Nampaknya orang-orang Melayu dalam negara ini sudah kehilangan suara atau sudah hampir tiada suara atau sudah tidak boleh bersuara. Keadaan ini agak unik di sebuah negara yang kononnya ber'tuan'kan Melayu.
Aku merujuk kepada artikel oleh Leslie Lau (The Malaysian Insider)(Klik disini)
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 4 – Mingguan Malaysia, the Sunday edition of the Umno-owned Utusan Malaysia, appeared to play the race card today in an editorial which accused Perak mentri besar Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin of being under the thumb of the DAP.
The newspaper, which has nationalist Malay leanings, published an editorial written under the pen name Awang Selamat that criticised Nizar, who is from Pas, for awarding permanent land titles to Chinese new villages.
“What is in question is why such privileges are given to residents of new villages which are generally populated by the Chinese? In fact Chinese independent schools have also been given wide tracts of land of all things to help raise funds. Why is the same status not given to the residents of traditional kampungs? Religious schools are also not given this special attention.”
Utusan Malaysia generally represents the more conservative groups within Umno who often champion the cause of the Malay language and Malay rights.
It has recently been embroiled in a row with the DAP, as the party’s senior parliamentarian and Selangor state executive councillor Teresa Kok was detained for a short while under the Internal Security Act (ISA) based largely on an article in the newspaper suggesting she was biased against Malays.
Kok is now suing the newspaper.
Today, the newspaper hit out at Nizar for his administration’s insistence on going ahead with plans to award land titles to villagers, which was an election promise, despite an attempt by the federal government to block the move.
Awang Selamat, which is the pseudonym frequently used by one of the senior editors at the newspaper, wrote that it was clear that Nizar was using the politics of land to garner support from the non-Malays.
Citing speculation, the newspaper accused Nizar of following the orders of the DAP.
It also asked why retired military and police personnel who used to receive land from previous Barisan Nasional (BN) administrations did not receive such privileges anymore.
“Is he (Nizar) not paying attention to them because he has not got instructions from the DAP?
The newspaper, which has nationalist Malay leanings, published an editorial written under the pen name Awang Selamat that criticised Nizar, who is from Pas, for awarding permanent land titles to Chinese new villages.
“What is in question is why such privileges are given to residents of new villages which are generally populated by the Chinese? In fact Chinese independent schools have also been given wide tracts of land of all things to help raise funds. Why is the same status not given to the residents of traditional kampungs? Religious schools are also not given this special attention.”
Utusan Malaysia generally represents the more conservative groups within Umno who often champion the cause of the Malay language and Malay rights.
It has recently been embroiled in a row with the DAP, as the party’s senior parliamentarian and Selangor state executive councillor Teresa Kok was detained for a short while under the Internal Security Act (ISA) based largely on an article in the newspaper suggesting she was biased against Malays.
Kok is now suing the newspaper.
Today, the newspaper hit out at Nizar for his administration’s insistence on going ahead with plans to award land titles to villagers, which was an election promise, despite an attempt by the federal government to block the move.
Awang Selamat, which is the pseudonym frequently used by one of the senior editors at the newspaper, wrote that it was clear that Nizar was using the politics of land to garner support from the non-Malays.
Citing speculation, the newspaper accused Nizar of following the orders of the DAP.
It also asked why retired military and police personnel who used to receive land from previous Barisan Nasional (BN) administrations did not receive such privileges anymore.
“Is he (Nizar) not paying attention to them because he has not got instructions from the DAP?
Sudah terang lagi bersuluh. Utusan digambarkan sebagai 'UMNO owned, Nationalist Malay leaning' sudah tentu perlu dan akan terus menyuarakan hak dan kepentingan Orang Melayu. Soalan aku ialah mengapa Utusan tidak boleh berbuat demikian? mengapa bila The Star atau Sin Chew atau Guan Ming, Makkal Ossai melakukan perkara yang sama mereka tidak dituduh oleh Leslie sebagai 'playing the race card'?
Utusan atau Berita adalah suara orang Melayu sudah tentu ia perlu memberi suara kepada orang Melayu. Orang Melayu bertanya Kerajaan Negeri Perak mengapa hanya Kg baru Cina dan Sekolah Cina sahaja yang diberi layanan kelas khas? Apa yang salahnya dengan soalan itu?Kalau benar Kerajaan negeri Perak terbuka dan telus jawab sahajalah.
Untuk pengetahuan leslie ( beliau sebenarnya tahu..) sistem parti di Malaysia adalah berdasarkan garisan ras / ideologi. Iaitu parti-perti tertentu akan memperjuangkan dan kepentingan partinya/ ideologinya sahaja dan sebarang ancaman kepada garisan tersebut akan dipersoalkan. Ini perkara yang sudah menjadi resam di negara ini. Tiada soal 'playing racial card' sebab kita mengamalkan 'racial card'!. Ini bukan masalah orang Melayu, ini masalah semua bangsa di Malaysia ini. Orang Cina , Orang India , sama sahaja.
Tetapi bila orang Melayu menyuarakan hak dan kepentingan mereka, mereka sering dituduh perkauman dan prejudis. Ini tindakan tersusun untuk menanam idea dalam kepada secara bawah sedar bahawa bangsa melayu ini bangsa rasis. Sedangkan orang Cina dan India juga membuat amalan serupa. Malangya bila mereka membuat tindakan itu, ia dianggap memperjuangkan hak. Orang Melayu tiada Hak?.
Ini secara halus menyebabkan orang Melayu mempunyai dilemma dan rasa rendah diri kerana bangsa mereka sudah dilabel sebagai rasis. Sebenarnya pada pendapat aku, di negara ini ini,kita mungkin tidak akan dapat mencapai tahap 'Bangsa Malaysia' sebabnya Melayu ingin kekal sebagai Melayu, Cina ingin kekal sebagai Cina dan Tamil ingin kekal sebagai Tamil. Ini bukan salah orang Melayu semata , ini salah semua orang, tapi yang menjadi mangsa ialah orang Melayu.
Di negara mana yang yang bangsa majoriti harus berassimilasi dengan bangsa minoriti? bangsa minoritilah yang harus menukar kulit kepada bangsa majoriti. Tepuk dada tanyalah selera.
Salam...
No comments:
Post a Comment