COMMENT | The men who hunt Kit Siang
"Who can dispute Malay leadership, the power of the Malays, Islam as the federal religion, the Malay language, the special rights of the Malay people, the sovereignty of the Malay rulers? No one.”
- Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim
COMMENT | The great tragedy of the cops summoning the grand old man of Malaysian politics, Lim Kit Siang to give a statement for saying that it would not be possible for a non-Malay to be prime minister of this country in the next 100 years, is that it sends a signal to all young Malaysians (Malay and non-Malay) that non-Malays should never even dream of leading this country and her people.
Lim wrote a powerful lament where he questioned why he was targeted and the old maverick whose claims were far more concrete was not.
Lim wrote - "No non-Malay will become Malaysian PM without significant support of all the ethnic groups, in particular the Malays.
“Only the police know why they wanted to see me but not Dr Mahathir (Mohamad) although he said the same thing as me that a non-Malay can be PM of Malaysia.”
Just to be clear, this is what the old maverick...
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