Malaysian Mahathir attacks Anwar, ‘immigrant’ non-Malay political parties: ‘they’re those who don’t love us’

“Pakatan Harapan is led by a person who tells us that this country does not only belong to the Malays, but also belongs to others,” Mahathir said.

“I want to give this country to foreigners. I cannot accept this because we are the ones who investigated and opened it [Malaysian] peninsula.”

Mahathir said the reluctance of non-Malays to assimilate into Malay culture, including by forming their very own political parties, contributes to the country’s racial problems.

“But in Malaysia these are immigrants they live here and receive citizenship of this country, but they still distance themselves… They even establish their own parties in politics. That’s why there are still racial problems in this country. It’s not that we don’t like them, but they don’t like us,” he said.

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R. Ramanan, Member of Parliament for Sungai Buloh constituency in Selangor and chairman of the special committee of the Malaysian India Transformation Unit under the Ministry of National Unity, said Mahathir, as an experienced politician, should take on the role of uniting Malaysians instead of creating divisions.

The two-time prime minister should “stop his constant inflammatory statements that add no value to national unity,” said Ramanan, who is also deputy information chief of Anwar’s centrist, multiracial People’s Justice Party.

Unlike private schools, vernacular schools funded by the federal government have existed as part of the national school system since Malaysia’s independence, Ramanan said.

“For example, there are over 100,000 Malays, Indians and others studying in Chinese primary schools bumiputra (sons of the soil) and like Indian primary schools play an important role in nation building,” he said.

“I invite Dr. Mahathir to personally visit these schools and learn about their contributions to national unity in their curricula and curricula.”

Such schools produced top-notch talent and gave Malaysians the chance to amass more language skills by learning Mandarin and Tamil, Ramanan said.

“One of the reasons why Malays and Indians send their children to these national schools for six years of primary education is that they want their children to learn Mandarin or Tamil,” he said, adding that while each languages ​​are marketable and wanted, Malay In these schools, great emphasis can also be placed on the language.

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“It is unlucky that Dr Mahathir has chosen to take a look at every thing from a racial perspective to make sure he’s within the news,” Ramanan said, while questioning whether Mahathir’s grandchildren attended private or international schools or studied in domestic schools .

Ramanan said he was initially very hesitant to reply to Mahathir’s comments on the abolition of vernacular schools, but felt it was mandatory to rebut the opinion to set the record straight.

“It is very unfortunate that Dr Mahathir continues to refer to Malaysians who are not Malays immigrants as we celebrate the 66th anniversary of the founding of the nation,” he said.

“Let me quote the American civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jnr, who said, “we.” [may have] all of us are available different ships, but now we’re in the identical boat”… This is the destiny of all Malaysians, no matter our race and religion.”