'The many restrictions, moral policing, unfairness, education policies and political instability are making many leave the country. Many of my friends and their families have moved to Australia, including my son.'
More young Malays are quitting M'sia
Maggie Lim: Indeed. The many restrictions, moral policing, unfairness, education policies and political instability are making many leave the country. Many of my friends and their families have moved to Australia, including my son. We love our country but does our country love us?
Socrates: I hope the government will convince the cream of the Malays to stay on and serve the country. Many Malays join the civil service and Malays comprise the top rungs of the civil service.
We need the best Malays to be there. Malay top scorers from the Mara colleges, etc, are much needed to form the Malay political leadership, civil service heads and to lead other public services, such as the universities and hospitals.
If the cream of the Malay brains and Malay professionals migrate, then what? The government must find out why they are doing so and rectify the situation.
Doc: Umno should be glad. After years of repeatedly unsheathing the ‘keris' at Umno assemblies and telling the ‘pendatang' that if they are not happy with the Umno-promoted concept of ‘Ketuanan Melayu', they should just leave the country. Guess what? The ‘pendatang' have heard the call and are leaving, and will continue to leave.
Eddy Daud: If anybody else wants to go for whatever reason, please be reminded that nobody is stopping you from going. The world is your oyster and if you think you can find happiness and political freedom free of discrimination and race-profiling in Australia, the US, the UK or Europe then by all means, please go.
To anybody who hates this country, warts and all, just do not hesitate to go without making too much noise, okay? Goodbye and good riddance. Malaysia will be a more peaceful place without the likes of you. I am a proud Malaysian who will live and will be buried in this country when I die.
Nube demands investigation into 'racist' bank
Temenggong: This is nothing new. Granting loans and their terms on the basis of race has been going on for decades. To get a loan, one has to be of the same race as the bank manager or they will make it difficult for you as far as the terms and loan amounts are concerned, effectively scuttling the loan.
Wira: National Union of Bank Employees (Nube) general secretary J Solomon, name the bank. Prove to us that you are dead sure about your facts because I'm willing to stop all my business with that bank if you dare to risk a suit on what you claim.
Fairplay: Bank Negara should just cancel this allegedly racist bank's license. Name the bank involved. We don't need to deal with Hitler-like Nazi banks operating in Malaysia.
Kgan: If any economic or education opportunity uses race as the sole criteria, this is apartheid, pure and simple. Malaysia has many other examples which qualify. The AP scheme for imported cars is just one out of dozens which can be named.
BTN: My guess this bank must have attended a BTN course and got brainwashed as well. Just imagine the magnitude of the issue that this country is faced with. This disease has also penetrated the private sector and is not only confined to Umno and its various agencies.
You just wonder how could this racist people sell the country's future for greed and self- enrichment. This is indeed Umno-land.
CK Chang: It is heartening to see that there are people like ‘Paul' who are willing to sacrifice so much just to help his countrymen in the name of education. I regret to say that the Malaysian authorities have always been very unfriendly to immigrants or refugees, especially those from non-Islamic countries.
Today, I do not think we should talk about politics. Instead, we should all chip in to help these children and at least give them a chance for a decent education. All these problems that these children are facing are of no fault of theirs.
They have the right to go to school like any other Malaysian kid. As adults, we must be nationality-blind and be responsible for them.
Senhua: I would like to visit this shoplot school and see how I can best contribute financially. This report has created an awareness in me and it would a noble deed to help as much as possible.
Ahmad Kamal: There are also orphanages run by refugees themselves. There are not many day- care centres to which refugee parents who have to work can turn to. This is because information on these places are not made known for fear of Immigration Department raids.
Anwar: Democracy is diversity's refuge
Cheong Sai Fah: I have heard many campaign speeches by Anwar Ibrahim. His prose is direct and simple to understand. Yet reading the above, I had to work hard to get at the points that he was making. We have been taught to write the way we speak. Perhaps Anwar should do the same.
Anwar should have mentioned that violent conflicts are occurring today in many nations where the opposing factions subscribe to different religious beliefs in particular the Islamic and Christian varieties.
What is urgently needed in Malaysia and elsewhere is for the moderate factions of the religious spectrum to be more assertive. This does not seem to be encouraged to happen here. The book ‘The Trouble With Islam Today' by Irshad Manji is banned here. Reading it while in the US, I have learned much about the good in Islam.
Right now, Sisters In Islam are fighting a legal battle to lift a ban on another book. The moderates are fighting an uphill battle. They deserve our support be they in PAS or as individuals like former Perlis mufti Dr Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin .
Pak Ubu: Anwar, you outclass almost every other political philosopher in the region and I heartily applaud your courage, perseverance, stamina and - above all - your willingness to resist the unnameable wickedness that dwells deep within the soul of an otherwise great man, Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
Changeagent: I'm not going to pretend that I fully understand all that Anwar is talking about, but what an impressive intellect.
PM: MCA must consider BN's interests
Tsc: Shouldn't the government's top priority be the people's interests? Why this request for MCA to care about ‘BN's interests'? This tells a lot about the BN government in that it doesn't have the people's interests at heart.
They only care about holding onto power so that they can continue to plunder public money. And of course, to prevent the opposition from getting hold of power and exposing their wrongdoings.
