Malays need to be aware of the dangers facing them and realize the importance of re-uniting once more.
He added that by extrapolation and logical deduction, a weaker Umno – the result of Malays increasingly abandoning it — translates into the rights of the Orang Asal in Sabah and Sarawak and the Malays being increasingly challenged.
“Islam is being made light of and there are braver attempts being made to turn Muslims away from their religion,” he ventured, without citing any evidence, at Perkasa’s 5th Annual Assembly on Sunday. “Although there are laws against these attacks, the lack of action or very little action against the perpetrators have emboldened many even further to continue on the offensive.”
Hamid reminded the gathering of about 500 participants that the Malays, equating their fate with that of Umno the party, was facing a situation which was even more serious than that in 1946, referring to the British attempt then to turn the peninsula under their administration into a Malayan Union, where the sultanates that they had created in their present form, would be marginalized.
“In 1946, the Malays were united, but today the Malays are split and are being made use of by others, as the voice of the majority becomes a minority and the minority is in a position to be the deciding factor,” he said in pushing the line that unity means being under Umno. “Unfortunately, either the Malays remain unaware or couldn’t care less.”
While the Malays are pitted against each other, he continued in a reference to the community opting for both sides of the political divide, the non-Malays especially the Chinese were calculating the odds to strengthen their position.
“They (non-Malays) control the economy, education, and other fields,” he warned without explaining what Umno was doing in the last 57 years it was in power. “Now, they (non-Malays) see an opportunity to seize political power as well and have united under DAP which is riding on PKR and PAS, two Malay parties, to achieve their ambitions.”
PKR couldn’t care less as long as Anwar Ibrahim becomes Prime Minister while PAS, which has just begun tasting the spoils of office and power, have lost their bearings in the process and forgotten their roots, he argued. The bottomline, he implied, was that both PKR and PAS were ready to “sell out the Malays” to DAP, in a pointed reference to the Chinese.
Najib pledged not only to retain the infamous Sedition Act but strengthen it.
They, referring to PKR and PAS, have forgotten their original struggle, added Hamid, “because of their fixation with Putrajaya”. “They can hardly wait to get into the seat of power in Putrajaya but forget that it’s not they who would benefit,” said Hamid.
He stressed that the “Malay struggle”, implying that being waged by Umno, isn’t over yet and linked this with the need to retain the Sedition Act 1948.
“Don’t be too happy too quick, cheering, and holding thanksgiving feasts,” he said, referring to the about-turn on the Act by Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak at the recent Umno General Assembly.
Najib pledged not only to retain the infamous Act but strengthen it against “insults to Islam” and attempts to pull out Sabah and Sarawak from their Federation with the peninsula.
He called for a change in the Malay mindset and attitudes.
“Malays need to be aware of the dangers facing them and realize the importance of re-uniting once more,” said Hamid without spelling out the platform under which they should seek this unity.
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