Secretary general Lim Guan Eng said the coalition's non-Malay parties – MCA, MIC, Sarawak United People's Party (SUPP), Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS), Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS) and Gerakan – should make a strong stand on the deputy prime minister’s remark.
"MCA, MIC, SUPP, PBS, PRS and Gerakan must bear full responsibility for Muhyiddin taking the racist and extremist route.
"Their eight ministers must give Muhyiddin two choices, to either withdraw his words of hate and language of threats, or else the two MCA, two MIC, one Gerakan, one PBS, one PRS and one SUPP minister will resign from Cabinet in protest,” Lim said in a statement today.
He said failure to do so would mean the six BN component parties and their eight ministers condoned the Umno deputy president's remarks.
Umno-owned Utusan Malaysia yesterday reported Muhyiddin's warning that Malaysia could see another bloody incident if no efforts were made to preserve interethnic harmony.
"That is why all sorts of assumptions are raised when ethnic ties become strained and unhealthy. This could lead to that incident, and I do not want to mention the date (May 13, 1969)," the paper quoted Muhyiddin as saying, adding the date of the 1969 racial riots in parenthesis in its report.
Muhyiddin also expressed fears over the insults allegedly hurled towards the Malays and Muslims of late.
Lim said such inflammatory remarks were not only irresponsible but showed that Muhyiddin was only fit to be a role model for right-wing groups such as Perkasa and Isma.
He added the Umno deputy president was unfit to be a deputy prime minister for Malaysians of all races.
“Muhyiddin has unfortunately built a reputation as a poster boy for Perkasa and Isma when he renounced Prime Minster Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s now discredited propaganda of 1Malaysia, by stressing that he is a Malay first and a Malaysian second,” he said.
The Penang Chief Minister said Muhyiddin has adopted a hostile attitude towards non-Muslims and non-Malays, adding that one could conclude he was not only disrespectful but intolerant of the communities.
“For the first time in history since May 13, 1969, a deputy prime minister is recklessly blaming non-Malays and non-Muslims for causing ethnic ties to be strained and unhealthy as well as threatening them with May 13 riots and violence,” he said.
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