Thursday, March 24, 2011

'Pariah' dropped from Interlok, says Muhyiddin

The word 'pariah' has been dropped from the secondary school Malay literature textbook 'Interlok', Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said.

He said the word, which sparked a firestorm of protests from the Indian community, is among several references deemed offensive to Indians which have been omitted from the version used in schools.

Muhyiddin said the independent panel set up to study the novel, which included three Indian representatives, have unanimously agreed to replace the word pariah with "golongan yang sama" (the same group).

"With the agreement that was reached, the (Education) Ministry considers this issue solved," he said during question time in Parliament today.
Muhyiddin, who is also Education Minister, said the panel had also gone through a total of 106 amendment proposals to the school version of the novel, presented by the Indian representatives on the panel to the government.

The list however was whittled down to 19 issues that the panel deemed related to the sensitivities of the Indian community.

Of the 19 issues, three were considered solved with the omission of the word 'pariah' from the novel, while the panel ruled that three other issues - the fact that Hindus revere the cow as a holy animal, the safety of Maniam's wife in India and the description of an Indian wedding as tedious - did not touch on Indian sensitivities.

Seven other issues were marked with errata for editing or omission while six more issues raised were solved by changing the word 'tuhan' with 'dewa' and by dropping the phrase 'orang berkulit hitam' (blacked skinned people) from the novel.

“The ministry will include a glossary to explain various phrases and concepts in the novel Interlok, to help students understand the text and context of the novel that presents a harmonious life in our country's multi-racial society,” Muhyiddin said.

'What Indian representatives?'

M Kulasegaran (DAP-Ipoh Barat), however, stood to interject mid-way into the Deputy Prime Minister's answer, accusing the latter of being an agent provocateur for even allowing the controversial book to be used as a school reference.

Launching into a nearly 20-minute tirade, Kulasegaran charged that Muhyiddin was giving in to “racist NGOs” such as Gapena in defending the use of 'Interlok' as a school reference, while also denying that the three Indian representatives were part of the panel.

Kulasegaran's interjection sparked a prolonged war of words between backbenchers and opposition members, even testing the patience of the usually calm deputy speaker Ronald Kiandee - who for the first time hammered the mallet to call for order.

Later, at a press conference in the Parliament lobby, Kulasegaran repeated that it is not true that the three Indian representatives were even on the panel, maintaining the claim that they had quit the panel over its rejection of some 100 recommendations on the book.
He said one of the Indian representatives who withdrew, Uthaya Sankar SB, again confirmed that they quit the panel during a forum on Interlok held at the KL and Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall last night.

“What is shocking is that MIC agreed (with the panel). MIC is a double-headed snake, as they can tell the Tamil newspapers that they are against it but tell the government that they support.

“It is astonishing and I am flabbergasted by the whole thing. It shows something is very wrong in this country,” he said.

Kulasegaran stressed that the government needs to come up with a consistent education policy and not allow controversial books such as 'Interlok' to be used as school references.

“If they can use 'Interlok', then why not use 'Shit'? They banned that book, but what is the difference? The Deputy Prime Minister is trying to justify the little napoleons in his ministry who made the decision to use the book,” he said, making a reference to the banned political satire book written by Shahnon Ahmad.

HOW WE GOING TO UNITE .... INDIANS AS ONE COMMUNITY UNDER HINDRAF


By, Johnson Doss

My brother Sara Be My asked just now ( HOW WE ARE GOING TO UNITE) ,,,, so i would like to suggest the followings for our brothers and sisters to read and see how can we do it to create oneness among Indian's.

Indian's are always symbolized with the crab story ,,,, well how far that is true ..no one knows .... but it has been proven that's the case in most places whether it is in our home, business or with out friends and community.

Unity means oneness in thought, feelings, caring, love and sacrifice .... and much more ... Unity can be achieved even-tho it takes a lot of effort, time and sacrifice and it wont be a easy task as it comes from the time we are born and we are fed with the meaning of unity by our parents and their example of self sacrifice. It means we who are working towards unity might not even see it in our life time. That's a fact and reality .... we must accept it ...

1ST AND FOREMOST .... Are we ready to stand to gather, when we are faced with challenges no matter what the issue is all about .... are we able to put our differences and stand to gather when a issue is need to be addressed in public or in private , Are we willing to go to the extend losing our government job or corporate positions when we Indian's are challenged .
Please ask your kind self first these questions before we talk about Unity ,,,as i told u it have many obstacles and challenges and sacrifices before we could even stand united .

ARE WE PREPARED FOR ALL THIS ???????

If we are prepared then to gather we can achieve all that we desire as a community and for the generation of our children in near future. So far, of my observation .... only about 30% or so will dare to stand united ,,,, many will shame away .... Our problem is not new ,,, its have been within us for more then donkey years now. Giving you a example .... THE MAIKA issue ,,,,, when the shares are not been evenly distributed and only a handful took advantage of it ... ( THE MIC leadership made the most of it ) so many poor estate Indian's was cheated ... how would the poor people felt at that moment of time when their Life savings just gone into the think air before them . IF we would stood up for the truth and made pickets like what HINDRAF is doing now with the government ,,,, i am very sure the poor would have got their investment back. We were all minding our own business and our own backyard , not caring for the poor estate Indian's... This includes me ... I was busy talking and shouting about the scam in the mamak shop but whats the use of it .... nothing came out from my shouting ..i was just barking at the mountains ... i tell u today , thinking of that ...make me ashamed of being an Indian for another Indian. My heart burns as i write it down now .... If only i would have a group like this with all of you supporting ...I would dare to fight against the SCAM at that moment . I would also dare to shoot down those culprits if i possess a gun at that moment of time .
TODAY, seeing that even MIC have done that to my fellow poor estate Indians, the UMNO putras have dared to go further. Lets ask ourselves, who gave this UMNO such an opportunity to ridicule and step on our heads . It was us . We would be respected if that day we stand UNITED to fight for poor estate Indian's. They smelled our weakness and they took controlled of it ... NOW we face all this challenges such as Interlok, HINDRAF registration, Tamil schools, temple demolishing, chances for best Indian students and much more to come in future.

To be united ... we have to first prepare ourselves to be the sacrifice lamb. Going In and Out of prison , be battered in a rally , be injured, be prosecuted and jailed. ARE WE PREPARED FOR ALL THIS ??? Ask this questions first please.

I want to get committed Indian's to come forward and lets go all out till our life goes for fighting for INDIAN rights. FIGHTING means dying without violence not killing other people ,,, that's what i meant.

REMEMBER THIS PEOPLE :-

JESUS DIED FOR THE CHRISTIANS
MAHATMA GANDHI DIED FOR INDEPENDENCE OF INDIA
BUDDHA LEFT NAKED FROM THE COURTYARD
NELSON MANDELA SPENT MOST OF HIS LIFE IN PRISON

For Indian's unity to take its kingdom, we have to get all this first .

1) I like to start with a fund for HINDRAF first , if only every working Indian could donate RM2 ringgit per month , then we have money to face many challenges. If we have about 500,000 working Indians then we have a monthly collection of RM1 million. The money will able us to fight against court cases and also bail out many poor Indian's who fought during the rally lately .. Just imagine, how many willing to go and fight for Indian's rights knowing that they will be bailed out soon. Within a year we would have a funds of RM12 million without much fuss and problem. Its just a cup of tea that we are going to sacrifice for a month . Isn't that a piratical type of fundings.

2) We need young professionals ( police officers, lawyers, doctors, human rights personnel, professors, academicians) and university students to be in our team too, with them we could do wonders. Just imagine, when a rally is going on and the we are battered , we have doctors treating our Indian fighters, human rights doing their demands, professors and academicians putting up write ups and TV coverage throughout the world. Indian police officers to could give us input on the issue. THAT'S unity my friends.

3) We need friend get friend registration. If a Hindraf supporters could get his classmate, his mother, father, brothers and sisters and his relatives to support HINDRAF, then we have numbers. Just a scenario for example, for PRU 13, we are advice not to exercise our voting rights ...and HINDRAF Leadership says ... INDIAN's don't vote. What will happen then if the whole Indian's in Malaysia stop voting for PRU13 . Imagine , how all this UMNO putra's will be running and begging us for votes so are the PAKATAN group .... Have we thought of that ..
Won't for a change, we control the demands, we all looking for to be
FULFILLED AND HEARD .

4) All this can be achieved, not a problem if every Indian believes in HINDRAF struggles. My questions are ...why Utayakumar , Jayathas and some leaders always be the arrested. WHY NOT ALL OF US TO GATHER BE ARRESTED... WILL THE POLICE LOCK UPS HAVE ENOUGH PLACE FOR ALL OF US TO BE ROUNDED, NO WAY THEY WILL PUT US INSIDE BECAUSE WE HAVE THE WHOLE INDIAN COMMUNITY LOCKED UP. WHAT CAN THEY DO .... I TELL U TODAY, THEY WONT DARE TO DO IT . ONLY WITH THIS KIND OF MASS INDIAN SUPPORT WE COULD DEFEAT ANY OBSTACLES AND CHALLANGES.

SO, my brothers if we want Indian's future generations to be respected and dignified, we have to stand united today, do this starting today and spread the word to all our Indian friends ...we sure will win the fight ... GOD BLESS US Indian's

Attempted murder and arson on 9 Indian houses within 5 days. Zero prosecution by racist UMNO A.G. Gani Patail unlike done on 53 Hindraf activists.

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(See Malaysia Nanban headlines 23/3/2011 & Makkal Osai 23/3/2011 at 1st page)
There is the developer of this land who this Indian villagers allege is the prime suspect. The police did not conduct swift investigations and the attorney general has refused to prosecute as swiftly as he did for the 53 Hindraf activist for merely being members of a supposedly minority and human rights NGO ie Hindraf, the world’s only human rights NGO to have been outlawed.
The racist UMNO has been using Attorney General Gani Patail and his predecessors  to keep the Indian poor subservient to UMNO’s racist and religiousIMG_5629 supremacist  policies inflicted on the Indian poor on a day to day basis.
While the racist UMNO is the real culprit by commission, these atrocities becomes the order of the day because of the omission by the supposed multi-racial PKR, DAP and PAS and their Indian mandore MPs’ and leaders and including the Indian elite.
One may ask ‘why are we fighting every one’,  and our answer is it is because of this “everyone” that the Indian poor are in pain, suffering and mysery has got to this level.
As we are not politicians per se we are forced to fight everybody!
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What is plain and obvious here is the PKR Menteri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim has refused to even provide basic infrastructure namely road, electricity and water supply in order for the said 47 poor Indian villagers to relocate to. Where is the change vis a vis the UMNO regime? And we have not forgotten that the Indian poor had in the March 2008 general elections we had unconditionally voted for PKR, DAP and PAS which formed the Selangor State government.
And in return this is how the Malay muslim Yayasan Kebajikan Selangor alone had been alienated 1,000 hectres of land in the very same Hulu Selangor area within three months of pledging during the Hulu Selangor by-elections, but none to displaced Indians, temples, schools and cemeteries.
Karunai  Nithi @ Compassionate Justice
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