NEP no longer works, says Nazir Razak

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MP SPEAKS | Two days ago, at the launch of the Impian Theatre, I quoted a recent Facebook post by photographer Yusuf Hashim when congratulating Lee Zii Jia for winning the Men's Singles title in the All England Open Badminton Championships, and said:

“The moment we forsake meritocracy over a long period, a nation will be doomed. For a short temporary period, in order to address a specific imbalance, setting meritocracy aside is probably tolerable and manageable.

“If it is practiced over an extended period, it could mutate into a dangerous norm, with terrible and irreparable long-term consequences for the nation.”

Recently, there has been a lot of talk of "Malays unite" and "Muslims unite", which is antithetical to the Malaysian Dream to be a world-class great nation.

If the Malaysian Dream is to be realised, it must be a great Malaysian nation, not a great Malay nation, a great Chinese nation, or a great Indian nation.

The 32 million Malaysians of diverse races, languages, religions, and cultures cannot build a great Malay nation, a great Chinese nation, or a great Indian nation for that will be a formula for great divisiveness and discord in Malaysia – but we can together build a great Malaysian nation.

In fact, as the confluence of four great civilisations in the world – Malay/Islamic, Chinese, Indian, and Western – we are well poised to be a successful example of an alliance of civilisations and not an example of a clash of civilisations. Malaysia should leverage the best values and virtues of the world’s four great civilisations to be “a beacon of light to a difficult and distracted world”.

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