December 28, 2011
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Malay Rights vs Special Position
by Stanley Koh
In this last week of 2011, you will be re-publishing comparison stories carried in FMT throughout this year. We find which these stories still sojourn relevant in a present context.
FLASHBACK 2011
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was posted upon January 9, 2011, reminding a nation's leaders a warnings which a late Tun Muhammad Ghazali Shafie gave 10 years ago. We consider it is still value reminding a leaders of his warnings.
"There have been no Malay rights given a Constitution holds dear which all persons have been equal before a law as well as entitled to equal insurance of a law but taste upon a basement of competition as well as religion."
That was what a late Tun Ghazali Shafie pronounced in a debate during a National Unity Convention in May 2001. He continued: "What perhaps has come to be regarded as special rights is a special in front of of a Malays as well as natives of Sabah as well as Sarawak under Article 153 (of a Federal Constitution). The change from 'position' to 'rights' is frightening. Who did that, you wonder?
"In a plural multitude similar to ours, if a care was not bold as well as sincere sufficient to take visual measures so which there would be a turn personification field, afterwards a situation would indeed be bleak as well as a multitude would be a stadium for those who wish us ill."
Born in Kuala Lipis, Ghazali was 88 during a time of his death in January 2010. He had a renowned career in politics as well as government.Many bigots, opportunists as well as self-serving leaders of currently will substantially boot those remarks upon a New Economic Policy as only one man's opinion. If they have been undeveloped of history, they might even subject his authority.
If Ghazali were alive as well as facing these critics, he would substantially reply in these words, which were partial of a debate during a 2001 convention:
"It was Tun Abdul Razak who asked me to digest a NEP after being inspired by Rukunegara.
The NEP was a fruit of consultations between a assorted races in a Consultative Committee as well as after Parliament, who agreed to a visual measures by invoking certain action."
Distortions as well as Misinterpretations
In explaining certain action, he paraphrased Tun Dr. Ismail, who likened it to a encumber system in golf, "so that," he said, "everyone could play together upon a turn personification field."
He added: "Almost ad nauseam, it was explained which a NEP was not to have a Malay village rich but to change vocations by certain action. To acquire cache is a privilege of any particular as well as it would be discordant to a Rukunegara if a only aim was to have a Malays rich."
When he spoke those words, a greed for cache by a NEP had prolonged taken root. Distortions as well as misinterpretations of a process had already widely separated a nation, as well as a so-called leaders tossed around a word "unity" only when elections were near, as well as they still do so today.
But unity, if you take it seriously, is indeed a pass to solution a surpassing problems which a republic faces.
Is "1Malaysia" a call for such unity? Many Malaysians do not consider so. They believe instead which it is a red herring meant to deflect courtesy from a delay of discriminatory policies.
The meditative open does not buy all a hype about 1Malaysia which BN is pulling by a media organisations it controls. It remains an dull as well as incomprehensible slogan.
And, as if oblivious of ! what a o pen is saying, 1Malaysia has turn a favourite catchword between BN politicians. They tag a aphorism to everything, similar to a chef trace salt in every dish. Do they unequivocally consider which Malaysians have been foolish sufficient to believe which small tongue can appeal them out of their dissatisfactions?
Shifting idea posts
Tun Ghazali was right when he pronounced which a inhabitant problem had turn difficult since of a kind of education Malaysians were receiving. And zero has changed given he made which remark 10 years ago.
"We turn argumentative over a little words but analysis or a demeanour during a semantics," he said. And Ghazali was right too when he said: "We do not seem to care about a fundamental right to food as well as clothing."
Critics accuse a UMNO-led regime of spending millions of ringgit upon musical tongue as well as rite reforms but creation any real effort towards substantive institutional changes which would move about compliance with approved principles as well as apply oneself for human rights as well as needs.
Ghazali stressed which there could be no durability togetherness unless a personification margin was level. He added: "Let us not change a idea posts when a margin is commencement to level. This exercise during maintaining assent as well as fortitude contingency be kept in constant repair."
Ghazali, once an UMNO Supreme Council member himself, substantially had a little conviction which a celebration would eventually come to its senses as well as start to set things right again. If he were alive today, would he still have such confidence?
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