Isn´t it sad to see how power. fame and money gets into your head after so many years of ruling?
I found this article, from Marina Mahathir - daughter of the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dr Mahathir. It is an interesting article for reading. Hopefully, the people ruling and governing Malaysia will come to their utmost senses.
You think everyone is that heartless and braineless like you guys? We, especially those abroad, wouldn´t want to see Malaysia getting "bombed" like how Mahathir and the other authorities nuts are saying to the public media..... you think we, those living abroad or migrated, are family"less"? you think we don´t have parents and family members or parents back home in Malaysia while we make a new home in a new land?
Think people think..... you are chosen as a government to rule and govern the country, not make funky assumptions just because you are losing the faith and trust of your countrymen. If that happened, losing the faith and trust of your countrymen, you should look at yourselves as a government and ask why instead of accusing us, the citizens, of overthrowing and acting like Middle East people.
Marina Mahathir, daughter of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, has launched a stinging attack on UMNO leaders
By MK - Tue May 08, 4:41 pm
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May 8: Marina Mahathir, daughter of
former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad, has launched a stinging
attack on UMNO leaders who accused participants of the Bersih 3.0 rally
last month of wanting to topple the government through street protests.
“What is this obsession with us not
being Egypt anyway? If we’re not, then why worry? Besides, who needs to
worry about the Arab Spring unless they identify themselves with Ben
Ali, Mubarak, Gadaffi and Assad?” she wrote in a blog posting, referring
to the Arab dictators.
UMNO leaders, including her father, had
earlier said that Bersih protesters were imitating the people’s uprising
in the Middle East, collectively known as the ‘Arab Spring’, and wanted
to replace the current government through street protests and foreign
interference.
Marina (pic), who also joined the Bersih
3.0 rally on April 28, defended the right to peaceful assembly and said
there was nothing wrong when the Egyptian people assembled at Tahrir
Square to press for democratic reforms.
“They want a greater say in the policies
of the government. They want an end to corruption. They want proper
elections with many candidates to choose from, not just those handpicked
by the rulers. They want an end to military interference in politics,”
she wrote.
“Aren’t these reasonable? But our
government will not acknowledge that these demands are quite normal.
Well maybe they’re not in an undemocratic country.”
Marina also took to task those who argued that Malaysians need not protest as their country was “not Egypt.
“If Malaysia is not Egypt and our
leaders are not Mubarak, then why are Malaysians who went to Bersih
treated like Egyptian protestors?” she asked.
“If anyone had gone down to Dataran on
the Sunday after Bersih 3.0, apart from the barbed wire, everything was
back to normal… Made our point, now let’s go eat. This is why we are not
Egypt. In this we agree with our government. We are NOT Egypt. But then
why respond in such Mubarak-like fashion?”
On the recent declaration by the
National Fatwa Council that demonstrating against the government was
forbidden in Islam, Marina reminded of a similar ruling made by Egypt’s
Al-Azhar University Fatwa Committee in the days leading to Mubarak’s
resignation on February 11, 2011.
“So getting the NFC ( hmmm…dubious
initials…) to issue such a fatwa seems very Mubarak-like, doesn’t it?”
she quipped. Harakahdaily.
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