Madness in Malaysia

Madness in Malaysia.

A picture speaks a thousand words, and this indeed true as the human mind of the 21st century is now too inundated with information.

These series of pictures will attempt to present to the world that the Malaysian Government, the ruling party and the majority community in Malaysia practices open, rampant and legalised racial discrimination and bigotry.

This open discrimination and bigotry has resulted in a tremendous strain on the Malaysian people, particulary the minority community.

Minorities in Malaysia which accounts for less than 40% of the entire population can be broadly categorised as non-Muslim and non-Bumiputra (Bumiputra is literally transalated as “sons of the soil”). The minorities were immigrants during the early 18th and 19th century from regions of what is now southern China, India. The British administrators in the early 18th and 19th century encouraged the migration of these hardworking groups of people to sustain the need for labour in the new colonies.

Words cannot begin to describe the extent on human suffering, economic wastages and inefficiency that this rampant discrimination has resulted in this social reengineering (broadly classified as the New Economic Policy) that has spanned almost 4 decades.

As with the Cultural Revolution of the People’s Republic China, frivalous racial pursuits occupies the minds and paradigm of the ruling party and majority. Ruling party members and within it’s close circle of friends and family members pursue an unending and vicious cycle of greed and wealth accumulation through open system corruption and political patronage.

Minorities coninue to be made to look as bogeyman of the the economic pie. Public policy has been enacted to ensure that the minorities must continuosly be discriminated, opportunities blocked and regulations enacted to deny minorities equal participation in the economy and opportunities for education.

To put this into perspective of the general reader, the logical mind can fathom a ruling that reads along the line that an African-American student will be given special treatment and opportunities for higher education. In Malaysia, the reverse is true and is true in all aspects and façade of the society.

In the US, a ruling similar to what it was ordained in Malaysia would read that the medical schools state universities are reserved exclusively for White Christians. Never mind that state universities are state-funded instituition from tax revenue.

That is the extent of discrimination and racial bigotry in Malaysia and that is the extent of human suffering. I take a moment of silence to honour and pay my respects to the honest and hardworking minorties of Malaysia. They have continued to toil and perservere despite surmounting odds both in the socially, legally and economically.