YOURSAY | 'Are we now to suspect the entire UUM academia as a bunch of extremists?'
UUM don rails against Yeoh, now wants DAP deregistered
Slumdog: Why is Kamarul Zaman Yusoff, in his capacity as a lecturer and an employee of Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), involved in party politics and urged the Registrar of Societies to cancel DAP's registration as a political party?
Universities ban students from taking part in party politics and punish those they find guilty, yet this lecturer is allowed free rein.
He is now urging other academics to support his proposal. Isn’t he overstepping his mark?
Anonymous #44199885: Is this the quality or mentality of the UUM academia? Is this the way they hope to nurture the minds of future generations of Malaysians? Is this how UUM academia contribute to nation building?
We thought University Malaya and the others were bad when they took action against students who had expressed their sympathy towards the opposition, but this lecturer is out to create ill-will between Christians and Muslims.
Are his words and actions endorsed by UUM and is it part of the UUM curriculum? Is UUM an institution that tolerates and promotes extremism?
Are we now to suspect the entire UUM academia as a bunch of extremists made and bred by UUM, a public university?
Anonymous 444981488553970: I think DAP should write to UUM to ask them why this lecturer should not be sacked for issuing statements disturbing public peace and inviting hatred among religions. Is his area of expertise at UUM on religion?
Gerard Lourdesamy: Subang Jaya assemblyperson Hannah Yeoh and the DAP should file a civil suit for the torts of intimidation, deceit, conspiracy, malicious prosecution and abuse of process against Kamarul Zaman and UUM.
The book was not written by DAP, and it was not published or distributed by the party. It is not a policy statement of the DAP. Therefore, there is no breach of the Societies Act.
The DAP constitution conforms with the Act. The so-called 100 academics who are supporting Kamarul Zaman are not fit to be called academics because they are supposed to be neutral.
This shows how politicised our universities have become, with academics openly endorsing the 'ketuanan Melayu and Islam' dogma.
Their actions contravene Articles 3, 8 and 11 of the constitution and proves that racism and bigotry is alive and well in our halls of academia. What a disgrace to our public education system.
No wonder, we are producing graduates indoctrinated by the Islamic State (IS) and a Taliban-inspired version of Islam.
SusahKes: Clearly Kamarul Zaman, you have been found wanting in your juvenile-like explanations to defend your position and action vis-a-vis Yeoh; now, all that remains is for you to attempt to whip up the sentiments of the like-minded crowd, knowing too well too that there are plenty of such minds around.
Just holler "protect our religion and race", and you've got yourself a winning game-plan. The height of stupidity is not knowing when to back off or shut up.
If anything, I think you are launching this tirade to both assuage your guilty conscience, and maybe also along the way, to score some brownie points with the powers-that-be.
Further, you are also probably confident that the last thing this present regime would do is to actually initiate action against you; if they could tolerate Zakir Naik, India's controversial preacher, or stand idly by while a participant in a public forum gets slapped in front of the PM, what's a lesser intellectual to them?
Congratulations to Umno-BN though; it is their dictation of public policies over the past 40 to 50 years that has given rise to those of intellect such as yourself.
I do not know who among these I ought to feel sorry more for:
1. The University of Bloomington, for producing an intellectual bereft of, well, a decent intellect.
2. UUM students who have to reside under your tutelage and be subjected to your emotive intellect, rather than be educated in the true sense of the word.
3. Taxpayers, whose ringgit funded your education.
I, for one, most certainly do not feel sorry for Yeoh. If anything, I laud her for her moral courage in the face of your onslaught.
It gives me even more confidence to support the publication of her memoirs because within those pages, she explains what gives her fortitude to enter into the lion's den that is Malaysian politics.
Kader: How many years did Kamarul Zaman study in the US? Three, maybe four years? I am surprised that with the kind of fragile belief he allegedly has, he has not converted to Christianity, the religion of his host country.
I think these people are encouraged to keep muddying the pool, to bring up trivial and sensitive issues up to the point where the general public gets fed up with both sides of the divide.
There is probably a think-tank up there that keeps the flame going.
Dont Just Talk: Kamarul Zaman, just walk into any Popular Book store and you will find numerous religious books on the bookshelf for sale.
If you are so narrow-minded, just don't read the biography written by Yeoh. Ten men can pull a horse to water and if the horse does not want to drink, no one can force it to do so.
Why are you picking on Yeoh? If you do not want to read it, just don't buy her book.
Prudent: There is no law against any private bookstore selling any book so long as it is not banned. Where did this man get his apparently Taliban mentality?
It’s unlikely from his university, since at the time he was there, there was hardly any Talibanisation in the US.
And parents must be shuddering if they have children at UUM, at the thought of the Taliban mentality with which this man is possibly brainwashing them.
Doc: I think Yeoh should have put a disclaimer on her book cover: "This book is not suitable to be read by those suffering from narrow mindedness."
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