YOURSAY | ‘It looks like they’re going to play the way they play until it’s game over.’

Deputy minister issues 'slap' warning to Chinese

Worried Sick: Deputy Agriculture and Agro-based Industry Minister Tajuddin Abdul Rahman should indeed start slapping MCA leaders Liow Tiong Lai and Wee Ka Siong to show that he means what he says.

Don't try slapping DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang (or even going near him) because he is a tiger and you will be severely bitten because you are nothing but a coward trying to incite racial disharmony among the peaceful and beautiful people of this country in order to divide and rule.

The common people of whatever race have no problems among them but idiotic politicians like you are trying to make this country regress to the 15th century.

Whatever you may think, you are not going to succeed. Just ask a guy called Jamal, if you don’t believe me.

Vijay47: Like Shakespeare feared, the greatness thrust upon most of Umno's leaders does not cloud nor conceal their origins from the sewers.

Their elevation within government is not due to ability or intelligence but unthinking and unblinking loyalty to the upper levels of leadership despite their shameful conduct and participation in blatant criminal practices.

Hence we have the likes of DPM Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, and now Tajuddin, who simply are unable to discard or control their baser instincts. All they can achieve, and achieve well, is to surrender to their craving to bully, threaten and abuse.

Tajuddin, why not address your warnings to the Chinese ambassador, that should he dare to offer sanctuary or protection to Chinese Malaysians, he too will taste your slap?

And just like the typical cowards every Umno leader is, you as usual chicken out and blame "misquotation". We gladly sneer at your dignity.

Turvy: There was a bunch of louts threatening to storm and damage an iconic shopping place, while the Chinese envoy took a stroll, which Tajuddin himself admits, was to protect his own nationals.

Why get excited and bring in the local Chinese into the fray? Tajuddin should be chiding the thugs, whatever the colour of their skin.

The thing that is wrong with our parliamentary system is that there is nothing to stop criminal types and fools from securing political office.

Which is why you hear such incoherent and intemperate language from deputy ministers like Tajuddin, whose face clearly shows that had the people not been duped by the ballot box, he would be doing term, not for five years, but for life.

LYY: This Umno thug doth protest too much. Perhaps he is feeling a little insecure about the true intentions of China?

Perhaps he is feeling that if Umno instigates violence against Chinese Malaysians, there might be a small risk that a rising superpower might, just might, come to the aid of a defenceless community?

Perhaps this change in the calculus of what has been a risk-free modus operandi of Umno to perpetually threaten the Chinese might cause Umno to rethink how it bullies the country’s minorities. Perhaps, just perhaps.

Clean Malaysia: I think Tajuddin needs to make more friends who are Chinese Malaysians, so that he will be liberated from the old racist canards about the Chinese - that they are selfish, self-centred, ungrateful, money-grabbing, disloyal, unpatriotic, racist, disrespectful of Malays and Islam, that they control the economy, that they are blocking the progress of the Malays, etc, as Dennis Ignatius has aptly put it in his article in Malaysiakini .

Goldee: Minister, we Malaysians have better things to think of rather than harp on non-issues.

Umno Baru supporters had created a ruckus in public and made a mockery of themselves, and now you want to blame others. We also like to "lempang" (slap) you for making stupid remarks.

Anonymous #44199885: Considering that some of the ardent supporters of Umno called Chinese Malaysians ‘pendatang’ and told them to go back to China, why get upset if Chinese Malaysians do exactly what a ‘pendatang’ would do - that is, go to their godfather?

Either you treat all Malaysians as Malaysians and stop these racist attacks or face the consequences of complaints to external parties.

Chinese Malaysians have never been disloyal to their homeland, Malaysia, despite having racial slurs thrown at them and racist attacks - which now seem to come on a daily basis - launched by certain uncultured individuals.

Not Convinced: So it’s okay for Najib to run to his Arab ‘godfather’, but not okay for certain Malaysians to seek protection from their Chinese ‘godfather’?

Anonymous 2336891439170985: May I suggest you start slapping lawyer Matthias Chang, a Chinese who had accompanied former Umno leader Khairuddin Abu Hassan to four corners of the earth to report about your boss' wrongdoing.

The next person to slap is Lim Guan Eng for going overseas to China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore to get help to boost the economy of Penang.

After that, you can go to the arrival lounge of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) and slap at random the homecoming Chinese arriving from China because I am sure some are guilty of bad mouthing the government of Bolehland.

Carry on with your threat. There is no need to worry because all the Chinese from MCA and Gerakan are giving you their fullest support.

How about organising a 'slapping the Chinese contest'? Make it an annual affair and who knows, it may end up as a tourist attraction, especially for tourists from the Far East?

LeftHandSide: There are two ways to score points in a badminton match. One is smash to score. Another is to play safe by just sending the shuttlecock over and wait for the opponent to make a mistake and hit into the net.

Lately we have been seeing a lot of smashes from Umno, but more often than not they keep hitting the shuttlecock into the net.

It looks like they are going to continue playing the way they play until it’s game over. Where is the coach?

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