YOURSAY 'Yasmin continually produced socially responsible films and made it a point to reach out to all Malaysians. She never received death threats.'

Shuhaimi Baba on death threats and hell

your say Old Timer: What a pathetic woman! Made a lousy and inaccurate movie using taxpayers money, blame people for not watching her show, now begging cinemas to screen for two more days.

Shuhaimi Baba, it's better for you to change your profession. You are just not cut out to be a credible movie director. Without the Umno members watching your show, the cinemas would be empty.

TehTarik: Another drama queen. Yesterday she was a persecutor and demanded that action be taken against her critics. Today she is behaving like a victim.

Shuhaimi should stop this emotional manipulation. She should realise that she has hurt the feelings of the families of the many who died during May 13.

Instead of being remorseful and showing empathy, she has resorted to emotional play and misused taxpayers funds.

Odin: Dear Malaysiakini editors and my fellow readers, this is to tell you that I've received scores of death threats this afternoon via cellphone calls, text messages, drum beats and smoke signals. If you don't see me commenting over the next 72 hours, it means I am gone.

Like Shuhaimi, I don't intend to make a police report because I am a brave person, whereas those people are cowards for threatening me anonymously. Now, don't ask me whether I have their phone numbers.

The grouse of these people is that I have been making people laugh too hard through the scripts I have written for comedies.

They prefer that I make people weep and howl and beat their chests or gnash their teeth and tear up the cinema patrons around them as voluminous smoke erupts from a hole in the top of their heads instead as they watch the films for which I have written the scripts.

Oh, a big consolation - they all have said that they would be sending me off to heaven as a reward for making people laugh. So, don't worry too much about me, all right?

HC: This is a pathetic attempt to win sympathy for what appears to be a movie resigned to commercial failure.

The only regret is that she's been a recipient of public funds to make a movie which seeks to divide multicultural Malaysia. It's funny how the artistic licence can be abused to pursue a certain political agenda. Disgusting.

Abasir: The late and greatly-admired Yasmin Ahmad continually produced socially responsible films and made it a point to reach out to all Malaysians. She never received death threats and she was never despised.

On the contrary, she received multiple accolades and thousands grieved her passing. Now she was a film-maker with social responsibility. Shuhaimi Baba is no Yasmin Ahmad.

 

Zam: DAP irate as its logo stands out in Tanda Putera

Karma: Former information minister Zainuddin Maidin (Zam) is another person in his community who has lost all credibility and embarrassed his own race.

His false accusation of budget airlines AirAsia serving pork is one example. His harping on the fault of the Chinese that caused the 1969 riot is very childish.

Wg321: Does Zainuddin want the present generation of Chinese, who was not yet born in 1969, to pay blood money for what happen in May 13,1969? Why reopened old wounds just because Umno lost its two-thirds majority in 2008 and 2013.

Today Umno is very revengeful against the Chinese for not ‘cooperating' with the Malays but they have forgotten that Umno no longer represents all Malays in this country.

According to blogger Sakmongkol AK47, out of 7.3 million Malays who vote in GE13; 3.4 million voted for Umno but 3.9 million Malays voted for Pakatan Rakyat. The Chinese only wish to have a clean government by cooperating with the Malays in Pakatan. Is it seditious to do that?

Since that is not possible because of electoral gerrymandering, Umno-BN can go ahead to make Tanah Melayu bankrupt by rampant corruption, cronyism, nepotism, huge wastage and leakage of resources, warlordism, etc, etc; and ask PM Najib Razak to print more money to solve the national debt and to pay more BR1Ms.

Absalom: Zainuddin, I have a question for you - who would you call devious, good-for-nothing, racist scumbags enemies of the state?

Will it be some guys who got into emotional fights which went out of control some 44 years ago or these other guys who use that ugly episode in history to manipulate current public opinion, incite racial hatred, create tension and provoking people all for some selfish private agenda. Think about it.

Gigatt: From Wikipedia - In August 2013, Zainuddin was forced to apologise after AirAsia sent a letter of demand in response to a libelous article in his blog, in which he alleged that the prominent low-cost carrier served pork on its flights (pork is taboo food in Muslim-majority Malaysia).

AirAsia had called for Zainuddin to post an apology for six months in the said blog, but Zainuddin stated that the apology would be published indefinitely. Enough said.

Happy Malaysian: Zam was absolutely right. I was there standing outside my area in Petaling Jaya when the 1969 procession passed by - lorries, cars and all carrying flags of DAP.

They were shouting slogans like "Melayu bodoh", "Melayu balik kampong", and that is the honest fact. Let DAP deny their involvement. We are not saying Chinese were doing it, it was the DAP representing the Chinese which was doing it.

Innocent Chinese who probably did not like it too were killed, not to forget many Malays too. So come on, DAP - you cannot deny your involvement and your antics on that fateful day.

MockingYou: If DAP leader Lim Kit Siang was guilty, then why no charge him back then. And why his current call for royal commission of inquiry into this tragedy did not receive any response from Umno Baru? The silence is thundering!

R1: This man should learn to shut his mouth. What about Gerakan? Had you forgotten about them?

Not Convinced: Clearly provocations were from all sides during May 13. If being provoked means a licence to kill, then Utusan Malaysia would have been burnt down by now.

My4Hope: My advice to DAP: Obviously ‘Tanda Putera' has been intentionally used to hit DAP, so think properly how to handle this by not getting trapped and do not respond hastily and emotionally.

Get the two Pakatan allies to stand by you, as it is no longer your fight alone but for Malaysia's future as a whole.

‘Tanda Putera' is just the beginning. Expect more to come.

Vijay47: I always knew that Zainuddin was stupid. But I never in a million years imagined that his stupidity was of this degree. So ‘Tanda Putera' is now the arbitrator of truth.

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