From malaysia Today

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

UMNO BEHIND UiTM STUDENT DEMO? - MALAYSIAKINI

University Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Ibrahim Abu Shah (pictured left) 'warned' Pakatan Rakyat (PR) Chief Minister of Selangor YAB Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim not to interfere in the internal affairs of the University. He said that Tan Sri Khalid should not seek political mileage to win over non-Malay support for PR.

Now, this so-called 'academic' sounds to me more like an Umno politician than a academician. This Scribe thus decided to snoop around and find where he got his Phd (permanent head damage) from. Ibrahim it appears, was UMNO Member (1968 - present) Youth Leader, UMNO Kg. Pulai (1981- 1983) Committee Member, UMNO Youths Jasin, Melaka (1982 - 1983) Chairman (Founder) UMNO Club, Carbondale USA (1983) President, UMNO USA Club (1985 - 1987), Exco of Alumni UMNO Club (oversea) (1995 – present) (Note this Umno Alumni fellows were one of the agitators at the Bar Council Forum).

Among the other 'contributions' of this Umno racist include:
1.Talk to all Malaysians UMNO division heads about “Gerakan Anti Kerajaan Pelajar-Pelajar di Kampus-Pengalaman UiTM” – 15 November 2001
2.Panel forum “Agenda Melayu Dalam Dasar Pendidikan”- Conference of Agenda Melayu, Balai Budaya Tun Syed Nasir, DBP – 16 July 2005
3.Talk to all secondary school principals state of Kelantan about “Meritokrasi” - 4 November 2001 at Perdana Hotel, Kota Bharu, Kelantan
4.Presentation of working papers “Intelektual Melayu: Harapan dan Cabaran MRSM” at Convention organized by MARA at Selesa Hotel, Port Dickson – 12 December 2006

Now this Scribe understands where this racist academician is coming from. This Scribe was also right about Umno's involvement in both the UiTM student demonstration yesterday and as well as the Bar Council Forum disruption. Now, it also explains why the Police did not act on both occasions.

This racist Academician must be reminded together with his racists buddies from Umno that every Malaysian have the right to study and work at UiTM because UiTM is funded by the Government using Malaysian (Muslim and non-Muslim) tax payers money. Need I remind the good Professor that some of these tax money comes from 'haram' or sin taxes such as gambling, pork industry, alcohol industry, health clubs etc. Dear Prof, the salary you draw from UiTM also comes from this as well.

It's not surprising why malaysian Universities are ranked so low in the world. In fact, UiTM has the dubious honor to be known as University Terrorist Malaysia because because Al Qaeda Southeast Asian associates, Jemaah Islamiah operatives, were members of the faculty at UiTM. Surely now, the world can see what a racist party Umno is. This Scribe calls on all non-Malay members of BN to quit it and join Pakatan Rakyat and support Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim as Prime Minister.

MALAYSIA MUST NEVER COME TO THIS

The following Article was extracted from the ASIAN CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS (ACHR) which was published on January 13, 2008 under the title Malaysia: Racism Allowed, Protest Banned. This Scribe recommends that you read this Article with an open mind and make your own conclusions as to whether this Article is anywhere near or far from the Truth.

The Asian Centre for Human Rights is dedicated to promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the Asian region by providing accurate and timely information and complaints to the National Human Rights Institutions, the United Nations bodies and mechanisms as appropriate. Conducting investigation, research, campaigning and lobbying on country situations or individual cases. Increasing the capacity of human rights defenders and civil society groups through relevant trainings on the use of national and international human rights procedures. Providing input into international standard-setting processes on human rights. Providing legal, political and practical advice according to the needs of human rights defenders and civil society groups; and by securing the economic, social and cultural rights through rights-based approaches to development.

Malaysia: Racism is allowed, protest against racism isn't

Malaysia is in the news again after hundreds of its citizens of Indian origin under the aegis of the Hindu Rights Action Force demonstrated on 25 November 2007 outside the British High Commission in Kuala Lumpur seeking US$ 4 trillion compensation from the British government for bringing the indentured labourers from India. The real focus was not the British government but the Malaysian government’s racist policies and practices which have crippled the Indian origin Malaysians.

The Malaysian government banned the demonstration on the ground that the protest may create “racial tensions”. Obviously, State-sponsored racism and racial preferences are allowed but any protest against such racism and racial discrimination is classified by the State as “seditious” and “criminal”.

I. Racism and its impact on minorities in Malaysia

Under Article 2(2) of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, State parties can “when the circumstances so warrant, take, in the social, economic, cultural and other fields, special and concrete measures to ensure the adequate development and protection of certain racial groups or individuals belonging to them, for the purpose of guaranteeing them the full and equal enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms”. It further states, “These measures shall in no case entail as a consequence the maintenance of unequal or separate rights for different racial groups after the objectives for which they were taken have been achieved”.

These measures are intended towards the oppressed groups. But in 1971, the Malaysian government introduced New Economic Policy (NEP) to perpetuate the rule of the majority Malays. The NEP provided affirmative action programmes for the majority “Bhumiputras” (sons of the soil) i.e. the ethnic Malays in business, education and the civil service. Within two decades, the NEP had crippled the Indian and Chinese origin Malaysians. Yet, in 1991, the NEP was revised under the New Development Plan (1991-2000) to achieve further socio-economic upliftment of the Bhumiputras. The same preferential treatment of the majority Malays continues under the New Vision Policy (2001-2010).

The statistics of the devastating impact of the pro-Bhumiputra policies are telling.
Today, Malaysia is one of the South-East Asia’s most vibrant economies and the socio-economic conditions of the majority Malays have improved exponentially. But there has been little improvement of the conditions of the Indian origin Malaysians.

In 1970, the overall share of wealth of the ethnic Indians stood at 1.1 percent but three decades later, their overall share of wealth increased only slightly to about 1.5 percent which is disproportionately less in relation to their population. [1]
Indian origin Malaysians constitute about 8% of the total population. But, they also constituted 15 percent of juvenile delinquents, about 50 percent of all convicts in prisons in 2004, [2] and 41% of the beggars in 2003. [3] According to Hindu Rights Action Force, the percentage of Indians in the civil service fell from 40% in 1957 to less than 2% in 2005. [4] According to official records, 30-35 Indian origin Malaysians per 100,000 committed or attempted to commit suicide annually as compared to 10-12 Malaysians per 100,000 in 2006. [5]
In education, Indian origin Malaysians made up of less than 5% of the total university intake of over 45,000 annually. Nearly half of the 523 Tamil vernacular schools do not receive any government funds although they are in shambles. [6]

In addition, their religious freedoms are violated. Under Article 3 (1) of the Constitution of Malaysia, Islam is the religion of the Federation. According to the Hindu Rights Action Force, there is an “unofficial policy of Hindu temple cleansing in Malaysia”. At least three Hindu temples were demolished, one was partly destroyed and two others had been served demolition notices in Kuala Lumpur and neighboring Selangor state since February 2006. [7]

II. Repression to silence protest against racism

Malaysia remains a truly Police State. It resorted to high-handedness to bludgeon the protestors on 25 November 2007. The Malaysian riot police broke up the rally by using disproportionate force – using batons, tear gas and water cannon against unarmed protestors. [8]