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Ridhuan Tee should show humility and grace

Ridhuan Tee Abdullah should learn or put into practice the good virtues of Islam on humility discipline and restraint. In Islam you lower yourself, not elevate yourself above others or put others down to propel yourself.

Ridhuan Tee may have the academic credentials but has been perceived to be lacking in the good values, virtues and spirit of the Islamic teachings.

Obviously he lacks political wisdom on many of his myopic views on politics. His habitual derogatory reference of the Chinese is none other than to please or seek approval from his saudara baru or to show he is more Muslim than the true Malays and Muslims, and less Chinese despite his irremovable Sino genealogy, indicate his shallowness and pomposity.

MCA is a party for all Chinese and even Ridhuan Tee is welcome to join us. If he is so concerned for MCA, I welcome him to MCA HQ and I will be personally there to welcome him and hope to educate him on MCA as a party and the Malaysian Chinese community in its actual perspective.

Ridhuan Tee arrogantly demands that “MCA must take a good look at themselves before asking Umno to return the Gelang Patah, Wangsa Maju and Kuantan parliamentary seats, which they had ‘loaned’ to the latter.” However, the data below show that when these seats were loaned to Umno for the 2013 general election, not only was the victory for Gelang Patah reversed into a defeat, the loss in the majority votes had widened.

Kuantan

Votes for BN-MCA in 2008 - 16,572, votes for PKR 18,398, PKR won by majority of 1,8262.

Votes for BN-Umno in 2013 - 21,319 votes for PKR 25,834, PKR won by majority of 4,515.

Wangsa Maju

Votes for BN-MCA in 2008 - 19,478, votes for PKR 19,637, PKR won by majority of 1,505.

Votes for BN-Umno in 2013 26,130, votes for PKR 31,641, PKR won by majority of 5,511.

Gelang Patah

Votes for BN-MCA in 2008- 33,630 (MCA won) votes for PKR 24,779, PKR lost by majority of 8,851.

Votes for BN-Umno in 2013- 39,522 (Umno lost), votes for DAP 54,284, DAP won by majority of 14,762.

Lacking understanding of Chinese culture

Politics is complex. The Chinese do not consist of the Ridhuan Tee types. He may be biologically a Chinese but he lacks understanding of Chinese culture, values system, traditions, etc .

Instead of displaying his ignorance or prejudices towards MCA or the Chinese community, he should go back to the basics of Islamic tenets that is humility and grace.

I hope that he can humble himself to learn about the Chinese and MCA first before shooting his mouth off or abusing his mouthpiece to demean others in arrogance, his latest being his Sinar Harian column dated today which was picked up by The Rakyat Post .

Sad to say, his simplistic solutions and myopic views are unfortunately politically incorrect and downright wrong.

He should practice what he preaches by building bridges to promote goodwill and harmony instead of lambasting or lashing out at the Chinese or MCA from a biased, partisan point of view.

As far as I am concerned, he is a politically illiterate on MCA politics, its challenges and tribulations. If he is so concerned for MCA, he should come and be with us, understand us first before spewing fire of prejudices or causing hatred towards the Chinese or MCA.


TI LIAN KER is MCA religious harmony bureau chairperson, Kuantan MCA division chairperson and MCA central committee member.

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