Guan Eng: Non-Malay community alarmed by Chinese daily’s report on khat controversy
BY G. PRAKASH
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Lim Guan Eng arrives at DAP’s headquarters in Kuala Lumpur August 5, 2019 Picture by Ahmad Zamzahuri |
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 6 — DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng yesterday said that he had met and listened to the grouses of the non-Malay community who, according to him, has been alarmed by Chinese publication Sin Chew Daily’s news report that the Year Four Bahasa Malaysia textbook in Chinese and Tamil schools would include seni khat.
Lim together with other DAP leaders had last night met grassroots leaders to discuss the issue which has seen a variety of reactions, including pushback from the non-Malay community.
“On my return home after four days overseas, I was faced with the unhappiness of the non-Malay community following Sin Chew Jit Poh’s report that the Standard Four Bahasa Malaysia textbook in Chinese and Tamil schools would include seni khat.
“Even though seni khat or Jawi is the source of the language of Bahasa Malaysia, the news report has successfully raised fears that the character and identity of the Chinese and Tamil schools will be affected,” he posted on his official Facebook page last night.
Lim Guan Eng has either continued to be arrogant or is completely ignorant about khat. He blames the Chinese community's anxiety and angry frustration on a Chinese language newspaper, as if there is no cause to be alarmed about khat.
Maybe he is both, that is, both arrogant and moronically ignorant.
He remains aloof like a sage meditating on a deserted isle in the middle of a raging turbulent Pacific Ocean, but warmly cloistered with the loving care of his dad and powerful ministerial authority and privileges, oblivious to the cries of the hoi polloi - will he sneeringly and disdainfully say, "Let them eat bah-kut-teh, siew mei and char siew pau, and tell them to STFU"?
There is a third possibility - he cannot accept that the DAP gurkhas dare to voice rebellion against the cabinet's decision on khat, still living in his arrogant princely surreal world of undersea tunnel, nuclear plant in Gebeng and 1 trillion in debt.
We need to remind him his venerable father was kicked out by DAP supporters in 1999.
Thus he attributed the unrest among the tamed gurkhas as instigated by a Sin Chew Jit Poh’s report. To him, there should not be any unrest, but rather peace and eternal bliss in this land of milk, honey and capati as it would be under his ministerial brilliance and largesse.
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and Guan Eng, don't forget the palm oil, and then there's the capati as well |
The biggest winner in this khat debate is Azmin Ali....
ReplyDeletehttps://www.thestar.com.my/opinion/letters/2019/08/06/khat-and-cultural-colonisation#cxrecs_s
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Wakakakaka…
DeleteAnother otakrosak inflictor!
Common syndrome of the ketuanan freaks/zombies.
Cf:https://www.malaysiakini.com/columns/486672
Khat and the ecology of creeping Islamisation
Khat is Islamic/religious calligraphy. Not part of "Malay cultute"!!!
How could that otakrosak associated Latin with Catholicism & wakakakaka… cultural colonisation?
Oooop… otakrosak mah!
lge is now as fat as jho low.
ReplyDeleteTo everyone’s surprise Guanee and Teo Nie Ching has got the agreement of key educationists to allow for the teaching of khat (not Jawi).
ReplyDeleteSyabas, bomb defused, now move on to Lynas...
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Chinese educationist groups okay with khat implementation
Mohamad Fadli - August 6, 2019
PUTRAJAYA: In a change of stance, Chinese educationist groups Dong Zong and Jiao Dong today welcomed the government’s move to introduce a chapter on the Malay-Arabic calligraphy of khat in the Year 4 Bahasa Melayu syllabus in vernacular schools next year.
Deputy Education Minister Teo Nie Ching said the consensual decision was reached after a meeting with Dong Zong and Jiao Dong and 10 other Chinese and Indian-interest groups.
“This is the stand of the NGOs. We at the education ministry agree (with their stand),” Teo told a press conference at her ministry after the meeting this afternoon.
She said the groups also welcomed the proposal that students will not be tested on khat.
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Teo said, however, the groups did not agree with the teaching of Jawi in vernacular schools.
DeleteAt a meeting yesterday, the groups had signed a statement calling for the deferment of the decision to introduce khat in the Year 4 Bahasa Melayu syllabus in vernacular schools next year.
They had said it did not help Chinese and Tamil primary school students to increase their standard of Malay and that changes to the existing school syllabus should only be done by meeting the needs of each school stream.
Those who are proponents of learning another language like Jawi, can they please explain their intention of learning Jawi without any hidden motives or stealthy designs, what is the purpose?
ReplyDeleteThose who are proponents of Khat Art or Arabic/Islamic calligraphy, Chinese calligraphy, Japanese calligraphy, Jawi calligraphy etc or whatever calligraphy in the world, can they also explain what is the purpose?
TDM is wrong to say only a small group of people are dissenters in this issue of learning Khat or Jawi in a subject of Bahasa Melayu which is a compulsory subject in all schools.
This is because whatever the reasons given, it does not gel with the current 21st century of education especially on the subjects of learning whatever Arts or Languages.
Khat or Jawi should be elective subjects in the Arts& Crafts or Islamic/Agama subjects all the way right up to tertiary education and not as part of a modern language subject like Bahasa Melayu.
Does anyone see other countries learning their root languages of their current modern language like English, Chinese, Tamil, French, Arabic, Turkish, Japanese except as elective subjects in their tertiary education and those who aspire to be specific language experts, archaeologists etc.
And as far as whatever Art is concern, how many Malaysian children will be employed as Calligraphers, artists, street vendors of Arts etc?
PH Govt. still does not understand that Education of the future Malaysian child and the Education system must be reformed to meet the needs of the future of employment and jobs in the 21st century and not to meet just the needs of Artistry, Religion, Politics or some Deep State ideologies of supremacy.
Get religion and politics out of the Education System and Malaysian children will have a better future in the 21st century.
And if Religion and Politics cannot be removed, then it is the responsibility of all Malaysian parents to find alternatives to the existing educational system for their children's future in which currently all the rich, powerful, well educated, political elites are doing so by sending to local boarding schools, local private or international schools or overseas schools.
It is always and will be the parents who are uneducated, poor, religious zombies, racists parents who will make their children as victims of a poor education for their own child's future.
And such parents keep on electing the same politicians to be their Ministers of Education of a poor and sub-standard education system.
Can u honestly think that lalang em know WHAT'S filled the education system & HOW to improve it?
DeleteAll he has is a single-mindedness in doing piecemeal inconsequential issues diligently!
Especially those tied in with his alifbata mindset.