{"id":5758,"date":"2011-05-07T16:51:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T08:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/index.php\/2011\/05\/interlok-why-are-umno-and-ministers-silent-2\/"},"modified":"2011-05-07T16:51:45","modified_gmt":"2011-05-07T08:51:45","slug":"interlok-why-are-umno-and-ministers-silent-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/interlok-why-are-umno-and-ministers-silent-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Interlok: \u2018Why are Umno and Ministers silent?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"image-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freemalaysiatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bandar-kuala-lumpur1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28796\" src=\"https:\/\/www.freemalaysiatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bandar-kuala-lumpur1.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"283\" height=\"171\" style=\"float: left;\" \/><\/a><strong>KUALA  LUMPUR<\/strong>: Barisan Nasional politicians are keeping the controversial  Interlok novel issue at an arms\u2019 length, according to National Interlok  Action Team (NIAT).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that a lot of (people) within Umno and many ministers aren\u2019t happy (with Interlok).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(But) BN hasn\u2019t come out with anything. Why are MCA leaders keeping  quiet? Why are MIC leaders keeping quiet?\u201d asked Niat chairman Thasleem  Mohamed Ibrahim Al-Haj.<\/p>\n<p>Expressing dismay to newsmen today, he said neither he nor NIAT were pro-opposition as insinuated by BN leaders.<\/p>\n<p>He said the group was willing to speak to parties from both sides of the political divide on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor goodness sake, if I am a supporter of Opposition, why am I supporting 1Malaysia?\u201d\u00a0 he asked.<\/p>\n<p>Thasleem is particularly disappointed with the BN Back-Bencher\u2019s Club  (BNBBC) in parliament, which appeared to postpone meetings to unusable  dates.<br \/> <span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong><br \/> \u2018Islamic values sidestepped\u2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A letter by BNBBC secretary Ismail Haji Abdul Muttalib to Thalseem  revealed that an initial March 30 meeting this year had been postponed  to April 6,\u00a0 which was\u00a0 the Sarawak election nomination date.<\/p>\n<p>In his letter to Thasleem, Ismail wrote that the meeting had to be  postponed to an unmentioned future date, as many BN MPs had left for  East Malaysia at the time.<a class=\"image-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freemalaysiatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dokumen.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-28797\" src=\"https:\/\/www.freemalaysiatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/dokumen.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" style=\"float: right;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thasleem, in his revert to Ismail,\u00a0 expressed his unhappiness with the ambiguity of the later\u2019s letter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou yourself said that many Peninsular MPs would be present (at the  meeting). As a Muslim, I feel sad that Islamic values have been  sidestepped to gain political advantage,\u201d Thasleem wrote.<\/p>\n<p>NIAT later revealed that a request to meet with Umno Youth over the issue had been turned down as it was \u201cInterlok-related\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Taking a swipe at Umno Youth Chief Khairy Jamaluddin, Thasleem said  :\u00a0 \u201cHe\u2019s an Oxford graduate\u2026 but has no guts to raise this issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thasleem also questioned why only the Deputy Prime Minister-cum  Education Minister Muhyiddin Yassin had an opinion on the matter. FMT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR: Barisan Nasional politicians are keeping the controversial Interlok novel issue at an arms\u2019 length, according to National Interlok Action Team (NIAT). \u201cWe know that a lot of (people) within Umno and many ministers aren\u2019t happy (with Interlok).\u201d \u201c(But) BN hasn\u2019t come out with anything. Why are MCA leaders keeping quiet? Why are MIC [&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\/5758"}],"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=5758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}