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Friday, December 12, 2014

THE END IS NEAR: Malays, save yourselves!

THE END  IS NEAR: Malays, save yourselves!
I have often written about social issues in the past, but have recently moved on to economics where the facts are clearly bordered on statistics and figures.
Salaries and wages, household incomes and GDP per capita ratios have basically made me far removed from being the emotive columnist I started off more than a decade before.
The truth is, I have become lethargic on writing about the social condition of our country. It is the same way I feel about multiple causes.
It is the preaching to the choir, the same old, same old crowd, and the silence of anyone new speaking out that has made me think perhaps it is time to move on to more meaningful speak.
Which is why I find these past few days refreshing.
A lot is being done in the name of the Malays and I personally believe representing 40% and more of the population, and many claim to be representative of this huge population of Malaysians.
However, nobody can truly represent everyone in this some 12 million people. This is not going to happen at anytime in any nation.
So why do these people – Isma and Perkasa, mostly – insist on saying "they represent the Malays".
As part of the the Malay population, they do not represent me.
I am glad to know now that at least, they do not represent an additional 26 people, being the "25 influential Malays" and Tariq Ismail who wrote out his thoughts rather clearly about these "cowboys".
Yes, I am a social liberal and economic conservative. This was the belief system that started Malaysia since its birth, and I personally believe it is the best path for all of us.
And within the Malays there are those remain silent for the simple fact of seeing no need to do so under the current circumstances.
But it is time to rise up and say that what these organisations are doing are not in our name. To keep ourselves silent in the face of such hatred and anger being said to be representing us will only cause continued resentment among the other races.
It is time for the Malays to put aside our well-earned reputations of being peaceful, diplomatic and laid back people.
This nation was built by our ability to historically navigate the inter and intra ethnic divide. To have leaders now who choose to remain mum while these organisations threaten to undo 57 years of work maintaining the peace is something I personally cannot and will not accept.
It is time for those who disagree with these two organisations to say that what is being done is not in their names.
The fact is that unless the Malays speak up, the harmony of this nation will continue to be under threat due to the resentment and paranoia of other races at the silence of us all.
And while I know personally that silence is not agreement, it is also not the disdain we feel against those who so speak for us.
We cannot keep our disagreements with these organisations limited to talk with neighbours, social media and even just the late night mamak shop talks.
We must take back the public sphere of communication, write in everywhere, on all the avenues made available to us, that what is being done by so-called Malay NGOs are not done with our acceptance or with our blessing.
They may try to quell our voices with accusations of us being "liberals", "traitors to our own race" or my favourite "sinners who need to repent and should spend more time in the mosques close to the end of our lives".
We are not hypocrites, nor are we afraid to speak our minds. It is not the Malays' weakness to be diplomatic, laid back or even wanting to do things quietly.
It is the best part of our culture that has made sure this nation could survive this long.
And for our own people to try and undo this for their own goals, gains, financial or otherwise, is a betrayal of all things the Malay culture and tradition stand for.
So I would now, again, just encourage the Malays to put aside their two ingrained cultures; diplomacy and silence. It is time for us to say it openly that these people do not represent our way of life, our backgrounds, our sons, daughters, fathers, mothers and ancestors.
The Malay people are not mere pawns in their game of "we represent a larger population" so everyone else must listen.
We must tell everyone that these NGOs are not doing it in our name. – TMI

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