Archive for August 5th, 2019

Bapa borek, anak rintik – if Kelantan PAS Youth had understood my statement which was in simple language why I supported Anas Zubedy’s Open Letter to Zakir Naik to voluntarily leave Malaysia, it would not have made the invitation

Posted by Kit in PAS on Monday, 5 August 2019

I have just arrived in New Delhi from Bangalore and saw news report of Kelantan PAS Youth invitation to a Friday ceramah by Zakir Naik in Kota Bharu.

I can only think of the saying “Bapa borek, Anak rintik”.

If Kelantan PAS Youth had understood my statement which was in quite simple language why I supported Anas Zubeidy’s Open Letter to Zakir Naik to voluntarily leave Malaysia, it would not have made the invitation.

(Media Comment by DAP MP for lskandar Puteri Lim Kit Siang in New Delhi on Monday, 5th August 2019)

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I have never said that one must learn Jawi to be a Malaysian – all I said was learning Jawi did not “make me any less of a Chinese, and may have helped in making me more of a Malaysian”

Posted by Kit in culture, DAP, nation building on Monday, 5 August 2019

A friend has sent me a newspaper headline which quoted me as saying: “Learn Jawi To Be More Malaysian”.

I have never said one must learn Jawi to be a Malaysian – all I said in my statement from Salem, Tamil Nadu yesterday was learning Jawi while I was serving my first detention in Muar in 1969 did not “make me any less of a Chinese, and may have helped in making me more of a Malaysian”.

Malaysia is a multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-cultural and multi-religious nation and we should leverage on our unique position where the great Islamic, Chinese, Indian and Western civilisations meet in confluence in Malaysia to build a great Malaysian nation.

We must be careful not to fall into the trap of conspirators who want to pit race against race, religion against religion to arouse suspicion, distrust and hatred in our plural society to regain political power and work against the flowering of the best of our multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-cultural and multi-religious nation. Read the rest of this entry »

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