Malays are indebted to Kit Siang, says Anwar

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PETALING JAYA: Malays are indebted to DAP mentor Lim Kit Siang for educating the masses on their rights in the country, says Anwar Ibrahim.

The opposition leader said Lim had spoken out not only about politics and the country but also on racial sensitivities and racial perceptions.

Lim was different from “certain Malay leaders” who had openly criticised the community, he said.

“Some called the Malays lazy, of depending on subsidies, of not being grateful and easily forgetting (about the government’s contributions to them). However, Lim said the opposite, that Malays do work hard and there are no lazy natives,” Anwar said in a tribute to the DAP veteran who has announced his retirement from active politics.

Acknowledging Lim’s contribution to Malaysian politics, Anwar said no amount of titles such as “Datukship, Tan Sri-ship and Tunship” could ever match his accomplishments.

“And as a Malaysian and as a Malay, we are indebted to you, Kit Siang, for educating the masses on their rights in this country,” he said.

Anwar praised Lim for his integrity and his will to remain consistent and never concede, and never having compromised on his values and principles.

“In politics, we need this integrity, courage and tenacity. Lim embodies these qualities. Malaysians will remain proud of you,” he said.

Lim, who is 81, announced last week that he was quitting politics and withdrawing from elections for a seat in the party’s central executive committee. However, he was later named DAP mentor by the central committee.

Source: FMT

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Anwar torches the myth of Kit Siang’s Malay phobia

From Terence Netto

Just as victory has a thousand fathers and defeat is an orphan, lies have a myriad of manufacturers while truth is a waif.

Is DAP’s just-retired leader Lim Kit Siang a Malay-phobe? His critics have not been able to produce a shred of evidence of this. But a lack of evidence hasn’t stopped his detractors from keeping up, over the years, their tirades that he is anti-Malay, anti-Islam and anti-royal.

Never mind if this barrage was sustained by detractors from the nether regions of the political spectrum.

But when vitriol is spewed by people who are from the upper crust of society, it’s a troubling reminder that democratic freedoms are not an unalloyed good.

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