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- Marks of a good Malaysian leader
- No longer any sense of decency
- Shock! “Anwar private jet” used by govt TV station and Islamists! Shock! No Jews anywhere!
Marks of a good Malaysian leader Posted: 25 Sep 2012 03:49 PM PDT And yet, he was the Malay leader that Chinese Malaysian leaders of his day trusted. In fact, even Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore has often reiterated that Tun Dr Ismail was the only Malaysian leader he had faith in. As a reflection of the Malaysian culture prevalent during his time perhaps, many of his best friends throughout his life were non-Malays. When Tun Dr Ismail was growing up in Johor Bahru, among his family's closest friends were the Cheahs, the Kuoks and the Puthuchearys. Dr Cheah Tiang Eam was a medical doctor who was very close to Ismail's father, Abdul Rahman Yassin. Ismail's elder brother, Suleiman, later a member of Malaya's first Cabinet, was sent to the Cheah home to learn English manners from Mrs Cheah, who was an English lady. Ismail was especially fond of the youngest Cheah daughters, who later married the Kuok brothers, Philip and Robert. The Kuoks would be among Ismail's closest friends in adult life. The painful process of securing independence and negotiating a workable path of nation building in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s seared the ever-present issue of race onto the political foreground, where it has stayed until today. Racial issues submerged consciousness of the inter-ethnic exchanges and cultural hybridisation, which continued nevertheless. Understandably, in many Malaysians, strong ethnocentric emotions were stimulated for a time, something that the ensuing politicking would not allow to dissipate. What went wrong, of course, when we look back over the last few decades, was that they allowed themselves to be manipulated into seeing themselves exhaustively in racial terms and not in citizenship terms. The political establishment grew to depend on this discourse, and turned it into a chronic pathological state.
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No longer any sense of decency Posted: 25 Sep 2012 01:37 PM PDT SEPT 25 – I don't know about you but I am disgusted with Umno and its sycophants, MCA and Gerakan, and I believe that we have to reject them wholesale for: 1) The culture of idiocy they nurture. There is a difference between BN and Pakatan Rakyat. Whenever Lim Guan Eng or Khalid Ibrahim is accused of wrongdoing they don't hide. They come out with proof, sue to clear their name and even engage international audit firms. In contrast, till today no one knows how Altantuya Shaariibuu's immigration records were erased or why the RM250 million sweet deal was given to Shahrizat Abdul Jalil's family or how Cabinet ministers are able to live a life of luxury on RM18,000 a month. Till today, there has been no rebuttal of the fact that millions of ringgit were paid in kickbacks to the highest offices in Putrajaya from a submarine deal.
2) The dumbing down of Malaysia. Umno newsletter, the New Straits Times, reported that local NGOs had received RM20 million to destabilise the government. These journalists must be as dense as their political masters. And now we have Gerakan politicians going after possibly the cleanest politician in Penang. See, this is the new strategy of the desperate. if you feel threatened by any individual or organisation just keep on flinging mud at them and hope that some of it sticks.
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Shock! “Anwar private jet” used by govt TV station and Islamists! Shock! No Jews anywhere! Posted: 25 Sep 2012 12:16 PM PDT Shalom. Today is Yom Kippur. Here is the latest news on the Jewish conspiracy. • Shock! Bevy of beautiful girls flown from Subang to Alor Star! Okay, here's the deal: • Second political favour by Datuk T |
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