KUALA LUMPUR: Perkasa president Datuk Ibrahim Ali (picture) defended Datuk Nasir Safar’s controversial remarks today, and suggested that non-Malay political leaders and Chinese-language newspapers had provoked the “emotional reaction” by the prime minister’s special officer.
“Now you are talking about Nasir Safar, but if you read Chinese newspapers, listen to the speeches, they are worse and look also at how DAP leaders dared to step on pictures of Malay leaders,” said Ibrahim referring to the incident in Ipoh last year when pictures of former PKR lawmakers Jamaluddin Radzi and Osman Jailu were turned into doormats outside the entrance of the Perak DAP convention.
“I understand why Nasir said that, I can symphatise with him, I want to say the same things but I have to control myself, I am more mature now,” said Ibrahim.
Nasir was forced to resign as Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s special officer yesterday after he allegedly called non-Malays “pendatang” and said that “Indians came to Malaysia as beggars and Chinese especially the women came to sell their bodies” at a 1 Malaysia seminar in Malacca.
Najib’s office has also quickly disassociated the PM from Nasir’s remarks.
Nasir also allegedly threatened to revoke the citizenships of Indians for making excessive demands on the government.
“Maybe Nasir is still young, perhaps he has been reading some offensive blog postings, and Facebook messages which resulted in his outburst,” Ibrahim told The Malaysian Insider.
“People like Nasir are fighters so maybe he felt he had to say it,” he added.
He added Nasir’s resignation as announced by the Prime Minister’s Office yesterday after reports surfaced is not an issue.
“I don’t want to comment on his resignation. It is not the issue. Nasir is just an individual. We must understand why he acted that way,” said Ibrahim.
Nasir attempted to play down the incident yesterday by saying that he was only giving a talk on the nation’s history.
His remarks at the 1 Malaysia seminar in Malacca had caused unhappiness among MCA and MIC leaders who walked out of the meeting.
MI
04/02/10
“Now you are talking about Nasir Safar, but if you read Chinese newspapers, listen to the speeches, they are worse and look also at how DAP leaders dared to step on pictures of Malay leaders,” said Ibrahim referring to the incident in Ipoh last year when pictures of former PKR lawmakers Jamaluddin Radzi and Osman Jailu were turned into doormats outside the entrance of the Perak DAP convention.
“I understand why Nasir said that, I can symphatise with him, I want to say the same things but I have to control myself, I am more mature now,” said Ibrahim.
Nasir was forced to resign as Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s special officer yesterday after he allegedly called non-Malays “pendatang” and said that “Indians came to Malaysia as beggars and Chinese especially the women came to sell their bodies” at a 1 Malaysia seminar in Malacca.
Najib’s office has also quickly disassociated the PM from Nasir’s remarks.
Nasir also allegedly threatened to revoke the citizenships of Indians for making excessive demands on the government.
“Maybe Nasir is still young, perhaps he has been reading some offensive blog postings, and Facebook messages which resulted in his outburst,” Ibrahim told The Malaysian Insider.
“People like Nasir are fighters so maybe he felt he had to say it,” he added.
He added Nasir’s resignation as announced by the Prime Minister’s Office yesterday after reports surfaced is not an issue.
“I don’t want to comment on his resignation. It is not the issue. Nasir is just an individual. We must understand why he acted that way,” said Ibrahim.
Nasir attempted to play down the incident yesterday by saying that he was only giving a talk on the nation’s history.
His remarks at the 1 Malaysia seminar in Malacca had caused unhappiness among MCA and MIC leaders who walked out of the meeting.
MI
04/02/10
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