ISMAIL SABRI EXPORTS RACISM TO SARAWAK:‘Perhaps SUPP wants to see Malays & Bumis left behind’

KUALA LUMPUR - Rural and Regional Development Minister Datuk Ismail Sabri Yaakob is unperturbed by calls for him to be barred from entering Sarawak.

Responding to Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) Youth Central publicity and information secretary Milton Foo proposal to submit an official letter on the request soon, Ismail said he was almost certain that the State Immigration Department would not “entertain SUPP’s craziness.”

“It does not make sense as what I have done through Mara was to develop the Malays and Bumiputera, including those in Sabah and Sarawak such as the Dayaks, among others in the state,”

“Perhaps SUPP wants to prevent me from developing the economy of the Bumiputera in Sarawak.

“Perhaps their intention was to see the Malays and Bumiputera in Sarawak be left behind,” he said in a text message to The Rakyat Post.

He said although the Police have received thousands of reports on his recent statements, he would continue to struggle for the rights of the Malays and Bumiputera in Sarawak.

Earlier today Milton was reported to have said SUPP would forward the official letter to the State Immigration Department on Monday.

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A minister, he had argued, should be responsible of his public remarks and that Ismail’s “hostile remarks” clearly showed he was not fit to be a minister and should not be allowed to set foot into the state.

Yesterday,Foo and Pelawan branch secretary Tiang Ming Tee lodged a police report against the minister for making a public remark in Kuala Lumpur that Low Yat Plaza 2 be only for Malay traders.

Ismail’s proposal came in the wake of the recent racially-motivated riots that took place at the shopping mall in Bukit Bintang on July 19 which was popularly known as a marketplace for digital and electronic devices.

The call to ban certain individuals from entering Sarawak, which prides itself in racial unity, is not new.

In December last year, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin lecturer Mohd Ridhuan Tee Abdullah, who hosts religious television programmes, was denied entry into Sarawak following an instruction from the Chief Minister’s office not to allow him entry.

In March 2014, Chief Minister Tan Sri Adenan Satem had also told Malay right-wing group Perkasa president Datuk Ibrahim Ali not to try to enter Sarawak, fearing that his presence in the state would bring racial disharmony to the state. - http://www.therakyatpost.com/