So, with due respect to Dr Mahathir, it was actually the other way around. Umno was the one that split the Malays. And now Umno grumbles that the opposition is splitting the Malays? And, worse still, Umno split the Malays to serve the British interest and as a British ‘running dog’.
NO HOLDS BARRED
Raja Petra Kamarudin
Dr M blames PAS, PKR for dividing Malays
By Shazwan Mustafa Kamal, The Malaysian Insider
Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamed delivered a history lesson on Malay unity today and blamed PAS and PKR for dividing the community because of what he claimed was their greed for power.
He also described PAS and PKR among many other Malay-based political parties as Umno splinter groups responsible for disrupting unity among Malays.
Speaking at the National Library today at a special “Bicara Perdana” talk, he said that it was a historical fact that the first political party which was united and fought against the British for Malay rights was Umno.
He added that it was the unity of the Malays in backing Umno that made the British pull out and abandon their plans for a Malayan Union at the end of World War Two.
The former PM pointed out that it was the Umno ulamas, who had split from the Malay nationalist party in the 1950s to form PAS.
This was because they were “dissatisfied” when they were not given positions within the state and federal legislatures, according to Dr. Mahathir.
“PAS, in the beginning, were ulamas from Umno. They were upset that they were not chosen in the legislative and state legislative assembly...more educated and English-speaking Malay leaders were chosen and they were not happy with this.
“If you get selected, you become a YB, and then you got paid RM300,” he said.
The former premier said that these ulamas went into seclusion, then formed a new party so that they could “contest” to become candidates.
“The split between the Malays started just because they wanted positions. That was when PAS was formed.
“Later on the same thing happened with Keadilan, as well as the now-defunct Semangat 46...all these were splinter groups from Umno.”
Dr Mahathir also defended the social contract, the so-called unwritten agreement between the Malays and the non-Malays during independence, by affirming that without the agreement, Malaysia would not have been formed.
“If there was no social contract, the terms and conditions of allowing citizenship to non-Malays would have not taken place. One million outsiders were given citizenships at the time.”
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Mustapha Hussain: Malay Nationalism Before UMNO
THE MEMOIRS OF MUSTAPHA HUSSAIN, 1910-1957
KMM: The Young Malay Union (1938)
Dr Burhanuddin Al Helmi
Dr Burhanuddin, a colossal name in Malay left politics, was not a KMM member. KMM only contacted him a week after the fall of Singapore. Ibrahim Yaakub and I interviewed him before suggesting that the Japanese Military Administration employ him as Advisor on Malay Customs and Religion. Dr Burhanuddin accepted the post graciously. Had he declined, KMM would have brought in Ustaz Abu Bakar Al Baqir, founder of the religious institute, Madrasah Maahad Il Ihya Assharif in Gunung Semanggul, Perak.
Dr Burhanuddin worked in Singapore initially, but when the Japanese Military Administration for Sumatra and Malaya was incorporated, and its HQ moved to Taiping, Perak, so did Dr Burhanuddin. We should commend Haniff bin Sulaiman, a faithful Taiping KMM member for introducing Dr Burhanuddin to the public in Perak through talks and religious sermons. That made it easy for the Malay Nationalist Party (MNP), the successor of KMM, to gain a foothold in Perak, when Dr Burhanuddin founded it in 1945.
Dr Burhanuddin was a remarkable religious figure, who combined the logic of science and Islam most effectively. Before World War II, he was a schoolteacher in Singapore and dabbled in politics from a distance. He had written many protest letters to the press on the Israeli Occupation of Palestine, and was once arrested and detained in a Police lock up. Although not a KMM member, he was very influenced by it.
Ahmad Boestamam
According to a statement given to me dated 12 November 1975, Ahmad Boestamam, another great name in Malay left politics, joined KMM a couple of months before the Japanese invasion. He took over the post of Assistant Secretary from Abdullah Kamil, who had left Kuala Lumpur. Boestamam stated that although he was a member of the daily Majlis editorial board, led by Ibrahim Yaakub in Kuala Lumpur, he was never once invited by Ibrahim Yaakub to join KMM, although two other editorial board members (Abdul Samad Ahmad and Mohamad Salehuddin) were.
National List of KMM Members Whom I Knew
Kuala Lumpur
Abdul Samad bin Ahmad, Majlis, Kuala Lumpur
Mohamad Salehuddin, Majlis, Kuala Lumpur
Ahmad Boestamam @ Abdullah Thani, Majlis, Kuala Lumpur
Mohd. Yassin bin Salleh, Malay schoolteacher, Kuala Lumpur
Hamzah bin Alang, businessman, Kampung Baru, Selangor
Abdul Rahman Tambi, clerk, Kampung Baru, Selangor
Mustaffa Yunus, barber, Kajang Selangor
Saidi Hashim, book store owner, Kajang, Selangor
Ahmad, Agricultural Department, Cheras, Selangor
Hashim bin Mat Dali, Pucung, Selangor
Ahmad bin Mohd. Amin, Agricultural Department, Selangor
Johar bin Kerong, Agricultural Department, Selangor
Rais bin Abdul Karim, Agricultural Department, Selangor
Abdul Rauf, Agricultural Department Selangor,
Hamzah Sanusi, Kuala Selangor
Perak
Tuan Haji Ariffin, Kuala Kangsar
Zainal Abidin bin Kassim, Technical School student, Kuala Lumpur (son of ‘Rich Man Kassim’ in Tapah Road)
Mohd. Nor bin Abdul Shukur, Ipoh
Mohd. Mustaffa bin Ali @ Majid, Ipoh
Aminuddin, Ipoh
Isa bin Sulaiman, Agricutural School graduate and Malay schoolteacher, Perak
Pak Cik Ahmad, self employed, Taiping
Haniff bin Sulaiman, insurance agent, Taiping
Mohd. Judin, Agricultural Department, Kuala Kangsar
Junid Mahmud, Malay schoolteacher, Tapah Road
Tuan Haji Mohd. Yusuf, Batu Gajah
Ahmad Shafik, Gunung Semanggul
Abdullah Che Dat or Abdullah C.D., Clifford English School, Kuala Kangsar (the youngest KMM member at 17)
Abdul Rahman Rahim
Mohd. Hanafiah Abdul Rahman
Pahang
Mohammad bin Baginda Besar, smallholder, Bentong
Yahaya bin Hussain, Agricultural Department (my brother)
Kamarulzaman bin Teh, Agricultural Department, Bentong
Negeri Sembilan
Jaafar Sidek
Achih bin Haji Masud
Thaharuddin Ahmad
Zubir Salam
Penang
Putih Badri bin Chek Mat, Al Mashoor schoolteacher
Abu Bakar Mohd Noor, Kelawai
Ustaz Abdul Majid
Kedah
Mohammad Ariff
Melaka
Mohd. Isa Mahmud
Ibrahim Endut
Abdul Hamid Abdul
Trengganu
Abdul Majid bin Haji Mohammad
Ibrahim Tahir
Wan Daud Ahmad (Datuk)
Johor
Haji Abdul Hamid Fadzil Tahir
Ilias Karim
Musa, Agricultural Department, Muar
Kelantan
Abdul Kadir Adabi, writer
Ibrahim Mustaffa, journalist
Endnotes To Chapter 18
British Police Officer J. Birch, who once served in Bagan Serai, Perak was sent to arrest me in Taiping, but the Japanese military’s speedy advance forced Birch to retreat. He diverted to Teluk Anson (now Teluk Intan), hoping to arrest Raja Yahaya, a Police Officer absent without leave, but Birch was unlucky to be in the Japanese way. He was killed.
Translated by Insun Mustapha
Edited by Jomo K. S.
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Okay, you have read Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s lecture on history, which I republished above. Now, compare Dr Mahathir’s version of history to mine. And, to support my version, I offer you just a very small extract from Mustapha Hussain’s book, Malay Nationalism Before Umno.
If you were to read the entire book (which I have), you will discover that the Malays united to fight for independence from Britain long before the Second Word War and long before Umno was born in 1946.
Then the British ‘created’ Umno. And I have also written about this, about ten years or so ago, which was published in Harakah, when I interviewed an ‘old boy’ of MCKK, Datuk Andika, who died a couple of years ago in Kuala Terengganu at the age of 100.
Datuk Andika related how he was encouraged and financed by the British to set up the first Umno branch in the state of Terengganu, which was in Dungun.
The British allowed Umno to campaign for Merdeka the length and breadth of Malaya. But when the KMM people did the same, the British detained them without trial.
In short, the Malays were already united long ago. And they were united against the British. But along came the British who created Umno. And the purpose of creating Umno was to split the Malays and kill KMM.
It was actually a very clever strategy. The British in fact did the same in the Ottoman Empire, if you were to study the history of Lawrence of Arabia. The British invented this marvelous strategy called ‘divide and rule’. And it worked all over the British Empire.
So, with due respect to Dr Mahathir, it was actually the other way around. Umno was the one that split the Malays. And, worse still, Umno split the Malays to serve British interests and as a British ‘running dog’. And now Umno grumbles that the opposition is splitting the Malays?
And let Royal History Professor Khoo Kay Khim prove me wrong.
Translated into BM at: http://gomalaysian.blogspot.com/2010/01/raja-petra-ok-sekarang-sejarah-versi.html
Translated into Chinese at: http://ccliew.blogspot.com/2010/01/blog-post_29.html
written by jalapeno, January 30, 2010 11:44:13
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written by betasigma, January 29, 2010 13:52:24
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written by Fart Fart Wah, January 29, 2010 13:00:50
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written by Admiral Tojo, January 29, 2010 11:53:35
Shalom
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written by bintikdebu, January 29, 2010 11:33:30
Sometime I wish some dead politicians and bigoted religious people got resurrected and tell us where they are now, I'm sure that will ensure politics will be left only for the brave souls and true servants. But God has ordained it that nobody would come back and tell us anything about the Hereafter. Except one actually (according to my personal belief), but too bad... he was not a politician nor bigoted.
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written by truthbespoken, January 29, 2010 11:30:04
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written by Sunshine1, January 29, 2010 11:13:21
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written by truthbespoken, January 29, 2010 11:04:01
That man is really a beast! One million pendatangs given citizenship in 1957? What is this compared to the millions of citizenships he had given to illegal muslim immigrants from neighbouring countries after Independence, during his 22 years of racist rule?
This monster of a man had not only committed treason on Independent Malaysia through his evil ways but had also persisted until now to continue with his disintegration works on Malaysian society. If he had not persistently build up on breaking up Malaysian unity all this while, there would be no need to lament on Malays breaking up Malay unity. He is as good as he is. He is nothing more than a racist party leader from the start. He is only a pretender of a leader who vouched for national unity when he was the main cause for it! He is a man with a forked-tongue still stoking the fire of disunity amongst Malaysians. He was and still is a faked national leader! Being Malaysian for Malaysia was never in his evil heart and smallish racist mind! Damn this man for being the root cause for all the continuing disunity amongst the good Malaysian people!
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written by freerpk, January 29, 2010 08:06:59
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written by earthman, January 29, 2010 07:38:41
Thank you .
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written by alpha1, January 29, 2010 07:34:59
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written by sdcsrcc, January 29, 2010 04:42:38
This "swim" thing is in relation to RPK s speech on the problems with some Malays
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written by educationist, January 29, 2010 04:17:16
You have told us this before but it is a good rebuttal to that ex dictator's arguments.
That Khoo fella will be hiding under his political masters sarong !!
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written by casper, January 29, 2010 03:56:18
[ Jam hampir pukul 3 pagi tetapi tak mengapa memandangkan saya tidak payah masuk kerja hari Jumaat, saya tetap mendebat pandangan para anon-anon yg menulis dgn tujuan jahat.
Sebelum apa-apa, walaupun sudah ditegur tuanpunya blog, masih ramai sekali yg tetapkan "anon" semasa buat posting. Bagi saya, kelakuan ini serupa dgn memakai kasut masuk rumah org lain - itu biadap namanya.
Tetapi tidak mengapalah, mungkin ada agenda tersirat dikalangan anon-anon tertentu membuat kerja jahat mereka dgn tulisan bertujuan menghasut minda para pengunjung blog Pak Kadir.
Ada anon yg memberi pendapat mengenai kes bangkai babi hutan yg dilontar kedalam perkarangan masjid, saya merasakan perlu saya meleteh sedikit dgn pendapat saya sendiri.
Saya pasti 200% setan-setan yg melakukan pembuatan keji ini TIDAK akan ditangkap polis, langsung TIDAK dapat dikesan polid kerana mereka yg bertanggung jawab lebih menonjol watak mereka dgn ahli-ahli UMNO yg berarak di Shah Alam kemarin dgn membawa kepala lembu sebagai panji, lantang menyorak bantah pembinaan kuil tetapi hasrat sebenar hanya bertujuan utk buat kacau bilau di Selangor - baik punya Muslim !
Perlu diterangkan, perarakan yg dianjurkan kemarin adalah kerja jahat ahli bahagian UMNO serta pencacai UMNO dalam PAS utk memecah-belah serta mengacau pentadbiran MB Khalid.
Pukul rata dari permulaan, ini semua dianjurkan kerana janji Najib Rasak utk menggulingkan kerajaan negeri Selangor utk dirampas balik UMNO sebelum bulan dua ini, maknanya tinggal beberapa hari saja lagi utk kutu-kutu UMNO melaksanakan kerja jahat ini.
Balik kpd kejadian di masjid dipinggir KL - perlu kita teliti setan-setan yg tidak dikenali ini telah mengorbankan bangkai babi hutan dan tepat andaian saudara anon(entah pukul berapa) bahawa Melayu yg peka dgn ajaran Islam langsung tidak akan memegang bangkai seekor babi - maka babi hutan dipakai, no !
Kalau tak silap saya, babi hutan boleh dimakan kerana ianya halal, tapi janganlah makan pasal casper yg berkata tetapi sendiri tanyalah dgn yg berilmu ya.
Saya menulis bukan kerana suka sangat dgn tulisan saya tetapi bagi manfaat membetulkan tikah laku dan tulisan para anon-anon yg saya melihatkan ada niat jahat. Jangan pula terikut, termakan racun dan terpesong sama sekali akibat kata-kata mereka ini. Ambil contoh saudara yg tidak asing lagi - kluangman - penyokong kuat Dr.M yg kerap melaungkan segala kerjaya Dr.M. Kini, saya pula yg nak bercerita tentang Raja Ular Putar Alam Dr.Mahathir yg kian lantang bersuara.
Pada saya Raja Ualar kian bersorak kerana takut UMNO tumbang - itu saja. Sama seperti pembesar UMNO yg lain, mereka kini takut kehilangan kuasa kerana UMNO telah hilang Selangor, Kedah, P.Pinang dan Perak(berjaya rampas balik seketika dgn perlindungan Sultan Perak).
Juga, aneh saya rasakan kluangman langsung tak puja betapa hebatnya keluarga Mahthir ini berjaya melabur duit puluh juta ringgit dalam syarikat San Miguel Corp, syarikat teruggul di bursa Filipina. Akibat pelaburan ini, anak Mahathir, Mirzan berjaya dilantik sebagai pengarah (director) kpd Lembaga Pengarah San Miguel Corp.
Pada saya, hebat wang curi puluh mahupun ratus juta dilarikan dari M'sia dan terus dilaburkan ke negara asing. Utk pengetahuan umum, San Miguel adalah nama tiri Saint Michael, satu-satunya org alim ternama dalam mitos yg berasaskan pengajaran Kristian.
Tinjauan saya melihatkan yg pembesar UMNO mulai takut jikalau UMNO tumbang - ramai yg akan dipenjarakan dan laungan dari UMNO - bukannya *masalah Melayu dipinggir, Islam digadai tetapi masalah UMNO yg rakus menonjol yg kian susah hendak sorok atau dilindungi.
* Itu saja, tak payah lah menulis cerita bukan-bukan dikalangan anon-anon yg besar kemungkinan para ahli UMNO yg paling banyak songlap dana rakyat.
Disini saja tamat tulisan, tugas saya selesai buat pagi ini. Salam saya ucapkan kepada semua. ]
It took me about 40 minutes to write the above and I wasn't going to let it go to waste, didn't want to chance it, just in case my time and efforts goes to waste if posting was held back by blogmaster.
To those who understand Malay, read for your own amusement this rebut I wrote to counter the vile lies in Kadir Jasin't blog. There are some posters, the many anon's who leave their mark to incite those gullible. I feel it my duty to spend a little to send some back towards them.
Regards all and thank you for this imposition RPK. I trust you and better half are well. Do take care a perhaps take some time to regale us with tales of living without being detected, daily trials in the life of Marina and RPK. Should make for interesting reading.
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written by Davy McChester, January 29, 2010 03:14:38
And the biggest split in modern times engineered against UMNO ,he Mahahtir was 100% responsible .The rest is history.
This grudging old fart is not getting anything right,except he continues to do what he should not ,i.e. splitting once again an already lamed and corrupted UMNO and an outdated Perkasa blinkers.
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written by Nasikerabu, January 29, 2010 00:07:42
If citizenship were not given to non malays, there would not be a " Malaysia" today !!!!!!
Mamaktir, you are the greatest manipulator Malaysia has ever produced.
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written by No nonsense, January 28, 2010 23:34:30
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written by Gary Q, January 28, 2010 22:42:20
Making up facts, giving excuses, stirring up tension.
Either they think the malaysian public is dumb, or they themselves are. We're doomed either way....
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written by hellosunshine, January 28, 2010 22:22:25
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written by casper, January 28, 2010 22:14:05
Up to this point I think we can all sense UMNO's demise, so to think, how much more ground can they lose or flip it the other way round, how is UMNO going to make up for lost ground ? I sense some rear guard action from within (news of jet engine theft is perhaps a feeble attempt to rouse the ground against Najib), that leaves UMNO doing the inevitable, create some mayhem to trigger an emergency.
Recent events would show that UMNO is not doing itself any favours. Burning of churches would cause anxiety across the board and that has me wondering, the only reason they are shooting themselves in the foot is just reminder to us of their presence, no more no less.
Having lost key states with only room for more lost, I wonder what the factions in UMNO are plotting next to unseat Najib ? Jokes aside - that is one heckuva burden, getting two for the price of one - Rosmah notwithstanding.
Assuming everything runs as schedule, I see UMNO or what is left of it, occupying the opposite aisle in Parliament in a role reversal. I take this opportunity to assure the bodoh's/ultra's that minority leader's are well capable of serving the interest of the majority.
A look through history would indicate there was indeed a period when an obscure Chinaman took on such a task. Little known but when the Brits abandon Malaya having been driven out from their last stand in S'pore, a gentleman by the name of Tan Chin Tuan was doing just that.
When the Union Jack was being lowered in S'pore, members of the Executive Council that ran the municipal were the last remaining form of British rule in Malaya. Tan Chin Tuan being a councilor fled to Perth together with all vestiges of govt. That choice of Perth, Australia is not hard to figure I guess due to her proximity to Malaya, and from there, this lone man was in constant communication with the British war cabinet, its commanders in India and anyone who would listen in effort to liberate Malaya.
During this period of Japanese Occupation, there was an active US Navy fleet in the Pacific but from history we know that this was the same fleet that Gen.MacArthur lead into the Philippines. As much as Tan Chin Tuan would have liked to pressure those high above the use of this fleet to confront Japanese forces in Malaya, that agenda wasn't a priority to the war commanders. Malaya was on its own and the CPM, the only active opposition that fought against Japanese invaders.
Effectively, this Chinaman was the civilian face of what was left of British rule in Malaya while history would also tell us that Tun Razak was working on the side of Japanese invaders. This is probably a morsel of history UMNO doesn't want to highlight, probably not incorporated into our history books, only to leave our school kids ignorant to pertinent fact of the era.
Why Tan Chin Tuan ? The man by all counts was a man of means, Chinese of Straits born pedigree and if you know your history, members of the Baba-Nyonya community had long made the Spice Island home for generations, who were also front runners of the rubber trade.
Unlike the many tycoons in the tin trade who had stronger ties to China, Straits born Chinese owed no allegiance to China or didn't wear it on their sleeves. They accumulated wealth and property derived from mercantile trade, only to prosper significantly during the first boom of the rubber trade in Malaya - their land holdings a convenient place to plant rubber trees by the thousands.
The wealth from the rubber trade can be seen all over today's economy. The OCBC group and members of the Lee clan(Lee Foundation rings a bell ?) are perhaps the poster child of wealth derived from that era still dominant today in S'pore as well as M'sia( F&N, Great Eastern, Keppel Shipyard and numerous trading houses, property holdings too various to mention).
Wealth can gow to past through generations if handled correctly, all of which makes me wonder what those in the UMNO clan, the few chosen one's have in mind for all their ill gotten gain ? We know the scions of Mahathir have a sizable stake in San Miguel Corp, Daim is all over Africa but what about the rest - Rafidah and her stolen millions, Taxi Boy and Son or even IGP Musa Hasan ??? Mana bawa lari ?
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written by Wudang, January 28, 2010 22:09:38
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And now. the Malays are uniting once again. And they, together with the non-malay are uniting against UmNo
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written by lakian, January 28, 2010 21:32:31
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written by mob1900, January 28, 2010 21:17:20
Who's are the real outsiders? Aren't you one of them, TDM? Does citizenship 'given' justify for generations of enslavement under your rule? I know, I know, you will say, "Go and blame your ancestors for 'signing' the Social Contract." If we knew about this Social Contract, do you think anyone born after Merdeka would choose to be born?
Say we're 'outsiders' are considered 2nd-class citizens under your NEP discrimination schemes, do we pay 2nd-class taxes and not oblige to bow down to you?
Shouldn't you, TDM and your bunch of cronies be brought up to the International Court for participating in Slavery (an entire nation) under the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in violation of article 1. all the way to article 30.
http://www0.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
Infact every BN leader since the 'Social Contract' emerges should be on trial for enslaving its own citizens!
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written by KELVIN308, January 28, 2010 21:01:34
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written by gycgocnt, January 28, 2010 20:54:48
Noooo, PKR n PAS divide UMNO "Malay" but strengthening unity among Malaysian instead!
Malay unite under UMNO create Racial quota in education, civil intake, business opportunity...
Malay unite under UMNO create high-handedness, corruptiable, and sturborn government...
Malay unite under UMNO create 513, sodomy script 1 n 2, and opeasi lalang...
Malay unite under UMNO create BMF scandal, PKFZ fiasco, Engine Missing, Matrade Building financial scandal, AP issue, MRR2 failure, and Collapsing of Bridges n Condo like B.Antarabangsa...
Malay unite under UMNO create Kerismuddin, Cow-head incident, Arson attacks on Churches..
So now, to my Malay Brother and Sister, do u prefer unite with all Malaysian or just unite with Malay under UMNO roofing?
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written by rakyatengah, January 28, 2010 20:50:23
Please la dont run anymore, you are old enough to move to search for food, just eat up back your shit.
If u dont want, sooner or later u have to.
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written by Motherchell, January 28, 2010 20:47:28
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written by imanj, January 28, 2010 20:36:09
Will we ever see the day when the truth of our history is dissimated to our younger generations? Will we be proud once again to be Malaysians? Will the Malays ever settle down to first see themselves as Muslims where Islam has in all its power in the teachings to grant a person the right way to live amongst others?
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written by relaxjack, January 28, 2010 20:32:58
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written by arazak, January 28, 2010 20:10:32
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Yeah right. . ., and your father from Karela is one of them?
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written by mikewang, January 28, 2010 20:08:33
It is splitting Malaysians.
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