‘Non-Malays must remember their promise’

 Ferdtan: Same old same old. Nothing ever changes. Where are the new politics that we expected from Umno in this new century? Even as a supposedly intelligent Oxford-trained Youth chief, Khairy Jamaluddin, cannot change the true colour of Umno.

He uses the same old tactics his party forefathers used to be popular in party politics. Since independence, when the world has changed with instant information through Internet, our politics remain backward. It is all about race.

The more they attack another race, the non-Malays, to blame them for all the government’s ills, the more popular they became. Have all Malaysians gone mad to believe in such politics; or it is only found in Umno?

What social contract Khairy is talking about? Let us be clear before the people from Umno turn the word ‘social contract’ into a written fact. This is what I found in the net:

“There was no reference to a ‘social contract’ appears in the constitution. Instead, the social contract is typically taken (my emphasis: not spelled out) to mean a quid pro quo agreement that provides the non-Malays and other non-indigenous peoples of Malaysia (mostly the Chinese and Indian Malaysians) with citizenship, in return for their granting special privileges to the Malays and indigenous people of Malaysia, collectively referred to as the bumiputera.”

Look at this way, many of us were born even before Malaysia got Merdeka. We shall live and die here as we have no other country to call home. So how long more before we can get the basic rights as citizens of this country?

In the next hundred years, will my grand grandchildren still be subjected to the same kind of treatment? We don’t mind special help to the needy Malays, as Umno have failed them in the last 50 years, but don’t discriminate others.

And don’t forget the much needy Indians, Orang Asli and native East Malaysians too.

Kawak: As expected, all the Umno leaders, including this Youth chief, are hammering the non-Malays, in particular the Chinese, at the general assembly.

Umno’s strategy is to indoctrinate the Malays into believing that they are under threat from the Chinese. It is done for the survival of the party. They need Malay support badly as PAS and PKR are taking away Malay votes.

Ketuanan Rakyat: Who is calling for the abolishment of special position of Malays and questioning the sovereignty of Malay rulers, Khairy? What all Malaysians want is fair (not even equal) treatment.

Set your quotas, but the balance must be given based on performance or quality. That is what fair treatment means.

Stop all these negotiated crony contracts, the use of religion to justify injustices done to others as being done now and don’t use race as basis for discrimination.

Anonymous #44199885: I can’t think of nor remember a single occasion on which non-Malays have ever called for the abolition or abrogation of the rights of the Malays or questioned the sovereignty of the Malay rulers.

Khairy, like many others, continue the script of an imagined offence that non-Malays have given to Malays. The only offence that non-Malays have committed is that they have exercised their right as citizens to vote for Malays who are not from BN into government.

Non-Malays have every right to vote the opposition and it is not in the so-called social contract that they must vote BN.

With falling education standards, the continued and unjustified racist attacks against non-Muslims, the encroachment and disrespect to the rights of religious minorities particularly the Christians, the continued wastage of public funds, the failure to address poverty and the high cost of living are reasons enough for all, including the non-Malays, to prefer the more qualified Malays from the opposition to form government.

Headhunter: Another broken record is being played. See even the Umno youths are acting like their old greedy warlords. So what hope is there for them to change their ancient mindset?

There are so many issues confronting the Malays; poverty, unemployment, drug abuse, education, social and physical environment and so on which they don’t bother to solve.

Yet they repeat the same old story about Malays being threatened by other races when in actual fact it is all about shielding themselves from being exposed for dipping their hands in the kitty.

Tenfold: Indeed, the circus is in town (once again) and these clowns have to entertain their patrons with their version of slap-stick comedy.

Please enumerate with facts and figures when the non-Malays have questioned the ‘rights’ of the Malays, Islam or the rulers. In fact, in both Sabah and Sarawak, the Malays have taken away the rights of the natives (read Dayaks, Ibans, Kadazans, etc) and ‘ruling’ them with an iron-fist.

Was it not Umno, and not very long ago, that humiliated and shamed the rulers?

Thinking Citizen_1403620863: Khairy, don’t insult your own intelligence by saying that the other communities must accept the special position of the Malays, the Malay language as the national language and the sovereignty of Malay rulers.

That has never been the issue in the first place as by and large the non-Malays have always tried to accommodate the various government programmes to assist the Malays over the last 50 years.

The main issue here is that Umno has always selectively channel the assistance to their own cronies to the exclusion of the other Malays. When they start losing support due to these lopsided policies, they start to use the other communities as bogeyman.

What can the rest of the communities do when Umno controls the media, property, utility, transportation, police, military and bank-related industries in Malaysia?

Tpn: Khairy, you complain that Astro raising subscription fees. How about the government raising fuel and electricity prices and more to come with Goods and Services Tax (GST)?

Why not a word about the rakyat’s hardship?

Oxford education wasted on Khairy

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