Comments on: Malaysia According to LKY http://leewatch.info/2010/09/16/malaysia-according-to-lky/ Waiting for old Harry to kick the bucket Sat, 25 May 2013 03:53:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: LY Lim http://leewatch.info/2010/09/16/malaysia-according-to-lky/#comment-1974 Sun, 27 Feb 2011 13:50:39 +0000 http://leewatch.info/?p=688#comment-1974 Dear Ex-PM Mr. Mahathir,
I like to bring you back to a time when a photograph taken on 27-4-2005 with Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, at the Perdana Leadership Foundation. Both of you shook hands happily for the shot.
I am glad to have seen this photograph and wish the government and people of both Malaysia and Singapore continue to enjoy warm friendly relationship.

]]> By: YMC http://leewatch.info/2010/09/16/malaysia-according-to-lky/#comment-1437 Sat, 18 Sep 2010 14:53:19 +0000 http://leewatch.info/?p=688#comment-1437 Malaysia for Malays – a sort of an affirmative action – may have seemed sensible at one time – but the fact of the matter is that the Malay rulers are really quite inept and have instilled a culture of corruption and cronyism into them system with little regard for meritocracy. Its a real basket case now.

]]> By: Buck Rogers http://leewatch.info/2010/09/16/malaysia-according-to-lky/#comment-1431 Fri, 17 Sep 2010 07:10:36 +0000 http://leewatch.info/?p=688#comment-1431 Mahathir’s comment that ‘Malaysian Malaysia’ is racist is odd. How can a cry for equality be racists? If indeed insults by certain Chinese at a Malay kampung resulted in the May race riots, than it could be because the Chinese were simply reacting against the discriminatory Affirmative Malay action. This kind of thing would not have happened in Singapore. Mahathir might claim that Affirmative Malay action was to help alleviate Malays to better economic and educational prospects, but do not Indians, Chinese, Eurasians aspire to the same? Or aren’t he and the Tungku playing the race divide by asking each race to take care of their own?

In Singapore, there is no such thing. Opportunities and handouts are equal to all. Plain and simple, Singapore got kicked out because the people in UMNO refused to see the bigger picture. Extremists want a Malay Malaysia. I think everybody agree that only the aborigines (Orang Asli) were/are the true sons and daughters of Malaysia soil. Of course, the sultans and the myriad royal families would not put up with a Malaysian Malaysia also. (How naive of the PAP to imagine they would).

Mahathir’s also showed a distinct lack of math understanding. His quibble with LKY on point 15. “once we are by ourselves (out of Malaysia) the Chinese become the majority”. – surely, if the Chinese of Singapore were to be lumped with those in Malaysia, they would have become the minority; the Malay minority on Singapore island becoming majority. With Singapore standing alone, of course the majority then became the Chinese. Is Mahathir getting senile or was he arguing to bring up the point that “Singapore’s population is made up of 75 per cent Chinese and they own 95 per cent of the economy”?

From time to time, Mahathir has demonstrated that he is a Malay bigot. Is he so worried that a Malaysian Malaysia would have diminished his malayness? That he and the other Malays would not have advanced and prospered? The only difference is of course not only he, but the Chinese, Indians and Eurasians as well. And that has been the case of Singapore because it is one nation for all, not one ethnic group no matter its size.

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