Raja Petra Kamarudin, U R damn harsh!

This is from Raja Petra.

The abstract is absolutely (100%) "cut & paste."(nothing added... some parts are subtracted with no intent to misrepresent (In fact, I exclude the harsher parts. You can check yourself).

If you are interested in the full article, go read yourself here.

"Again, money talks, bullshit walks"

by Raja Petra Kamarudin

The defeat of Mahathir at Kubang Pasu was not a shame for Mahathir. It was a shame for the entire Malay race. It showed the world that Malays can be bought and sold for pittance.

... soon after he retired, he [Mahathir] said that his biggest regret is that even after 22 years as Malaysia’s Prime Minister he had failed to change the Malays.

Mahathir was not defeated at Kubang Pasu. He actually won. He wanted what happened to happen. He knew that they were buying off the voters with a mere RM200. And he allowed it to happen ... He wanted to be able to say, “I told you so, the Malays have no morals and can be bought cheaply.”

When he wrote his book ‘The Malay Dilemma’ ... [His] target was the Malays.

When Mahathir launched his Look East Policy ...it was aimed at instilling Japanese and Korean work ethics into Malaysians in general and Malays in particular.

When Mahathir went against the rulers in the 1980s it was not to remove the institution of the monarchy and convert Malaysia into a republic. It was to remove the feudalistic attitude of the Malays and to show the Malays that they do not need to hide behind the Raja-Raja Melayu for security.

Mahathir was proud when a Malay sailed solo around the world, or climbed Mount Everest, or swam the English Channel, or walked across the North Pole, or whatever. He would honour them. To Mahathir, if just one Malay can do this, then there is hope yet for all Malays.

He is no longer Prime Minister and does not have the luxury of time. He now has to move fast with whatever little time he may have left. And he is doing this the way he did it at Kubang Pasu. He is allowing the Malays to make fools of themselves and hopes that they will be so ashamed of their actions that change would come.

Notice one thing here. The Umno elections are an all-Malay affair while 97% of the voters in Terengganu and Kelantan are also Malays. What does all this say about the Malays? Basically I suppose it would say that Malays can be bought, and bought cheaply on top of that. You can either pay them is cash, build or resurface the roads in front of their homes, or threaten to take away their comfort. Any one will do the trick and prompt Malays to vote for you.

They say that the Malaysian police are corrupted. And is not the Malaysian police force almost all Malay? One retired IGP said that if you want to clean up the police force then you would need to sack more than 90% of the police.

We have all heard that the Malaysian civil service is steeped in corruption. Have you been to any government department or ministry?

Money talks, bullshit walks. ... it is not only Malays but non-Malays as well who take bribes. So why are Malays being singled out for criticism? Simple! Because the Malays are also Muslims.

We can ‘forgive’ the non-Malays who are not Muslims from indulging in bribes, either taking or receiving. The non-Malays do not go about talking about their religion every day of their life. They do not say that their religion is pure and the only true religion of God (I add: except the Christians). Malays expect nothing short of purity and only Islam is pure.

Many are ashamed about what happened in Kubang Pasu on 9 September. They are ashamed that the Malays can be bought that cheaply.

The defeat of Mahathir at Kubang Pasu was not a shame for Mahathir. It was a shame for ...

(Note to readers: As a convention, non-Malays, please don't make sensitive racial comments, please! Thank you in advance. We had to be sensitive..it was meant to be a discourse, something Pak Lah said, we look back to learnt from our mistakes; not to curse or make any provocations that causes divide and disharmony)