Malaysian Malaysia DAP "acts dunno" on ICERD

NST - PM: Almost impossible for Malaysia to implement ICERD (extracts):

PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea: Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad says it will be almost impossible to implement international convention on racial discrimination.

The Prime Minister said the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) involves amending the Federal Constitution.

To do that, it would need a two-thirds majority from Parliament, Dr Mahathir told Malaysian media after concluding his two-day Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation sojourn here on Sunday.

This was almost impossible given the current number of Members of Parliament from the government as well reaction from both the opposition and government members over the matter, he added.

Senior officials of Pakatan Harapan component parties such as Datuk Seri Mukhriz Mahathir and Youth and Sports Minister Syed Saddiq Abdul Rahman were reportedly against ICERD if constitutional rights and national harmony were affected.

Top leaders from PAS and Umno, meanwhile, reportedly agreed to hold a joint rally on December 8 to protest plans to ratify it.

Last night, Umno president Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi warned Putrajaya the Malay-Muslim community would run "amuk" to protest the government's pledge to ratify ICERD. [...]

Dr Mahathir said ICERD was sensitive to the Malays. [...]

Malaysia is among a handful of countries that have neither signed nor ratified the treaty.

The treaty provides individuals worldwide with a mechanism for complaints over issues of racial discrimination, among others, and is enforceable against member states.

Several groups said ratifying ICERD would undermine the special position of the Malays, including provisions to allow quotas in public institutions.

Abdul Hadi menyifatkan ICERD sebagai konvensyen yang bersifat tidak adil kepada Islam dan bumiputera.

"Pas menentang sekeras-kerasnya ICERD"

Naturally Malay groups do not want to lose their privileged position in the politic-economic-socio-cultural status in Malaysia. No, not even Mahathir.

I reckon his wish has presumably been voiced through his son Mukhriz, whilst Syed Saddiq who had initially dismissed the concept of Ketuanan Melayu has since backflipped because he was told off by Moody.

dad's good boy 

There has been no embarrassment from most Malay quarters, with PAS and UMNO unashamedly objecting to ICERD, but it's telling that Pribumi, a so-called Pakatan Harapan member, has persisted in Ketuanan Melayu.

The mighty Malaysian Malaysia party, the DAP, has also kuai-kuai kept quiet in its new MCA-ised role.

GE can now smell my fart and even say it's fragrant
wakakaka 

it wasn't me, t'was Waythamoorthy lah

mm-see-wah 

NST reported in its DAP distances itself from commenting on ICERD, to wit, on the elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, that the DAP's secretary-general Lim Guan Eng, when approached on the matter at the state DAP convention today, said the matter should be answered by Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department P. Watha Moorthy.

“We did not raise the issue. It was Watha who did,” he said.

Pressed on DAP’s stand on ratifying the ICERD, Lim said his focus now was on improving the country’s economy.

“My concern now is addressing the country’s economy”.

Wakakaka.

The DAP since becoming or rather joining the ruling authority has politically 'circumcised' itself into an 'obedient' Macai bin Abdullah.

Hallelujah to that, but at least we are spared from listening-reading another of Lim Kit Siang's 'useless' rants.

now kuai-kuai
LKS has been sealed up kau-kau

poor Lim Kit Siang