Tanah Melayu: Yours or mine?

Umno's domestic survival depends severely as well as sincerely on Tanah Melayu 'belonging' to the Malays as well as not the alternative approach round.

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As the Malay you am perplexing to understand where you am right away politically.

You cannot simply ask me to be severed myself from Umno the only domestic celebration you have known from the time which iconic word "Tanah Melayu" came in to my consciousness.

Not Malaya (as you know it then) though "Tanah Melayu."

you remember it being spoken of reverently by my uncles as well as the older Malays as you sat as well as listened to them verbalise not of politics though of what the destiny will hold for them as well as the most alternative races which was already calling Malaya their home even then.

Tanah Melayu was the land, the country, ours to call the own you belonged here, it was the home.

But in reality Tanah Melayu was not ours to call the own.

Let me explain. Today Malaya is called Malaysia. Somehow along the approach from afterwards to now, things have changed.

"Tanah Melayu" to quote the difference of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad "belongs to the Malay race. Peninsular Malaysia was known as Tanah Melayu though this cannot be pronounced because it will be considered racist. We must be frank as well as accept which the nation is Tanah Melayu."

Mahathir pronounced the Malay village may risk losing the nation if the communities go on to brand themselves according to the nation of origin as it is an acknowledgment which they have been immigrants in the country.

But how can the Malays remove M! alaysia when it never belonged to them in the initial place!

We Malays go to this land called Malaysia not the alternative approach around.

'There is no risk'
That being the case, no alternative community, no alternative people, no alternative competition can take away Malaysia from the Malays not when these non-Malays have affianced themselves to go to the same Tanah Melayu.

So Umno really has nothing to do if it says which the work is to save Tanah Melayu for the Malays.

The Malays have never risked losing the nation it is the nation which risks losing the Malays, the Chinese, the Indians, the Orang Asli, the Dayaks, Ibans, Kadazansand all those who have called Malaysia their home.

And even as you write this, you as well as you know which this Tanah Melayu is losing the people as they leave this Tanah Melayu to have their home elsewhere.

So because is Umno still perplexing to save this Tanah Melayu for the Malays when what needs to be done is for Umno to ensure which this Tanah Melayu will not remove the people which it already has?

The really people which helped set up Tanah Melayu in to what it is currently the multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-religious village comfortable in the own identity as well as perplexing to pierce forward as the single people in the tellurian village which you have been all partial of.

But Umno will not have any partial in this. Their domestic survival is contingent on this Tanah Melayu belonging to the Malays as well as not the Malays belonging to Tanah Melayu.

Begone Umno
That is because as the Malay you am perplexing! to find myself politically.

Do you allow to Umno's insistence which Tanah Melayu belongs to the Malays or do you contend which it is the Malays which belongs to Tanah Melayu.

In law the decision has already been done for me.

Tanah Melayu has never belonged to the Malays. It never belonged to me. It belongs to all who call it their home. We have been all transitory beings passing by this earth for the while.

Let me share this verse by an 18th century Quaker companion Stephen Grellet, who said: "I design to pass by this world though once. Any good, therefore, which you can do or any affability you can uncover to any associate creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for you shall not pass this approach again."

So to Umno you contend this: This Tanah Melayu belongs to all who wish to call it their home. Begone!

CT Ali is the reformist who believes in Pakatan Rakyat's ideologies. He is the FMT columnist.

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