‘Dr M committed ultimate betrayal of Malaysia’

KUALA LUMPUR: Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad (pic)  committed the ultimate betrayal of Malaysia when he requested foreign powers to intervene and topple the Government that was elected by Malaysians, says Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Seri Dr Salleh Said Keruak.

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All this, he said, was because of the former prime minister’s selfish political interests.

“Malaysia, under this Government, will never allow foreign interference in our internal affairs,” he said. “All their (detractors) attempts have failed, and will continue to fail,” he added in his blog sskeruak.blogspot.my.

In the item headlined “Foreign Interference, Deliberate Sabotage and Double Standards”, Salleh said: “It must be very frustrating for the WSJ (Wall Street Journal) and those behind them that with each attack, Malaysia, the Government, Barisan Nasional and the Prime Minister grow stronger.”

Salleh noted that for over a year, the American newspaper launched attack after attack against Malaysia.

“But not in a single one of these attacks has the Wall Street Journal been able to provide concrete documentary evidence or name the people who are making the allegations it reports,” he said.

“So how can we believe anything they write?” Salleh said the irony was that the campaign against Malaysia came at a time when serious questions were being raised about the links between business and politics in WSJ’s own country.

“Are we to believe that the Department of Justice’s only investigation relates to Malaysia?

“How many US individuals and entities are the Department of Justice investigating?

“Why doesn’t the WSJ have teams dedicated to reporting on this with the same obsession?”

All of these, he concluded, betrayed the fact that there were double standards – one set of rules for the West and another for developing countries such as Malaysia who refused to be subservient. — Bernama