here we go again…
Post on Sep.29, 2006
… the foreign minister, syed hamid said that singapore should apologise for lee kuan yew’s ‘racist’ remarks. earlier, if you remember, he also opened his big mouth to say the pope should made a full apology.
“They should (apologise) for the sake of the two supposedly good neighbouring countries, they should do that.
“That statement went beyond fair comment, describing something that is not true in our country, an instigation. So I think with all honesty, it should be polite for them to say they were sorry,” he told reporters after a meeting of the Umno Supreme Council, here.
gawd! can someone shut him up? i’m ashamed to have him as our foreign minister.
why doesn’t he look at his own backyard – his own country; why didn’t he call for the son-in-law khairy boy to apologise when raised some sensitive racial issues and hurt the feelings of non malays.
a malaysiakin writer, amar AA, put it nicely in this way:
Amid calls from Umno leaders for Singapore’s Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew to apologise for his remarks that the Chinese minority in Malaysia and Indonesia are systematically marginalised, Lee may want to rely on the premise that ‘there is no need to apologise if I am defending my race.’
After all, that infamous defence was used by no less a person than the prime minister’s son-in-law against his fellow countrymen. And given that he is an Oxford graduate, the senior statesman, being a Cambridge product, could use the phrase assuredly.
about what lee kuan yew said, many bloggers (notably ktemoc) had already blog on it, and we had also read many views from people e.g. in malaysiakini. most of them agree with lee kuan yew! as usual, i have to say it – the nile is not only a river but de-nial is also something the gomen like to put on use, each time a truth is spoken. *sigh*
September 29th, 2006 on 2:41 AM
Byzantine 2006 – Putting Quotes Back In Context
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgiFvmGRdDQ&eurl=
Chutzpah in action.
September 29th, 2006 on 2:50 AM
“MADRID, Sept 23: Former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar on Friday defended Pope Benedict XVI’s comments about Islam, saying the pontiff had no need to apologise and asking why Muslims never did, according to newspaper reports published on Saturday.
“Why do we always have to say sorry and they never do?†Mr Aznar told a conference in the United States…..”
http://www.dawn.com/2006/09/24/int2.htm
September 29th, 2006 on 2:48 PM
Khairy Jamaluddin, Hishammuddin, Najib & Pak Lah who jumped onto the `Penang Malays marginalised’ bandwagon should apologise to Penang people first ! They were guilty of the same crime they accused LKY of ie to instigate the minority within a state/country. They caused the Malays to hate the BN government -may be they should be refered to the BN disciplnary board !!!
lucia: true. that 3 stoogers should apologise to us penang lang. hey, they are the disciplinary board (sort of, being the top guns!) so how to refer them?
September 29th, 2006 on 3:06 PM
Meantime:
Benedict stands firm despite calls to “retract or redress”
Representatives of Islamic states in New York for a United Nations meeting have called upon the Pope to either retract or make redress for his controversial Regenburg remarks but the Holy See representative said it is the duty of everyone to sideline extremists.
The Vancouver Sun reports that Vatican State President, Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo told the UN that people with political influence should be doing all they can to ensure extremists are sidelined……..
http://www.cathnews.com/news/609/166.php
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Unfortunately the UN is with the bad guys, as usually is the case.
September 29th, 2006 on 3:30 PM
shall we talk here on our foreign minister and LKY’s remarks and NOT on the pope’s speech/apology/non apology? this post there is about LKY’s issue saying chinese are being marginalised here and our gomen’s reaction, particularly this syed hamid person.
September 29th, 2006 on 7:43 PM
The statement by Khairy should be imprinted as a slogan for everyone and made into a public signages to remind everyone.
Apologise for what? For speaking the truth? He that lied, he had not even apologised and had the gut to say he is defending his race and religion. Did his religion told him to be corrupt?
lucia: psst mave! don’t bring up “did his religion told him….” because that might get me started on stuffs like “did their religion told them to burn buildings…”, “did their religion told them to curse people”. oops. i already about to start. better leave now.
September 29th, 2006 on 8:04 PM
Indonesia also wants apology: http://rawstory.com/news/2006/Indonesian_lawmakers_urge_Singapore_09262006.html
“Susilo, from the National Mandate Party (PAN), claimed there was NO longer discrimination or systematic marginalization of the ethnic Chinese in the country.”
IOW, It at least admits that in the past. But M’sia admits none(whatsover?!
Heyhey,
“Several top Malaysian politicians have rejected Lee’s comments as false and urged him to apologize,…..” http://tinyurl.com/ferg7
“Malaysia’s Mahathir says Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew “not that clever” following race remarks ” http://tinyurl.com/mxcsh
Sounds like a personal one followed up with the usual specious padding there wrt LKY and China as well.
OKT says, “Malaysians “cannot let a remark like that create unnecessary disharmony or suspicion…..”
So easily provoked ah, “suspicion”, eh? Atrrophied brain and emotional ppl. presumably by this portrayal.
This is all no longer even weird, just ‘feel-good’ surreal substitution for Reality in prescribed denial Mode.
lucia: all those top m’sian politicians were only joining in their boss lah.
September 29th, 2006 on 9:41 PM
The local headlines have recently been about the sensitivity of “Marginalization”. First, it was the hypothesis of “Penang’s Malays being marginated” by Khairy, son-in-law of PM. Second, it was Harry Lee’s “Our neighbors both have problem with their Chinese. They are successful. They are hardworking and therefore they are systemically marginalized.”
If I were saying that I, one of the ethnic Chinese, has not been marginalized. Certainly I’m betraying my soul; flipping my conscience, like what many Chinese “ah thows” have had said so. Ironically, Malays were all the time been living under protectionism. In other word, Chinese are less protected. Not to mention here of what “can & can not,” You know I know!
Now many people want Harry Lee to apologize. Is he has been marginalized from the freedom of immunity from apology? Who know!
The pendulum is now swinging back and let see how politicians propel it!
lucia: those who wants LKY to aplogise are those swimming in the river of the nile.
September 29th, 2006 on 11:28 PM
Seems like this is the season to be demanding apologies and refusing to give apologies.
lucia: haha. come to think of it, yes. the khairy saga, pope saga, ong tee keat saga and now LKY. what’s next?