Will not being able to speak BM become seditious or a crime

Richard Loh

They insist, persist at every opportunity to twist and turn each and every good deed, be it racial or religious performance by Pakatan Rakyat into chargeable offenses.

You have read the past few weeks how Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng got entangled in the mosque sermon issue, where certain groups were trying to pin down his involvement, the Komtar traders creating a ruckus out of their own wrongdoing and the latest doctored photos of the CM slaughtering a cow.


You see, they have to bring down the CM before the 13th GE.

Teo Nie Ching's surau visit - by invitation and bringing aid from the Selangor government - was being turned into a holier-than-thou episode. Till today they are still finding ways on how to charge her, with the latest salvo coming from the PM himself insisting that Teo Nie Ching violated fatwa with the surau visit.

Yes, the non-Muslims will always be wronged when it involves the Islamic religion but the PM has again conveniently forgotten about the two Muslim reporters who entered a church undercover without permission and received Holy Communion which is most sacred to Catholics. And then, they spat it out.

Fighting for the rights of all races can also be twisted and spin into questioning Article 153 of the Federal Constitution as in the case for Lembah Pantai Member of Parliament Nurul Izzah Anwar's invitation to Perkasa to a Constructive Engagement for a new beginning for Malaysia.

An anti-racist rap video by Namewee had the police and MCMC questioning him for hours. While they have intention to charge him for sedition, the two school principals who openly made racist remarks were left untouched. Many viewed the video and found nothing racist or seditious in it although there was vulgar language mixed into the rap lyrics.

Khairy, the Umno youth leader is hell bent that it is very racist and he bases his attack on his own interpretation of the phrase "You tak baca? Siapa buat Malaysia kaya?"

Now what can we do or say. These are the leaders of the country and yet the fear of losing power makes them go bonkers. They can just charge you for whatever you are doing - even though it is right just to correct their own wrongdoing.

What do we expect to hear from Perkasa, Malay NGOs, Khairy or the PM regarding the latest racist case involving a police inspector who allegedly told a 51-year-old snatch theft victim to “balik China” (return to China) if she could not speak Bahasa Malaysia.

It was reported that the police inspector is now under investigation but there is no mentioning of investigating the alleged racist remark. What I can gather is that the whole investigation will somehow be turned on the victim once Perkasa, Khairy or the PM open their mouths.

The investigation of the police inspector cannot be fruitful because his racist remark "balik China" is to Umno not racist since there are already so many precedents of such calls openly made by Umno leaders themselves and yet there were no investigations or charges against them.

What I foresee is that they will instead investigate the victim. They will question her why as a Malaysian she is not able to speak BM? Is she a citizen of Malaysia or is she an illegal immigrant?

They will give her a hard time checking through her background. They may even charge her for provocation against the police inspector. What we can see from all the latest racist and religious cases, Umno is only interested in protecting the Malays and this case will be no different. So, they will protect the police inspector.

I am not sure which part of the law they will use against the victim - will it be sedition or will Umno-BN now make it a crime for not being able to speak BM? - Malaysia Chronicle

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