YOURSAY 'If Jamal is Malay enough, he should also ask Najib to come clean about the RM2.6b.'
Go red if you're Malay enough, Jamal dares Dr M
Ferdtan: I don’t think former PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad needs to response to the challenge made by a small fry like Jamal Md Yunos.
He is said to head a coalition of Malay NGOs, and also supposedly (as there is no confirmation as to who is organising the protest until now) is the official organiser of the ‘red-shirt’ protest.
The ministers and the top supreme Umno leaders who are pro-Najib Razak dared not criticise Mahathir openly and directly.
So this duty to challenge Mahathir was left to a non-office holder and an unknown minion like Jamal, a failed businessman.
StraightTalk: Jamal, heading a coalition of Malay NGOs organising the red shirt rally, has the audacity to say that Mahathir is not qualified to ask PM Najib to step down and that only the people and Umno members are qualified to do so.
Does Jamal think that Mahathir is an alien from some faraway planet? The former PM is an Umno member and a Malaysian and he has every right to express his views on the country's affairs including asking Najib to step down.
It is simply incomprehensible, and amazing at the same time, that Najib and his Umno ministers can gleefully offer their support to Jamal and such stupid people.
Not Confused: This rather pathetic comment by Jamal says it all really. The thugs and bullies that appear to make up the organisers of this rally clearly have a racial agenda.
The fact that they seem to think that they have the ear and support of all Malays is erroneous of course, and the tacit support from the home minister and the PM underlines the need for Najib and his cohorts to stand down.
Of course, they cannot. Otherwise it will emphasise their guilt. They have backed themselves into a very tight corner and cannot get out of it without some serious pain.
Pemerhati: In the United States, you have the white supremacist racists known as the Ku Klux Klan and in Germany such racists are known as neo-Nazis. The mainstream parties in US and Germany, which enjoy the support of the vast majority of the people, shun these racist groups which have a very small following.
But in Malaysia the main ruling party, Umno, is backing the racist red shirts. This is not surprising because the leader of Umno, who has dictatorial powers, is strongly suspected to be involved in wrongdoings.
He knows that he has to stay in power at all cost because if he loses power he would be brought to justice. So he is using his dictatorial powers and the ‘donated’ billions to get the support of his party members.
He and Umno are supporting the rally because it would create racial polarisation and past experience has shown that Umno benefits politically when the majority Malays are polarised.
Alfanso: Mahathir was Malay enough when Jamal enjoyed the New Economic Policy (NEP) to the fullest. Now for a red shirt, he considers the former PM a lesser Malay. How grateful.
Justine Gow: What is the rally about? Is it to defend and support someone alleged of corruption and abuse of power to stay in power? What has this to do with being "Malay enough" (whatever this means)?
That someone is not (and should not be) the definition of what it means to be "Malay". If he is, I am afraid that there is not much hope left for the Malays in this country.
Send In The Clowns: What have being Malay got to do with an Umno man who kept RM2.6 billion in his personal bank accounts?
Ozzie Jo: Indeed, the reds are the Najib supporters under the guise of championing Malay rights or whatever is the flavour of the day.
Do you honestly think Mahathir is nyanyuk (senile) enough to fall for your trickery, Jamal? Attending would mean he supports his nemesis.
YF: Is this silly Jamal saying that all Malays who don't join are not Malays? Are you insulting the royalty too?
Touche: And why doesn't he ask Najib and Zahid to attend, too?
Anonymous_1419577444: If Jamal is Malay enough, he should be openly asking Najib to come clean about the RM2.6 billion in his personal account.
Winding Up: I didn't think anyone could be more stupid than Mr 3.8 GPA (Ahmad Maslan) but I was wrong.
Jamal said, "Dr M is not qualified to ask the PM to step down. Only the people and Umno members are qualified (to make the call)."
So I guess Dr M is not one of the people, and not an Umno member?
MinahBulat: They don't make any sense. First they want to 'defend Malay dignity', now they change the rally name to 'unite the rakyat' and want to invite the Chinese and Indians to come.
They may as well invite the professor Ridhuan Tee Abdullah, he is both Malay and Chinese.
Tailek: No Chinese and Indians will join this rally, not because it is a Malay-led rally but because the rally is for all the wrong reasons. Renaming the rally doesn't remedy it.
Fair&Just: This is their culture, which is to keep on shifting the goalposts. Now they are calling the rally by another name midway. They keep on changing to suit their greedy, corrupt, evil and heinous plan.
GE14Now : Just when I thought that we had gone right to the nadir of stupidity (with all the pronouncements from Umno ministers), just when I thought that it was the bottom of the barrel that we are scraping, up turns another level of idiocy.
This one lower than the others.
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