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took so many months for the deputy prime minister (DPM) to revoke
Interlok, the book which has caused anger among Indian Malaysians and
Chinese Malaysians. The DPM made many flip-flops to keep the book as a
school text. The anger made Hindraf protest against this book, and many
Hindraf members were charged in court. Till today the DPM has not
bothered to stop the case even after the book Interlok was revoked from
being a school text book.
Muhyiddin Yassin was more or less following the Malay supremacy
behaviour. How can he, without dignity, attend the Thaipusam festival
and be a very important person (VIP) for the festival. The one who did
not respect Indian sentiment then made an address during the Thaipusam
festival.
I urge the committee members of Maha Mariamman and MIC to invite more
Hindu saints and priests to be VIPs during Thaipusam, rather than
politicians. Thaipusam is not a political event. MIC have been using
Maha Mariamman Devastanam for their political agenda from the day S Samy
Vellu held the presidential post.
Thaipusam is a holy festival. Indians would rather love to hear
transcendental lectures than political talks. The whole system need to
be revamped, where saints and priests need to be garlanded, not the
politicians who are failing to keep their promises.
Basically, all Hindu festivals are holy festivals. In fact before
Thaipusam the devotees fasts or goes vegetarian for several days. That
is how they respect the holy festival. I totally disagree with honouring
a beef-eater during a holy festival which is totally disrespectful of
Hinduism. For Hindus killing a cow is like a killing a mother. So
letting someone who eats beef to address the crowd is a total mark of
disrespect.
In Malaysia the ‘Allah’ issue is becoming so hot. The Malay Muslims
are not happy about Christians using the ‘Allah’ word in the Bible. If
that is the case how could Indians be happy when the DPM gave a speech
during Thaipusam. If at all this doesn’t make sense, I urge people of
other religions people to let Hindu leaders give a speech at their
mosques or churches. It is not fair for Hindus to be marginalised this
way.
MIC, Umno and Maha Mariamman Devastanam, be fair to the Malaysian Hindus.
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