No Messiah of Malays

NST - 'Can Malays, Bumis compete if 3 million Chinese nationals come here?' (extracts):

KUALA LUMPUR: Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad voiced his fear that Malays and the Bumiputera would not be able to compete if Malaysia welcomes a flood of traders and entrepreneurs from China.

The prime minister said the traders and entrepreneurs differed from the Chinese who have been in Malaysia for generations, who were originally involved in small businesses and started out as labourers.

“Today, the children of our Chinese people have achieved success. Some have become millionaires, their businesses have grown while they also own skyscrapers.

Indeed, how to compete against such poor new villagers who worked like ants and bees? 

“If we bring in another three million people from China, what will happen to us? They are strong, able, knowledgeable in business; they come not as labourers but as successful entrepreneurs.

“Can we compete with them?”

Dr Mahathir was speaking during a question-and-answer session at the Congress on Future of Bumiputera and the Nation 2018 at the KL Convention Centre on Saturday.

Dr Mahathir said the presence of numerous traders and entrepreneurs could also see the Bumiputera and Malays lose their place.

“I am certain that if we bring in three million more people from China, we will lose our place. The rich among them will buy our land. We will be moved further from the city until we have to live next to the jungle.

“This is what I am seeing. Singapore was once ours, and now we cannot dominate Singapore because our people cannot compete with the Chinese,” he said.

Indeed, how to compete against such poor new villagers who worked like ants and bees?  

Meanwhile, Economic Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali said the government will review the Forest City development in Johor as the terms of sale of its residences do not bring any benefits to Malaysia.

Azmin said the project, with a projected investment of US$100 billion (RM411 billion) could also open to floodgates to an influx of Chinese nationals.

In point form:

(1) Even ignoring the various rumours about his earlier life in Singapore while attending university and his alleged unpleasant experience there with Chinese, we have witnessed from time to time his immense dislike (perhaps even hatred) for Chinese Malaysians.

(2) If you read the article above, his speech at the recent Congress on Future of Bumiputera and the Nation 2018 at the KL Convention Centre, you would note he didn't differentiate between Chinese Malaysians and Chinese from China.

It may appear at first glance there is a difference but read his speech in full, as follows:

... the Chinese who have been in Malaysia for generations, who were originally involved in small businesses and started out as labourers.

“Today, the children of our Chinese people have achieved success. Some have become millionaires, their businesses have grown while they also own skyscrapers.

“If we bring in another three million people from China, what will happen to us? They are strong, able, knowledgeable in business; they come not as labourers but as successful entrepreneurs.

Note his “If we bring in another three million people from China, what will happen to us?.

"Another" 3 million people from China, meaning on top of those children of our Chinese people have achieved success. Some have become millionaires, their businesses have grown while they also own skyscrapers, doesn't that tell you his mental thoughts and attitude towards those "very rich Chinese", Malaysian citizens or foreigners?

For my Chinese mates and me in Ayer Itam, Penang, and elsewhere, who grew up in poverty and struggled as we saw how our parents and relatives struggled to survive, we find it galling that this once-scion of a middle class Malay, whose children are all billionaires, and whose progenies live in the lap of luxury, resents Chinese Malaysians who became wealthy by hard work, frugal living, careful saving, and wise livelihood.

Mukhriz's house 

Mukhriz's house  

Mukhriz's house  

guess who? 

(3) then his resentment in his “This is what I am seeing. Singapore was once ours, and now we cannot dominate Singapore because our people cannot compete with the Chinese,”, confirms his perpetual resentment against Singaporeans, ignoring the facts of history.

What nonsense in his Singapore was once ours?

Singapore or Singapura is by its original moniker in Sanskrit (सिंहपुर, Siṃhapura) where siṃha is "lion", pura is "town" or "city", hence indicating Indian influence or as linguist James Matisoff termed it, Indosphere, indicating areas of Indian linguistoic and cultural influence such as Majapahit, Sriwijaya and Siamese (Thai) Kingdoms.

Subsequently, the island known as Temasek (meaning 'Sea Town'), a trading port under the influence of both the Majapahit Empire and the Siamese kingdoms, when it merited a mention by that appellation in the Nagarakretagama, a Javanese epic poem written in 1365.

The Portuguese and Dutch were running around the region, though the island was nominally (meaning: in name only; officially though perhaps not in reality) under the control of next-door Johor but became a British settlement in 1824 after the British gained possession of it through a treaty with the Sultan of Johor for protection services.

So, how did Mahathir arrived at the notion that Singapore was once ours?

(4) He tok-kok as if Malaysia on allowing Chinese tourists to visit the country will permit those Chinese nationals to do business here like Malaysians. Is that what he is willing to do or he thinks his Home Minister, Mat Sabu Moody, will do?

He should instead ask himself of Indons and Filipinos allowed into Malaysia to stay permanently during his earlier prime-ministership (1981 to 2003).

(5) Finally (only in this post, wakakaka), by frightening the Malays of the Yellow Hordes of Alibaba experts, 3 million of them according to his Mamak brain, using emotional words like until we have to live next to the jungle, he has insulted the capabilities of the Malays, making them believe they are no march for Chinese.

For years (1981 to 2003) he has de-motivated the Malays into believing they must be spoon-fed from womb to tomb, whilst he rules with their blind support while his family and cronies become obscenely rich.

22 years of his rule and yet nothing substantial was achieved by the majority of Malays other than by himself, his family and cronies.

He is definitely no Messiah of the Malays.

Chinese mute stung by hornet