Adakah kaum India di Malaysia di pinggirkan spt kata Si Hindraf......Adakah UMNO mengamalkan sikap rasis jika di bandingkan dgn Monyet DAP spt yg di wartakan oleh Si Hindraf ini...Adakah UMNO mengagalkan perjuangan kaum India di Malaysia kalau di bandingkan dgn Monyet DAP....setelah 53 tahun kita merdeka dan hidup berbilang bangsa, agama, kebudayaan tidak pernah bangkit sedetik di setiap sanubari anak bangsa Malaysia yg mengatakan bahawa beliau telah di halang dan di anak tirikan dalam segala bidang terutama pendidikan, perubatan, perumahan dan perhubungan serta keagamaan....sehinggalah Si Hindraf ini bersuara kononnya rakyat India di Malaysia telah di pinggirkan dan UMNO itu rasis. Sekiranya UMNO rasis sudah lama kaum India tiada di bumi Malaysia begitu juga kaum Cina....tapi kita kaum Melayu tidak berniat sampai begitu kerana kita tahu pemimpin-pemimpin agung dahulu telah meletakkan batu asas yg kukuh utk kita sama-sama kongsi bumi Malaysia ini dgn semua kaum yg terdapat di Malaysia. Maka kita kena terima hakikat bahawa Malaysia adalah sebuag negara yg berbilang bangsa, agama dan kebudayaan tetapi bukannya berbilang kurang ajar, berbilang demo dan berbilang rasisnya...Kita mesti melihat kpd Si Hindraf itu sendiri apakah tujuan penubuhannya. Adakah ia berjuang utk kaum India ataupun segolongan kaum India yg mempergunakan kaum India yg lain utk mendapatkan perhatian akan kekurangan mereka jika di bandingkan dgn kaum India di dalam MIC, PPP dan IPF....Mengapa pula Si Hindraf ini menggunakan gambar-gambar pemimpin-pemimpin luar utk di jadikan ikon kpd kebangkitan Si Hindraf ini. Adakah mereka tiada pemimpin-pemimpin kaum India yg perlu di contohi di Malaysia yg telah berjuang utk kaum India selama 53 tahun....Inilah persoalan yg perlu di jawab oleh Si Hindraf ini....jangan cuba utk menconteng nama baik UMNO kononnya rasis tetapi Si Hindraf kena tengok dan cermin muka masing-masing adakah aku ini tidak serasis Monyet DAP yg telah meminggirkan kaum India dan yg telah menggunakan kaum India dan kaum Melayu untuk slogan "Jom Ubah dan Selamatkan Malaysia". Sepatutnya Si Hindraf nak berjuang menentang kezaliman Pakatanal Rakyatul Syaitan bukannya BN kerana BN telah menegakkan kestabilan, kemakmuran, kesejahteraan, keamanan, keharmonian dan keadilan di semua peringkat tanpa mengira kaum sejajar dgn slogan 1 Malaysia...[1 Matlamat, 1 Wawasan, 1 Bangsa, 1 Negara , 1Malaysia]....fikir-fikirlah wahai kaum India

 

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Hindraf hails rally a great succes

"Hindraf says it has evidence to show the police have been brutal to the Indian community during the Feb 27 protest"

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KOTA KINABALU: Hindraf Makkal Sakthi hailed its planning for the Feb 27 anti-racism rally at the Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC) as a great success.

The ad hoc apolitical human rights movement dismissed the police claim that they had thwarted the rally “as a mixture of outright lies, half-truths and propaganda”.

“We have documented enough evidence to show how brutal the police and Umno can be,” said Hindraf man P Waytha Moorthy early today from London from where he stage-managed the Feb 27 event via the Internet.

He was commenting on Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak’s statement to the press last night that Hindraf was out to paint the country in a bad light abroad and that it was an unlawful organisation.

Najib has been reported as also saying separately that the Indian community did not need Hindraf.

Waytha Moorthy said that Najib was trying to link the country with the fate of his party, Umno, “which was responsible for racism, racial prejudice and racial polarisation”.

He also dismissed Najib’s claims that Hindraf Makkal Sakthi was an unlawful organisation.

Explaining the status of his movement, Waytha Moorthy claimed that Hindraf was declared unlawful in late 2008 even before the Registrar of Societies responded to its application for registration as a human rights society.

Movement’s legitimacy

The “banned” Hindraf, according to him, has now been replaced by Hindraf Makkal Sakthi which is pending registration. The so-called ban on Hindraf, he added, doesn’t apply to Hindraf Makkal Sakthi.

“Late last year, we held our first national convention at the Chinese Assembly Hall in Kuala Lumpur,” said Waytha Moorthy.

“Why didn’t the police stop our national convention then on the grounds of it being an unlawful organisation?”

He reminded the press and police that Umno had been declared unlawful by the Kuala Lumpur High Court and that the Umno Baru which replaced it had long since ceased to be active.

Waytha Moorthy denied that he was getting into semantics. Instead, he urged that the media focus on Umno and not question his movement’s legitimacy.

“We don’t deny that we are after Umno. We are determined to expose the evil that this party has become in the country,” said Waytha Moorthy, citing the controversial novel Interlok as an example. “Umno is a menace to Malaysia and the future of us all.”

As an example, the Hindraf chief pointed at the racial profiling of Indians by the police and their behaviour towards the community as a manifestation of the deep-seated racist mindset of the Umno government.

“As our various live feeds and video hook-ups of Feb 27 show, the police did not conduct themselves with respect towards the Indian community and the handicapped,” said Waytha Moorthy. “They went after any Indian, mostly innocent ones, found within the vicinity of KLCC.”

He asked whether it was the policy of the government to deny Indians even the right to wait at a bus stop to take a ride to wherever they were headed.

International community

Asked what Hindraf intended to do with the evidence it had gathered on the Feb 27 rally, Waytha Moorthy said that his NGO intended to present it to the international community.

“We will work closely with Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and human rights defenders,” said Waytha Moorthy. “They recognise us although the Malaysian government keeps saying that we are an unlawful organisation.”

Post-Feb 27, Hindraf’s first order of business would be to seek a meeting with Najib to present him with the report on the proceedings of a conference it held in Kuala Lumpur on Jan 23.

The meeting, which focused on the marginalised, disenfranchised communities and minorities in Malaysia, also drew participation from the Orang Asli and representatives from Sabah and Sarawak.

“Najib wants us to send him another memorandum on our problems. So, we will send him the Jan 23 report,” said Waytha Moorthy. “He’s still sitting on our memorandum from last year on our 18-point demand and the list of over 100 problems besetting the community.”

Hindraf plans to hold a series of rallies nationwide calling for “an end to Umno’s racism”. Waytha Moorthy declined to disclose when and where the next anti-Umno racism rally will be held.

“Interlok is a manifestation of the racism of Umno,” said Waytha Moorthy. “We will not be deterred. We will risk detention and arrests. We are prepared to fill all the police lock-ups in the country.”

Teruskan kehidupan dengan prasangka baik

Keunikan Malaysia sebagai sebuah negara yang majmuk dari segala segi menjadikan negara ini sukar digugat dengan dakyah-dakyah negatif pihak tertentu yang menganggap setiap perkara yang berlaku bertujuan merendahkan kaum dan etnik tertentu. Jika ada negara lain di dunia ini yang mengiktiraf semua agama dan hari kebesaran penganut tertentu dengan memberi cuti penghormatan, sila tampil tunjukkan bukti. Hari Raya Puasa, Hari Raya Haji, Tahun Baru Cina, Hari Wesak, Hari Deepavali, Hari Thaipusam, Hari Krismas, semuanya diberi cuti umum.

Adakah itu bukan tanda kerajaan Barisan Nasional (BN) yang diterajui UMNO tidak bersikap pilih bulu dan mewujudkan dasar 1Malaysia yang menjadikan kita saling menghargai penduduk negara yang merdeka hampir 54 tahun dahulu.

Sebagai rakyat Malaysia, kita langsung tidak menganggap warna kulit sebagai halangan untuk saling menghormati. Senario satu pagi di Seksyen 3, Shah Alam boleh dianggap betapa uniknya negara yang dikatakan menggalakkan rasisme hanya kerana satu perkataan yang wujud di alam nyata dan telah berada dalam sebuah novel yang berpuluh-puluh tahun diterbitkan.

Senario pagi tersebut, seorang pemuda Melayu singgah makan dan minum di sebuah restoran mamak untuk menjamah roti canai dan teh tarik. Selepas 'pekena' air tangan mamak, beliau menuju ke kedai gunting. Ada tiga tukang gunting berbangsa India rakyat tempatan sedang sibuk melayan filem Aathiran (Robot) lakonan superstar, Rajnikanth dan Aishwarya Rai. Dengan senyuman manis, pemuda itu duduk di kerusi menghadap cermin, kemudian rambut digunting sehingga pendek. Sambil itu, pemuda Melayu itupun turut layan cerita tersebut dengan menjeling- jeling ke arah TV.

Selepas bergunting rambut, pemuda Melayu itu ke kedai elektrik di sebelah kedai gunting tersebut untuk membeli alat pemain cakera digital video (DVD). Kedatangannya disambut seorang peniaga berbangsa Tionghua yang juga tersenyum manis, lalu membuka hati pemuda Melayu membeli alat pemain tersebut.

Betapa cantik dan harmoni negara ini jika kita teruskan kehidupan dengan prasangka baik dan tidak cuba memporak-peranda keunikan yang telah terbentuk sejak berpuluh tahun lamanya.

Mengapa isu yang boleh diselesaikan secara senyum manis bertukar kepada kemarahan dan demonstrasi, sedangkan kita saling memerlukan. Apa yang kita perlukan ialah justifikasi sesuatu perkara secara aman, tidak mengira kaum dan agama. Orang Melayu dan Islam di negara ini memang nampak tidak sepakat tetapi orang Melayu juga bukanlah bangsa yang lambat untuk berpakat dalam keadaan terdesak. Isu raja-raja Melayu menyebabkan orang Melayu bersatu demi menjaga institusi yang menjaga kepentingan agama Islam di negara kita.

Pihak badan bukan kerajaan yang membuat tuduhan melulu bahawa kerajaan bersikap rasisme dalam isu Interlok perlu cermin diri dan cermin negara ini, adakah ia benar atau sebaliknya.

Apabila novel Interlok dikatakan menghina bangsa tertentu hanya kerana satu perkataan dalam karya sastera Melayu, adakah orang Melayu sendiri boleh mewajarkan tindakan orang bukan Melayu yang bercakap dalam bahasa asing di depan mereka, sedangkan mereka tidak tahu maknanya.

Sekolah satu aliran ingin diwujudkan kerana masalah tersebut, namun banyak suara yang membantah sehingga undi berpecah-pecah.

Adakah kerana satu perkataan yang difahami oleh orang bukan Melayu berada dalam buku berbahasa Malaysia, maka orang Melayu sudah dianggap menghina mereka. Adakah itu adil bagi orang Melayu.

Negara kita aman disebabkan kita mahu memahami orang berbangsa India dan Cina ingin memelihara bahasa dan budaya sendiri. Mengapa sukar kita fahami perkataan sensitif yang disebut oleh penulis Interlok memang sudah wujud sejak dari dahulu dan selamanya sebagai sejarah.

Adakah orang Melayu marah apabila dipanggil kaum yang semakin layu? Orang Melayu tidak marah kerana ia hanya perkataan yang tidak akan menjadi kudis selagi kita boleh menjustifikasikan ia sebagai sejarah bangsa itu sendiri.

Nama Melayu akan kekal di persada dunia apabila Hang Tuah berkata 'tak kan Melayu hilang di dunia' dan sejak hampir 700 tahun lalu, orang Melayu tetap kekal di negara ini cuma susah sangat bersatu kerana ego yang tak habis-habis.

Hargailah keamanan dengan beribu-ribu lagi perkataan yang lebih indah didengar. Namun ingatlah, kepada mereka yang berasa terhina kerana satu perkataan, fikir-fikirkanlah betapa orang Melayu tidak akan marah disebut bangsa yang seakan lemah (kerana dikatakan bangsa yang layu).

Demi gagasan 1 Malaysia, jika anda berasa terhina oleh kerana satu perkataan, kami sebagai orang Melayu berhak berasa marah jika nama bangsa kami diperlekehkan mulai saat ini.

‘Interlok a classic work of Malaysian racism’

Centre for Policy Initiatives (CPI) director Lim Teck Ghee has added his voice to calls for the novel Interlok to be removed from the Form Five Malay literature syllabus due to its perpetuation of “offensive stereotyping” of minorities.

This, while the controversial novel celebrates the virtues of the Malay race, culture and value system.

As such, Lim noted, it has led some quarters to see the novel as “the classic Malaysian racist book”.

In remarks e-mailed to Malaysiakini today, the former academician-turned-social activist said some may be tempted to invoke freedom of expression to justify maintaining the book as required reading in secondary schools.

That same “freedom to offend” would not, however, be granted if the offence were against Malays, he noted.

There is concern, furthermore, with the prospect of predominantly Malay literature teachers teaching students the novel and its racially-slanted messages.

While anger has been expressed mainly by Indian groups and politicians against the negative portrayal of the community in the novel – including the use of the term ‘pariah’ – ire has also been raised on the perpetuation of stereotypes relating to ethnic Chinese.

Stressing against the call for the book to be banned “in the same way in which the government has banned so many other books”, Lim said Interlok should not be in the prescribed literature curriculum and “certainly not let loose on young and impressionistic minds”.

It should be not made an exam text, furthermore, whereby students are liable to be coerced into giving the “officially correct” reading of the novel in their answer papers, and whose correctness is determined by the authorities marking the exam papers.

“This will poison young minds and bring unintended harmful consequences to race relations in the country,” he said.

Lim also questioned why the novel was now being made compulsory and enjoying “political patronage” when it had failed to impress the literati when it was first published in 1971 – four years after the manuscript had languished in obscurity, claimed Lim.

“It is not unreasonable to deduce that the book’s publication in 1971 was agenda-driven. The political scenario at that time, that is, the 1969 race riots and the introduction of the NEP in the following year, was rapidly evolving and veering to outright Malay nationalism.

“The decision – made only last year – to include Interlok in the reading list, is equally suspect as the 40-year-old book had in the past not got any rave reviews from either the reading public or the writing fraternity,” he added.

Expressing surprise that members of the government panel tasked with reviewing the book for its “offensive bits” had agreed to working under such a limited scope, Lim said the transparency of the exercise was suspect, given that the government had reportedly succumbed to Malay pressure groups in other issues.

“It was not paragraphs or sections of the book that were in question, although there were innumerable instances of racial stereotyping, historical errors and misrepresentation of Chinese and Indian culture and society.

“Instead, it is the sum total of the book that needs to be rejected,” he added.

Although the rejection of the book on grounds of its unsuitability as a school textbook is not part of the terms of reference, he hoped the review panel would have the courage to arrive at this decision in view of the overwhelming evidence presented on the racially offensive overall thrust of the book.

Whatever the outcome of the review process, Lim challenged cabinet members to read the book – or the translation of the book – and “decide for themselves whether they would permit their own children to be exposed to it.”

More against ‘Interlok’

The Chinese Assembly Hall Youth also lent their weight against the novel.

Besides reinforcing the stereotype of Chinese and Indians as outsiders and immigrants, and the Chinese as deceitful and greedy, the novel also unconsciously promotes the idea of Malay supremacy, said chairperson of the Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall Youth, Ng Chong Soon (left).

Although this might destroy relations between the ethnic communities in the country, this “is exactly what a race-based political party like Umno would need to serve its political agenda”, said Ng in a statement.

While freedom of expression should be respected,he added that narrow political interests should be kept out of education.

Echoing Lim’s comments, he also said the novel is rich in racial discrimination and factual errors.

“For example, the Chinese Anti-Japanese Army was depicted as wanting to build a small China in Malaya. And Indians were described as thinking that the Indian government takes better care of the Indians compared to Malaya’s government.”

The Ministry of Education should not have amended the school syllabus and selected ‘Interlok’ as a compulsory textbook unless it is treated as an example of racial discrimination, Ng stressed.

Meanwhile, The Human Rights Party’s (HRP) will hold an ‘anti-Interlok’ forum at the KL & Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall tonight, while the ‘People’s march in solidarity against Umno’s racism’ is set for Sunday.

‘Interlok’, written by national laureate Abdullah Hussein, became controversial when it was selected as a Malay literature textbook for Form Five.

Several parties then opposed it on grounds it contains words and incidents deemed demeaning to Indian Malaysians.

Education Minister MuhyiddinYassin had announced on Jan 27 that the novel would remain as a textbook for Form Five, but with amendments to parts deemed offensive by the Indian community.