Appalled by 'no further action' against Nasir Safar
MCA is aghast with a reply by Minister in a Prime Minister's Department Nazri Aziz in Parliament which there was deficient evidence to prove intention on a partial of Safar to stimulate secular ill-will, according to subsection 3(1) of a Sedition Act 1948 despite his undeniable labeling of Chinese as well as Indians in Malaysia as pendatangs as well as anxiety to Chinese women as prostitutes.
The logic which a labels referred to mercantile migrants as well as not locally-born Chinese or Indians is pathetically scornful to a early arrivals of a ancestors who contributed tremendously towards as well as growth, growth as well as wealth of a beloved nation. This logic is flawed, as well as therefore unacceptable to open sensibilities.
But, to give Nasir Safar a benefit of a doubt, if his extremist remarks were not targeted at Malaysian Chinese as well as Indians, is he alluding which a Chinese were fleeing China for domestic purposes given a domestic misunderstanding in China as well as India circa mid 19th to mid-20th century?
The fact remains which a Malaysian Chinese as well as Indians were offended by a extremist spews, as well as it does not make a difference either a labels were meant for mercantile migrants as well as not Malaysian Chinese as well as Indians.
It does turn peerless which discipline with definitive parameters have been determined as to what form of contents (be they verbal or announcement or open policy) have been tantamount to inciting secular ill-will as well as sedition. we fear which sensible readers would review a government's pierce of no offer movement as unconditional a problem underneath a carpet, or selective enforcement of a Sedition Act.
MCA recalls which Sin Chew publisher Tan Hoon Cheng was detained underneath ISA for stating on a pendatang as well as penumpang slurs, but no form of punitive measures by a government were taken against Ahmad Ismail who spoken them.
Some form of government movement should have been inst! ituted a gainst both Nasir Safar as well as Ahmad Said to offer as a deterrent to alternative Malaysians from wantonly categorising people irrespective of nationality or ethnicity with derogatory terms or less-than-glorified professions according to secular groups.
The failure to do so would usually give courage alternative racist-bent Malaysians to ratify similar bigoted marker usually to conveniently apologize which even then, seems half-baked after open uproar.
The world is right away a global encampment where it is not uncommon which mankind, irrespective of nation of origin would try for mercantile opportunities abroad, even legally settling down in alternative continents for unfamiliar approach investment or simply to earn aloft salaries or to gain experience. Hence, a duplicate of a term mercantile migrants is an insult to all people operative overseas, away from their domicile country.
Can a pendatang tag for mercantile migrants be similarly practical to a more than million-odd unfamiliar workers in Malaysia (be they illegals or with legitimate work permits) from associate Asean neighbouring countries who poke for greener pastures on a Malaysian shores nearing by a boat-loads after surviving channel a gossamer Straits of Malacca or reaching Sabah from Mindanao? It is not surprising to find dual generations of such mercantile migrants among illegals in Malaysia.
We have to be straightforward as well as admit which infancy of people operative as well as living away from their homelands is due to mercantile pursuit, rather than political-refugee status. Thus, why come up with less-than-savoury terms in such cases?
The bard is member of MCA central committee, MCA presidential legislature as well as emissary authority of MCA publicity bureau.
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The logic which a labels referred to mercantile migrants as well as not locally-born Chinese or Indians is pathetically scornful to a early arrivals of a ancestors who contributed tremendously towards as well as growth, growth as well as wealth of a beloved nation. This logic is flawed, as well as therefore unacceptable to open sensibilities.
But, to give Nasir Safar a benefit of a doubt, if his extremist remarks were not targeted at Malaysian Chinese as well as Indians, is he alluding which a Chinese were fleeing China for domestic purposes given a domestic misunderstanding in China as well as India circa mid 19th to mid-20th century?
The fact remains which a Malaysian Chinese as well as Indians were offended by a extremist spews, as well as it does not make a difference either a labels were meant for mercantile migrants as well as not Malaysian Chinese as well as Indians.
It does turn peerless which discipline with definitive parameters have been determined as to what form of contents (be they verbal or announcement or open policy) have been tantamount to inciting secular ill-will as well as sedition. we fear which sensible readers would review a government's pierce of no offer movement as unconditional a problem underneath a carpet, or selective enforcement of a Sedition Act.
MCA recalls which Sin Chew publisher Tan Hoon Cheng was detained underneath ISA for stating on a pendatang as well as penumpang slurs, but no form of punitive measures by a government were taken against Ahmad Ismail who spoken them.
Some form of government movement should have been inst! ituted a gainst both Nasir Safar as well as Ahmad Said to offer as a deterrent to alternative Malaysians from wantonly categorising people irrespective of nationality or ethnicity with derogatory terms or less-than-glorified professions according to secular groups.
The failure to do so would usually give courage alternative racist-bent Malaysians to ratify similar bigoted marker usually to conveniently apologize which even then, seems half-baked after open uproar.
The world is right away a global encampment where it is not uncommon which mankind, irrespective of nation of origin would try for mercantile opportunities abroad, even legally settling down in alternative continents for unfamiliar approach investment or simply to earn aloft salaries or to gain experience. Hence, a duplicate of a term mercantile migrants is an insult to all people operative overseas, away from their domicile country.
Can a pendatang tag for mercantile migrants be similarly practical to a more than million-odd unfamiliar workers in Malaysia (be they illegals or with legitimate work permits) from associate Asean neighbouring countries who poke for greener pastures on a Malaysian shores nearing by a boat-loads after surviving channel a gossamer Straits of Malacca or reaching Sabah from Mindanao? It is not surprising to find dual generations of such mercantile migrants among illegals in Malaysia.
We have to be straightforward as well as admit which infancy of people operative as well as living away from their homelands is due to mercantile pursuit, rather than political-refugee status. Thus, why come up with less-than-savoury terms in such cases?
The bard is member of MCA central committee, MCA presidential legislature as well as emissary authority of MCA publicity bureau.
See What Pakatan Rakyat Gotta Say?
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