Najib mocks Mahathir’s ‘expert skill’ at handling chopsticks
The photographic montage posted by Najib Razak on Facebook to mock Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
PETALING JAYA: Former prime minister Najib Razak has mocked Dr Mahathir Mohamad by praising him for his “expert skill” in using chopsticks, a day after the elder statesman had made controversial comments on chopsticks and the Chinese community.
Najib posted a photographic montage of Mahathir using chopsticks, apparently to toss “yee sang” at a Chinese New Year event, and made a one-line riposte to Mahathir with the remark “Expert skill”. The photographs were not dated.
Mahathir has also come under fire from his former Pakatan Harapan colleagues for saying that the Chinese had maintained their culture and way of life in Malaysia, citing the use of chopsticks instead of “adopting the Malaysian way of eating” with one’s hands.
DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng, who was finance minister in Mahathir’s government, said Mahathir’s comments were both simplistic and offensive to the Chinese.
“Does that mean a Malay using chopsticks or fork and spoon loses his Malay-ness? In fact, many non-Chinese Malaysians and Westerners are proud of their ability to use both without any loss of their national identity,” Lim said, pointing out that non-Malays should be integrated, not assimilated, into Malaysia.
PETALING JAYA: Former prime minister Najib Razak has mocked Dr Mahathir Mohamad by praising him for his “expert skill” in using chopsticks, a day after the elder statesman had made controversial comments on chopsticks and the Chinese community.
Najib posted a photographic montage of Mahathir using chopsticks, apparently to toss “yee sang” at a Chinese New Year event, and made a one-line riposte to Mahathir with the remark “Expert skill”. The photographs were not dated.
Mahathir has also come under fire from his former Pakatan Harapan colleagues for saying that the Chinese had maintained their culture and way of life in Malaysia, citing the use of chopsticks instead of “adopting the Malaysian way of eating” with one’s hands.
DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng, who was finance minister in Mahathir’s government, said Mahathir’s comments were both simplistic and offensive to the Chinese.
“Does that mean a Malay using chopsticks or fork and spoon loses his Malay-ness? In fact, many non-Chinese Malaysians and Westerners are proud of their ability to use both without any loss of their national identity,” Lim said, pointing out that non-Malays should be integrated, not assimilated, into Malaysia.
Say what you like, Bossku really knows how to hit back at his nemesis.
ReplyDeleteMahathir is unfortunately accurate in that significant number of Chinese Malaysians today are Chinese first and foremost, and very Pro-People's Republic of China first, and
ReplyDeleteMalaysians a Very Distant second,
& u?
DeleteThe very anmokausai fart that is genuflecting to a demoNcratic idea just bcoz u hate been born Chinese!