Any failure to act against UMNO leaders such as Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and Ali Rustam for their racist taunts and hatred against non-Malays is not only proof that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib’s 1Malaysia is dead, but also that UMNO will make no apologies for being corrupt and spreading lies to demonise their opponents. At the rate that UMNO leaders are abandoning the ideal of a Malaysian nation and spewing racial hatred, UMNO will in future be no different from the Nazi stormtroopers who advocated racial purity and supremacy.
DAP is not surprised at the racial hatred from a openly corrupt UMNO leader like former Melaka Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam, who was previously barred from contesting in the UMNO party elections for being involved in money politics. Ali had continued to blame the Chinese voters for his surprise defeat in the Bukit Katil parliamentary seat by a large margin in the 13th General Elections, even though Malays form a majority 53% of the voters.
Even if all the Chinese voters had voted against Ali, Ali would still have won if he had not lost a significant number of Malay votes. However Ali had conveniently blamed the Chinese to hide the real reason for his loss to PKR Youth President Shamsul Iskandar due to his corruption and abuse of power in bullying the people in Melaka whilst he was Melaka Chief Minister.
As for Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, there was no need for him to make such racist taunts and hatred against non-Malays when he was already leading Vice-Presidential candidates in the UMNO polls. Is this the future Deputy Prime Minister and Prime Ministerial candidate who made such shocking, recklessly irresponsible and unacceptable provocations?
- describing an unlawful society, the Tiga Line underworld group, as his friends and urging them to do what they needed to do instead of acting against them.
- threatening journalists present that he would close down their newspapers if they reported his statements.
- Ignoring the fact that non-Malays are also victims of crime. Of the 14,511 secret society members – 6,171 Malays, 1,701 Chinese, 3,685 Indians and 2,954 from the other races and yet Malays were the usual victims. The largest drug dealers are Chinese, the smaller ones are Indians and the users are Malays. In Internet gambling, the bosses are Chinese, operators are Indians and patrons are Malays… “Therefore the victims are Malays.”
- Denying due process of the law by shooting criminals first if the police has evidence
All Malaysians regardless of race and religion are victims of crime. By declaring that only Malays are victims, are the non-Malay victims of crime invisible or should just disappear without the required protection from crimes against them? I still find it hard to believe that a Home Minister entrusted to uphold law and order can so flippantly make such seditious remarks promoting lawlessness and public disorder.
Any failure by the Prime Minister to act by repudiating them and punishing their racist taunts and hatred will only divide Malaysia into two nations with double-standards – one nation and standard for UMNO the other for non-UMNO who neither deserve equal protection before the law nor constitutional rights as citizens of the country.
DAP calls on all citizens of Malaysia to stand up to UMNO and reject such division, discrimination and destruction of our human dignity by showing UMNO that we are all Malaysians whether fathers, mothers, brother or sisters.