Let Parliament debate if Malays under threat'
Published: Nov 16, 2014 10:21 AM | Updated: Nov 16, 2014 10:25 AM
DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang has urged the Parliament to sit for three extra days beyond the current allocated dates to specifically debate on whether the position of Malays and Islam is under threat in this country as claimed by some quarters.
DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang has urged the Parliament to sit for three extra days beyond the current allocated dates to specifically debate on whether the position of Malays and Islam is under threat in this country as claimed by some quarters.
“If Malays and Islam are under threat, this should be the concern of all non-Malays and non-Muslims. Patriotic Malaysians do not want Malays and Islam under threat,” Lim said in a statement today.
He however took a jibe at Umno, asking if the ruling party’s delegates, ahead of the upcoming Umno Annual General Assembly, checklist how each of their six prime ministers had failed to uplift the plight of the Malays.
“All the six prime ministers from the nation’s independence in 1957 were Malays - Tunku Abdul Rahman, Abdul Razak Hussein, Hussein Onn, Mahathir Mohamad, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and currently Najib Abdul Razak,” he said.
“Have they all, or some or one of them, betrayed the Malays as prime minister to cause the Malays and Islam to be still under siege 57 years after Merdeka?” he asked.
Yesterday, national laureate A Samad Said asked Malays to stop obsessing with the notion that their position is under threat in the country.
“Why should the country’s race relations be held to ransom every time Umno holds its annual General Assemblies for Umno leaders to hype the imaginary spectre of Malays and Islam under siege?” Lim asked.
Last week, Communications and Multimedia Minister Ahmad Shabery Cheek alleged that the Penang state government is pushing Malays in the state to poverty and labelled it a subtle form of racism.
“If Malays and Islam are under threat, this should be the concern of all non-Malays and non-Muslims. Patriotic Malaysians do not want Malays and Islam under threat,” Lim said in a statement today.
He however took a jibe at Umno, asking if the ruling party’s delegates, ahead of the upcoming Umno Annual General Assembly, checklist how each of their six prime ministers had failed to uplift the plight of the Malays.
“All the six prime ministers from the nation’s independence in 1957 were Malays - Tunku Abdul Rahman, Abdul Razak Hussein, Hussein Onn, Mahathir Mohamad, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and currently Najib Abdul Razak,” he said.
“Have they all, or some or one of them, betrayed the Malays as prime minister to cause the Malays and Islam to be still under siege 57 years after Merdeka?” he asked.
Yesterday, national laureate A Samad Said asked Malays to stop obsessing with the notion that their position is under threat in the country.
“Why should the country’s race relations be held to ransom every time Umno holds its annual General Assemblies for Umno leaders to hype the imaginary spectre of Malays and Islam under siege?” Lim asked.
Last week, Communications and Multimedia Minister Ahmad Shabery Cheek alleged that the Penang state government is pushing Malays in the state to poverty and labelled it a subtle form of racism.
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