Saturday, May 17, 2014

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 DAP and MCA are killiung Muslims in the name  of religion like in India

The world will be waiting however, for any slip up on his management of the Muslim community. Whilst Modi seeks to treat all Indians the same and goes out of his way to say so, the fact is that to reverse the “selective appeasement” of the past will take time and fiscal space. Neither is available to him. This is where proxies and symbols can help to reassure minorities that he is their protector too. One important symbol will be his choice of the Home Minister, who whilst enjoying the full confidence of the PM, must be trusted by all segments of India.
Theorists will make much of the need for Modi to build or re-build institutions. This is very time consuming and effort intensive. Many of these (cabinet system; inner party democracy; the bureaucracy; federalism; the judiciary) were systematically destroyed during the long period of Indira Gandhi’s rule. Institutions do matter, particularly in a democracy, because they provide permanence in a politically unstable system. But in India we carry everything to extremes. No institution can atrophy and yet remain productive.
The central bureaucracy is one such institution. From the very beginning, it was merit oriented only at the point of entry. Even in that limited way, it did not respond to the socio-economic disabilities specific segments of India faced in getting in. This opaque, small, mostly male club can be transformed by introducing real competition at the top. This is from where the fish rots. All babu posts of Joint Secretary and above must be filled through open competition. It must be the PM (not the concerned Minister or the Department of Personnel) who must select the candidate, out of a short list of two, recommended by the UPSC. Each appointment must have a minimum tenure of three years with no job hopping allowed, even if more attractive lateral options become available.
One new tradition, which must be reversed, is the “in your face” security apparatus. Modi was the highest security risk even before he became the PM. Now his security needs to significantly enhanced. But this challenge should be used as an opportunity to upgrade the security apparatus, rely on technology, intelligence and rapid response, rather than on a glut of gun totting men. It is only when the PM makes his security “invisible” that it will stop being the status symbol, it is today.

It will not be easy to rein in “privilege”, which is the life blood of an elitist, patrimonial State. But much of the rot we face today can be traced to this one, ubiquitous norm. Who better to try, than one who, like Bill Clinton, made it to the very top purely on merit?


 DAP and MCA are killiung Muslims in the name  of religion like in India

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Reverse polarization is why Muslim votes 



Several NGOs have lodged police reports on allegedly inflammatory comments posted on the Malaysiakini website, threatening to hold protests in front of its office as well as that of the Home Ministry’s if no action is taken. Malays are polite and friendly but Muslims are belligerent , I got whacked left and right . Now just look at the threats hurled at Karpal Singh and those who say their minds. There are many videos too in the internet.After the pictures went viral, some social media users said they were not of Dyana, but that of Filipina actress Pauleen Luna.
Responding to the incident, Dyana said she was surprised by the wave of attacks that ensued, following rumours of her candidacy for the by-election.
“My personal details were misused... And now, to tarnish my image further, there appears to be a photo of me allegedly wearing a bikini.
“While I think the Pinay actress in question is very attractive, I feel this really displays the level of gutter politics that our opponents would go to, especially against a female.
“Guys, please grow up,” she said in her letter to The Malaysian Insider, adding that the episode made her realise that Malaysian society is misogynistic.
Several DAP leaders and political analysts have also spoken out against the attacks, speculating that those responsible for them were Barisan Nasional’s (BN) cybertroopers.
They said those who were out to discredit Dyana were unable to comprehend the fact that a Malay would want to associate themselves with a Chinese-majority opposition party like the DAP.
“All this while they have told the Malays that DAP is a Chinese party. They are doing this to tell the community that those who join the party are not 'real' Malays because 'real' Malays don't wear bikinis or revealing clothes,” said political analyst Professor James Chin of Monash University Malaysia.
Political analyst Oh Ei Sun believed the attacks against Dyana were politically motivated.
“It is too coincidental, given that rumours of her being a potential candidate surfaced recently. Her rivals were certainly trying to portray her as not a good or real Malay, who in their minds should be conservatively dressed,” said the analyst from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore.
In describing the entire episode as “gutter politics”, DAP's youth wing chief Teo Kok Seong said they were probably threatened by the party's pool of candidates, who were able to give BN’s selection a run for its money.
Teo, however, warned that such action will not bode well for BN with regard to its image and chances in the by-election.
BN will attempt to seek victory in Teluk Intan through Gerakan president Datuk Mah Siew Keong.
Mah won the seat in the 1999 and 2004 general elections but lost to DAP's M. Manogaran and Seah Leong Peng in 2008 and 2013 with a 1,470 and 7,313-vote majority respectively.
Seah’s death due to cancer on May 1 triggered the by-election.
DAP Wanita secretary Teo Nie Ching lamented that female politicians seemed to be the easy target and urged politicians from both sides of the divide to condemn such unhealthy acts.
“They targeted women to lower our dignity. This is not the type of politics we want to see in Malaysia,” she said.
Nie Ching and DAP national vice-chair Teresa Kok are no strangers to such incidents, as both had their fair share of encounters in the past.
She also commended Gerakan for condemning those who attempted to discredit Dyana, and said that this incident would not stop women from joining politics.
Gerakan secretary-general Liang Teck Meng yesterday condemned the act and said that such acts were not only rude but insulting to women in the country.
“I am shocked to find out that such photos were circulated online in an attempt to tarnish her reputation. Such acts in my opinion are not only rude but also insulting to women in Malaysia.”
Dyana said from the get-go, she knew that joining the DAP came with a price.
“Of course, joining DAP came with a price. I was immediately scrutinised and lambasted. False stories were created. My words were twisted. I was labelled a ‘pengkhianat’ (traitor). I was also called many other names.”
But she said all these had solidified her belief that she was “on the right side of history.”
“My mother and my mentors have taught me well. They had warned me that there would be days like these.
“So to my detractors, I wish to paraphrase Katy Perry. You will hear me ‘roar!’” she said, borrowing a line from the pop singer’s hit single “Roar”.Last month, I lost two dear friends to death from cancer. Though Bernard Khoo Teng Swee and Ramlan Aziz did not know each other, I realized in the days after their passing that they were alike in one significant aspect – both were multi-cultural personalities.
It was in a way apposite that while coming away from the funeral of Bernard I should receive a call from Ramlan’s wife that herhusband had been admitted to hospital. I told her I would visit him the next day. I was not to have the chance; Ramlan died that evening.
Like I said it was only in the days after their passing I realized how similar the two were and how fortunate I was to have them as friends: they were multi-cultural personalities during a period of our country’s history when most everyone was retreating into cultural ghettos.
Bernard and Ramlan didn’t. They stayed true to their multi- cultural personas and were at ease with the pluralism of their societies. Given the insular temper of the times, this was a signal achievement.
Bernard was raised in Taiping and Penang in the late 1940s and 1950s. He mixed with friends from all the races in the country, both at Kamunting, in Taiping, and at Pulau Tikus, in Penang, where he trained to be a Christian brother.
Ramlan was brought up in the Peel Road and Cochrane areas of Kuala LumpurRamlan where his civil servant father and family were housed in government quarters. Ramlan went to a Christian brothers’ school near where he lived and in the evenings and during school holidays mixed with mainly Indian and Eurasian Christians.
Both Bernard and Ramlan, from reminiscences they shared with me, had strong fathers. Bernard’s stressed integrity and full-blown commitment which came to characterize his son’s attitude to life.
Ramlan remembered his father as a tolerant man, albeit short tempered. An abiding memory was ayah’s observation of religion that it was genie best left in a bottle, always corked.
Bernard began occupational life as a La Salle Brother, teaching from the onset of the 1960s in schools in Singapore, Malacca, Klang and Kuala Lumpur. He left the brotherhood in 1965, his instinctive feel for what is right and wrong constricted by the mores of his religious order. His began his career as a lay teacher in a Christian brothers’ school in Sentul in Kuala Lumpur where the multi-cultural overlay to his personality met with conditions ideal for its flourishing.
Ramlan began working life as a dispatch clerk in a foreign-owned advertising agency in 1968. He would go on to become a media executive in other, locally-owned, advertising agencies where he would rise to become media manager before winding up as general manager of a bumiputera-owned ad agency. In the latter place, the strong performers were Indian Malaysians to whom he would become close, prompting his bumiputera confreres to chide him:“Ramlan ini, president MIC” (Ramlan is an Indian lover).
Bernard would leave teaching in the late 1970s for human resourcemanagement. This was despite the fact he was a good teacher ,of English especially, which made his leaving the profession understandable because of the gradual change, as the 1970s dawned, in the medium of instruction from that language to Bahasa Malaysia.
Bernard’s brought his affinity for motivational dynamics, first discovered in his teaching career, to personnel management,acquiring in the process a reputation for being adept at galvanizing employees in the companies which hired him to higher levels productivity.
Ramlan’s media management brought him into contact with an array of media and marketing executives in newspaper and other news outlets. He learned from them that there was such a thing called ‘horses for courses.’ This simply meant that certain kinds of people were naturally good at certain types of jobs, and that it was folly if public policy failed to take note of this reality.Needless to say, this placed Ramlan at odds with the thrust of public policies that sought to make some people good at occupations for which they had little aptitude.
Throughout the chops and changes to their careers, throughout its ebbs and flows, Bernard and Ramlan remained true to their earliest multi-cultural promptings, instilled in their adolescent and teenage years, and sustained in adulthood, even in the teeth of escalating social conditions adverse to the practice of multiculturalism. They imparted their multiculturalism to their children, Bernard’s two and Ramlan’s five.
Bernard’s daughter would marry a Bahamian and settle in the Caribbean; his son’s wife is an Indian Malaysian. Ramlan’s children were not as adventurous but would take after their father in having friends and colleagues from among the races, an achievement given that his kids did not have the multi-racial mingling he had in his youth. Also, all five of them learned to speak English reasonably well, though Ramlan wasn’t fluent in the tongue.
In one, sadly regrettable way Bernard and Ramlan were also similar. They were heavy smokers and succumbed to lung cancer, Bernard at 74 and Ramlan ten years younger. Both were towering
Malaysians in one eminently laudable way: they were resolutely multicultural during a time when the racial and religious currents were strongly in the other direction. They were archetypes of a sort our country would have to have more of if we are to weld together as a nation.
I count myself fortunate to have known them in life and to memorialize them now that each has gone to his rest.

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