December 26, 2012
Bishop Dr. Paul Tan demurs over PM's Yuletide Day remarks
by Terence Netto@http://www.malaysiakini.com
Catholic Bishop Dr Paul Tan Chee Ing described Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's remarks during the hi-tea hosted by the Christian Federation of Malaysia (CFM) yesterday as "pious platitudes you have been used to hearing upon these occasions".
Speaking to Malaysiakini after reading reports upon web headlines portals upon Najib's remarks during the CFM duty which the pontiff did not attend, Bishop Tan (left) said:
"I don't wish to sound churlish, particularly in this Yuletide season of goodwill, though if you shake down the PM's rhetoric, what have you left romantic perspective as well as clichs which have small or no tie with realities upon the ground."
In remarks done during the Yuletide Day hi-tea attended additionally by his wife Rosmah Mansor, Najib positive the Christian village which they have not been marginalised. "I don't wish to be Prime Minister for only the sold territory of the community," asserted Najib. "I'm Prime Minister for all Malaysians, as well as I've pronounced which repeatedly."
Bishop Tan pronounced which no the single with knowledge of how Prime Ministers have run the Malaysian nation would consider to remark which there could be an ethnocentric as well as exclusivist dimension to the PM's role.
"It's odd which Najib has seen fit to remark which he has to be PM of all of the diverse nation as well as not only the single or another partial of it," commented the Head of the Catholic Church of th! e Melaka -Johor parish whose two-year reign as President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Malaysia, Singapore as well as Brunei ends upon December 31.
"That he has to contend the thing like which shows how distant his office has tended to depart from the broad-gauged source of the responsibilities which now there is the guess which it is preoccupied to exclusivist notions of the actual import," commented the Jesuit-trained prelate.
"If he had the extended perspective of his office, how come when Christians were accused over the final two years of not only being 'pendatang' though sinister fifth-columnists, there was not the word from official buliding to stem which patently false accusation which was directed during creating guess as well as hatred for Christians upon the partial of the Muslim infancy of this country?" queried the Bishop.
Promises not kept
The pontiff pronounced which as the first part of of the Malaysian Consultative Congress of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism as well as Taoism founded in 1984 as well as as one-time personality of the CFM, he had met, in MCCBCHST as well as CFM's roles, 3 Malaysian Prime Ministers (Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi as well as Najib Razak) as well as "all 3 had not kept the promises they done during the dialogues you have had with them."
"All 3 were benign as well as calming in personal communication with MCCBCHST as well as CFM councils though were something else when faced with testing circumstan! ces invo lving religious counts as as well as when issues fizzled in the public arena," removed the Bishop.
"So it's deja vu as distant as I'm concerned with apply oneself to the ultimate assurance from the benefaction Prime Minister."
The much respected as well as dignified Bishop pronounced Christians have grown leery of periodic assurances from the government which their contributions to education, welfare as well as heath care were not forgotten when the realities upon the ground suggest which "their purpose must be pale or discontinued for reason which others should not feel inferior by comparison."
"For the great of the society, this is not the predicament which Christians can abide any more for reason which their light cannot be hidden underneath the load as well as their law frees as well as binds no the single in bondage," pronounced the Bishop.
"I feel this determination will register soon upon the nicely to the benefit of those political leaders who elect to hook with it in the creative manner as well as to the disadvantage of those who mean to tackle it in the merely politically expedient as well as vote-catching way."
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