‘But there are more than a million Tamils in Malaysia who are concerned for the welfare of the Tamils in Sri Lanka. Why isn't the Malaysian government condemning the attacks on Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka?'
On PM wants UN's urgent intervention in Gaza
Puvirajan Rajen: The Malaysian parliament passed resolutions condemning the Israeli attacks on Gaza. But what about what is happening to the Tamils in northern Sri Lanka?
Why not a sound from our elected MPs? We have no Palestinian voters here in Malaysia. But there are millions of Tamils in Malaysia who are concerned for the welfare of the Tamils in Sri Lanka.
Why isn't the Malaysian government condemning the attacks on Tamil civilians in Tamil Eelam?
The answer is simple - they are not Muslims. They are only Tamils.
After all, five Tamils have been locked up in Kamunting and forgotten.
The Tamils are resilient people. They will fight back and gain their freedom. The world will see them - with or without the LTTE - gain their homeland and set Eelam free.
On Student who socked educationist arrested
Kashminder Singh: Like the majority of Malaysians, I was shocked to read about the punch delivered to Dr Yap Sin Tian during the college function.
But I am equally shocked to see the photo of the alleged assailant being led away by the police. Is there a need for the policeman to hold the suspect's head in a wrestling head lock? Aren't handcuffs good enough to ensure that he does not escape?
I am sorry but I have to say that just as much as it was uncouth of the person to punch Yap, it is equally obnoxious of the police to subject him to such undignified and inhumane treatment.
Is it not possible for the police to uphold law and order without infringing upon one's human rights?
On Move public transport forward - not backwards
Lim Mee Shia: The government should issue new taxi licenses to individual owner-drivers who meet a strict qualifying criteria. Currently a majority of the taxi permits are given to Umnoputra warlords and royalty who then lease them out.
Desperate individuals wanting to earn a living have no choice but to hire a taxi at high cost and the then end up fleecing passengers to make ends meet. A thousand new taxi licenses will create a thousand new small entrepreneurs.
London, Singapore, New York all have this system The PM should do this for the country. Even China is doing this and they have set up a joint venture with Singapore's Comfort Taxi Cab service to do this.
The government should also link all LRT operations so that a seamless LRT system will be created and nobody will dread using the one like the present. The cost of interconnecting all the lines currently existing and operating in isolation will be low and can be implemented quickly.
The problem of bus services overlapping is also solvable if there is political will.
On Time running out for‘deviationist' sect
Anees Ahmad: Malaysia has stood, even before its independence in 1957, as a beacon of fairness and equality.
It was the great Tunku Abdul Rahman who, like the late Muhammad Ali Jinnah of Pakistan, won his nation's independence from within the very confines of the law that had usurped his people's rights.
Much like Jinnah, the Tunku crafted a secular state, granting a sweeping protection of religious freedom.
As a Pakistani Ahmadi Muslim therefore, I was extremely upset to learn that, as with Pakistan, the people of Malaysia had betrayed the wishes of their founding father.
I speak of your ulama 's recent demands to strip an Ahmadi Muslim mosque of the Kalima , or fundamental Islamic creed. Contrary to the ulama 's stance, Ahmadi Muslims have, since arriving in Malaysia decades ago, proved to be a progressive and inclusive component of the Malaysian community.
Hindsight truly is 20/20. Pakistan has for some time pandered to the extremists' wishes in the hopes of avoiding civil unrest.
If Malaysia, both its government and its citizens, does not check their behavior, I fear it will meet the same fate that Pakistan already has.
On NGOs reject change to Thaipusam procession route
Citizen For Healthy Living: As Thaipusam gets closer, the authorities should ensure that there is a blanket ban on the use of styrofoam (also referred to as ‘white coffin') packaging of food which is normally sold or given out free to the public and devotees.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer lists styrene as a possible human carcinogen. There are also environmental threats linked to the disposal of styrofoam packaging.
In view of the hazards, a few local universities have taken precautionary measures and banned the use of styrofoam on their premises.
Year in and year out after the Thaipusam celebrations, our streets and garbage bins are found littered and stuffed with massive amounts of stryofoam packaging. Landfills are piled with this non-biodegradable packaging.
For the sake of our health and the environment, the authorities must immediately impose a ban on the use of styrofoam packaging especially during the Thaipusam celebrations.
On 'Stop the killings in Gaza', how?
Heartbroken: What I cannot understand is what the writer is really trying to get at. What does she want people who write articles about the war to say or do, besides what they do best which is writing and informing their readers? Does she expect Wong to take his message himself to the Middle-East?
I do not support the methods of the Israelis but when you have a fifth of the world all around you waiting to wipe you out and saying it so blatantly, surviving and survival is by a show of power.
Sadly, this is the lot for the people of Gaza. A terrible thought but not so for Hamas. They allow their people to die and suffer.
My sentiments is Hamas and Israel should both get out of Gaza. Only then will the Palestinians have a chance of a better life and the people of the world can help them recover. They can discover that life is more than just war.
PLO, the worst terrorist organisation in modern history has changed, so why not Hamas?
Cry for the people of Gaza? The choice is theirs, stop Hamas, you stop Israel. Israel can always count on Hamas to kill further, and this must stop.
The people of the world must not just see what is happening in Gaza, but also why. Hamas stops when Israel stops its occupation but Israel says they only leave when Hamas stops. A deadly catch 22 situation.
On Fighting rages in Gaza as toll nears 1,000
Drravi MD: Malaysia talk like the Arabs but even Arabs did not go for economic sanctions but believed in pushing the UN for action.
Some advice to the Mmalay Muslims. You are the largest Muslim population in the world put together with the Indonesians so stop dressing like the Arabs and talking like them.
For all the history I know, the Malay race was civilised and more advanced earlier than the Arabs. Please fight for the Palestinians on humanitarian grounds and the whole world will be behind you.
Religion and politics should not come together as then we tend to lose sight of the humanitarian angle.
