9/24/2006

MINISTER MENTOR LEE, PLEASE PICK A FIGHT WITH SOMEONE OF YOUR STATURE.

Minister Mentor Lee, you are very wrong to insinuate that our non-bumiputra political leaders are absolutely beholden to the government of the day and that we, non-Malay Malaysians are being marginalised.
We have never felt marginalised despite the unfairness of our education system when all it takes to secure a place in any public institution of higher learning or to obtain a government scholarship is ethnicity first and only then scholastic ability. We do not think that we are being marginalised even when our government closes Chinese and Indian schools and that no Chinese primary schools have been planned under the 9th Malaysia Plan whilst more national type and Islamic religious schools are being built.
And it is all right with us when building approvals for temples and churches take donkey years to be processed - only to be rejected.
Mr MM Lee, we have absolute faith in our own ethnic leaders when they tell us that we are still okay even when public listed companies are forced to comply with the minimum 30% bumiputra shareholding and that there is no necessity to request for reciprocation when a company is 100% bumiputra owned.
Incidentally, your comments about how our UMNO run government prefers its Chinese political representatives to be compliant is simply ridiculous. Have you not seen yesterday’s newspaper? Two senior leaders from two different political parties have stood their ground and have castigated you for upsetting their political boss. We believe that our non-bumiputra political leaders are far more upset over your observation of their “social-economic fruits” just by being political eunuchs.
So Minister Mentor Sir, surely you can find some one of your own stature to pick a fight with and ----- though it will be an intellectually uphill battle even for you, do find something pleasant to say about our non-Malay leaders ------- please?

Kuan Yew's comments misleading, says Najib.

Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak yesterday ticked off Singapore’s Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew for saying that Malaysian Chinese were being marginalised systemically.
Lee told a forum in Singapore last Friday that it was vital for Singapore to stand up to its bigger neighbours, Indonesia and Malaysia.
"Our neighbours both have problems with their Chinese. They are successful. They are hardworking and, therefore, they are systematically marginalised."
Indonesia and Malaysia "want Singapore, to put it simply, to be like their Chinese — compliant", Lee said.

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