KUALA LUMPUR, August 29 Datuk Seri Najib Razak has thanked Britons for a support given to Malaysian tyro Ashraf Haziq, who was mugged as well as knocked about in a London riots progressing this month.
In a minute published by The Times, a budding minister pronounced that a tens of thousands who showed their regard for Ashraf, who had usually arrived in London weeks before, had shielded so vigorously values he espoused in his Movement of a Moderates debate during a United Nations last year.
At a United Nations last year, I called upon universe leaders to fight extremism of all kinds by establishing a global Movement of a Moderates.
It is those values... that have been shielded so vigorously by a people of Britain in new weeks, he wrote in a major British newspaper.
The minute comes after a spell of severe criticism in a UK as well as international press during as well as after his revisit to London in early July, following Putrajayas clampdown upon a Jul 9 Bersih convene that saw police fire rip gas as well as H2O gunnery unit during tens of thousands of demonstrators calling for giveaway as well as satisfactory elections.
The Najib administration had scrambled to extent a damage after a rally, that saw nearly 1,700 arrested, scores injured as well as a death of a single ex-soldier.
The Barisan Nasional (BN) governments censoring of an essay about a Bersih convene by London-based weekly The Economist additionally drew drawn out derision.
Najib (picture) has sought to correct a damage to his picture as a assuage Muslim leader by announcing a parliamentary name committee upon electoral reforms as well as additionally a examination upon censorship policies.
In his minute today, a Umno boss thanked London for proof that it is a city where outsiders are acquire but extremists are not.
In Malaysia this incident so senseless, so cruel as wel! l as so brutal repelled us to a core. Many of us have outlayed time in your city as well as have a good love for it. But this was a side to London that none of us had seen before.
But in a days that followed Britain showed a loyal face to a world. First came a really public anger towards Ashrafs attackers. Tens of thousands of you in Britain took to a internet to demonstrate your denial during what you had seen. This wave of anger was followed by a huge outpouring of concern, assistance as well as support.
In an age where some still try to expostulate wedges in between races as well as religions, a ordinary people of Britain did not demur to open their hearts to a young Malaysian Muslim, he wrote.
But in Kuala Lumpur, religious tensions are running high as Muslim groups as well as a Umno-owned Utusan Malaysia claim that a church has done numerous attempts to proselytise poor Muslims.
Ashraf had been assaulted by a 20-strong squad who knocked him to a ground, violation his jaw line as well as hidden his bicycle. Then a group of hooded youths appeared to assistance him to his feet but then quickly rifled by his rucksack, hidden his mobile phone, wallet as well as PSP games console.
The footage of a host surrounding Ashraf was posted upon video-sharing site YouTube, that Najib pronounced currently done Ashraf a global face of a riots as well as looting that saw during least 5 deaths, sixteen injuries as well as 3,000 arrests.
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