Ibrahim Ali tells Soi Lek not to be a Chinese warrior

– Perkasa chief Datuk Ibrahim Ali jumped at the opportunity to jeer at Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek today, mocking him for failing to impress the Chinese electorate despite his attempts to emulate DAP’s Lim Kit Siang and act like a “Chinese warrior”.

The Pasir MAS MP said he was not surprised that Dr Chua only commanded nine per cent of support from the Chinese community, claiming that the MCA president would forever be haunted by his previous sex scandal.

“I am not surprised only nine per cent of Chinese voters support Dr Chua. Reason – his pornographic CD.

“The Chinese have moral values,” he told The Malaysian Insider in a statement today.

He criticised Dr Chua for trying hard to regain Chinese support by “playing up sensitive issues” and accused him of trying to be seen as a “Chinese warrior”.

“Dr Chua thinks that by doing so, the Chinese will forget his sex video. But he is doing more damage to the Chinese,” he said.

Ibrahim claimed that Dr Chua’s recent attempts to embolden the MCA had only succeeded in making the Malays angry with the Chinese community.

“Because now, the Malays feel the Chinese are being too demanding. Their demands do not reflect the social contract as agreed on before we obtained our independence,” he said.

Ibrahim then accused Dr Chua of trying to be like DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang, calling it the “biggest joke of the year”.

He was responding the the results of a survey, published today by The Malaysian Insider today, which showed that only nine per cent of the Chinese community regarded Dr Chua as a capable leader.

The survey, carried out between June 27 and July 25, found that although the former health minister’s popularity among the party’s grassroots had secured him the president’s chair during the party polls in March, the common Chinese voter still found it hard to look past his 2007 sex scandal.

The poll also revealed that the Chinese community would continue to rebuff the Barisan Nasional due to anger that the government had failed to safeguard their interests by introducing unfair national policies.

Ibrahim scoffed at the view however and sarcastically wished the Chinese community “good luck” in their attempts to change the government’s practices.

“If the Chinese reject BN, then replace (the BN) with whom? DAP? Then (there will be) disaster to the Chinese, to the Pakatan Rakyat.

“Can DAP work with PAS? Policy how? Anyway, good luck to the Chinese who forgot history and do not know the reality of Malaysian politics,” he said.

On Sunday, Ibrahim had described the MCA’s Chinese Economic Congress as “ungrateful” for calling for economic liberalisation.

He said that the congress’s demands showed greed and extremism, pointing out that the bumiputras in the country had already made many compromises and shown tolerance to the other communities over the years.

courtesy of Malaysian Insider