PLEASE ARREST MAHATHIR FOR SEDITION, MALAYS ARE NOT STUPID!!!

Mahathir posted his article claiming that "MERITOCRACY IS RACIST", what Mahathir is indirectly trying to say is that Malays are stupid or were born stupid, so any form of fair competition between Malays and other races, they will surely lose out. Though I am a Chinese, Mahathir has insulted the intelligence of many of my Malay relatives and friends. Let's lodge a police report nationwide to bring him to jail...he can call Ibrahim Ali stupid, but not all the Malays!!

His article is reproduced below as well as my reply to him:
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1. In 1964 Malaysia held its first elections. The Tunku had an understanding with the Chief Minister of Singapore, Mr Lee Kwan Yew that the PAP (People Action Party) would contest only in Singapore and would stay out of the rest of Malaysia. It was really not a smart kind of agreement. It was not put on paper at all. Only an understanding between two leaders.

DEAR MAHATHIR: BECAUSE TUNKU ALSO PROMISED LEE NOT TO CONTEST IN SINGAPORE, BUT HE BROKE THE PROMISE BY CAMPAIGNING FOR UMNO CANDIDATES IN SINGAPORE. ELECTION RESULT: UMNO LOST IN ALL MALAY-MAJORITY CONSTITUENCIES IN SINGAPORE. UMNO WAS ALARMED AT THE PROSPECTS OF THE "SPILLOVER" EFFECTS!!!


2. It was not surprising that the PAP decided to contest in the peninsular. Lee had expected the Malaysian Chinese who had been represented in the Government only by the MCA could be persuaded to support him. If he defeated the MCA then the Tunku would replace the MCA with the PAP in the Alliance.

DEAR MAHATHIR: PAP DID NOT HAVE TO DEFEAT MCA TO REPLACE THEM IN THE ALLIANCE. IN FACT, INVITATION WAS EXTENDED TO PAP TO BE IN THE ALLIANCE.


3. The PAP is a Chinese party largely. But it had always projected itself as non-racial. To win in Malaysia he had to appeal to Chinese chauvinism. However he could not do this openly.

DEAR MAHATHIR: WHAT IS CHINESE CHAUVINISM? ASKING FOR FAIR TREATMENT AND POLICIES ARE CHINESE CHAUVINISM?? YOU THINK MR. LEE KUAN YEW WHO SPEAKS LITTLE CHINESE IS A CHINESE CHAUVINIST?


4. Being the astute politician that he is, Lee came up with a slogan which did not sound chauvinistic but which played up Chinese sentiments to the core. The slogan was "Malaysian Malaysia".

DEAR MAHATHIR: MALAYSIAN MALAYSIA IS ABOUT AN ASPIRATION TO MAKE MALAYSIA A TRULY "INCLUSIVE" COUNTRY. EVERYBODY COUNTS...

5. While appearing to be appealing for all Malaysians the slogan was clearly suggesting that there was no equality between the Chinese and the Malays. He and his party was made out to be fighting for equality between the Chinese and the Malays, whereas the MCA represented only the Chinese towkays.

DEAR MAHATHIR: MR. LEE MENTIONED TIME AND AGAIN ABOUT IMPROVING THE STANDARD OF LIVING OF POOR MALAY FARMERS BY ENABLING THEM TO BE MORE COMPETITIVE. HE WAS ALSO FIGHTING FOR THE INEQUALITY BETWEEEN POOR MALAYS AND RICH MALAYS. MCA REPRESENTED MORE THAN CHINESE TOWKAYS AT THAT TIME. THROUGHOUT YOUR 22 YEARS OF PREMIERSHIP, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO SUBSTANTIALLY IMPROVE MALAYS SKILLS AND EMPLOYABILITY?? YOU ONLY FATTENED THE COFFERS OF YOUR CRONIES!!!


6. The Malays were alarmed at the prospect of the Peninsular Chinese combining with Singapore, Sabah and Sarawak Chinese to outnumber them. Split as they were between PAS and UMNO, their chances of continuing to dominate Malaysian politics was at risk.

DEAR MAHATHIR: IF WE PUT MALAYSIA AS OUR PRIORITY, IT DOES NOT MATTER WHO OUTNUMBER WHO...


7. Strangely the PAP bid failed against the MCA. But the Tunku was shocked and decided that Singapore's inclusion in Malaysia posed great danger. One year after the election Singapore was expelled. But the PAP chauvinistic legacy was taken up by the DAP. And the slogan "Malaysian Malaysia" continued to figure in Malaysian politics, evolving into a new catchword, "Meritocracy". If "Malaysian Malaysia" conjures equality between races, "Meritocracy" implies something stronger. It implies dominance by the race with the greatest merit in every field; in education, in business and in all fields of human endeavour.

DEAR MAHATHIR: I SERIOUSLY DON'T THINK MALAY CAN'T BE THE GREATEST IN EVERY FIELD. MALAYS, CHINESE, INDIANS, IBAN, MELANAU, ETC ARE ALL BORN WITH A BRAIN AND IT ALL DEPEND ON HOW WE TRAIN OUR BRAINS AND APPLY OUR BRAINS. SO WHY MALAYS CAN'T BE THE GREATEST? MAYBE I TELL YOU THE REASON WHY:
A). THEY ARE TOLD THEY WERE BORN STUPID AND BEYOND HOPE. (PLEASE READ YOUR BOOK "THE MALAY DILEMMA).

B). THEY ARE TAUGHT BY STUPID TEACHERS, LECTURERS AND UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS WHO ALSO THINK "WE WERE BORN STUPID". THOSE TEACHERS, LECTURERS AND UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS ARE SO AFRAID OF "MERITOCRACY" BECAUSE THEY KNOW THEY ARE "SECOND-CLASS", HOW CAN YOU EXPECT "SECOND-CLASS" PROFESSORS TO CHURN OUT "FIRST-CLASS" STUDENTS??? THEY MUST BE ALL REPLACED WITH FIRST-CLASS PROFESSORS FOR THE BENEFITS OF MALAY STUDENTS. THEREFORE, YOU SEE MANY "UNQUALIFIED" PROFESSORS" IN OUR "NATIONAL" UNIVERSITIES, THEY CONTINUE TO PREACH THE MESSAGE OF "THOU ART STUPID" TO MALAY STUDENTS.

C). IT IS PROVEN THAT MALAYS ARE NOT STUPID. LOOK AT MALAY ARTISTS, DANCERS, SPORTMEN, SINGERS, ETC...EVEN BEING MAT REMPIT REQUIRES BRAINS+PHYSICAL STRENGTH+ COURAGE!!! LOOK AT PROFESSORS LIKE BAKRI MUSA, AZLY RAHMAN, ETC...HOW CAN U SAY MALAY ARE STUPID??? ENGKAU ORANG INDIA, TAPI PUN TAK BOLEH HINA KAWAN MELAYU KU!!!

D). MALAY BUSINESSMEN ARE SPOILT BY YOU TO BELIEVE THAT "WE ARE WEAK"!!


8. When the Malays, understanding the implications, protest against meritocracy, they were condemned as racists. Faced with being labelled as such, most Malays dared not support even the NEP. Some, perhaps due to mistaken pride have begun to support meritocracy, undermining the Malay position further.

DEAR MAHATHIR: THOSE MALAYS WHO OPPOSE MERITOCRACY ARE LIKE YOU WHO BELIEVE MALAYS ARE STUPID AND BEYOND ANY HOPE AND REDEMPTION. AGAIN, LET ME REPEAT MYSELF, MALAYS CAN BE THE GREATEST IN ALL FIELDS. THEY NEED CONFIDENCE, THEY NEED THE BEST TEACHERS, LECTURERS AND PROFESSORS (UNFORTUNATELY OUR MINISTRY OF EDUCATION IS THE DUMPING GROUND FOR THE UNEMPLOYED AND "UNABLE"). THEY NEED A STRONG FAMILY TO TAKE CARE OF THEM DURING THEIR FORMATIVE YEARS (ASK HOW MANY MALAY FATHERS REALLY CARE FOR THEIR CHILDREN EDUCATION???), SOME OF THEM ARE BUSY WITH THEIR SECOND, THIRD, FORTH WIVES...


9. Today we see a lot of Malay NGOs trying to defend the Malay position. Invariably they have been labelled racists. The unfortunate truth is that those who labelled them are equally racists because of their advocacy of meritocracy.

DEAR MAHATHIR: THESE NGO MEMBERS ARE BELIEVERS OF "MALAYS ARE STUPID", SO THEY THINK MERITOCRACY WILL FINISH THEM OFF. THESE NGO MEMBERS THENSELVES MAY BE STUPID, BUT NOT MALAY PEOPLE!!!

10. It is the same with political party which appeal on the basis of the religion of Islam. In Malaysia the Malays are all Muslims. There are quite a large number of Indian Muslims in Malaysia but they do not figure in the political party said to be Islamic. The party, by using Islam, knows full well they are appealing to Malays almost exclusively. But the intention is not to defend the Malays but merely to gain their support. One can say they are not Malay racists. Rather they are Malay political opportunists.

DEAR MAHATHIR: PAS IS BETTER BECAUSE PAS WILL TELL MALAYS THAT "THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN ALLAH SHALL GAIN WISDOM BECAUSE ALLAH IS ALMIGHTY"--THIS IS TRUE ISLAM. HOW CAN SOMEONE WHO BELIEVES IN ALLAH ALMIGHTY BE STUPID?? INSTEAD THEY SHALL PROSPER IN ALL THINGS. (I READ THE QURAN-ENGLISH VERSION). THOSE WHO REFUSE TO LET MUSLIMS DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM ARE ANTI-ISLAM. HOW CAN "UMNO-MUSLIMS" LIVE IN A PARADOX THAT THEY BELIEVE IN THE ALL-MIGHTY ALLAH, AND YET THEY ARE STUPID? LOOK AT PAS, THEY ARE THE TRUE BELIEVERS OF ISLAMIC FAITH!


11. That is why they find no difficulty in switching tactics in order to win the support of the non-Malays. Where before they condemn UMNO for working with non-Muslims, today their co-operation with non-Muslims knows no bounds.

DEAR MAHATHIR: ALLAH CREATED MANKIND, SO YOU AND I WERE CREATED BY ALLAH, AGREE? PAS WORKS WITH NON-MUSLIMS TO WIN THEM OVER FOR ALLAH. WHY? BECOZ NON-MUSLIMS SEE U AND OTHER UMNOPUTRAS, THEY WILL NEVER WANT TO BE MUSLIMS FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIFE. BUT WHEN THEY SEE RAJA PETRA KAMARUDIN, NIZAR, KHALID SAMAD, DR. ZUKEFLY, TOK GURU NIK AZIZ, EVEN ANWAR IBRAHIM, THEY ARE ATTRACTED TO THEM. SO PAS IS DOING A GOOD JOB FOR THE KINGDOM OF ALLAH TO EXTEND THE MERCY OF ALLAH TO NON-BELIEVERS....BUT LOOKING AT THE WAY YOU TREATED ANWAR, I PUI PUI PUI, MUNTAH DARAH!...

12. The difference between UMNO and the other parties is that UMNO is openly partisan, not hiding its concern for the well-being of the Malays. Unfortunately because of mismanagement it has become weak. That is why today we have Perkasa and other Malay NGOs who are as openly concerned about the Malays as the UMNO once was. The condemnation by those said to be advocating meritocracy is because they see the racism of the meritocrats, just as the Malays of 1964 saw the racism of "Malaysian Malaysia".

DEAR MAHATHIR: PERKASA IS LED BY A STUPID WHO WANTS PEOPLE TO BE STUPUD AS HE IS...


13. What we are seeing today is not a campaign against racism but a campaign by racists against racists. The meritocrats are as much racists as the Malay NGOs, and Perkasa.

DEAR MAHATHIR: THEY ARE MANY MALAY MERITOCRATS...LET'S HAVE A FULL MALAY GOVERNMENT CABINETS, FULL OF ABLE, HONEST, RIGHTEOUS AND GOD-FEARING MALAYS WHO HAVE SHOWN THE QUALITIES TO LEAD OUR COUNTRY IN THEIR RESPECTIVE FIELDS OF EXPERTISE. BUT YOUR UMNO IS WILLING TO MAKE WAY TO THEM? MY DREAM TEAM (100% MALAY CABINET)
1. ANWAR IBRAHIM (PRIME MINISTER)
2. TOK GURU NIK AZIZ
3. ZAID IBRAHIM
4. NAZIR NAJIB
5. KHALID SAMED
6. DR ZULKIFLY
7. DR. BAKRI MUSA (PLS MAKE HIM MANPOWER/HUMAN RESOURCE MINISTER)
8. DR. AZLY RAHMAN (EDUCATION MINISTER)
9. TUNKU ABDUL AZIZ
10. RAJA PETRA KAMARUDIN (MAKE HIM MINISTER WITHOUT PORTFOLIO)
11. DR SYED HUSSIN ALI
I CAN PROVIDE A LIST OF MORE THAN 120 MALAYS WHO WILL FOR SURE MAKE MALAYSIA "A FIRST WORLD COUNTRY"!!! BUT YOU AND YOUR UMNO WILL NEVER ALLOW THEM TO COME TO POWER.

14. Incidentally by writing this I know the meritocrat racists will condemn me as racist. So be it.

DEAR MAHATHIR: YES, YOU ARE!!

courtesy of Malaysian Boleh!