The Bastards in the Malay Mainstream Journalism

Definition: Bastard - "(1) A vicious, despicable, or thoroughly disliked person.(2) A person born of unmarried parents; an illegitimate child."

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“Why did the Selangor MB, a MALAY , question those of his own RACE to act fairly?”
-Zainul Ariffin Isa
New Straits Times Group Editor

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New Straits Times Group
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The Umno-owned Malay papers have started to paint racial innuendos in their Op-Ed pieces, evident as follows: (Read here for more on Screenshots)

1. Mingguan Malaysia: CLICK HERE: Antara misteri dan politiking (Awang Selamat)
   
   
2. Berita Minggu: CLICK HERE :Kematian Teoh timbulkan pelbagai spekulasi politik (Newly minted NSTP Group Editor Zainul Ariffin Isa)

Umno-controlled newspapers, Berita Harian and Mingguan Malaysia, today slammed critics for demonising the country's graft-busters over Teoh Beng Hock's death, with one suggesting there is an agenda to weaken Malay-controlled institutions.

Straits Times group managing editor Zainul Ariffin Isa wrote in Berita Harian article, "Kematian Teoh timbulkan pelbagai spekulasi politiK" suggesting the agenda was to weaken Malay-controlled institutions.

Zainul wrote:

“Why did the Selangor MB, a Malay, question those of his own race to act fairly?”

Zainul appeared to suggest that Teoh’s death was an accident and that the MACC officer involved was Malay when he wrote in Berita Harian that “when a victim of an accident was non-Malay, who was previously investigated by a Malay, the speculation is great.”

By suggesting anti-Malay sentiment in Teoh’s death, he also appeared to suggest that government departments were Malay-based institutions rather than a non-partisan civil service.

The new boss of the Umno-owned New Straits Times group did not address complaints raised by two DAP men who were also, like Teoh, brought in for questioning.



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SPRM(MACC) Tidak diPercayai, Tubuh Suruhanjaya Diraja Segera

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"... Kita adalah anak bangsa Malaysia. Apabila salah seorang dibunuh kita wajib menuntut bela di sisi agama Islam.

"Dia (Pengerusi SPRM, Ahmad Said Hamdan) harus tahu bahawa Beng Hock adalah sama nilai nyawanya dengan nyawa orang Melayu...."
-Datuk Husam Musa

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Ahli Jawatankuasa PAS Pusat, Dato' Paduka Husam Musa menegaskan bahawa Suruhanjaya Diraja perlu ditubuhkan dengan segera kerana institusi lain seperti polis dan SPRM sudah lagi tidak boleh dipercayai.

Beliau yang tidak bersetuju dengan pihak polis sendiri yang menyiasat Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) dalam isu berhubung dengan kematian pembantu exco kerajaan negeri selangor, Teo Beng Hock baru-baru ini ketika dalam tahanan siasatan SPRM.

Tambah beliau, pihak polis dan SPRM adalah sama sahaja bahkan polis kadang kala lebih buruk dari SPRM dan SPRM lebih buruk dari polis.

Beliau memberi contoh kes Kugan yang mati dalam tahanan polis sehingga sekarang tiada sebarang pembelaan.

Datuk Husam menegaskan:

"Kita tidak bersetuju polis menyiasat SPRM keranan sendiri buat salah dan sendiri siasat, sampai bila kita tidak akan jumpa jalan penyelesaiannya, polis dan SPRM adalah sama sahaja.

Apa jaminan polis siasat SPRM, mereka akan dakwa pembunuh Teo Beng Hock, tidak ada jaminan sama sekali.

Kita tidak boleh mempercayai sesiapa sahaja, tidak kira polis, ketua hakim, SPRM hatta Perdana Menteri itu sendiri. Kami tidak menaruh kepercayaan kepada pihak-pihak ini.

Kerana itu, kita minta satu Suruhanjaya Diraja ditubuhkan dengan segera supaya kita boleh menyiasat keseluruhan episod ini.

Kita mesti memperjuangkan keadilan kepada hero kita ini dan keadilan yang kita tuntut ialah dalam masa sekarang ini.

Kita adalah anak bangsa Malaysia. Apabila salah seorang dibunuh kita wajib menuntut bela di sisi agama Islam.

"Dia (Pengerusi SPRM, Ahmad Said Hamdan() harus tahu bahawa Beng Hock adalah sama nilai nyawanya dengan nyawa orang melayu. Pedulikan melayu, cina dan india."

Sementara itu, beliau menyifatkan anak muda ini sebagai hero Pakatan Rakyat kerana menyekat niat jahat BN mahu merampas Selangor dan usaha yang dilakukan oleh teo patut dihargai.

Katanya, dengan berlaku kematian Teo, usaha Barisan Nasional (BN) untuk menjatuh kerajaan Pakatan Rakyat Selangor seperti yang pernah dilakukan untuk menjatuhkan kerajaan Perak menemui jalan kegagalan.

Beliau berkata demikian dalam ucapan Himpuanan Soldariti 'Keadilan Untuk Teo Beng Hock' yang diadakan di Stadium Kelana Jaya dekat sini semalam yang dianjurkan oleh kerajaan negeri Selangor.

Hadir sama dalam Himpunan Solidariti itu ialah Menteri Besar, Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim; Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang, Lim Guan Eng, Lim Kit Siang dan semua Adun dan ahli exco kerajaan negeri Selangor.

Lebih 3,000 orang hadir memeriahkan solidariti ini dan diakhir perhimpuanan ini, ada pengunjung betindak membakar akhbar Utusan Malaysia dan Berita Harian.

Tindakan ini berhubungan dengan kenyataan dalam akhbar tersebut mengenai kematian Teoh adalah berkenaan dengan isu perkauman.

Berkaitan dengan isu ini, Husam berkata, menurut Pengerusi SPRM, Ahmad Said Hamdan patut sedar bahawa isu kematian pembantu exco adalah bukan isu perkauman.


Malaysia NO longer a "Tanah Melayu"

by

Dr. Azly Rahman

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Today is July 19, 2009, 40 years after the May 13 1969 tragedy.

I dedicate these notes to Teo Beng Hock, a young Malaysian who ought to be an inspiration to many wishing to call Malaysia home.

Because we have agreed to become a country rooted in a social contract that ought to give equality, equity, and equal opportunity to all who have given up their natural rights in exchange for "citizenship" and the rights of the State to tax them (with or without representation), we must recognize that Malaysia is for Malaysians.

This will be the most humane perspective we ought to work towards in holding. What is needed is a system of check and balance that will ensure that each generation of Malaysians will progress without the trappings of mistrust, hatred, and institutionalized racism.

But first, we must all fight for the installation of this reality. Political will that will move this agenda of ethical liberalism must be harnessed and be made the driving force for social, cultural, educational, and psychological change.

The idea of "Tanah Melayu" must be reflected upon -- of its relevancy and whether it is a kind of ideological thinking that will help develop a culture of peace or help nurture inter-racial hatred.

Communal politics is an old school thinking that cannot survive the wave of cosmopolitanism; just like the any idea that could not survive the inevitability of historical change propelled by changes in material condition and consciousness.

In Malaysia, the days of communal politics are numbered, however well it is packaged and propagandized.

Multiculturalism, and in fact radical multiculturalism, or better still radical marhaenism is the next wave.

Institutions that promote racism must be deconstructed and abolished; institutions that are funded by the ruling regime to ensure the hegemony of this or that race. Dismantle them before they become yet another layer of complexity in our consciousness; a layer that hides the structural violence inherent in a system of racism and false consciousness called "nationalistic history".

The only permanent thing is CHANGE , as the Chinese philosopher and mystic Lao Tzu said. Man has no nature, what he has is history, said the Spanish philosopher Ortega Gasset.

And there will be beauty in this change if we know how to destroy the beast within.

I am reproducing an essay I wrote sometime ago on "Ketuanan Melayu"... READ HERE FOR MORE