YOURSAY ‘PKR and PAS Malays are confident that they can rule the country.’

'If Umno loses, Malays may never rule again'

CQ Muar: Umno supreme council member Ibrahim Abu Shah, you're right there, and we couldn't agree with you more.

Should BN loses in the next general election, the curtain will come down and it will be a black (not just dark) day for opportunists and lackeys like you and all those Umno leaders.

For decades now, you had the machineries and power to enrich yourselves by hoodwinking the innocent with broken promises and lies.

Malaysia is a land of plenty, and a far too good and veritable gold mine for the corruptible and opportunists sharing amongst themselves and siphoning easy wealth from the nation's coffer.

One only needed to be reminded of those highly corrupt Selangor MBs in the past. Need we say more?

Mushiro: After 57 years of independence and 44 years of New Economic Policy, and all the while under Umno rule, Ibrahim Abu Shah is not confident that Umno Malays will be able to rule the country again if they lost the next GE.

Ibrahim is right and it is all due to Umno's own doing. When Umno has messed up the country so bad - economically, socially, in education, security, justice system and almost every other area - it is only expected that people have lost total respect for Umno.

However with 60 percent of the population being Malays, the PKR and PAS Malays are confident that they can rule the country through Pakatan Rakyat. This has been clearly demonstrated in Selangor, Kelantan and Penang.

Malaccan: Isn't BN essentially a multiracial coalition that forms the government? It is true BN is led, or rather dictated to, by Umno. But BN also has non-Malays in it.

Ibrahim must be so inbred in his thinking that he does not see nor acknowledge MCA, Gerakan and MIC to be in anyway part of the ruling coalition.

Hence that is why the poodle parties of BN have managed to unite all Malaysians in their loathing and contempt for these parties' parasitic existence.

However, should BN and Umno behind it lose power, then likely it will be to Pakatan. Isn't Pakatan now having Malays leading it and forming the majority of its members and leaders?

After all, isn't Umno and BN persecuting Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim and others who are Malays, and stopping them by all means, above and below the pale, from governing Malaysia?

So who is actually stopping Malays from progressing and being in charge if not Umno itself. It is the traitor within the fold who can do the most damage and that role is most identifiable with Umno.

Wg321: “If Umno loses, Malays may never rule again,” said Ibrahim.

So only Malays in Umno are Malay. Malays in PAS and PKR are not Malay. In the last general election, more Malays voted for Pakatan than Umno-BN.

There is one thing that Malays in Umno take for granted. That is, most of the corrupt Malays are found in Umno. Remember the slogan "you help me, I help you"? Watch this KiniTV video .

Doc: Does that mean that the criteria for being accepted into the Malay race these days are that one must be a Malay and an Umno member. So non-Umno Malays are not considered Malays. Am I correct with this assumption?

So in short, one may look like a Malay, has the genetic make-up of a Malay, has Malay ancestry, hail from Malaysia but unless he is a Umno member, only then he can be deemed a true Malay?

Basically: So what is Anwar if not Malay? Or is Ibrahim subtly saying they plan to put him in jail for life?

And is Ibrahim saying anyone who is not in Umno is now not considered Malay, despite speaking the language, practising Islam and the customs of Malays?

Perhaps they should add that condition to the constitution as well - a Malay is one who “is xxx, xxx and a member of Umno”.

Angry_Voter: The Malays have been ruling the country for the past 50 years and the country is now on the verge of going bankrupt.

So I have no qualm whoever is at the helm if he/she can save the country. As they say, it does not matter what colour the cat is as long as it catches the mouse.

SRMan: By saying that if BN loses and the Malays may never rule the nation again is in fact an admission by this Umno supreme council member that the winning alternative coalition/party would be doing such a great job like Pakatan-ruled Penang or Selangor so much so that Malaysians of all races would give BN the boot forever.

Dark and unfortunate day it is but for Umno, not the nation or the Malays. The country will see much better days and many would realise then that they have actually been shortchanged or played out by Umno-BN screwed-up policies.

Debater: Malays are the majority in the country as well as in the opposition. As a democracy, the majority rules. The country will still be ruled by Malays, but real Malays and smarter Malays.

Odin: What Ibrahim really meant is that if BN loses the next general election, the corrupt, lazy Malays may never rule the country again. The honest, hardworking Malays will succeed beyond their wildest dreams.

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