Tell me……has the Ministry of Education
under this Barisan Nasional government led by Najib Tun Razak really pick a
Malay Muslim principal to head SMK Convent Bukit Nanas? Pray tell me why?
Forget about the stated government policy
that there will be “maximum consultation” with Christian mission schools on any
such appointment.
Forget the fact that Datin Seri Zavirah
Mohd Shaari is a suitably qualified person to undertake the task.
Forget the fact that you now need permits
to go Christmas Caroling.
This is personal!
I want you all to know that my sister went
to Convent Bukit Nanas. In my last conversation with her a week ago, she is
still, at the age of about 50, a Muslim.
Najib Razak who went to St John’s
Institution (a Catholic founded school) is still today, a Muslim.
My cousin Iskandar who also went to St John
is also still a Muslim today – many many years after their studies at St
John.
So pray tell me, as Mahathir has succinctly
put it – if it ain’t broke, why fix it!
UNLESS…unless this is a blatant attempt by
UMNO at taking over Convent Bukit Nanas and turning it – albeit slowly but
surely – into a madrash – because UMNO deems it necessary to their political
survival to now engage in state sponsored exposure of all schoolchildren to
jihad which of course promises instant salvation! And to integrate this into
the formal educational system we now have! And in so doing UMNO supplants PAS
as the Islamic party of choice in Malaysia!
What madness is this?
“For all those who have ears to hear
Who are these who speak dark counsel
without knowledge?
Who are these who walk about in arrogant
accord?
With their foreheads wrinkled and their
hearts hardened?
Who are all these who speaks with serpents
tongues?”
I cannot see any common sense justification
for such an appointment except to confirm the absolute reality that a desperate
UMNO is now reduce to taking desperate and dangerous actions to try and cling
to power!
That nobody within UMNO is able to advise
Najib as to the adverse consequences of his actions is worrying….so in lieu of
that ‘nobody’ let me attempt to educate Najib as to the consequences of his
actions:
You lose the support (read votes here) of
one million Catholics of the country’s 28 million total population.
You lose the support (read votes here) of
those of us that understand that what you have done in putting a Muslim to head
a Catholic school is just one more blatant attempt by UMNO to satisfy the
extremist within UMNO whose notion of flexing their muscles is to antagonize
people of different races and religion with their idiotic belief that ‘might is
right”. Put another million votes within this category.
The stupidity of this decision takes my
breath away! How do you justify this to the people of Malaysia who are waiting
to cast their votes in the 13th general elections? Why pander to the
converted within UMNO when you know that their numbers alone are not even
enough to make Utusan viable what more win UMNO a general election! You stupid,
stupid President! Surely there must still be some within UMNO who are made of
sterner stuff able to understand the harm that all these actions are doing to
UMNO?
It is impossible for me to believe that
UMNO is so blinkered that it is unable to see defeat looming in front of them
as they go into the 13th general elections!
What have we learnt from our history? We
know that above all else Race and Religion is a powerful mixture in politics.
We owe our greatest triumph and our greatest failure to Race and Religion. Our greatest failure has been the
racial riots of May 13th in 1969. Our greatest achievement has been
the freedom to worship any religion you choose albeit some would argue, within
constrains that are arguably restrictive in nature.
Supporters and opponents of race and
religion have drawn upon the vast reservoir and complexities of race and
religion to advance their political agenda.
None demonstrates this more then PAS. Pas
justify the morality of their political stance by drawing on the tenets of
Islam.
UMNO tries to justify its political agenda
by drawing on the tenets of Islam but UMNO’s very existence has been in the
beginning and till today, has always been about race. The Malay race.
I would suggest that UMNO stays within its
racial parameters in advancing their cause to us for re election. Religion is
not UMNO’s forte. As I have said in the past: It is easy to champion the
principles of Islam. It is in the adhering to the principles of it that many
have failed…and UMNO and its leaders have failed time and time again.
For UMNO to now venture into the realms of
religion for its survival is clutching at straws. To lose the goodwill of one
million Catholics is sheer lunacy for an UMNO that is already being pummeled
against the rope by a Pakatan Rakyat energized by the rhetoric's of the recent
UMNO general assembly!
Now we await what will come next….perhaps a
desperate gambit towards bringing PAS into their fold by handing over Convent
Buklit Nanas lock stock and barrel to PAS to do what it will with it?
Maybe so
but I think there is enough common sense within PAS to know what is the right
thing to do and what is the wrong thing to….and we are with PAS because we know
that if anything, PAS understands that Malaysian are changing!
That PAS
understands that those who call Malaysia home are entitled to their space in
religion!
That PAS understands that race and religion should never be used to
divide our people.
That UMNO does not understand all this is
the tragedy of a once great party that now feeds off crumbs and left overs left
on the floor. An UMNO bankrupt of everything bar its bluster as its head
towards oblivion and defeat in the 13th general election.
To those Catholics that feel strongly about
what has happened at Convent Bukit Nanas I ask that you join us in our fight
against Barisan Nasional and against UMNO. Enough of putting up with their
arrogance and dictatorial style of government.
ABU! ABU! ABU!
Hei towkay why you so concern about UMNo defeat one.Why you so the busy body one. Let them get defeated la in the nxt ge.why don't you stuffed that brack coffee of yours down your thloat and shut up la.Had enough of pathetic whateveer lah
ReplyDeleteI don’t quite understand you going overboard with the appointment of a non-Christian headmistress for Covent Bukit Nenas. The school is not a festering pot for converting Muslims to Christianity. Najib Razak was a student when the missionary school had all the means to encourage Najib to be Johnny Najib or Joe Cool, but he remains Najib Razak to this day. As you said, your own sister is still Muslim, so what is this rabid attack that a Muslim headmistress will be converting students to don on the hijab.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, the government and the education ministry in particular, should have started with the schools to forge a Malaysian identity from the early days of independence. I have not heard of any Commanche or Sioux language school in the US of A’s national education system. Nor are there any Tamil or Chinese national type schools in UK.
So what are we doing, still clinging to the “eastern moral understanding” syndrome of satisfying all and sundry to the detrimental of this nation’s baby steps into one Malaysian identity?
We are already half a century behind. Are we still waiting for the cows to come home? For a start, a non-Christian for CBN is okay. I do not say this as a racial bigot. I say this to make you and you and YOU to understand that it has to start somewhere along the line and not to keep shouting old and tired slogan of defending a useless “Adat”.
Titiek tajam
ReplyDeletewhy not appoint a non muslim to head a religious school? It has to start somewhere.
Fair muslim
I went to convent, I am still an atheist today.
ReplyDeleteA foreign newspaper has given MALAI-sia 10 years before it joins the ranks of the the Third World. This process has been going on ever since a certain Doctor took a firm grip on the Nation, claims that newspaper. And like all doctors he gave medication without mediation.
ReplyDeleteSir,
ReplyDeleteUMNO is trying to gain 2 million Malay votes by losing the 1 million Catholic votes.
Never mind, this is a fair country as long as the Malay has supremacy.....hahahaha try appointing a non-malay to head a sekolah agama and allow more non-malays into UiTM etc, then I will start to believe.
In the interim, ABU.
ah St johns, MBS, VI all useless pondan British places.
ReplyDeletedeath to them
Why do we need to have so many type of school in the first place.......what kind of system is this? I strongly think we will be better of with one type of school......no vernacular,no ugama,no kebangsaan...just one school for all.......what's so difficult about wanting to implement that?
ReplyDeleteIt's BTN products at the EM.
ReplyDeletetitiek tajam,
ReplyDeletethis is not the first non christian principle at that school. err...so what adat? the problem is that the govt did not follow it's own policy of consultation, and the list of nominees were sidelined.
link:
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/unease-grows-over-muslim-head-for-top-convent-school/