STUPID, IGNORANT & MALICIOUS: Prof Khoo's son flays 'semi-literate' Isma man for twisting dad's 'pendatang' research

Mohd Firdaus Salleh Hudin,

A few matters concerning the above: the writing referred to is a widely acknowledged scholarly study in Malaysian historiography because it methodically encapsulated the experience of immigration – penhijraan (yes, at one time the formal term for immigration was "penghijraan) – of the Chinese and Indians to the Malay peninsula.

I wish to stress that it was a scholarly and academic study not a piece of writing that fuels the culture of abuse and name calling that has become the political culture among those who can best be described as stupid, ignorant and malicious.

Perhaps you, Firdaus, did not fully understand the essay, or perhaps did not read the original essay at all but based your understanding on excerpts or rumour.

This is what can be described as a "semi-literate" reading and writings based on a "semi-literate" understanding can only be regarded as not possessing integrity.

I hope Firdaus will publish this comment so that the views and writings of my father – Emeritus Professor Tan Sri Khoo Kay Kim – will receive the clarification it truly requires.

Thank you. –TMI