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Written by Dr Syed Alwi Ahmad
Wednesday, 19 November 2008 00:00
Assalamualaikum wr wb,
Dear Tun Mahathir,
I think you under-estimate the will of the Rakyat to dismantle racialism. In this era of global competition and high technology - for how long can UMNO shield the Malays from the reality of a free market?
You cannot hide the shortcomings of the Malays. No one stops the Malays from acquiring technology. You yourself sent thousands of Malays to study overseas. Yet where are the returns on your investment in them?
Think of Proton - shouldn't your Malay engineers work double hard to improve their products like the Japanese? Malaysia has lots of flora and fauna. Shouldn't the Malays dive into Biotechnology on account of Malaysia's flora and fauna? Yet where are the Malay scientists etc? For how long can you evade the shortcomings of the Malays?
You see - Malaysia is not unique in this matter. The whole Muslim world faces the same problem. Muslims simply do NOT do enough to chase after and acquire technology! Indeed - there are no industrialized Muslim countries except possibly - Malaysia!!
The NEP and Ketuanan Melayu has been around a long time. The Malays should have used the opportunity they had wisely. Sadly - your own UMNO abused it! Now the Rakyat wants an end to racialism.
So yes - you are right. The Malaysian Malay is going to suffer because they no longer have the crutch. But that’s Malaysia's problem.
What I hope is that you and other Malaysian politicians had better not demonise Singapore in the process. You and others better not look down on Singapore Malays.
We Singapore Malays can hold our head high and proudly so. Because we achieve on merit and not quota. It’s a real achievement.
Well - it’s your country and not mine. I think that you first have to deal with the reality of Pakatan Rakyat.....
Best Regards
Dr Syed Alwi Ahmad
Syed Alwi bin Ahmad
Dr. Syed Alwi Ahmad teaches Applied Physics and Applied Physics Lab. at the Centre for American Education in Singapore. His focus is on Quantum Field Theory and General Relativity. His thesis on black-holes and quantum fields has been published in various conference proceedings. Dr. Syed holds a Ph.D Physics from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. He obtained his B.Sc from the National University of Singapore.
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Dear Desi
I think bloggers should take up the following issue and comment on it.
The recent speech by ex-CJ Hamid in USA and the on-going conference where the current CJ has backed the merger of Civil and Sharia Laws confirms many things.
All the CJ's going back to 1987 and Salleh Abbas have chipped away and deliberately undermined our rights under Civil Law as evidenced by curious cop-out Civil Law decisions concerning body-snatching at burials, divorce involving converted Muslims and the Lina Joy case.
One of the main reasons for Zaki's manipulated appointment is clearly to prepare the grounds for the bull-dozing of the merger of Sharia and Civil laws through Parliament. By championing this cause, UMNO mistakenly hopes to win back lost Malay votes.
Note also that unlike the Nordin and I Polis Raja led illegal storming of the Bar Council sponsored meeting, Civil Law supporters have not caused chaos and trouble by storming the Sharia conference and questioning their right to debate the rights of non-Muslims under Civil Law.
What worrie me is that there has been no reaction of condemnation of this scurrilous attempt by a cabal of ex and current CJ's, AG and Islamist Lawyers to subvert our Constitution and herald the death of Civil Law, democracy and our inalienable human rights.
Wake up Malaysians. Voice your protests now and not after our Rulers give their consent!!
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