YOURSAY | ‘If this needs to be repeated every year ad nauseam, it shows that M’sia is a failed state.’
| ‘If this needs to be repeated every year ad nauseam, it shows that M’sia is a failed state.’There is nothing wrong with the contents of Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s speech, In fact, it is a good speech. The problem - as many have said - the words ring hollow at the many breaches of the rights of the non-Malays and non-Muslims.Some Malays protest at the appointment of a non-Malay attorney-general, a non-Malay chief justice and a non-Malay finance minister.
The non-Malays do not want domination or preferential status. They want equal treatment, they want justice, fairness and compassion. They want all poor people helped. Shared prosperity only works when people work hard, save money, invest prudently and make sacrifices - for long-term gain. Shared prosperity for many can only occur when poverty is eradicated and basic needs are looked after.
Talk is cheap, Mahathir. When are you walking the talk? In fact, what you have shown since late last year is more and more of your bigoted self again. Then they allow this foreigner to use our own legal system to taunt our own citizens, and not just any citizen, but members of the ruling government who dare to challenge him.The rights of Malaysians will be protected to avoid bloodshed. But let’s not ignore the elephant in the room. The rights will never be equal, and therein lies the problem.
For those in Umno and PAS and some extreme NGOs, they would most likely ignore what the Agong says and continue to divide the country to achieve their political ambitions.Truly, he is the only sultan and Agong in history who is humble enough to mingle freely with the rakyat and does not put on airs. He tries to earn respect, rather than demand the rakyat to respect him, as the others we see today do.
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