LETTER | I refer to the article “Siti Mastura a victim of M’sian education system”.

My main issue with the article is why blame Malaysia’s whole education system for what I believe to be Siti Mastura Muhammad’s political craftsmanship?

I agree that many things in our education system need an update and I have always written about how universities in Malaysia must change its academic definition towards one that is more wholesome and inclusive of social and political development as well as intelligence. No argument there.

But I feel that Siti Mastura’s accusation is more of a political strategy than a “stupid PhD blunder”. I am sure that after she had uttered the statement that is ludicrous about the Chin Peng-Lim Kit Siang relationship, why did she not apologise? Did she not know that she could be sued hundreds of thousands of ringgit?

Secondly, why has she also not apologised now and also seems still unrepentant of the whole episode when called upon to answer her lost suit in Parliament? For that matter, I have not heard anything in the name of apology or distancing among the PAS strong men on this matter.

To me, this was a deliberate political attack using disinformation to reset the Malay mind in an Islam-Malay-based under-siege-by-Communist construct. Recently, PAS’ Razman Zakaria had “apologised unreservedly” to Nga Kor Ming in accusing DAP and Chinese Malaysians of being aligned to Communist China in the Guan Gong China flag-waving incident.

Before the incident, there was also the China Navy and vernacular school incident in Penang. There is a pattern to this “stupidity” of Siti Mastura. In fact, it is not stupid at all but I believe it is a psychological war to reset the Malay mind.

Therefore, I surmised that the education system in Malaysia as well as the universities have nothing to do with this vile political strategy. We have seen this before in other “well-known Malay parties” using strategic misinformation that had turned out in lost lawsuits.

But the lost lawsuits matter not. It is the political mind-setting effort which is the target. So, please do not criticise the education system and the universities out of context in this Siti Mastura isolated incident.

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