'Shocked’ minister in denial
This was reported in the Star today:
Shocked by ‘apartheid’ report
KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz was shocked during a recent work trip to India to find a newspaper there carrying a front page article that claimed that Malaysia was practising apartheid against Hindus.
Holding up the DNA newspaper of Nov 28, the International Trade and Industry Minister said that the article quoted a 22-year-old Sri Lankan-born poet who had spent 17 years in Malaysia, as saying that she fled Malaysia last month to escape "systematic racial harassment."
"Fleeing Malaysia? Oh my goodness gracious. Can you imagine? This is really telling lies," Rafidah told reporters yesterday after chairing a Wanita Umno meeting.
The Wanita Umno chief said that the poet, Sharanya Manivannan, had also claimed in the article that there had been cases in Malaysia of "body-snatching" of Hindu corpses by the authorities so that the deceased could be buried according to Muslim rites.
She said that the poet, however, had never mentioned that these men had converted to Islam.
Rafidah added that Sharanya had said in the article that "countless (Hindu) temples have been demolished and idols smashed – often times in the middle of prayer sessions and devotees attacked".
"What a lie. Words like this are terrible. The article really hurts," she said.
Rafidah was heading a trade mission to India from Nov 26 to Dec 1 when she came across the newspaper article at one of the five-star hotels there.
"I was shocked. Obviously there is already an international network set up," she said, adding that she believed that this was politically motivated....
(The Star, Dec 05, 07, pg 12)
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Why is the minister shocked? Could it be because the truth hurts?
Or perhaps she has been ignorant of all these due to the sanitised reporting of the local mainstream media?
Can the minister honestly say there is no systematic racial harassment in this country? If she can, then she shouldn’t be shocked or hurt.
posted by Kabilan K at 4:39 PM
1 Comments:
She claimed that MIDA is headed by Dr Karuna, an Indian Hindu. Her argument that it warranted that Msia do not practice discrmination. Hello Minister, get yr facts right. First of all, if u put a Malay officer he wld not be able to 'sell' Msia to investors. You need 'a multi-racial' face. First it was Dr Jegathesan & later Karuna. Wht a big deal. Even when they are there, they wld not be able to 'help' any Indians, even a office boy job cannot be secured thru their recommendation. Grow up Rafidah, mentally.
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