'Malay first' leader unfit to lead M'sia

VOXPOP 'Until today, I continue to be shell-shocked by Muhyiddin's claim implying that he is not Malaysian first.'

Ku Li: 'Malay first' leader contradicts 1M'sia

Restless_Native: What we lack, so severely, is a sincere leader who has the welfare of all Malaysians at heart and a shared vision of the future for all Malaysians.

I have yet to see this meaningfully articulated by any minister since Tunku Abdul Rahman. Onn Jaafar had the goods but was pushed aside. None has emerged since.

Each successive minister has failed to grasp that the essence of nation building lies with the unification of its people first with a shared sense of destiny.

What we have had is just the opposite; each successive minister has chipped away steadily at what was once a firm basis for nation-building (we were more unified then) until just shards are all that is left - we are as undivided as never before.

Yet, each minister talks about unity and how we co-exist peacefully.

Anonymous_05: You are absolutely right Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah. Until today, I continue to be shell-shocked by DPM Muhyiddin Yassin's claim implying that he is not Malaysian first.

For the 1Malaysia concept to be meaningful, all of us must be Malaysians first and last, there is no two ways about it.

Swipenter: Umno thrives and survives on the doctrine of ‘ketuanan Melayu', but after having being fed on this same exclusive diet for five decades, they have gotten too fat and obese.

Still, they are not willing to change to a more inclusive diet even though they have been making promises after promises to do that, but in reality they do not want to change.

The elitist ‘Malay first' have taken care of themselves very well with huge feathered nests overseas. They would flee overseas at the first sign of the trouble for them.

The ordinary ‘Malay first' and all other ‘Malaysian first' would be left fighting for their daily bread and needs come what may.

Queenie: Our bloated bureaucracy which are peopled overwhelmingly by Malays is grossly inefficient and I doubt many will disagree with me.

I mean no offence to the Malays and I blame our government policies for nurturing a generation or two with a subsidy mentality which, in turn, breeds an attitude problem that hinders commitment to good and honest work.

Add to this our present system of education which churns out unemployable graduates by the thousands who can't think rationally outside of their proverbial 'tempurung'. I suspect this is by design to keep the Malay populace 'zombified', insecure and saddled with an inferiority complex so that the current regime can remain in power.

Little wonder then that we should have a brain drain that will become more telling later down the road when we have to rely on our own human capital just to sustain the status quo.

This 'power at all cost and the country be damned' stance by the BN regime is troubling to say the least.

Jiminy Qrikert: I think it is easy for us to criticise someone else, in this case the ‘Malay first' Muhyiddin, when they choose 'race' over nationality, but it is high time we ask ourselves what we believe in.

Does it make sense for 'Chinese' and 'Indians' in Malaysia to continue to be chauvinistic about our 'race' when:

i) once outside of Malaysia, we all refer to ourselves as Malaysian first,

ii) we push for 'race' to be omitted from application forms to erase discrimination but continue to opt for race over nationality in other areas of our lives,

iii) the origin of one's 'race' can be debated while nationality cannot - you are a citizen or you are not versus Dr Stephen Oppenheimer theorising that proto-Malays are the origin of East Asians.

I really have no problem if Oppenheimer is proven to be right and I am after all a proto-Malay descendant; hey, cool, this then makes me and my children 'bumiputera' as much as the Malay is bumiputera.

Sarawakian_3ff9: Ku Li seems to be in the twilight zone.

One the one hand, he continue to criticize Umno for their wrongdoings, just like the rest of us. But on the other, he choose to remain with the party which has now lost its bearing and morality.

He should just pack up and join the opposition where his contribution to a better Malaysia could make a lot of difference to the rest of us.

We respect him for his loyalty but the question is, for what?

Liow pushes buck to Lynas on waste issue

Wira: Liow Tiong Lai, you are the health minister. You have no authority to order Lynas to ship their poisonous residues back to Australia.

You don't even have the authority to stop its operation. The local council has the authority, i.e. by extension, the menteri besar.

So has the Malaysian Investment Development Authority (MIDA) or by extension, the trade and industry minister, because they are the ones who issue the manufacturing licences.

Don't try to pull the wool over the eyes of the rakyat. Your response is not worth a single sen.

TP26: Liow, the Basel Convention talks about all hazardous material and waste. Please read the article properly and pay attention to Annex I, II & III.

Just because the word radioactive is not mentioned, it doesn't mean it not included. Read the words properly. Goodness, I cannot believe we have ministers like this.

Yvette Charlene: You're completely out of ideas, aren't you? (Not that you had many to begin with.)

"Whatever residue, if need be, Lynas needs to undertake to send it back to the original source," said Liow.

The original "source" of the residue is the plant in Pahang. Australia is the source of the ore. And which part of the Western Australian state government's "no" did you not understand?