I join my fellow Malaysian citizen, Joey in his 1etter expressing his dire anguish and disgust at the callous misinformation about the demise of hostel student Muhd Farid Ibrahim who was beaten to death by several of his seniors at an Islamic religious school.

Shame to all of us who turned our cheeks away rather than address the issue up front. Looking for a scapegoat for gangsterism will do no good to the nation. Worse still, racial profiling the case is a gross sin for those in the media.

And just as bad, no ulama expressed their abhorrence of the incident which took place in an Islamic institution.

With the recent landslide victory of the Barsian Nasional in the 11 th general election, much hope was pinned on the largest inroad Muslim professionals and intellectuals would make into the governing coalition.

But we may see no substantive difference if Muslim professionals practise only monkey management - see no evil, hear no evil and say no evil. Sadly the ambition of adopting a manifest ethical basis of governance fails already because there is latent silence from those among the knowledge leaders of the Muslim faith.

They failed in their duty to denounce such evil taking place among the followers of the faith and the callous attempt to associate the incident with other communities. We should not tolerate such ethical misconduct by those responsible for informing the public.

We should aim for a courageous change in governance among those who are tasked with informing the masses.