perhaps all of you should read this....a comment from a chinese on www.chedet.com....
I truly appreciate this blog, I hope Tun can write more such articles and thought on this matter instead of engaging in any political prone articles. Tun have insights on all the malay problem, but they just don't understand. And I always respect Tun's view on this matter. As a Malaysian (chinese) I truly hope Tun can provide a good, correct and easy way to let my felo malay freinds understand definition of what's Ketuanan Melayu. I believe a lot of them are still confuse ketuanan melayu with NEP , politics etc... As you said, it is no point we have political power, but you need social and economic power, especially even malay is now are said to be losing some of the power. I hope my felo malay friends need to know that respect need to be earn, you want ketuanan, you can't shout or rompak and expect people to give you, you need to earn it. I truly appreciate if Umno or any party would like to claim about Ketuanan Melayu, it need to be translated into some clear objective which we can take steps to achieve in next 10 years. As an example, for education, the company I work do not have any race based policy for employee, but the minimum requirement would be to have CGPA 3.15. Ended up, all workers are chinese, and hardly find any malay. Most of malay are on lower ranking clerical work. So if we can translate all this into figure, we can then see how ketuanan malayu can be achive in the next 10-20 years. It's not possible in less than 10 years. I believe Tun had try hard in the past, and most malay from rural areas are now manage to enter into varsity, it is now time to tell them that, we no more need more graduate, now we need more quality graduate, it can then translated into a more realistic ketuanan which need to be earn. If you do not have enough people and also increasing graduate from Harvard, if you do not have enough people from MIT and other world reknown varsity. if you do not have enough graduate with CGPA 3.2 above I don't see in any near future, no matter how you shout, you will never have ketuanan. Sometime, I just feel very sad as our umno party are still talking about ketuanan melayu, but without really any way or method to help achieve them. Have you seen chinese, korean, japan shouted ketuanan, they don't need to. I am very worried about my country competitiveness against other country in asean, but our leaders are still shouting something outdated to gain popularity. I even more worried when I see so many are echoed the claim and even our leading newspaper are talking so much about this isu. The future of Malaysia is already at stake, if we do not have our felo malay to wake up their son, to be at least as competitive as the vietnamese, singapore and indonesia, we really have no hope. Another note I would like to mentioned, pls ask my felo malay not to give birth to so many kids, no point if we have more kids, but we don't have time to put attention into growing them up, and educating them in proper manner, the more they have, the more trouble we will have. You may not agreed with me, but as a chinese, having to raise two kids and educating them is very tired jobs, i am not sure how my felow malay friends can handle 4 or 5 kids. Everynight, my kids have to complete their study and homework until 12 midnight, it has become daily, and we have to teach them and guide them in their home work, i really don't know how they can handle. No point having quantity, it will not claim ketuanan, instead, having quality it's really more important for the sake of the future of malaysia, as we do not intend to export labour. We want more professional. Hope to read more article from Tun again. -----------------{@ To: hidayahnet@yahoogroups.com From: Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 21:19:32 -0700 Subject: Re: Help Palestine [hidayahnet] Laporan polis oleh pemimpin UMNO terhadap Karpal hanyalah hipokrit!! Saudara tak perlulah terlalu emosi demi mempertahankan Mahathir. Saya terbaca dalam sebuah akhbar satu rencana yang saya tak berapa ingat dah tajuk dan penulisnya (sibuk sikit untuk menyemaknya) tapi penulisnya sebut beliau catatkan apa yang diperkatakan oleh bekas salah seorang setiausaha Mahathir yang meletakkan segala apa yang dihadapi oleh orang Melayu/Islam hari ini adalah semuanya berpunca dari Mahathir. Dollah hanya pelengkapnya saja dan mungkin kalau di Indonesia sama seperti ?B.J. Habibi. Ramai berpendapat BJ Habibi seorang yang cukup berpotensi sebagai Presiden Indonesia tapi kebencian rakyat kepada Presiden sebelumnya yang mendukong ?parti yang sama (tak perlulah nak sebut) menyebabkan dia tidak dapat bertahan lama. Samada apa yang Mahathir lakukan ibadah atau tidak tunggulah segalanya didedahkan di mahkamah suatu hari nanti jika ditakdirkan BN tidak berkuasa lagi. Mungkin dia perlu dibicarakan di dua mahkamah iaitu Mahkamah Sivil dan juga Mahkamah Syariah. Jika kesalahan nya terbukti kelak saya bukanlah mahu dia masuk penjara (tak taulah orang lain terutama yang pernah menjadi mangsanya) tapi sekadar biarlah seluruh rakyat tahu mengenainya dan UMNO!! Bagaimana pun saya bukanlah menafikan langsung akan terdapatnya kebaikan yang dilakukan Mahathir dan UMNO!! Wallahua'lam. ibnuAli kota jembal --- On Sun, 5/11/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Help Palestine [hidayahnet] Laporan polis oleh pemimpin UMNO terhadap Karpal hanyalah hipokrit!! To: "Ikhwanul Muslimun" <hidayahnet@yahoogroups.com> Date: Sunday, May 11, 2008, 3:51 AM Wahai Abnu Ali, Kamu ni siapa? UMNO memang mempertahankan kedaulatan: 1.Raja Raja Melayu, 2.Ugama Islam sebagai agama resmi negara 3.Bahasa Melayu sebagai Bahasa Kebangsaan 4.Kedudukan istimewa Melayu 5.Kebudayaan Melayu sebagai teras kebudayaan nasional. Kalau Maharhir terus berjuang, itu bermakna dia melakukan ibadat. (BUKAN MACAM KAMU ,YANG SARAT DENGAN BENCI DAN DENDAM!) Tahniah, kepada MB Perak, kerana telah baritahu Karpal, bahawa negeri ini negeri Melayu. Melayu masih sayang dan hormatkan Raja mereka.UMNO mempertahankan Raja dan seterus mempertahankan kedaulatan Melayu dalam negara ini.Bukan macam kamu! [EMAIL PROTECTED] com, UNEXPECTED_DATA_ AFTER_ADDRESS@ .SYNTAX-ERROR. wrote: Aswt, Marah sungguh pemimpin UMNO atas sikap Karpal mempertikai campur tangan istana keatas pertukaran Pengarah JAIP lantas membuat beberapa laporan polis. Mereka menuduh Karpal menderhaka kepada institusi Raja. Tindakan mereka ini hanyalah untuk menutup perbuatan mereka yang angkuh terhadap istana bahkan terhadap Istana Negara sejak berpuluh tahun!! Isu angkuhnya kepimpinan UMNO yang paling ketara seperti yang kita tahu berlaku sejak di zaman Mahathir lagi. Ketika itu demonstrasi yang tidak ada permit menjadi budaya UMNO yang dianggap sah kerana dilakukan UMNO yang menguasai kerajaan Malaysia. Di Kelantan bukan sekadar mencabar kuasa Raja bahkan UMNO Kelantan yang disokong kuat UMNO pusat mahu menabal Raja yang baru. Cuma baru-baru ini saja bila tidak dapat menepis tuntutan parti pembangkang yang mempertikai tentang perjalanan pilihanraya yang terdapat unsur-unsur penipuan dan pelbagai isu rakyat yang lain maka demonstrasi dianggap bukan lagi budaya kita. Saya cadangkan agar TV3 tayangkan semula siri demonstrasi arahan Mahathir dan kuncu-kuncu nya agar semua rakyat dapat tonton. Beranikah TV3 lakukannya?? MB Perak tidak perlu kecewa dengan apa yang berlaku kerana PM Abdullah pun baru-baru ini berulang alik ke Istana Negara kerana cuba membantah perlantikan Ahmad Said sebagai MB Terangganu tapi tidak ada pula laporan Polis dibuat terhadap PM kita itu!! Bahkan akhbar-akhbar arus perdana lantang mempertikai campur tangan istana Terengganu dan nampak lebih menyokong kehendak Abdullah. Cukup-cukuplah wahai pemimpin UMNO tembelang anda telah pun terdedah kepada rakyat dan rakyat telah pun sampaikan mesej itu dalam pilihanraya lepas. Hentikanlah sikap talam dua muka atau bermuka-muka anda itu!! Mahathir pula usahlah berlagak nak jadi hero tua. Tun kena sedarl lah diri!! Dengan wang Tun yang banyak eloklah Tun bawa tikar bantal dan pergi buat ibadah banyak-banyak kat Tanah Suci Mekah sana. Tinggallah kat hotel ? Mecca International sebelah Masjidil Haram dan mohonlah keampunan dari Allah swt. tapi eloklah pergi ke Memali dulu sebelum bertolak ke Mekah. Allah tidak akan ampun dosa seseorang selagi manusia yang dizalimi tidak ampun dosanya terlebih dulu. Wallahua'lam. ibnuAli kota jembal Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. _________________________________________________________________ NEW! Get Windows Live FREE. http://www.get.live.com/wl/all