“It’s easier to curse Chinese mechanics than to curb Malay kids as young as 10 to ride motorbikes”

 

IN narrating how the Mat Rempit menace is so rampant among Malay youths, a pro-Madani ustaz has ticked off parents in rural surroundings for feeling proud to the extent of being defensive when their kids – girls included – as young as 10 “are already daring enough to ride a motorbike on the road without a helmet”.

“Don’t try to tegur (rebuke) them. On a wrong day, the parents will mount an attack, accusing us of minding their business,” lamented former Shariah affairs director of Amanah Zolkharnain Abidin Al-Abyadhi in a recent Facebook post.

“In a village setting, these kids usually don’t care much about school. Similarly, their parents don’t care much about their studies.

“Instead, they’re even proud because their eight-year-old child is already able to ride a motorbike tactfully. Mind you, all of them are Malay kids, from Malay Muslim families.”

On the contrary, Zolkharnain observed that there are rarely sights of village Chinese children “riding motorbikes without helmets or lifting (presumably punctured) tyres”.

“In the evenings, when we see Chinese kids playing basketball at their school, at the same time we see Malay children loiter with their motorbikes,” jibed the former one-term state assemblyman of Santan in Perlis (1999 to 2004).

“When the motorbike breaks down, they take it to a Chinese shop to have it fixed. Then they curse the mechanic for exorbitant pricing due to high cost of spare parts. For them, it’s expensive even though that’s the current market price”.

Unproductive past time

This was when Zolkharnain alluded to the fact that all the Mat Rempit who made themselves nuisance “by hanging out at the newly refurbished terminal at Sultan Ismail Petra Airport (LTSIP) in Pengkalan Chepa, Kelantan recently are all Malay Muslims”.

“In Terengganu, the motorbike convoy with (PAS) Malay MBs are all Malay Muslims,” he recounted of the much-criticised “wasteful energy burning” event held last week (April 4) in conjunction with the Fifth International Ummah Unity Assembly alongside the Malay World 2026 Gathering.

 

I once came across at the Petronas R&R (Rest and Relaxation) in Sungai Perak, the boys hanging out and making noise there were all Malays.

I’ve never heard of the Chinese DAP Penang Chief Minister talk about organising a motorbike convoy. I’m sure if he did, the Malay boys will be most excited.

After lifting the tyres and being boisterous everywhere, they’ll head home sleepy and surely skip their dawn prayer.

Then wake up, eyes wide open, out they go to catch up with gang members and again, curse the Chinese. It’s supposedly easier to curse the Chinese than to change oneself. Long live the Malays!

Well, there were surpassingly quite a number of likeminded netizens who concurred with  Zolkharnain of which two typical traits stand out:

• One alluded to a distant relative proudly revealing his daughter of 15 years old “can now go to school by herself with motorcycle without license”. “When I feedback saying it’s against the law and dangerous, his reply was ‘takpa doa byk2 bagi selamat ja’ (no need to worry, just pray hard for her safety suffice) ”.
• Because a big number of Malays are being “possessed by the rightist claim of ‘our country has already been taken over’, henceforth many wake up cursing at the Chinese”. 

- focus malaysia