Hindraf is not surprised that the Home Minister is in full support of the group that paraded in public carrying a severed cow's head and issuing seditious statements to incite and inflame racial discord.

The Home minister condones to the residents' action and rather plays politics by passing the buck to the Selangor government for their inability to resolve this matter.

Quote: "If we don't give them room to voice their opinions, they have no choice but to protest" he says.

Hindraf has been voicing and sending thousands of memorandums to the Umno led BN government for resolutions, yet when we conduct peaceful rallies carrying posters, flowers and candles, our supporters are assaulted, charged and even detained under ISA.

Such double standard and fascist attitude by the Home Minister only ascertains the fact that Umno will never change its way or attempts to change for the betterment of the public, but is rather more interested in maintaining its hegemony for those elite Umno leaders and their 'mandores' in their alliance against the public's interest.

The continuous fascist attitude taken by Umno leaders as seen by the Home Minister's endorsement of the inflammatory protest that took place on Aug 28, 2009 will further aggravate and alienate the public.

This kind of fascist act clearly will lead to an authoritarian government leaning towards a totalitarian state as opposed to the false democracy that is supposedly practiced in Malaysia.

Hindraf urges MPs, their parties, NGO movements and the general public to come together and act in unity in ensuring that such provocative and inciting actions should not go undeterred for the fascist stand that the Umno government had taken in this incident.

P Waythamoorthy is the chairperson of Hindraf