YOURSAY ‘Mashitah can afford to be cocky because she is a protected specimen.’

Tholu: Wanita Umno delegate Mashitah Ibrahim, so you unhesitatingly and fanatically instigate the Malays to go on the warpath against the Chinese based just on hearsay. Now, how more of an idiot can you be?

Would you divorce your husband just on being told by someone that he is a womaniser and has married three other women after you?

How did you go about performing your duties as a deputy minister - just sitting in your room, making decisions, and taking actions based on information your staff in the ministry fed you without checking the veracity of their information?

How arrogantly stupid can you be to admit that your version of the incident was founded on another person's story and you dare DAP to sue you.

Could you be not afraid of police reports made against you because you know that the Umno government uses the Sedition Act only against opposition party members and dissident NGOs and activists?

SimonTi: "My version is based on what was ‘informed’ by Kuala Kedah Wanita chief (Noor Hasita Mat Isa) to me," Mashitah told Malaysiakini .

Now the Chinese have two evil women to despise and spit on. They have to make police report against these two for conspiring to incite the Malays against them.

Anonymous_1413635814: One mentally deranged person has allegedly burned pages of the Quran but Mashitah said the whole community did it. This is wrong.

But no Umno member has come up to censure her. They allowed such lies to remain uncorrected. And she still thinks she is right. Is that how all of you should behave?

David Dass: Mashitah should be ashamed of herself. It is good that the Kedah MB Mukhriz Mahathir has clarified the issue. These statements are so inflammatory. It is scandalous that such statements can be made without verification.

CQ Muar: Mashitah's outrageous accusation could provoke, incite and ignite racial tension, and could result in dire consequences to the peace and stability of this country.

This calls for immediate probe and investigation if PDRM (Royal Malaysian Police) is to be seen as fair to all races, and not just their political masters.

Adding insult to injury, she now challenges DAP to sue her. What is she trying to prove, and what are her motives for such irresponsible utterances as a Wanita Umno head?

This certainly reflects upon the party she represents, and the racist mentality among most Umno leaders, which they adamantly deny.

What have you to say, PM Najib Razak? Incidentally, in view of such serious accusations against all Chinese, why are those BN coalition partners like MCA and Gerakan keeping silent and mute over such provocations?

Wg321: Mashitah can afford to be cocky because she is a protected specimen. Just like Ibrahim Ali, the Sedition Act is not applicable to her.

By now most Chinese, especially the Generation Y, would feel that they have been de-Malaysianised. It doesn’t matter anymore.

Since there is no way they can have a clean government through the ballot box because of blatant gerrymandering by the Election Commission, let this country goes to the dogs.

Rezeki Iklas: There is no doubt about it - she must be taken to court for this irresponsible speech. It was deliberately couched to stir anti-Chinese sentiment.

'Umno recycling claims of marginalised Malays'

Fair Play: Penang exco and DAP Wanita chief Chong Eng, how long have you been in politics? Yet you still don't get it? Here is the answer Umno leaders want.

Other communities must slow down so that the Malays could catch up, and not that they should speed up to catch up with the other communities. For the 50 over years Umno has been in power, that has been their psyche and modus operandi.

That's why in the 1980s, Malaysia was at par with Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore. Where are we today?

Save Our Currency: Why not focus on the social and economic problems faced and how they can be overcome it, for example the problems with drugs, snatch thieves, drain pipe trousers, hooliganism, mat rempit and how to make the youths economically productive citizens and socially well-behaved, decent and how to prevent broken families vis a vis abandoned children.

These are the issues that can move the community forward.

Anonymous #559621903: To be a good Umno leader, you need three important qualities.

a) Be able to creatively blame all Malay shortcomings on the Chinese for what they did or did not do.

b) Be able to heap verbal abuses on the Chinese and intimidate them.

c) Be able to make the Malays feel that the Chinese and Christians are in every way a threat to them and Umno is needed to protect them.

Do they need to propose radical suggestions and programmes to uplift and address Malay woes? No, the above three qualities are enough.

Umno doesn't even want Malay problems solved, so that they can keep blaming non-Malays ad infinitum.

Well Thats Fantastic : The people who are most guilty of marginalising the Malays are the rich and powerful Malays.

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