The replacement to the Internal Security Act (ISA) which was repealed during the Malaysia Day radio programme by Najib Razak, is as limiting as well as contracting as the ISA itself.
The Race Relations Bill (RRB) slated to be tabled in Mar 2012 is zero reduced of the means to curtail citizens, not merely formed upon affiliation; identical to the Peaceful Assembly Bill 2011, though also formed upon ethnicity.
The wording to the RRB is ostensible to foster as well as await the BN's supervision 1Malaysia initiative. It is the law which Najib says affirms his administration's joining to multi-culturalism as well as tolerance. To infer it, it will be modelled after existing law from Britain itself, the Najib administration department department claims.
Whoops! At this point, the notice signals should be blaring out shrill as well as clear for all Malaysians. Will Najib's RRB be as identical to the UK's as the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission be to the Hong Kong's ICAC, which was what the BN supervision also promised? Can any the single repudiate the huge difference in standards in in between the MACC as well as the ICAC as well as not worry which the BN is out to spin the brand new lie?
Harmony is the healthy state
Unfortunately, peace as well as toleration cannot be enforced by law. A nation thrives as well as matures underneath opposite circumstances. In fact, it is not law though leisure which promotes unity, peace as well as tolerance. It is leisure to discuss, express, try as well as to reason intellectual se! rmon whi ch promotes bargain in in between peoples of opposite background.
If the law can foster peace as well as toleration within the society, then by right you would have most other countries implementing their own version of the Race Relations Bill. But this is not the case.
And if Britain is used the box study since the RRB will be modelled after the United Kingdom's Race Relations Act, the resources for enactment of these laws have been different. The UK Parliament put in place the Race Relations Act for distant opposite reasons than the ones since by Malaysia. Furthermore, the UK's Race Relation Act 1965, 1968, 1976, Amendment Act 2000 have been replaced by the Racial as well as Religious Hatred Act 2006. Thus, the really indication which Najib claims he wishes to follow might not be befitting during all for Malaysia.
The UK example
The United Kingdom's Race Relations Act was first incorporated in 1965. The Act finished it the civil offence (rather than the rapist offence) to refuse to offer the person, an unreasonable check in serving someone, or overcharging, upon the grounds of colour, race, or secular or inhabitant origins. The Act did not magnify to Northern Ireland, as well as privately released shops as well as in isolation boarding houses. It was "a weak square of legislation" as well as failed to end secular taste in the UK.
The Act was strengthened with the Race Relations Act 1968, which extended the legislation's remit to cover practice as well as housing. It was repealed by the Race Relations Act 1976, which saw the origination of the Commission for Racial Equality. Items which have been covered embody taste upon the grounds of race, colour, nationality, secular as well as inhabitant start in the fields of employment, the provision of goods as well as services, preparation as well as public functions.
The 1976 Act was later amended by the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, particularly includ! ing the statutory avocation upon public bodies to foster competition equality, as well as to denote which procedures to prevent competition taste have been effective. In 2006 the single more legislation, the Racial as well as Religious Hatred Act 2006, included the a single more offence of inciting eremite hatred.
The core reason for the United Kingdom's Race Relations Act was since the UK saw an liquid of economic migrants after World War II, most from the Commonwealth countries. The Museum of London states which "casual 'colour prejudice' was part of daily life" for many. In 1958, London saw the Notting Hill riots, as well as in 1963 the Bristol Bus Boycott occurred. Legislation was indispensable to address secular discrimination, as well as the Acts provided the little measure of insurance to migrants who were unjustly treated with colour by virtue of their skin tone or secular background.
Twisting the facts as well as floating his own fake trumpet
This is the credentials for the United Kingdom's need for law to govern Race Relations. Is this the same unfolding as in Malaysia? Or is Najib Razak once again twisting the facts, floating his own wail to facade really sinister as well as even evil intentions?
In celebration of the mass the letter of the United Kingdom's Racial as well as Religious Hatred Act 2006, the single cannot though notice which it makes specific discuss to acts which can be deemed discriminating as well as emphasizes upon equal treatment to all. It is really most tailored to the conditions in the UK itself, which has become the melting pot of races as well as cultures with high-risk of outbreak of tensions due to high as well as still ongoing migration.
So the idea which the Malaysian Act modelled after the UK's version to foster peace as well as toleration in multi-cultural Malaysia seems misplaced. Unneeded even.
If such the law is meant to govern what is pronounced or finished with regar! ds to se cular issues in Malaysia, you already have enough legislation in place. The Sedition Act is the single which comes to mind. If 'intelligent' groups identical to Perkasa can ask for people who grant opinions concerning the Federal Constitution be charged underneath the Sedition Act, because not those who air blower secular issues?
Najib needs to travel his talk, not clouded cover the issue with brand new laws
As such, there is clearly no need for the Race Relations Act in Malaysia. What is needed, is for the Najib administration department department to clamp down upon immoderate elements which have been already stirring, distorting as well as skewing the secular peace already in place in Malaysia. Such elements have been manifest in the public space. All Najib has to do is discuss it them to shut up or lock them up if they persist.
Given Najib's unreliable lane record, because should Malaysians risk the brand new law which is expected to enclose clauses which further tighten their personal rights as well as freedoms, so as to allow him to lengthen his stay in power.
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