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鬼王 发表于 4-2-2010 09:11 AM 
没有读过历史的鸟人讲鸟话。。。
NO HOLDS BARRED
Raja Petra Kamarudin
Who are the traitors here? Are the traitors those who hijrah in search of a better life like what the Prophet Muhammad did? Or
are the traitors those who ignore the patriotic contribution of Malayans from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s?
Malaysians who 'abandon' their country and migrate to another countryare traitors, says an Umno Minister. Is he speaking on
behalf of the Malaysian government, on behalf of Umno, on behalf ofBarisan Nasional, on behalf of the Malay race, or on behalf of the
Muslim ummah (community)?
Malays always scream, rant and rave that Islam comes first andeverything else goes to the bottom of the priority list. Even
the Member of Parliament for Kulim -- someone from what can beconsidered a liberal party, PKR -- says that he puts Islam first and
everythingelse second. So let us assume that Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah, being aMuslim, speaks from the Islamic perspective. I doubt he would
dare declare otherwise.
Islam stipulates that if you suffer persecution, oppression, injustice,and discrimination under a dictatorial regime,
then it is your duty to hijah (migrate). And hijrah is very important to Islam. Hijrah is what the Prophet Muhammad was commanded by God to do.
And the day of the Prophet's hijrah is the day the Muslim calendar begins. That is how important hijrah is to Islam.
Is this Muslim Minister from Umno whacking Prophet Muhammad and calling him a traitor?
Many Malaysians died for their country. The Indians andChinese migrated to British Malaya between the mid-1800s to about 1920
whenthe British started to tighten the immigration policy and no longerbrought in labourers from India and China to work the railway, public
works, plantations and tin mines in Malaya .
But this did not mean that immigration came to a complete stop. TheBritish still brought in Indians to serve in the
civil service andto serve as schoolteachers. This was because the local Malays, at thattime, were not so proficient in the English language
compared to the Indians. So the Indians were required as government servants and teachers.
Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad's father is one example of an English languageteacher from India who came to Malaya and eventually
married a Malay woman, resulting in the birth of Dr Mahathir.
Many Indian and Chinese immigrants married in Malaya , sometimes tofellow Indians and Chinese and sometimes to local Malays
(that iswhy many Malays look more Indian and Chinese compared to theirIndonesian cousins). And understandably they sired children born in
Malaya . And these local born sons and daughters of the immigrants arethose Malaysian Indians and Chinese of today, many who have never
stepped foot in India or China since the day they were born.
Their parents and grandparents (some are third or fourth generationMalaysians while some, like the Melaka Chinese, have been
'locals' since 500 years ago) came to Malaya to serve the country anddied in this country. And some of these 'immigrants' have been in the
country longer than even Malays who are only second or third generation Malaysians.
The question of who came first is an arguable issue.There are Indians and Chinese who have been in Malaysia for hundreds of
yearsand there are Malays who have been in the country less than 100 years.Nevertheless, this article is not to argue about who is more
Bumiputera -- the Malays, Indians or Chinese.
Everyone -- Malays, Indians and Chinese alike -- are sons and daughtersof immigrants. It would be very difficult to dissect
the threedifferent races based on generalising. You would have to look at it ona case-to-case basis. My family came to Malaya in the
mid-1700s. Tian Chua's family came to Malaya much earlier than that. DrMahathir and Khir Toyo are merely second generation Malaysians although
one became the Prime Minister and the other the Chief Minister of a State.
Okay, the purpose of this article is not to argue who ismore Bumiputera as we can argue till the cows come home and will never
reach a consensus. What I want to talk about is who has served this country and, therefore, can be considered a true patriot.
The railway, roads, bridges and buildings, right up tomaybe the 1980s or so (that means for more than 100 years), were built
bythe Indians and Chinese (not the Malays). I still remember even asrecent as the 1970s when Indians would work in the hot sun building the
roads and laying the railway lines. They also worked in the estates andplantations. And the same goes for the tin mines and the construction
industry, which were mainly a Chinese affair.
And many died. There were numerous cases where entire Chinesecommunities were wiped out by disease and war and they had to
bring in fresh loads of Chinese workers from China to replace those whohad died. And the living conditions of these workers were pathetic.
Trustme when I say detention under the Internal Security Act in Kamunting isluxurious compared to what these Indians and Chinese had to
endure.
The Malayan civil service, legal system, education system, and whatnot,depended on the English educated Indians brought in
from India . It was not until the 1920s or so, when the immigrationpolicy was tightened, that the Malays were educated enough to start
fillingthe ranks of the civil service. Even by the time of Merdeka the countrystill depended on the immigrants because there were not enough
educated Malays to serve the country.
And almost all these people died in this country (only some went hometo die) and their Malaysian-born children, grandchildren
and great grandchildren are those Indians and Chinese you see in the country today.
To sum up: this country was built by the non-Malays. What we see today is the result of the contribution by the non-Malays.
Initially,Malaya 's economy depended on rubber and tin, long before we hadfactories and heavy industries. And it was because we had immigrant
Indians and Chinese is why we saw a thriving rubber and tin industry.If not because of rubber and tin, Malaysia would be amongst the poorest
countries in this world.
Then we had three wars - the Second World War, the Malayan Emergency,and the Konfrantasi with Indonesia . And not just
Malayans, but many foreign 'Mat Salleh' (white skins), as well asAfricans, Fijians, Gurkhas, Indians, Punjabis, Bengalis, and many more,
diedin these wars. Of course, Malays died as well. But Malays were not theonly ones who died in these three wars. See the statistics in the
addendum below to get an idea of those who sacrificed their lives for this country.
But is the contribution of these patriots ever remembered? The Malays scream, rant and rave that this is a Malay
country. They declare that this is Tanah Melayu (Malay land). But wemight not even have a country, at least not in the form that we see it
now,if not for the fact that many not of Malay origin laid down their livesfor this country. If the non-Malays, including the 'Mat Salleh',
had not died for this country, Malaysia would no longer be an independent nation but just a small province of Indonesia .
When Malays talk about dying for your country, they just look at thethree wars. But the death toll for these wars does not even
come close to the death toll of those who died serving this country inother ways. Some died defending the country in wars. But many more died
inthe effort to build this country to what it is today. And many alsodied of mere old age after serving this country their entire life and
then retired here as citizens.
But how do we repay these patriots or children and grandchildren ofpatriots not of Malay origin? We insult them. We
threaten them. Wediscriminate against them. We oppress them. We persecute them. We treatthem as second-class citizens. We refuse to
recognise the patriotic contribution of their parents, grandparents orgreat grandparents in defending this country and in building this
country to what it is today.
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