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  25.  @sharilsamad9727  . Dr Mahathir said :"We accuse others. We accuse the government, accuse others races. When we fail, they are at fault. We are never wrong. Where are our faults? There are many. The first is we do not work as hard as others. Not only that, we also do not pay attention to our responsibility. We don't pay attention before deciding to do something," We lack mastery of knowledge and information needed to make good decisions. I dare to say we are lazy. We like to hand over our jobs to other people," Dr Mahathir also chided the Malays attitude of being untrustworthy and for not having a sense of responsibility for tasks entrusted to them, as well as their propensity to break promises. The Malay community, he said, also have no qualms about taking things or money that do not belong to them. " When we owe someone, it's hard to pay back. Take PTPTN (National Higher Education Fund Corporation). It is not much that we need to pay back, just a little."We can afford it. Even if we only make RM2,000 a month, what's RM100 a month? Only 5%. But even those who earn more than that don't pay. Stingy."Whatever excuses we give, the fact is we don't pay our debts. To us, it's a small matter. But to other races, it erodes their trust in us. PTPTN debtors owe RM36 billion, almost the same as the stolen 1MDB funds," said Mahathir. As a result, he said banks no longer want to lend to Malays which has led to many Malay traders unable to secure capital. (www. thaipbworld. com 9Sept 2018)
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  64. Alam Syofik came to Malaysia two years ago in the hope of a better life fleeing a brutal military crackdown against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state in Myanmar in 2017. But the safe haven for the Rohingya that Malaysia once seemed to offer has turned into hell for him and his peers, as hostility against them has reached new heights amid fears over the COVID pandemic that has afflicted poor migrant communities and xenophobia."I've been randomly spat on and shouted at so many times, I can still take it. But nothing beats the fear of being threatened with murder just because I am Rohingya," the 37-year old man staying in Petaling Jaya."Some of locals are not shy to say they'd 'love' to kill me and it doesn't matter whether I understand where this is coming from or not. I'm sorry, but I'm very scared, it brings back memories of escaping from Rakhine," he added. His story and the harsh words used against the Myanmar minority group have been repeated many, many times in recent social media platforms, in a sharp about-face by vocal critics in Malaysia Muslim community. Malaysia in 2017 opened up it's borders to provide temporary shelter for the Rohingya "boat people" as they fled the Myanmar crackdown. The government, with support from the Malaysian Muslim who make up 60% of the population, took in thousands of them that year. The strong feelings to help the Rohingya, often described as one of the most persecuted minority in the World, became a platform that widened cooperation between two the implacable enemies - Umno and PAS just before the 2018 election. An aid ship filled with food packets and medical kits were sent north to Myanmar and Bangladesh, with volunteers from Umno and PAS filling the vessel. But today, less than 3 years later, as many Malaysians struggle to cope with life under the MCO, some Malaysians have called for the more then 100,000 Rohingya refugees to be deported. These voices are also loudly asking the government to stop accepting any Rohingya refugee boats, and priorities helping Malaysians amid the bleak economic outlook. The 2 month-old PN government, that includes both Umno and PAS seems to have joined with the critics to attacked Rohingya groups that plead for more understanding of their plight. Home Minister Hamzah Zainuddin said on Thursday (April 30) that Malaysia does not recognize the community as refugees but merely "illegal immigrants",even if they hold the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees identification cards."Besides that, the Home Ministry checks found that the Registrar of Societies has never registered organisations under the name of Rohingya or any ethnic Rohingya in Malaysia," he said."Therefore, any organisations that represent ethnic Rohingya in Malaysia are invalid... and (they) can have taken action against them according to legal provisions," he added. The strident tones came as Malaysia on Thursday entered it's 44th day of partial lockdown that has badly damaged the economy, with mass layoffs expected in coming months. Activists said the xenophobia has been mixed with fears of a bleak economic future in the immediate term for many Malaysians."Malaysian views on the Rohingya community have always been polarising. Whilst many are sympathetic to what is happening to the Rohingya in Myanmar, this does not translate to the treatment of Rohingya coming to Malaysia," said Human Rights chief strategist Firdaus Husni of the Malaysian Centre for Constitutionalism and Human Rights. She said that some of the public fear and nervousness over the virus "are used to justify xenophobia sentiments against the Rohingya people". Ms Firdaus said:" In locking our borders, some Malaysians seem to forget that the Rohingya people attempting to come into our borders are not tourists on cruises, they are in boats fleeing for their lives." Lawyer and former president of National Human Rights Society Malik Imtiaz Sarwar siad there is a return of political exploitation of social media, and calculated efforts to manage perception." My sense is that the recent events do not really demonstrate a change in attitude towards the Rohingya and Malaysians generally remain sympathetic to their plight. The subject has, however, become politicised with the current PN government." He believed that " anxieties and frustrations about living under the MCO and its impact, and resentment about the state of affairs in the country, are being channelled into and projected on to the Rohingya". The xenophobia seemed to have reached its peak after alleged postings by the president of the Myanmar Ethnic Rohingya Human Right Organisation Malaysia, Mr Zafar Ahmad Abdul Ghani. The postings which he has said were not written by him demanded equal rights and citizenship for the Rohingya community. This led to hateful online comments, such as "send them back to where they came from","if a paramilitary wing is set up to gun them down with machine guns, count me in. Ethnic cleansing is fun", and "now we know why the Myanmar government murdered them". Soon after, a video of a Rohingya man being verbally harassed also surfaced, with the person behind the camera demanding the latter prove of his Islamic faith. In recent weeks, there were at least 5 petitions on popular site Change.org with hundreds of thousands of signatures gathered calling for the deportation of the Rohingya from Malaysia. These petitions were pulled down by Change.org for hate speech. Responding to the issue, former Premier Mahathir Mohamad urged Malaysian not to hate the Rohingya people, as they are victims of cruelty. In his latest postings on his blog chedet.cc, Tun Dr Mahathir said that while he understood why Malays now "hate" the Rohingya despite initially being sympathetic to their plight, the authorities recent decision to turn away a boat carrying some 400 of them "inhumane". He wrote that when their numbers began to swell and "there were some things they did which hurt the feelings of the Malays, then the sympathy turned to hatred". The Malaysian government on April16 turned away several boats carrying hundreds of Rohingya refugees after giving them food, for fear of undocumented migrants bringing in more Covid-19 cases. Following that, it was reported that 32 Rohingya were believed to have died on an overcrowded boat stranded in the Bay of Bengal for nearly 2 months...(Nadirah H. Rodzi, Malaysia Correspondent, 30 April 2020.)
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  114.  @nazodreemur8284  .. Retired diplomat Bilahari Kausikan has been known to speak his mind, and he's weighed in several times on the recent ongoing tensions between Malaysia and Singapore over maritime disputes. On December 10, Bilahari shared an old video clip of Singapore founding father Lee Kuan Yew, wherein the nation first Prime Minister reminded everyone of the country vulnerabilities in the presence of neighbors who may not have Singapore best interests in mind, as well as Singapore readiness to defend itself. LKY says at one point in the video, "We are not vulnerable? They can besiege you. You'll be dead. Your sea lanes are cut off and your business comes to a halt. What is our reply? Security Council, plus defense capabilities of our own, plus the Security Framework Agreement with the Americans." It seems as though Bilahari feels that this reminder is needful and timely, and the post has gotten a number of shares on Facebook. Perhaps a reminder like this is necessary, and LKY ends the video with a steely-eyed expression on his face, as he says, "We've got friendly neighbours? Grow up." Here is the full text of what LKY said in the video: "We have not got neighbours who want to see us prosper. We are an upstart in this region, because we have survived for so long, and I believe can survive given the international environment provided we have a strong system that enables us to maximize our chances. Are we not vulnerable? If we're not vulnerable, why do we spend 5 to 6 percent of GDP (on defense) year after year? Are we mad? This is a frugal government, you know. we dug a deep tunnel for the sewers at the cost of $3.65 billion in order to use the sewage water for Newater, to be independent. We are not vulnerable? They stopped sand. Why? To conscribed us. As Mahathir (former Malaysian Prime Minister) says,"Even at their present size they are trouble, you let them grow some more they will be more trouble'. We've got friendly neighbours? Grow up. On December 4, shortly after bilateral relations were beginning to get heated, Bilahari wrote on a Facebook post, "It's is not accident that so many old bilateral issues - water, bridge, FIR and maritime boundaries - have resurfaced after the change of government. The new governing coalition is intrinsically unstable and held together by a 93-year old man. Political uncertainty in Malaysia inevitably leads to Singapore being used as a bogeyman to hold things together. So wish the old doctor good health and long-life: it may well be worse without him. Quite understandably many Malaysians were not pleased with Bilahari post. On Sunday, Bilahari responded on Facebook again to comments from Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (PPBM) Supreme Council member Rais Hussin, who said, among other comments, that "there is nothing that Singapore can gain by hardening it's stance against Malaysia" in the maritime dispute. Bilahari wrote, "Very typical - what they expect is subordination of our interest to their interests. They have not given up, and never will, trying to tame or domesticate (menjinakan) Singapore, because unless they do so, the intrinsic short-comings of a system based on the dominance of a particular race will be highlighted, particularly since we do better with a different system. But if we accept a subordinate position, can we prosper? Is existence by the leave and favor of some other country acceptable? That is what this character demands amount to. This is the essential reason why a small country should never behave as a small country, that is behave in a way bigger neighbours demand." 12 Oct 2018
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