By Debra Chong | May 24, 2011 The Malaysian Insider
KUALA LUMPUR, May 24 — Umno’s Utusan Malaysia warned today the Malay community against falling for the DAP’s Malay spiel, saying it was an election ruse for the party to capture Putrajaya.
In its editorial today titled “Jangan terperangkap ‘hajat besar’ DAP” (“Don’t be trapped by DAP’s ‘grand intent’”), the Malay daily said the Chinese-majority party had grand ambitions that stretched all the way to ruling Malaysia. The paper was riding on Umno vice-president Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s reported “expose” yesterday of a presumed systematic movement to capture Perak, Malacca amd Negri Sembilan in the coming 13th general election.
It noted some might find the allegation hard to believe because it sounds illogical as the DAP is not widely received by the majority and has been publicly rejected especially among the Malays.
But it insisted the reality remained as the DAP was planning a systematic move to “capture Malaysia as was carried out by its ‘big brother’, the PAP, in Singapore”.
“It’s not only the Malays in the three states but the entire country who must be careful with that DAP move.
“The DAP is looking for Malays as candidates only to ensure if it wins, a mentri besar or chief minister in a Malay-majority state hails from the party,” Utusan said in its opinion piece that seemed for all intents and purposes to rouse racial sentiments among its readers.
It claimed the Chinese-led opposition party has never been comfortable nor honest with the Malays and Muslims in Malaysia.
“In the name of democracy and equal rights, the DAP has frequently and openly questioned the special rights of the Malays,” it said, adding in order to achieve its goal to capture even more state governments and ultimately the federal government, the party was “willing to do anything including pretending to champion the Malays”.
It stressed that whoever from the Malay race was willing to stand on a DAP ticket in GE 13 will become a tool that will betray his own race only to fulfil the DAP’s political goal.
“Malays in the opposition parties including PAS and PKR should see and realise the DAP’s honesty here,” it said.
It said the DAP does not care about its partners in planning this systematic move, and that once again Malays have no excuse to allow themselves to be trapped into fulfilling the DAP’s “grand desire.”