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Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Is disunity in Malaysia real or played up by Umno leaders?

Is disunity in Malaysia real or played up by Umno leaders?
Cheras Umno chief Datuk Seri Syed Ali Alhabshee urged the government to look into setting up a single-stream school system arguing that vernacular schools are a platform to fan racial sentiments.
The issue of vernacular schools being the cause of racial disunity in Malaysia has once again ignited and the arguments are like an old broken record.
It gives no new insights that would help everyone to give a serious thought into the issue and to identify any weaknesses in the present system that will interest any study group to come out with any proposals that will translate them into real action to improve unity in Malaysia.
First thing first, is it really true that we are disunited? Has anyone done an in-depth survey or study to prove that this is real?
Syed Ali has not shown proof. He pre-conceptualised that there is disunity and went on to assume that the vernacular schools are the cause.
Datuk Seri Syed Ali Alhabshee
There are surveys or studies that show different races think differently towards the performances of the government or the prime minister or religious issues.
But there are no survey or study specifically directed at finding out if one race hates the other races or vice versa. However, a video entitled “Are Malaysians racist?” uploaded in YouTube shows that we, irrespective of races, respect and protect one another.
Isn’t this video a better indicator than what was pointed and highlighted by certain Umno leaders, such as Syed Ali, that we are disunited and that the vernacular schools are the cause of disunity?
In the first place, there is not even any solid proof that we are disunited. Aren’t the video mentioned above, and how we sit next to each other in Mamak restaurants all over the places watching and cheering and booing any football and badminton matches whenever one side of the match is from Malaysia, proof that disunity is rely in the mind of the government and certain political parties but not ordinary citizens?
There will always be a few aspiring Umno leaders who will raise this issue of racial disunity each and every time the Umno general assembly is around the corner and during general elections.
They are so bankrupt of issues that they have to regurgitate old issues that will make their party more and more irrelevant in the eyes of the rakyat.
Since there was a call to debate on this matter of vernacular schools being the cause of disunity in next month’s Umno general assembly, I would like to urge that the organiser to conduct an in-depth survey of all races across the country to see first, if they perceive that there is disunity in Malaysia among races and second, what do they perceive as the main cause of unity among the races.
Unless such a study is conducted and clear evidence that disunity exist, it would cause great injustice to the proponents for the continuation of vernacular schools as well as the rakyat as such a debate will surely be widely cover by the mainstream media and the debate may become the real cause of disunity.
Steven Choong is the PKR Tebrau division chairman.

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