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Saturday, 10 September 2016
NAJIB WILL NOT DARE! Dia ni tak ada telok! Lelaki dayus.
The Wall Street Journal warns: "...The
risk of communal violence is real, and there are striking parallels to
past eruptions. The 1969 riots began after the UMNO-led coalition almost
lost a general election as Chinese voters turned to the opposition.
Then-Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman supported a protest against
insults to Malay leaders, much as Mr. Najib did last year.
Since 1969, racial tensions have risen whenever disunity within the Malay community threatened UMNO’s political dominance. The ruling coalition barely held on to its parliamentary majority in the 2013 election despite losing the popular vote.
The government’s motive to fan Malay nationalism will grow as details of the U.S. lawsuit and international investigations into 1MDB reach the Malay heartland. If Mr. Najib chooses to stoke resentments against ethnic minorities, he may succeed in holding on to power, but at immense cost to Malaysia."
Since 1969, racial tensions have risen whenever disunity within the Malay community threatened UMNO’s political dominance. The ruling coalition barely held on to its parliamentary majority in the 2013 election despite losing the popular vote.
The government’s motive to fan Malay nationalism will grow as details of the U.S. lawsuit and international investigations into 1MDB reach the Malay heartland. If Mr. Najib chooses to stoke resentments against ethnic minorities, he may succeed in holding on to power, but at immense cost to Malaysia."
Najib Razak fans fear of foreign plots and traitors to shore up support, says an editorial in The Wall Street Journal.
wsj.com
steadyaku47 comment :
I beg to differ from what WSJ is saying as in the above editorial
extract. For sure this irresponsible Najib Razak led government is
trying to fan racial sentiments and Malay Nationalism to serve his
personal agenda and that of Umno but this is not the Malaysia of 1969
when racial sentiments could be whipped up by an Umno stalwart at the
drop of a hat! This is not the same Malaysia of 1969 where Umno's hold
over the Malays was total and the Malays and Umno were one.
Today we have
social media. Today Malaysians are informed and knowledgeable of the
money politics, the corruption and the abuse of political power by the
criminal political elites for personal financial gain in all its
detail. Today we know about 1MDB, about that RM2.6 billion donation,
about Altantuya...and just about every abuse, misuse and use of
political power by these criminal elites for their personal advantage.
Malaysian are divided. The Malays are divided. Umno is divided!
Can you see Najib
Razak exhorting the Malays to take arms to defend Bangsa, Ugama dan
Negara against the others? Can you see anybody in Umno able to do this?
And if they did try who will respond? The Red Shirts? The Mat Rempits?
The Malays in the Kampongs? Huh...not all the money Umno can pay them
will make them want to lay their life down for Umno or Najib! That
bloody berani mati idiot, Nazri Aziz , will be the first one to turn and
run...for even he knows that once he is dead, he can no longer enjoy
the corrupt spoils of political office that he has amassed.
No way!
The Rakyat will
not be moved in numbers large enough to make another May 13th possible
in the times that we live in today. Perish that thought. ...if anything
another May 13th might be the trigger to oust Najib Razak and the Flying
Hippo. Another May 13th would be an opportunity for the Rakyat to
follow through on what Reformasi and Bersih have already started.
And more to the point....NAJIB WILL NOT DARE! Dia ni tak ada telok! Lelaki dayus!
The Flying Hippo?
Maybe in a wrestling match she can sit on her opponents and score a
technical win...but this is not a wrestling match. This is real life.
Malaysians do not want a May 13th and there are enough of us around to
make sure it does not happen....just as there are enough of us to vote
them out at the next general election!
1MDB and Malay Nationalism
Najib fans fear of foreign plots and traitors to shore up support.
ENLARGE
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on Sept. 6.
Photo:
Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Mr. Najib is using the same strategy predecessors used when faced with domestic opposition: Play the Malay nationalism card. The country’s racial divide makes this a powerful and dangerous weapon.
On Aug. 5 Mr. Najib said he wasn’t involved in the 1MDB case and blamed “certain enemies” for politicizing it. On Aug. 14 he warned that foreign enemies could impose neocolonialism if Malaysians share confidential documents with outsiders: “History is a testimony of how we could lose our sovereignty if we were in cahoots with foreigners.”
During an Aug. 30 speech on the eve of Independence Day, Mr. Najib reiterated the danger of foreign neocolonialists using “dirty hands” within the country. People in “certain quarters who want to topple the government in an undemocratic manner” were “poisoning the minds of the people,” he said. Other politicians from the ruling United Malays National Organization (UMNO) are making similar statements.
One target of this rhetoric is the anticorruption organization Bersih. On Wednesday the group announced plans for a mass rally in November calling for Mr. Najib’s resignation. Since Islamists dropped out of the group, Chinese and Indian activists have played a leading role.
UMNO politicians portrayed the last such rally in August 2015 as an attempt by minority leaders to seize power and take race-based privileges away from Malays. In the aftermath of that rally, a Malay nationalist group known as the red shirts, led by UMNO official Jamal Yunos, tried to protest in Kuala Lumpur’s Chinatown, the scene of race riots that killed hundreds of Chinese in 1969. The police kept the red shirts out of Chinatown, but Mr. Najib defended the protest as a response to posters insulting Malay leaders at the Bersih event.
A new opposition party set up by former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and former Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin poses the real challenge to Mr. Najib. The Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia—which translates to Party of Malaysia’s United Indigenous People—restricts membership to Malays. Mr. Mahathir attacked the government for selling national power-production assets to Chinese companies to bail out 1MDB.
The battle between UMNO and PPBM will depend on the loyalty of rural, less-educated Malays. Both portray themselves as defenders of Malay interests against outside forces.
The risk of communal violence is real, and there are striking parallels to past eruptions. The 1969 riots began after the UMNO-led coalition almost lost a general election as Chinese voters turned to the opposition. Then-Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman supported a protest against insults to Malay leaders, much as Mr. Najib did last year.
Since 1969, racial tensions have risen whenever disunity within the Malay community threatened UMNO’s political dominance. The ruling coalition barely held on to its parliamentary majority in the 2013 election despite losing the popular vote.
The government’s motive to fan Malay nationalism will grow as details of the U.S. lawsuit and international investigations into 1MDB reach the Malay heartland. If Mr. Najib chooses to stoke resentments against ethnic minorities, he may succeed in holding on to power, but at immense cost to Malaysia.
