01-24-2024, 10:16 AM
Is Tun M a Malay or a Mamak?
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BY VIRTUE of his grandfather Iskandar Kutty being an Indian who married a Malay, is twice former premier Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad genetically a Mamak or a Malay?
This question would not have arisen had the nonagenarian not raised the question about the loyalty of the Chinese and Indians in Malaysia whose ancestral roots may go even more than Dr Mahathir’s two generations back.
The Peranakan Chinese, for example, have even deeper roots going back to the Malaccan sultanate.
The question about Dr Mahathir’s identity card is a matter of the court between him and UMNO president Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi which will not be discussed in this article.
However, it must be stated that his seditious remarks made recently has mainly hurt the feelings of the Indian community.
His frequent punching bag
The Malaysian Chinese community have generally tolerated his babbling long enough over the past few decades. Instigating the Malays to label the DAP as “communists”, the former Langkawi MP has often used the Chinese as his punching bag whenever he tried to garner the support of the Malays.
Therefore, what he is saying now about the Indians and Chinese being disloyal to the country hardly disturbs the latter because it is already a well-acknowledged fact that the nonagenarian’s unfettered tongue spews toxic speeches.
Many leaders in the past, including the country’s statesman and Bapa Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman had warned UMNO against Dr Mahathir himself.
Much of what we know today about the political – rather than racial clashes in the May 13 incident – can be traced back to the poison letter written by Dr Mahathir himself. This instigated the Malays against the Tunku.
He should have been charged for sedition as his poison letter led to political clashes between the winners and losers of the third general election in 1969.
While there was fighting in the major cities, the entire country was still enjoying the peace and harmony. Malays and Chinese, for example, were looking out for each other.
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This question would not have arisen had the nonagenarian not raised the question about the loyalty of the Chinese and Indians in Malaysia whose ancestral roots may go even more than Dr Mahathir’s two generations back.
The Peranakan Chinese, for example, have even deeper roots going back to the Malaccan sultanate.
The question about Dr Mahathir’s identity card is a matter of the court between him and UMNO president Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi which will not be discussed in this article.
However, it must be stated that his seditious remarks made recently has mainly hurt the feelings of the Indian community.
His frequent punching bag
The Malaysian Chinese community have generally tolerated his babbling long enough over the past few decades. Instigating the Malays to label the DAP as “communists”, the former Langkawi MP has often used the Chinese as his punching bag whenever he tried to garner the support of the Malays.
Therefore, what he is saying now about the Indians and Chinese being disloyal to the country hardly disturbs the latter because it is already a well-acknowledged fact that the nonagenarian’s unfettered tongue spews toxic speeches.
Many leaders in the past, including the country’s statesman and Bapa Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman had warned UMNO against Dr Mahathir himself.
Much of what we know today about the political – rather than racial clashes in the May 13 incident – can be traced back to the poison letter written by Dr Mahathir himself. This instigated the Malays against the Tunku.
He should have been charged for sedition as his poison letter led to political clashes between the winners and losers of the third general election in 1969.
While there was fighting in the major cities, the entire country was still enjoying the peace and harmony. Malays and Chinese, for example, were looking out for each other.
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