MCA President Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai should have the courage to switch MCA’s support from Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, who had openly supported the red-shirt rally on 16 September, to UMNO Deputy President Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin who boldly opposed the red-shirt rally as extremist and racist. What is the point of Liow claiming that MCA opposed the red-shirt rally within BN and Cabinet when their views are ignored at best and at worst treated with utter contempt and threats that MCA leave BN?
Liow conceded that the rally was allowed to proceed by Najib despite MCA’s protests, and MCA is now insisting that action be taken against those who had demonstrated racist, extremist and seditious acts or remarks and flouted laws during the gathering. Worse is that the racist and extremist rally was attended by UMNO Minister, Deputy Ministers and MPs. One UMNO MP even proudly declared himself to be racist!
How then can the Malaysian public expect any action to be taken by the BN Federal government against the extremist and racist rally, when UMNO had endorsed the rally and even mobilised UMNO members to attend?
This follows the decision of the Attorney-General Chambers to withdraw the sedition charges against Mohd Ali Baharom in the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court for being part of the racially-tinged Low Yat Plaza incident. Mohd Ali, known as Ali Tinju, had been charged under Section 4(1)(b) of the Sedition Act for allegedly making an inflammatory speech outside Low Yat Plaza in July this year, following a brawl at the electronics mall that gained infamy for its racial overtones.
Umno deputy president and sacked Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin had expressed concern over events held to whip up racial sentiments, when such programmes not only practiced narrow-minded politics but are invoking fear in society. Muhyiddin said the rally supporters acted as if they were heroes in the country when they were carried out for political gain. Contrary to Najib’s open endorsement of the red-shirt rally, Muhyiddin had earlier said that holding the racist rally on Malaysia Day was against national unity and racial harmony.
Clearly Muhyiddin would be a better choice than Najib for MCA. Why then is MCA still supporting Najib and not Muhyiddin within BN? The only conclusion of MCA’s failure to switch support to Muhyiddin is the concern that MCA will lose their Ministerial posts like Muhyiddin for speaking up the truth and seek to punish all those who steal, whether chickens or tens of billions of ringgit of public funds.
The inescapable logic is that MCA leaders are not willing to sacrifice their Ministerial posts like Muhyiddin for defending the truth and upholding principles. MCA is playing another game of theatre(sandiwara dan wayang) by publicly opposing the racist red-shirt rally outside but still remaining in Cabinet headed by Najib that endorsed the racist and extremist September 16 rally.
LIM GUAN ENG is the Penang Chief Minister
民主行动党秘书长兼峇眼区国会议员林冠英于2015年9月19日于吉隆坡发表的声明：
马华公会应该将该党对纳吉的支持，转为支持慕尤丁，因为纳吉公开支持916的红衫大集会，反之，慕尤丁却大胆反对充斥着种族主义及极端主义的916红衫大集会。
马华总会长拿督斯里廖中莱应该鼓起勇气，将马华公会对拿督斯里纳吉的支持转为支持巫统署理主席丹斯里慕尤丁，因纳吉公开支持916红衫大集会，而慕尤丁却大胆反对充斥着种族主义及极端主义的集会。廖中莱口口声声说马华在国阵内部及内阁反对916红衫大集会，这有什么用呢？马华的立场完全被无视，甚至遭受蔑视，还被反呛为何马华不索性离开国阵？
廖中莱承认，尽管面对马华公会的力阻，但916红衫大集会依然获得纳吉点头举办，马华目前要求的是坚持要采取行动对付那些在集会期间无视法律存在，发表具有种族主义、极端主义及煽动性质言论的人。更糟糕的是，这项充斥着种族主义及极端主义的集会，获得多名巫统部长、巫统副部长及巫统国会议员的现身出席。其中一名巫统国会议员甚至很骄傲地宣布他就是种族主义者！
正当巫统支持是项集会，甚至动员巫统党员出席集会的当儿，你要怎样让马来西亚的民众期待由国阵所控制的联邦政府会采取行动对付这些出席极端及种族主义集会的人士呢？
总检查署于吉隆坡地庭也撤回了对涉嫌在刘蝶广场骚乱案中莫哈末阿里的控状。自称拳王阿里的被告，是在煽动法令第4条文（1）节(b)项被控，指他在在今年7月在刘蝶广场外，在一起发生在电子城内的殴斗事件后，发表煽动性言论。
被开除的副首相兼巫统署理主席丹斯里慕尤丁曾对这起挑起种族情绪的事件表示关注，因类似的活动不只实行陕隘的政治，甚至在社会上散播恐惧感。慕尤丁指出，集会的支持者展现得他们似是国家的英雄，而实际上他们是在捞取政治资本。与纳吉公开力挺红衫大集会比较，慕尤丁早前已声明，选择在马来西亚日举办一场以种族为主的集会有违国民团结及种族和谐。
很明显地，对于马华公会而言，慕尤丁相较于纳吉是一个相对较好的选择。那为什么马华却在国阵内继续支持纳吉而不是慕尤丁呢？ 唯一的结论是马华担心他们会沦为慕尤丁一样，因为讲真话、要严惩那些偷取公款者的人士而失去部长的官职。
无法逃避的逻辑是马华领袖不愿意像慕尤丁一样，为了捍卫真相及坚持原则而牺牲掉自身的部长官职。马华正在精湛展现他们的演出才华，在外，马华公开反对916种族主义的红衫集会，但是却选择留在支持916红衫集会的纳吉所领导之内阁里。
林冠英
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