Guan Eng: Refusal to condemn member shows MCA backs Perkasas racism




By Yow Hong Chieh
February 02, 2012
KUALA LUMPUR, February 2 The MCA has shown its links to "racist" Perkasa by not censuring a Seputeh multiplication committee part of who helped a Malay rights organisation organize a white "ang pow" Chinese New Year lunch, Lim Guan Eng has said.
The DAP secretary-general pronounced it was transparent a MCA upheld Perkasa's wish to emanate an "Asian apartheid" by not taking action opposite Dr Tiew Chew Ming, who ferried aged adults to a Perkasa eventuality where white ang pow packets were handed out.
Perkasa arch Datuk Ibrahim Ali, who is often during a centre of controversy for uttering alleged secular slurs, invited more criticism last week when he distributed white packets instead of a normal red during a group's Chinese New Year open house.
Money to help with wake costs is customarily placed in "white packets" by a Chinese as well as is well known as "pak kum" in Cantonese.
But according to a group, this was because Ibrahim, who took pains to trumpet Perkasa's onslaught for a Chinese community during a function, had run out of red ang pow packets.!
When asked to comment upon a incident, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak attempted to distance his administration from a "white packet" mistake pas by observant Ibrahim was an eccentric lawmaker.
Lim additionally took a MCA to charge for not criticising a prime minister's warding off to reject Perkasa for distributing a white packets which, a Penang arch apportion said, was explanation of Umno's open await for Ibrahim's group.
"What is a use of condemning a racist Perkasa when (MCA president) Dr Chua should additionally have asked why a Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib did not reject Perkasa for blatantly trampling over a sensitivities of a Chinese community by distributing white instead of red ang pau during Chinese New Year?" he pronounced in a! stateme nt.
He combined Umno as well as a MCA's await for Perkasa contrasted with PAS's apply oneself for Chinese religious as well as informative sensitivities, pointing out which leaders from a Islamist party had distributed red ang pow packets, mandarin oranges as well as Chinese New Year cards to marketplace traders.
"The time for racist parties like Umno as well as MCA is over. Malaysians regardless of race contingency reject not only nonconformist Perkasa as well as Utusan Malaysia though additionally Umno as well as MCA, which has divided a people for 55 years as well as robbed a country of trillions of ringgit by relying upon secular rhetoric," Lim said.
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