Ahmad didn’t mean it, says Abdullah

Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi will personally see to it that Bukit Bendera Umno chief Datuk Ahmad Ismail does not repeat his remarks about the Chinese community.

“I will tell him not to do it again. You know in a campaign all sorts of things can come up. I don’t think he meant it. I’ll make sure to tell him not to use it again,” the Prime Minister said after chairing the Bertam Umno division meeting yesterday.

Ahmad had called the Chinese pendatang (immigrants) and said that “as the Chinese were only immigrants it was impossible to achieve equal rights amongst races” during a ceramah in Permatang Pauh in Aug 25.

He uttered the remarks in the presence of Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

Gerakan Dr Thor Teong Gee charged that Umno was still using racial ideology to achieve its own personal political agenda.

Gerakan H’ng Khoon Leng lodged a police report at the district police headquarters in Patani Road over Ahmad’s alleged remarks.

MCA Datuk Liow Tiong Lai said there was no reason for Ahmad to stir racial feelings with his remarks.

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There is one observation: Over the last decades we can never hear of Umno leaders and BN leaders owning up to their mistakes or openly admitting of their racist character and behavior. They always have excuses and fallacious reasons.

But when bloggers and blog commenters made any such remarks, we will have the police coming after them and charging them for sedition.

When the Bar Council wants to have a forum pertaining to the laws relating to the constitutional provisions in regard to individual rights and liberty with respect to religion of their will, we have specific groupings of people who would use force and coercion to derail such events and all of which was done in the name of God and color. It is as if God is so weak that He needs human intervention to save Him and protect His interest.

We also often hear of bigots who had relentlessly proclaim all kinds of rights and privileges which are illusory and fictitiously transliterated to serve their motives and mens rea to derive special interest for themselves which are factually oppressive and discriminative, yet claimed that such was what as enshrined in the constitution.

I do not know whether they do not have intellectual ability to understand and interpret the constitution or that they intentionally re-write the constitution to suit their motive and greed. Article 153 had often being cited as a right and privilege; but the truth in Article 153 wasn't so; Article 153 has expressly provided for fairness, justice and equality of every citizens of the nation and had never express discrimination and oppression.

Far more perplexing is the fact that these propagators and bigots are Muslims and if we read the Quran, the behaviors and acts were contrary to that as expressed in the Quran. They are believers of Islam but acted against Islam and acted in the name of Islam.

I had been reading the Quran for years and I just could not comprehend these characters and behaviors which was expressly denounced in the Quran and expressly denounced by Prophet Muhammad himself. All over the chapters in the Quran we read of virtuousness, fairness and reasonableness, gratitude and protecting the weak and minorities. But in Malaysia, it is about suppression of the minorities and enslaving them, making them second class, threatening them, debasing them, and depriving the poor of educational opportunities in the name of protection of the majority as espoused by the vice chancellor of UiTM; and he claimed it was Article 153 again.

The most unfortunate for the bigoted is that the minorities were protected by Allah as can be observed. Allah knoweth all, and Allah knoweth those who were evil. Allah protects the weak and discriminated. Allah says He would punish the evildoers. Allah is great!