Muhyiddin to Najib : Don't Mess With my Malay agenda

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Let's try to understand the 64-year-old Muhyiddin and what makes him tick. People can understand each other better amongst their own peer groups, culture and race. For example, students and youths understand their own peers. They can appreciate, envy and emulate each other, yet for motivation, people will always aim high and look beyond their own group.

That is how people should be motivated and in Malaysia's endeavor to be a developed and great nation with high-income levels, the leadership must be able to set a high standard and work towards achieving it. It should never look back, nor should it ever lower the benchmark.

Yet Muhyiddin has displayed a different kind of mentality. His views are not in sync with what one would expect of a true leader at all. During a “buka puasa” (breaking of the Muslim fast) event organized by the Ministry of Information in collaboration with JAKIM and MAIWP, Muhyiddin proudly proclaimed that,”It has been proven that the world looks at Malaysia as a special nation that should be envied.”Dr M admitting he didn't do a good job at all!

Dato’ Tamrin Ghafar, the son of former Deputy Prime Minister Tun Ghafar Baba, will submit his membership form to PAS tonight, sources said, making him the second UMNO veteran to leave the ruling Barisan Nasional’s (BN) mainstay in a month.

Tamrin’s defection, coming on the heels of senior Sabah UMNO leader Datuk Seri Lajim Ukin’s resignation from his supreme council seat in the Malay party two weeks ago and pledging support to Pakartan Rakyat (PR), is seen as coup for the opposition in the run-up to the 13th general election due soon.

“Tamrin will hand over his membership form to PAS Deputy President, Mohamad Sabu. “Even before this, he has always been giving speeches with Abang Mat everywhere,” a PAS official who asked not to be named told The Malaysian Insider. He was referring to Mohamad, popularly known as Mat Sabu.

Tamrin was Batu Berendam MP in Malacca for nearly a decade, from 1986 to 1995. The constituency has been renamed Bukit Katil.

His father, the late Tun Ghafar, had been an UMNO strongman since the days of the Malaysia’s founding father and first Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj. Ghafar had once been Malacca chief minister in the early days of the country’s independence.

But Tamrin, the second of Ghafar’s 11 children, has been batting for the PR pact in the last few years, alleging that UMNO has deviated from its original struggle under Prime Minister and Party President Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s leadership.

“UMNO has run away from original fight to prioritise the people.Under Najib, UMNO no longer defends the people but has taken away their rights,” he had previously said while on the stump with PR leaders in Kuala Lumpur.

For his open criticism of UMNO, Tamrin was given a show-cause letter by the party’s disciplinary board on July 26. PAS has been actively courting and winning over several former pro-establishment figures and top local artistes popular with the Malay community in recent days, in a bid to burnish its progressive Islamist credentials ahead of key polls that must be called by next April.

Malaysia’s longest-serving Prime Minister, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, had recently warned Najib against further estranging members of the ruling coalition, saying any defections could “result in BN losing the next election.”

Indirectly Mahathir is admitting that his 22-year rule has not done much at all in making Malaysia a developed nation. His critics say this is because whatever he put in with his right hand, he took out more than triple with his left hand.

It is obvious Mahathir has long ago bid goodbye to Vision 2020 - if ever he was serious about it at all. Many pundits say Vision 2020 that aimed for a Bangsa Malaysia without racial lines was just his way of appeasing the people after they nearly threw him out of office for sacking and jailing his deputy Anwar Ibrahim on trumped-up sodomy charges.

So if someone as racist as Mahathir can rule Malaysia for 22 years and get away with it by planting one excuse after another, why not Muhuyiddin who has already shown similar signs of using racial politics to become popular with his 'Malay first, Malaysian next' statement.

By the way Mahathir may be right in comparing Malaysia with Africa. Yes, the Southeast Asian nation is not yet like any of the poorer African countries but with the present trend of leadership and the unabated greed and corruption of its leaders, it can easily be. Especially if UMNO-BN continues to rule after GE-13, Greek and Africa-like crises may be Malaysia's to experience next.

Now, there is nothing wrong with his statement but when he explained that his conclusion is based on the comments by visitors from Palestine, Somalia and Afghanistan, it is laughable and his naivete becomes the joke. With such low satisfaction levels signifying commensurately low IQ, Muhyiddin looks set to become the next disaster from UMNO if it wins GE-13 and he is selected to be prime minister in place of Najib Razak.

So, while waiting for further orders from Mahathir, who still wields enormous influence, Muhyiddin has been carrying on with his daily activities as if all is fine in UMNO. Some even say Muhyiddin is smiling to himself, under the happy impression that he just has to wait for the big moment to come when he will replace Najib whether UMNO and the BN coalition it leads wins or loses in the GE-13.

In the past, such a prospect would have raised a howl of horror around the UMNO divisions in the country because Muhyiddin too has his own baggage, albeit less heavy and controversial than Najib's. Nonetheless, the fear used to be that if UMNO-BN wins, he would become Prime Minister and that would be a disaster for Malaysia like an earthquake with a reading of 7 on the Richter scale and an epicenter in Putrajaya.

But with Najib's failure to do better and Mahathir proving all his critics right that he is the darkest and most dangerous force in the UMNO-BN blocking a more normal democratic rule in a multiracial Malaysia, Muhyiddin as PM has become less alarming.

It is the classic case of being the lesser of many evils.
Worried Mahathir steps inYet no amount of money can hide the fact that Malay support for UMNO is dwindling and Najib's personal popularity on the slide. The recent Merdeka Center survey shows his approval rating still on the down slide - now at 64% - and BN's at an all-time low of 42% due mainly to erosion of support from the Malays.So worried is Mahathir that Najib will commit another disaster at the 13th general election that the 87-year-old has decided to step in and pull the strings before it is too late. That is how bad the situation is in UMNO. The only weapon Najib has in his hand is the timing of the GE-13 and he is using this to hold the 'warlords' to ransom.

Party insiders say his deputy Muhyiddin Yassin is "simply pretending" not to be challenging Najib at this critical moment because Najib is already under control - Mahathir's!
UMNO  has always felt under siege, but its internal problems could be more damaging than any external threat.The rift is between Mahathir's proxy Muhyiddin and Najib, who believe any compromise with  Muhyiddin  is unacceptable. Zealous

Bersih a new social movement was born demanding an end to corruption, lower inflation and cuts to public services. Almost half a million Voters took to the streets to protest. It was the biggest wave of demonstrations in the country's history.

It appears to be an open secret that Muhyiddin is back-stabbing and trying to undermine Najib at every opportunity in an attempt to rise above the Umno cesspool to become PM. This is not the first time that Muhyiddin has publicly contradicted and thus embarrassed Najib. We all know about his ‘Malay first, Malaysian second' pronouncement soon after the announcement of 1Malaysia.
Most of the issues are self-created by Umno and then MCA or MIC or Gerakan, etc, will appeal to Najib and the PM will say that he is listening to the Chinese through MCA or Indians through MIC.If BN cannot accept what the rakyat demand, then the rakyat must use the vote to change the government.

Imposing laws against freedom of expression is not justified and repulsive. Section 114A will see an end to the ruling government. Voters will know what to do at GE13, vote ABU (Anything But Umno). The ISA was never meant to silence critics and opposition to government but it was, nevertheless, used and abused.

So please spare us the crap that the government needs Section 114A to combat terrorism and cybercrime in view of the repeal of the ISA and other preventive detention laws.

I guarantee you that Umno-BN will support a revisit of the Evidence Act if they lose the next general election.


Take note: ‘114' in Cantonese dialect means ‘tiap tiap hari mati' (die every day). BN beware.

So, there people must therefore vote for them to ensure that their respective interests are protected by someone who represents them in the government and not take it up to the opposition, which cannot do anything for them.

Perhaps it is poetic justice administered in a roundabout way - second PM Abdul Razak stabbed first PM Tunku Abdul Rahman, and now Muhyiddin does it to his son.

As part of its political strategy leading up to the general election, PKR should highlight Muhyiddin's frequent contradictions and the constant embarrassment he causes Najib.

Then we sit back and see how they defend each other and pretend that everything is okay between them.We should be reminded of the fact that the 'critics' who the cabinet claims had misinterpreted the law and took it out of context include experts who are highly familiar and experienced in law.
 How the law is not meant to be used and how it can be abused because the wordings says so, are two very different things.

It's like how the ISA and the Emergency Ordinance were never meant to detain political opponents but terrorists. It is the latter that we are concerned about and it is not reading anything out of context. It is in plain English and we can read

These law experts brief the courts on the interpretations of the law. As such, if the critics had misinterpreted the law, then the judiciary is also capable of misinterpreting the law.

Further, the cabinet justifies the need for Section 114A to combat terrorism and cybercrime in view of the repeal of the ISA (Internal Security Act) and other preventive detention laws.

In other words, it admits that it had only dropped the form of these laws and has actually supplanted it in substance with the amendment to the Evidence Act, something which the public had all the time suspected.

DPM Muhyiddin Yassin, who has openly defied PM Najib Razak on certain issues, is at it again. Is Najib going to return to Malaysia as a PM or going to be forced to toe the line Muhyiddin draws? Is a coup d'etat imminent? Either way, BN is doomed.

What sort of choice do UMNO delegates have in their leadership lineup? That there is a dearth of talent in UMNO is well-known with even former premier and party president Mahathir Mohamad admitting as much.

This talent vacuum will be UMNO's deathblow - not the Chinese, Indians, Kadazans, Dusun, Murut, the Dayaks or Ibans. Not even the Christians or Israel can be blamed. It is fair and square UMNO's own fault including Mahathir's for being selfish and wishing to keep the spoils of the game 'all within the family'.Young Malay leaders such as PKR's Nurul Izaah, Rafizi Ramli, PAS' Dzulkefly Ahmad, Khalid Samad or DAP's Zairil Khir Johari would never dream of touching UMNO with a 10-foot pole, so bad is its brand name. UMNO has simply become synonymous with corruption, racism, sex and gutter policing - you name it, the party has been caught doing it.

For UMNO leaders, the name of the game is not how to serve Malaysia but how to make money from Malaysia. For example, current party president Prime Minister Najib Razak carries a back-breaking amount of 'baggage', literally dragging UMNO down with his personal scandals and inability to make decisions.

Yet UMNO grins and puts up with it. They even accept Najib's panacea for all the criticism, which is to spend more of taxpayers money on public relations to magnify himself and to deny all negative accusations against his administration and party. As if the people have no minds of their own!