KU LI and Bid for UMNO Leadership What was personally more surprising to me was the news that Tengku Razaleigh has now raised the issue whether the DAP will now dominate the Malaysian political landscape with the establishment of the two new Malay parties – Amanah and PPBM. Surprising is too mild a word. “Shocking and disgusting” is the better description to give especially since these comments were made to a Malay daily, Sinar Harian, and clearly targeted at a Malay audience. Personally, I am terribly disappointed and, yes also “disgusted”.
I have for a long time been an admirer of Ku Li and have written on several occasions during the past few years on his leadership qualities, his political principles and his decency and good sense. I have argued that these qualities are the ones needed at the helm of the nation to guide us through this difficult time of racial and religious extremism, and unquenched opportunism and power craze. To help him get his message across, I invited him to provide the forward to my book ‘Road Map for achieving Vision 2020’ as well as had him as the keynote speaker at the book launch.
Now given his latest comments, I am wondering if I need to eat my words. I am not the only one. Many readers in the English language internet have written in even more harsh terms about how upset they are. Perhaps Ku Li was misquoted or the news report did not reflect clearly what he actually said. But if the report is accurate, what it shows is that Ku Li is no different from other UMNO politicians in playing racial politics through demonizing the DAP and the Chinese. Not long ago Ku li wrote about 10 Golden Political Principles for the country which I helped to disseminate widely through my writings. Among them were these two:
1. It shall be the duty of all parties to ensure that all political dialogues and statements will not create racial or religious animosity. 2. All parties undertake not to use racial and communal agitation as political policies.
It is clear that rather than live up to these principles, he has abandoned them at the slightest opportunity of building up Malay support for his ambitions of leading UMNO and the country. It is also clear that Ku Li has no moral qualms about fanning Malay insecurities of loss of power even though there is absolutely no basis to it. How many seats after all can the DAP win at most in the coming election?
We can assume that Ku Li can count as well as analyse. He must know that there is no way a Chinese party can ever establish political dominance in the country. Not even if there is no electoral gerrymandering. Chinese or DAP political dominance can never happen - not in his lifetime, not even in the lifetime of young Malaysians. Everyone knows this so the question to ask is: why is Ku Li trying to frighten the Malays?
Everyone also knows that Ku Li's life long ambition is to be the Prime Minister of the country. This explains why he has consistently refused to leave UMNO. But he should also realize that he has virtually no chance of becoming the replacement Prime Minister, should the present one, Najib Razak, vacate his position voluntarily or involuntarily. So why is he still trying so hard to get into the good books of UMNO members is a puzzle to me.
Finally, he is doing an injustice to all the young Malay DAP leaders and supporters by his opportunistic and patently dishonest and deceitful claim of the possible loss of Malay political dominance. I am sure all right thinking and fair minded Malaysians will join me in demanding a retraction or minimally a clarification from Ku Li on his comments to Sinar Harian.
Should he fail to do so, we can cross him off the list of decent and honorable politicians. And his list of golden political principles can be seen to be just opportunistic empty tin political principles.
KU李和申办巫统领袖
什么是个人更令人惊讶的对我来说是东姑拉沙里已经提出了这个问题的DAP是否现在主导,成立了两个新的马来人政党的马来西亚的政治风景新闻 - Amanah和PPBM。
令人惊讶的是过于温和的词。 “令人震惊和恶心”是更好的描述给予特别是因为这些评论是一个马来人每天,金光Harian作出,并明确定位于一个马来人的观众。
就个人而言,我非常失望,是的也是“反感”。
我已经很长一段时间一直是古李的崇拜者,并在他的领袖气质,他的政治原则和他的正派和良好的意识在过去的几年中已经写了好几次。我一直认为,这些素质是在全国的掌舵人来引导我们的种族和宗教极端主义和机会主义淬灭和权力的狂热这段困难时期需要的人。
为了帮助他得到他的讯息,我邀请他提供着我的书“路线图对实现2020年远景规划”,以及让他的新书发布会的主讲嘉宾。
现在给他的最新评论,我想知道如果我需要吃我的话。我不是唯一的一个。在英文互联网许多读者来信中甚至对他们是多么懊恼更苛刻的条件。
也许谷李被错误引用或新闻报道并没有明确地反映了他居然说。但是,如果报告是准确的,它展现的是古黎与其他巫统政客通过妖魔化DAP和中国打种族政治没有什么不同。
前不久古里写了一篇关于10金政治原则的国家,我帮助过我的著作广为传播。其中有两个:
1.它应是各方的责任,以确保所有的政治对话和报表不会产生种族或宗教仇恨。
2.所有缔约国承诺不使用种族和公共鼓动政治策略。
很明显,而不是辜负了这些原则,他一直在建立他的领导巫统和国野心马来人的支持丝毫的机会,抛弃了他们。
它同样清楚的是古黎大约有煽动力损失量的马来不安全感没有道德疑虑,即使是绝对没有根据的。有多少个座位毕竟最多能在未来的选举中获胜DAP?
我们可以假设,辜李可以指望以及分析。他必须知道,有没有办法一个中国一方都不能在该国建立政治主导地位。甚至如果没有选举的选区划分不公。中国或DAP政治支配地位可能永远不会发生 - 不是在他的一生,甚至没有在年轻的马来西亚人的寿命。
每个人都知道这所以要问的问题是:为什么古李试图吓唬马来人?
大家也知道,古李的长寿命的目标是成为首相的国家。这就解释了为什么他一直拒绝离开巫统。
但他也应该意识到,他几乎没有成为更换首相,应该眼前人,纳吉,自愿或不自愿让给他的位置的机会。那么为什么他还是非常努力地试图进入巫统成员的好书是一个谜给我。
最后,他是马来人政治主导权的可能损失的机会他显然和不诚实,欺诈索赔做不公正,所有的年轻马来民主行动党领袖和支持者。
我相信所有正确的思维和持平的马来西亚人会跟我在他的评论是金光Harian苛刻距离Ku李回缩或最小澄清。
如果他不这样做,我们可以跨越送行体面和尊敬的政治家的名单。而他的金色的政治原则名单可以看出,只是机会主义空罐政治原则。
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