MAHATHIR’S BOLEH-LAND IS BACK & WORSE THAN BEFORE: BLINDED OR NOT, COUNCIL OF PROFESSORS INSISTS NOTHING WRONG IN ZAINAL KLING’S ‘MALAYSIA BELONGS TO MALAYS’ SPEECH – EVEN AS POLICE SUMMON RAMASAMY FOR CRITICIZING THEM OVER BATU ARANG FATAL SHOOTINGS

KAJANG – The National Council of Professors (MPN) today said that Zainal Kling’s speech about the social contract at the Malay Dignity Congress was “historically correct”.

MPN noted that the social contract concept was “indirectly implied” and not written directly in the Reid Commission Report 1957, which is an important part of the Federal Constitution.

“Zainal Kling’s speech was to remind the attendees, who comprised mainly Malays, the need to understand and not forget Malay history, the sovereignty of the Malay rulers on Tanah Melayu, the Malay language’s official standing in Malaysia, the special position of the Malays, and so forth,” it said in a statement.

“All these are historical facts and have always been his (Zainal’s) lecture material as the keeper of the Kursi Raja-Raja Melayu at UiTM.”

The statement said that the speech by Zainal, the chief organiser of the congress, did not contain any inflammatory elements that could spark public unrest.

“MPN is of the view that only those that do not understand the historical facts of Malays in Tanah Melayu, including the history of the Malay rulers, and those who (ignore) the Federal Constitution, are the ones that are hurt by Zainal Kling’s speech,” it said.

Following Zainal’s speech, a member of the Penang Society for Tamil Advancement, Yoganathan Loganathan, lodged a police report, saying the words could spark racial unrest in Malaysia’s multi-cultural society.

To this, MPN said Yoganathan did not understand the ‘social contract that was an important component of the Federal Constitution and the concept of Malaysia’s multiracial society

“Hence, the police do not need to take heed of Yoganathan’s report,” the statement said.

Cops to question Ramasamy for criticising police over Batu Arang shooting

GEORGE TOWN – Penang Deputy Chief Minister II P Ramasamy has been summoned by Bukit Aman over an opinion piece critical of the police.

He said he would be questioned next week over an article on Sept 16 titled “New government but the same old police force”.

The article, published by FMT and Malaysiakini, questioned the police for gunning down three men including a Sri Lankan in Batu Arang, Selangor, last month.

“The police under the changed political circumstances must wake up to the idea that the repetition of the old narrative, ‘there was chase, the robbers shot at the police and the police returned fire resulting in their deaths’, is not acceptable,” Ramasamy wrote.

In the Sept 14 shooting, police said they were forced to open fire on a car carrying three men – Sri Lankan national Janarthanan Vijayaratnam, his brother-in-law Thavaselvan and Maghendran Santhirasegaran – after a 7km chase from Bandar Country Homes in Rawang.

– FMT