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September 14, 2010 MALAYSIA ACCORDING TO LKY chedet.co.cc September 14 , 2010 1. Mr Lee Kwan Yew, the Minister Mentor of Singapore is three years my senior. That means he and I practically grew up in the same period of time. That also means that I have been able to watch the progress of Mr Lee, and in fact to interact with him on various occasions. 2. His assertion in his interview with the New York Times that "Race relations (would be) better if Singapore (had) not (been) "turfed out" (of Malaysia) is worth studying. Is it true or is it fantasy? 3. Before Singapore joined the Peninsular, Sabah and Sarawak to form Malaysia, there was less racial politics in the Federation of Malaysia. In 1955 the Malays who made up 80 per cent of the citizens gave a large number of their constituencies to the few Chinese and Indian citizens and ensured they won with strong Malay support. As a result the Alliance won 51 of the 52 seats contested. 4. The Tunku then rewarded this willingness of the Chinese and Indian citizens to support the coalition concept by giving them one million unconditional citizenship. This reduced Malay majority to 60 per cent. 5. In the 1959 elections the Alliance of UMNO, MCA and MIC won easily though Kelantan was lost. PAS with only Malays as members was rejected. Racialism even when implied failed. 6. In 1963 Singapore became a part of Malaysia. Despite having promised that the PAP will not participate in Peninsular, Sabah and Sarawak politics, Kwan Yew reneged and the PAP tried to displace the MCA in the Alliance by appealing to Chinese sentiments in the Peninsular. Of course the slogan was "Malaysian Malaysia" which implied that the Chinese were not having equal rights with the Malays. If this appeal to Chinese sentiments against the Malays was not racial, I do not know what is racial. 7. But the Peninsular Chinese favoured working with the Malays in UMNO. They totally rejected PAP in 1964. 8. Following the Malaysian Malaysia campaign a few UMNO leaders tried to rouse Singapore Malay sentiments. There were demonstrations in Singapore where before there were none. Kwan Yew accused Jaafar Albar for instigating the Singapore Malays. Although I never went to Singapore, nor met the Malays there, I was labelled a Malay-ultra by Kwan Yew himself. 9. By 1965 racism had taken hold and the Tunku was forced to end Singapore's membership of Malaysia. But the seed of Chinese racialism had been sown, so that even after the PAP left, the "Malaysian Malaysia" war cry was picked up by the DAP, an offspring of the PAP. 10. With the background of Singapore's activities in Malaysia in the short three years of its membership, can we really believe that if it had not been "turfed out" race relations would be better in Malaysia? 11. But proof of what would have happened was shown by the politics leading up to the 1969 Election. The MCA began to criticise the Sino/Malay cooperation especially on so-called special rights and demanded for a Chinese University. UMNO then began to clamour for a greater share of the economy of the country. The UMNO/MCA conflict resulted in the Alliance faring very badly in the 1969 Elections. 12. DAP and Gerakan, a new party largely made up of MCA dissidents made gains. The Alliance were shocked and rattled. 13. Then the Gerakan and DAP held their victory parade near the Malay settlement of Kampung Baru, hurling racist insults at the Malays. The result was the 13th May race riots. 14. Till today the racist slogan "Malaysian Malaysia" is the war-cry of the DAP. Racism in Malaysia is clearly the result of Singapore's membership of the country for just three years. Can we really believe that if Singapore had not been "turfed out" Malaysia would have no racial problem. 15. While Kwan Yew talks about his belief that all ethnic communities should free themselves from the shackles of racial segregation in order to promote fairness and equality among the races, he also said that "once we are by ourselves (out of Malaysia) the Chinese become the majority". 16. Singapore's population is made up of 75 per cent Chinese and they own 95 per cent of the economy. It is therefore not a truly multi-racial country but a Chinese country with minority racial groups who are additionally much poorer. 17. In Singapore dissent is not allowed, People who contest against the PAP would be hauled up in court for libel and if they win elections would not be allowed to take their places in Parliament. Whereas in Malaysia opposition parties invariably win seats in Parliament and even set up State Governments (today five out of the 13 States are ruled by the opposition parties) the PAP in Singapore has to appoint PAP members to represent the opposition. 18. Whether the PAP admits it or not, the party has always been led and dominated by ethnic Chinese and have won elections principally because of Chinese votes. The others are not even icing on the cake. 19. If Singapore is a part of Malaysia the PAP can certainly reproduce the Singapore kind of non-racial politics because together with the Malaysian Chinese, the PAP will ethnically dominate and control Malaysian politics. No dissent would be allowed and certainly no one would dare say anything about who really runs the country. 20. Amnesia is permissible but trying to claim that it is because Singapore had been "turfed out" for the present racist politics in Malaysia is simply not supported by facts of history. 21. Lee Kwan Yew and I saw the same things and know the reasons why. 180 Comments By Netizen-1 on September 21, 2010 1:45 PM Salam Semua, Salam Tun, I admire your political astuteness Tun. You’re the only one by far who dared spoke out against MM Lee without the fear of reprisals. The simple fact is, your arguments are based on facts not fantasy. Being a Singaporean malay/muslim myself, I need to be specific and objective in my world view. We all must. I understand clearly what both Malaysia and Singapore stood up for. Beyond reasonable doubt, neither country is right or wrong. Tun Abdul Razak, once PM, fought hard to ensure a well-balanced economy where all racial groups deserve a portion of the country’s wealth and that every community is given the opportunity to contribute to nation building. (Correct me if I’m wrong). Things are very much different in Singapore in this respect. The idea of Meritocracy is an idea where every individual are given the chance to succeed regardless of racial background. The disadvantage with this concept however, is the potential threat of social imbalances i.e. Income Inequality Distribution as well as a situation where a minority group may not even be able to slice a portion of the country’s wealth. One must understand that when we talk about Meritocracy, it’s about work performance, appraisals and rankings in office which can be very Subjective in ‘nature’. I’m very sure, that leaves a LARGE room for biasness to occur. Biasness can happen anywhere right? Without racial quotas, without the promise where every racial groups are given a fair opportunity, there will always be economic imbalances, be it in Malaysia or Singapore. I’ve lived in Singapore my whole life and I certainly know for a fact what’s like to be a malay/muslim down here. Now that Singapore’s long been ‘turfed out’ of the Malaysian Federation, we lack the political capital and voice (like yours) to speak up for our plight (if any). I’ve personally seen your interview with History Asia. You said; you had not succeeded in changing the mindset of the Malay society. Actually, what you say is very true, not only in Malaysia, but also in Singapore. We seriously need to start changing our own mindset and be more forward looking or else, we may never be able to catch up with the rest of the world. May ALlah be with us all. :) By difefu on September 21, 2010 12:31 AM Dear Tun, I refer to ve'aken's posting of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru17SVBtbvI Wonder how you could explain the close relationship between Spore and Brunei, even though Msia and Spore is much closer geographically and in blood ties. How come Brunei never complains abt Singapore? My observation is, politics. Some politicians have been using Spore and race issues to gain votes. Hope you are not one of those.. : | By redrose on September 20, 2010 5:09 PM salam.. menerusi pembacaan komen2 di sini nampak sgt kaum yg sama dgn LKY kebanyakannya akan membidas tun.. saya bukan anti-cina.. tapi mereka yang anti-melayu.. kebanyakan nya.. kalau nk huraikan satu persatu amatlah rumit.. kerana kadang-kala apa yg kita coret banyak terhasil dr perasaan tidak puas hati dan 'hanya kita aje yg betul'. itu lumrah manusia tak kira warna kulit.. namun, nk diingatkan kpd yg komen singaporah lg bagus dr malaysia dr segi ekonomi dan kebersihan bla bla bla.. eh, singaporah adalah lebih kurang saiz melaka ye dak?? ermm.. dlm masa 53 tahun kalo malaysia tumpu perhatian sepenuhnya kt melaka ajer mungkin lebih gah dr singaporah.. pakai otak sket la.. saya rasa yg anti-melayu tak marah dgn komen saya ni kot.. sbb sesetengah mereka bukan pandai bertutur bahasa melayu pon.. belajar bahasa melayu sekadar nk cemerlang dlm peperiksaan ajer.
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