In these days when such phrases as entitlements, influence peddling, rent-seeking business opportunities, bumiputra, ketuanan Melayu and nepotism are not the sort of things one speaks about when in the company of anybody with half a brain, there always has to be the exception from who else but someone from PAS...and no lesser person than the Perak PAS chairperson.
In these days when meritocracy trumps nepotism, when one's caliber and integrity are prized over religious bigotry, racial polarity, and incompetence, and when one's patriotic endeavors, courtesy, and consideration for others are respected over one's indifference, indolence, and often insolence to others who are different to us.....along comes this PAS bigot to tell us of 'Malay special rights' in the civil service.
Is it any wonder then, that too many Malaysians are wondering why that once courageous, upstanding, and decent Malay, is such a rarity, today?
It would seem that today, flattery will get the Malay anywhere he chooses to go. And in the case of this Perak PAS chairperson, he flatters himself by claiming that there are special Malay rights in the civil service...alluding to a "social contract" that we Malays have with the other non-Malays...and in this way hopes to weasel himself into the good books of the Malays.
I think not. The only social contract that has a place in Malaysia today is simply the one that says "All Malaysian are at one with one another" The Malays deserve to be in the civil service just as any other Malaysian deserves to be in the civil service. Meritocracy must rule.
Let us all hope that this PH government will have the political will and the courage to make that happen soonest. Anything else would be a betrayal of the promises that PH leaders have made to the electorates when they asked that we give them government to allow them the opportunity to make Malaysia a safe and decent haven for everyone that calls Malaysia home.
Wonder if malaysia is 70% chinese and 20% malay, would the chinese have special rights..
Cannot imagine chinese politicians attacking and jailing each other.. while the minority malays in disbelief, laughing at the chinese prime minister who depend on them to keep his job.
Maybe yes, maybe not..didnt see that in singapore. Thinking kpg glam and geylang serai 😀
I have worked with some very bright and capable Malay colleagues ( UK graduates in the 80s ( 2:1 s and above) but have found none so far in high positions. Not politically savvy perhaps.
Social contract together with ketuanan Melayu were two non existing substances created to hoodwink the Malay to vote them into power.
The PUS has gone way, way, way down, even below where kleptocratic UMNO was before, in search for the votes of Malays by resorting to such vile religious and racial pandering.