{"id":1483,"date":"2009-12-09T03:38:37","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T19:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/index.php\/2009\/12\/dr-m-challenges-nazri-to-quit-racist-umno\/"},"modified":"2009-12-09T03:38:37","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T19:38:37","slug":"dr-m-challenges-nazri-to-quit-racist-umno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/dr-m-challenges-nazri-to-quit-racist-umno\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr M challenges Nazri to quit \u2018racist\u2019 Umno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"caption\" src=\"https:\/\/media.themalaysianinsider.com\/images\/stories\/2009June1\/006_drm.jpg\" border=\"0\" title=\"\u201cUmno is racist, only for Malays,\u201d says Mahathir. \u2014 file pic\" width=\"330\" height=\"221\" \/><em>By Neville Spykerman <\/em><\/p>\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 8 \u2014 Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today hit back at Datuk Seri Nazri Abdul Aziz for calling him a racist and urged the minister to instead quit Umno because it was indeed a racist party.<\/p>\n<p>The former premier and the Minister in the Prime Minister\u2019s Department have been at loggerheads over the need to revamp the National Civics Bureau (BTN), which critics charge with cultivating racism instead of its original purpose of nation building.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday Nazri called Dr Mahathir a \u201cbloody racist\u201d for defending BTN courses while reasserting the Cabinet\u2019s earlier decision to overhaul the programme in line with the policy of 1 Malaysia mooted by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNazri says I am a racist, he cannot deny he is not because he knows everything very well,\u201d said Dr Mahathir.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe belongs to a party that is racist because Umno is meant only for Malays, no one else can join. But he is against racism, so he should resign from the party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nazri yesterday said Dr Mathathir\u2019s postings in his blog were also racist and contrary to his own stand when he was the prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen he was prime minister he wanted everyone to support him but now he only talks about the Malays, so I cannot accept his comments,\u201d Nazri had said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Mahathir had defended BTN\u2019s training modules and described them as suitable for instilling patriotism in Malaysians.<\/p>\n<p>BTN came under public scrutiny recently, after Pakatan Rakyat-ruled Selangor prohibited state civil servants and students of higher educational institutions owned by the state from attending its courses, claiming that they were an indoctrination process by the Barisan Nasional government and aimed at brainwashing Malaysians into hate opposition parties.<\/p>\n<p>PR leaders and former participants have also claimed that the courses were racist and emphasised the idea of Malay superiority.-MalaysianInsider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Neville Spykerman KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 8 \u2014 Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today hit back at Datuk Seri Nazri Abdul Aziz for calling him a racist and urged the minister to instead quit Umno because it was indeed a racist party. The former premier and the Minister in the Prime Minister\u2019s Department have been at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"better_featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}