Hindrafology: The Unveiling of Satanic Verses

The Hindraf March on 25th Nov 2007 will go written in our history book as an event that unveils the long held frustrations and zipped-to-silenced resentments of the minority ethic groups who had not being adequately represented at the highest political forum.

The Indians who forms one of the three major races of the nation were supposed to be represented by the MIC. MIC President Samy Vellu said all the hard work done for the Indian community by the MIC is being jeopardised by Hindraf and other opposition parties.

This statement by Samy, only the vast majority of the deprived Indians can provide their translucent and lucid position. But if we observed the community as a whole, we will suffer from nausea.



The system did discriminate and positively discriminate. Sothinathan paid a stiff price for breaking ranks with the Government in Parliament when he was suspended for three months as Deputy Natural Resources and Environment Minister. He was punished for breaching one of the cardinal principles of the BN. Sothinathan crossed swords with Deputy Health Minister Datuk Dr Abdul Latiff Ahmad over the de-recognition of the Crimea State Medical University (CSMU) by the Malaysian Medical Council (MMC). During a heated debate on the issue, Dr Abdul Latiff said that all but one of the BN component party chiefs had accepted the MMC decision. The exception he referred to was MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu. This remark upset Sothinathan, who stood up and said: "We (MIC) are the party in Government representing the Indian community. It is our duty to right a wrong when it happens."

Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said that as a member of the Government, Sothinathan should not have taken a stand critical of the Government. "It is a breach of party discipline." Nazri Aziz said: "If you are a member of the administration, it is your duty to defend the stand, decision and policy of the Government," he said. "You cannot have your cake and eat it, too. If you don’t agree, then you can always resign and speak as a backbencher.“

Now, Devamany from MIC and MP for Cameron Highland would have to meet Deputy prime Minister Najib and face similar consequences.

Nazri Aziz said K. Devamany should not be let off the hook even if the Indian community regarded him as a hero.

“Should we let Robin Hood off the hook just because he is a hero? He robbed the rich and gave to the poor but he was still breaking the law,” Nazri said at Parliament lobby.

“Should we encourage people to be popular among the community by breaking ranks? Or should we consider the welfare of the whole BN?” Nazri asked.


Well, it's clear; it's all about the welfare of Barisan Nasional, not the rakyat, not the commoners, not the poor, not even the Malays, maybe, only a segment of UMNO Malays.

So we can observed that even though MIC did try to highlight the plights of the Indians, those who tried would pay the price for breaching "Cardinal principles". Its a fortiori, for a minority leader representing a community discriminated is, a fortiori, a leader incapable to protect the interest and well-being of the community.

The fact is, many did benefit from the political patronage, but the many don't constitute a fraction of the community as a whole.

This is the similar position of the Chinese and Malays.

The lexicon of representations made by the leaders of the minority within the majority was made to portray the surreal situations. But how long can this coquette altruism hold? When inflation starts to bite hard and survival becomes atrophic, crescendos through demonstration becomes the natural recourse. The people wanted to be heard; they wanted their plight and frustrations understood and they wanted emancipation.

Unfortunately, idealism remains illusory. Instead, the obtuse crescendos gets convoluted and are constructed as objectivity threats on national security and a disruption of racial harmony. However, this view is not applied homogeneously and uniformly; exceptions are granted if it's from the oligarchy.

It seems eminent that the only possible effective tool is to use the Internal Security Act (ISA) to handle the situation. Prime Minister Abdullah said using the [ISA] law, which allows for detention without trial, would be "preventive" action to spare the country untoward incidents that could affect its peace and national security. “The ISA is there, if the situation warrants it, it will be used,” PM said.


The interesting and puzzling point made is from the prime minister himself.

On calls by certain quarters for the ISA to be invoked against illegal street demonstrators, Abdullah said: “I am very surprised that people want the ISA. I thought they never wanted it.”

Who were those who calls for the ISA to be invoked? Again, it must be those within the oligarchy. So, what's right is only from the coterie group.

PM Abdullah said the Government must be fair to all. “If we focus on the interest of one group, others will be jealous, others will complain,” PM said. It sounds coquettish. If the government truly wanted to be fair, then the NEP must be extended to all the poor, irrespective of race, religion or creed. Zakaria, a railway gatekeeper can afford to built palaces and further acquiring more state lands to enlarge the palace while the ordinary Malays are struggling to earn sufficiently to pay for the daily groceries and home expenses. Kuala Dimensi and the Faizal groupings were allowed to gain billions from the PKFZ deal from a land belonging to Koperasi Nelayan who received pittance in exchange. Khairy at 28, is said to be a billionaire while still being jobless and without a salaried vocation. Scomi has grown from a condom salesman business to a conglomerate that include an oil and gas and monorail and train fabricator. Gerbang Perdana was given $292.4 million compensation for driving one pile... many, many more!!!

Not even the Indian students will be spared. They are already few in numbers at all the public universities.

The Crimea University is not recognized by MMA. There are few universities to go now, yet, they have been threatened of suspension.

This will aggravate the situation further and cause more dissents and insidious exasperation.

The reverberation continues. Those who flaunt their plights are now packaged and made hobgoblins. The conspiracy strategists are hard at work and with the positive support from the main stream media, they are emasculating the "revilers". The groupings are now portrayed as the new gangsters in town.

This sparks the new era of the clash of the uncivilized and dis-civilised.