Merry Christmas to all Christians in Malaysia.
Let us celebrate this first Christmas after the historic decision on May 9, 2018 to bring about a peaceful and democratic transition of power in the six decades of Malaysian history,
Let us unite to Save Malaysia from a global kleptocracy by becoming a leading nation in integrity.
Even better , let us fulfil our destiny to be a world top-class nation in various fields of human endeavour, including becoming among the world’s top nations where there is peace, tolerance, acceptance and co-existence among the diverse religions in the country.
The leader of an opposition party has warned Muslims not to post Christmas greetings on Facebook because there should not be any acknowledgement of the Christian religion in the country.
He could not be more cock-eyed, extremist and unMalaysian, as Malaysians must celebrate the diversity of races, languages, religions and cultures in Malaysia and leverage on the assets and best qualities of this diversity to be the foundation for Malaysia’s greatness.
We must not deny or detract in any way from the rich diversity of races, languages, religions and cultures in Malaysia.
The Sultan of Johore Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar’s Christmas greeting of a Merry
Christmas to all Christians, wishing all Johoreans celebrating Christmas “love, joy and peace and a wonderful time with families and friends” is in the full spirit of a New Malaysia which is inclusive and all-encompassing of the diversity of races, languages, religions and cultures which have become Malaysia’s precious heritage.
In his official Facebook posting, Sultan Ibrahim’s festive message was with a framed picture of him and Permaisuri Johor Raja Zarith Sofiah Sultan Idris Shah.
Sultan Ibrahim and Raja Zarith Sofiah are models for Malaysians on the need for religious and cultural tolerance, understanding and acceptance among Malaysians.
All the great religions in the world share common values of love, truth, justice, compassion and community and we should celebrate the diversity of faiths in Malaysia with their respective Golden Rules, instead of inciting distrust, hate and fear among Malaysians with diverse faiths.
It is shocking that the very people who are sowing distrust, hate and fear among Malaysians of diverse faiths are proposing a new political bloc to form an “unity government” as a viable political platform that could offer stability.
But these people talk “unity” but perpetrate disunity among Malaysians to serve their petty political ends while claiming to embrace political Islam – yet they have no objection when Malaysia was condemned by the whole world as a “global kleptocracy”!
They are quite good in “building castles in the air”, the latest being that the Pakatan Harapan government would only last five years.
I agree with the Bersatu President Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin that these people will forever be the Opposition.
In my 2018 Christmas Message, let me therefore make the call: Let us build Malaysia into one of the world’s top nations where Malaysians can accept and celebrate their diversities of faiths, and the peace, tolerance and co-existence among the diverse religions in the country!
(Christmas Message by DAP MP for Iskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in Gelang Patah on Monday, Decemer 24, 2018)
#1 by drngsc on Tuesday, 25 December 2018 - 9:41 am
Merry Xmas to all Malaysians of the Christian faith. May God bless Malaysia, heal our racial wounds and help move us forward to the New Malaysia for all. With God’s blessings, we have few Natural disasters. But we do have a very toxic racial and religious brew that must be detoxified. May God help us and lead us forward.
#2 by Bigjoe on Tuesday, 25 December 2018 - 2:06 pm
Did Hadi just hand us a Christmas present by spelling out the terms of their relationship with UMNO i.e., it will not merge and think its not likely UMNO will be dissolved to be absorbed by PAS? In other words, did Hadi spelled out that PAS does not want to share with UMNO, it wants to completely dominate and subjugate UMNO – unacceptable to most UMNO leaders even those who want to merge with PAS.
In other words, the “cooperation” with UMNO, in Hadi’s view is PAS wants UMNO to win seats where there is significant non-Malay votes but then it wants UMNO to hand over the reign of power to PAS. Its a fantasy, impossible vision and as Muhiyiddin says makes PAS forever in the opposition and eventual redecline as it was before Nik Aziz took PAS into Pakatan Rakyat..
PH just got a bit of breather. Hadi Awang ultimately does not have a real plan for political win except to wait for demographic change and for the nation to fail when its method if hate and prejudice have a chance to win..