THE CORRIDORS OF POWER - Raja Petra Kamarudin
Anwar may not be Malaysia's political messiah
Helen Ting, April 15, 2008 - see http://www.malaysia-today.net/2008/content/view/6165/84/
Helen is way off in her views. Many believe Anwar is Malaysia's political messiah. He may not be able to radically change policy, specifically on religious issue, but he appears a non-corrupt ethical politician, and his public policy views are more reasomable. He must be given an opportunity to educate Malays and others about unity with diversity. There are many challenges that we have in race relations and DSAI is perhaps best positioned to unite us as Malaysians.
Anyway, democratic governments at some point need to separate Mosque/Church/Temple from State.
Helen said >Yet, rather than considering the merits of the candidates, Anwar simply objected to having a non-Malay as the Chief Minister, citing the need to protect the Malay position politically and economically>
Well why does she not find out if the Malay, Mandarin, Temple and English speaking PAS MB of Perak meets her standards of merit?
See http://www.mysinchew.com/node/8654 and some read as follows;
>Perak Menteri Besar-designate Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin of PAS turned up at the ”What's Coming Next” political forum held in Ipoh Sunday (16 Mar) and immediately stunned the Chinese crowd by speaking in Mandarin, Hokkien, Cantonese, Tamil, then in English and Malay>
I think at some point the MB would be chosen without regard to race or religion.
