Commentary by Dr Lim Teck Ghee

The truth is Umno, its cronies and Malay interests – in this order – have always been well protected; it is communal parties like MCA and MIC that have not protected the 'legitimate interests' of Malaysia's minority communities though they have done very well for their own leaders and cronies.

Take for instance the some 100,000 student enrolment of UiTM. Can we imagine any other country in the world practising the same exclusive ethnic policy (with a token non-Malay intake)? Say a country called Ruritania declares Acme, a public-funded university, open only to majority whites; and the Education Minister promising that he would not allow a single minority black to be admitted into Acme. How would we react?

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Visiting The Malay Rights

by Art Harun

Malay rights. What a subject. The mere mention of it evokes so many emotions. So much anger and resentment have resulted – on both side of the fence - from this subject. It has been explored by the likes of Awang Selamat, Mahathir Mohamad, Ibrahim Ali and various NGOs. Our politicians have shouted and screamed about it. Warnings of mayhem and amok have been sounded in case of a challenge against these rights. Even HRH the Sultan of Perak had spoken about it recently. But I notice not a single person out of 27 million of us has actually taken the trouble to spell out what these rights actually are. And so, let me be the first one to do it.

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More mischief from Utusan's Awang Selamat

by Helen Ang

Utusan is clearly fanning racial sentiments and deliberately racializing matters like Chin Peng's wish to return home. Its front page editorial cartoon featured a speech bubble with the snide remark, “Just appoint Chin Peng as PKR advisor ...”.

Putting in his two sen worth, Awang Selamat accused the Pakatan Rakyat supremo of trying to gain “political dividend” and Chinese support through his statement declaring that he [Anwar Ibrahim] did want to see a situation where it is alright for a Malay communist to return but not for a Chinese communist to do the same.

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Academic Discussions or Umno Stooges

by Lee Ban Chen

If the proposal was not thoroughly discussed, why need to promote it in such a great hurry even under the pressure of objection from majority of the leadership and grass-root members? And if it was not yet a proposal of Pakatan Rakyat, why should Hadi claim that PKR and DAP had supported the idea? Only when the parties concerned denied his claim and sought further clarification, did he change his approach on the idea. As a religious leader, why couldn’t Hadi be more transparent, consistent and trustworthy?

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Commentary by Dr Lim Teck Ghee

Some 17-year-olds with outstanding exam results have asked why they failed to get a Jabatan Perkhidmatan Awam (JPA) scholarship. Some 19-year-olds have asked why they were not admitted into the course of their choice in local public universities despite doing well. Little do they know that by asking these perplexing questions, they are viewed by some quarters as somehow challenging the entrenched interests of the Malays or engaged in potentially anti-national activities.

It appears that young (and old) Malaysians are increasingly trespassing into the dreaded Tak Bolehland through 'violating the fundamental provisions in the federal and state constitutions'.

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