ZAHID: UNITY UNDER THREAT Power-Hungry People Eroding Social, Contract, Says DPM
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I ,..:;"...::7 ~ .:7 • ,.,. LtlJl "4 Lt..JlJ" I, ". 1\.11....1 lU, ~Vl' 8 NEWS! Goot & Policy DEC~PTlVE PROPAGANDA \ ZAHID: UNITY UNDER THREAT Power-hungry people eroding social, contract, says DPM AZURA ABAS .PUTRAJAYA [email protected] EPUTY Prime Minister DatukSeri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi yester-: day warned that the so- cialDcontract that united' Malaysians was under threat. He said its foundation was being challenged and had be- come "very flimsy" because there were people who wanted to grab power by distorting the social contract with their deceptive propaganda. Deputy Prime Minister Datuh Seri'Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi accepting a memento from Universiti . Malaysia, he said, was a multi- Putra Malaysia Vice-Chancellor Professor Datin Paduka Dr Aini Ideris at the launch of Human racial nation that was respected Ecology International Conference 2017 in Putrajaya. Looking on is Human Ecology Faculty dean by the world for its peace and /Professor Dr Lai/y Paim. 'PIC BY MOHO FAOLI HAMZAH . .- harmony. /' "The social order is possible ing apart our social structure, are' battling either politics, reli- cluded that 95 per cent of because of the social contract must be challenged' by our cit- gion 'or social. Malaysian terrorists were re~ that binds us together for many izens ," he said at the launch of "It is a new culture shaping the cruited through Facebook. years. Universiti Putra Malaysia's Hu- social profile of societies across "The information they ac- "I must remind you that if that man Ecology International Con- the world," he said. quired through Facebook are dis- social contract is broken, there ference 2017. He added that social media torted views ofjihad (struggles in will not only be social disorder, On social media, Zahid said it had become a platform for the the name of God and Islam) and but even worse, 'as our streets will could become a dangerous form propagation of immoral be- tauhid (Islamic monotheism) fab- be tainted by blood and dead of cultural revolution. haviour, a propaganda machine ricated by leaders of terrorist or- I bodies. "In Malaysia, the social media for inciting hatred and propagaj- ganisations," said Zahid. "Those mad and irrational has become a battlefield between .ing lies, He also said social media was people out the~e who are prop- opposing schools of thought, de- '''Research conducted by our not all evil because some good :agating social disorder and tear- pending on the dimensions they psychologists and experts con- could come froni it..