{"id":1551,"date":"2009-12-16T17:55:32","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T09:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/index.php\/2009\/12\/nazri-tells-utusan-to-stop-racist-agenda\/"},"modified":"2009-12-16T17:55:32","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T09:55:32","slug":"nazri-tells-utusan-to-stop-racist-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/nazri-tells-utusan-to-stop-racist-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Nazri tells Utusan to stop racist agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Asrul Hadi Abdullah Sani<\/em><\/p>\n

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Enough with the racism, says Nazri. \u2014 file pic<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 16 \u2014 Umno maverick Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz has continued to condemn Utusan Malaysia for its \u201coutdated\u201d racist propaganda, saying the Umno-owned newspaper must accept that Malaysia is a multi-racial country. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey should stop it because how would we (the Malays) like it if people say that Malays are lazy and stupid? We would also get angry. Don\u2019t do to others what we don\u2019t want others to do unto us,\u201d the Minister in the Prime Minister\u2019s Department told The Malaysian Insider.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Umno supreme council member had earlier castigated the Malay daily for defending the controversial National Civics Bureau, or Biro Tata Negara (BTN), for its courses which he said were racist. The opposition has also claimed that BTN propagated political indoctrination.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd more so now, under the prime minister (Datuk Seri Najib Razak) and 1 Malaysia, we must accept that Malaysia is a multi-racial country,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Utusan has been a mouthpiece for Umno ultra-nationalists and a tool for defending the party\u2019s \u201cKetuanan Melayu\u201d (Malay supremacy) policy.<\/p>\n

The newspaper has also been criticised for being used to attack the opposition and ratcheting up racial tensions.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have reiterated that we must learn from Nicole David and other athletes. It is not acceptable to be a racist in 2010. It does not matter if we keep saying that we are not racist if our actions show otherwise. Enough with racism already.<\/p>\n

\u201c50 years after Independence, where are we headed to? Are we still going to deny that the Chinese and Indian community have any right to stay in this country? I think it is outdated,\u201d Nazri added.<\/p>\n

The Umno-owned newspaper was responsible for running daily stories criticising calls to allow former communist leader Chin Peng to return to Malaysia, linking it to what the newspaper says are moves to question Malay rights.<\/p>\n

The paper also suggested that DAP was anti-Islam and said Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim was willing to betray the Malays to be prime minister \u2014 both incendiary subjects in mainly Malay-Muslim Malaysia.<\/p>\n

Its articles have labelled the Chinese community as \u201cpendatang\u201d (immigrants) and the Indian community as \u201ckeling\u201d.<\/p>\n

Nazri added that Malaysians can longer accept categorising minorities with derogatory names.<\/p>\n

\u201cMalaysians, including the Malays, can no longer accept calling Chinese as immigrants and Indians with derogatory terms like \u2018keling\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that if we want to act on a few that question Malay rights, then we should attack them only but not the whole community. If there are one or two individual Chinese or Indians that question Malay rights then we attack them only. We should not label the whole community as anti-Malay.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs an elected representative, I know that that all the races are enjoying good relationships, so we should not take one or two bad examples as a basis to attack the whole community. I cannot agree with that. I am very much against racism. I hate racism,\u201d he explained.-MalaysianInsider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Asrul Hadi Abdullah Sani Enough with the racism, says Nazri. \u2014 file pic KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 16 \u2014 Umno maverick Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz has continued to condemn Utusan Malaysia for its \u201coutdated\u201d racist propaganda, saying the Umno-owned newspaper must accept that Malaysia is a multi-racial country. \u201cThey should stop it because how would […]<\/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\/1551"}],"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=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}