Who does MCA and MIC represent?

Takaful has done it. The Perak Government has done it. Yet the Government ignores it.

Well, although technically what Takaful and the Perak Government has done is not the same thing, it is similar.

Firstly, Takaful says, you cannot wish the Hindus Happy Deepavali/Pooja because the festival is one of worshipping their Gods, therefore by uttering "SELAMAT DEEPAVALI!" you have committed a sin worthy of condemnation in Islam. However, Takaful has explained that this was not meant for the public. It was an internal mail which only sets out the "OPINION" of the Syariah Department of Takaful to their Muslim employees. So,in their words, there is nothing wrong with it. Creating an ethnic divide?THEM? NEVER! Takaful is for ALL MALAYSIANS! Of course the Government has been silent on this. The fact that all school children HAVE to subscribe to Takaful while they are in school is of no importance eventhough there is the possibility that the rights of the Muslims under Takaful will supercede other races. If their Syariah Department has such a narrow interpretation of Islam, who knows how the rest of the company interprets everything else? And why is it that Takaful is compulsory for all school children? Why is Takaful so special?

As for the Perak Government, there is a circular that says you can only order stationery from Bumiputra companies. What is the justification on that? CAN it be justified at all? Are Bumiputra companies' products superior to other races?(Actually all companies must have 30% Bumi equity, so what is the difference?) What is the Government's take on this? The silence of the Government is deafening. Obviously if it were the other way round, say a circular has been issued that all uniforms for government servants MUST be obtained from Non Bumi companies, all hell would have broke loose. OH!RACIAL TENSIONS!MARGINALISING THE MALAYS!ETHNIC DIVIDE! But if the circular is for the Bumiputras...biasalah. The Bumiputra's are struggling you know? It must be like that. Give the Malays a chance lah!

I watched the PM on CNN the other day and the fact that he said "Our country is for everybody" and that the Chinese are doing very well, given opportunities and deprived of nothing is laughable. Those statements were definitely not the view of the minorities here in Malaysia. What about the Indians? Lim Kit Siang has summed it up effectively- "The Malays feel they do not have enough, the Chinese feel they are sacrificing too much and the Indians have nothing."

Statistics reflect the Malays have MORE than enough. Facts and figures show that the Chinese ARE sacrificing too much and the Indians truly have been the race which has always been marginalised. Have you seen Tamil schools? The state that they are in is heart wrenching and yet spanking new schools are built every other day and no money is channeled to the existing Tamil schools to improve them. It is disheartening to know our MCA and MIC members are deaf to the plights of their people. That only the Opposition are standing up for their rights and ours too. MCA and MIC have forgotten whom they are supposed to represent. Perhaps the "NATIONAL UNITY" banner has blinded them. Perhaps the comforts of privilege and money has maimed them. Who Knows?

At least now I have an idea where I will place my cross come election time.