention from Najib if he is to shape up an enviable nation of 1Malaysia.

Indeed, Lee Kuan Yew once disclosed that both Umno and PAP had a mutual agreement on non-intervention of each other’s internal affairs through news media of each other’s country. Within this mutual agreement, PAP is free to incite Singaporeans’ sentiment through Singapore’s mass media by citing the event of Singapore’s being forced to leave the Federation of Malaysia by Tunku Abdul Rahman as a reminder of the possible bad consequences that can be caused by Non-Malay Singaporeans’ disunity.

Likewise, the Singapore’s PAP political leaders will try to keep their both ears closed and to keep both eyes closed when Umnoputras are trying to incite the Malays’ emotion towards hating the Chinese Malaysians and towards hating the Singaporeans, as a way to keep the mutually agreed promise of non-intervention in the neighbour’s internal affairs. The pacifism being practiced by Singapore’s PAP is a dangerous thing to see because by keeping quiet on Umnoputras’ racist incitement, PAP leaders are indeed encouraging the planting of a racist time bomb among the Malay community of Malaysia, which will pose threat to the personal safety of Singaporean tourists travelling in Malaysia.

Malaysia will never achieve far in the goal of 1Malaysia if the Umnoputras are to continue to cling on the conventional tactics of raising racist issues against Singaporeans as the political capital to win vote during Umno party election. These old tactics have always been adopted by Dr. Mahathir. And we sometimes find that the same old tricks will be used also by the politically ambitious son of Dr. Mahathir, namely Mukhriz Mahathir. Apparently, 1Malaysia will remain as an unachievable dream if the Umnoputras such as Dr. Mahathir and Mukhriz Mahathir are continually given political power to influence the politics of Malaysia.