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Hadi's son-in-law paints racist dystopia on news of first Chinese lieutenant general
A PAS figure has courted backlash over his social media post, appearing to take issue with the appointment of Malaysia’s first Chinese lieutenant general.
Taking to Facebook yesterday, Sungai Buloh PAS division chief Zaharuddin Muhammad penned a brief news report from the future to supposedly illustrate his stance against the milestone.
Summary
PAS leader Zaharudin Muhammad sparks outrage after using Johnny Lim’s promotion to lieutenant general to craft a fictional “future” where a Chinese prime minister emerges via foreign-born lineage.
He claims the screenshot of Lim’s promotion, attached to the hypothetical narrative on Facebook, was “merely decorative.”
DAP MP Syahredzan Johan condemns the post as divisive and urges all parties to reject such politics.
A PAS figure has courted backlash over his social media post, appearing to take issue with the appointment of Malaysia’s first Chinese lieutenant general.
Taking to Facebook yesterday, Sungai Buloh PAS division chief Zaharudin Muhammad penned a brief news report from the future to supposedly illustrate his stance against the milestone.
In his hypothetical scenario set in 2058, Zaharuddin, who is also PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang’s son-in-law, wrote of a Chinese individual from Kampung Sungai Baru - now a Malay enclave - being appointed as Malaysia’s 50th prime minister.
He also detailed that the imaginary individual’s parents had secured citizenship through the Malaysia My Second Home scheme.
“It’s not impossible that news like this will come out and be neutral in 30, 40 years from now,” he added.
Zaharudin also attached a screenshot of a news article dated yesterday regarding the armed forces’ promotion of Johnny Lim Eng Seng from major general to the rank of lieutenant general.
However, Zaharudin insisted that the appointment is not linked with the fabricated possibility he had come up with, saying: “The (screenshot) is merely decorative. No connection with the news above.”
Creating division
In response, DAP lawmaker Syahredzan Johan lambasted Zaharudin for apparently using Malacca-born Lim’s promotion to create divides among the rakyat.
“What is wrong with a Chinese Malaysian being promoted to the rank of lieutenant general in the armed forces?
“Isn’t he also a child of Malaysia?” the Bangi MP said in a Facebook post last night.
He highlighted that the honour given to Lim should be a source of pride for the people who can also benefit from the value of unity in diversity.
“Unfortunately, it has been turned into a point of divisive polemic like this, which will only further fracture our society.
“This kind of politics and polemic must have no place in the Malaysia we love,” Syahredzan stressed.
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Well, he is speaking his mind. It is a matter for the Malays in power to deal with. The liberal and progressive group, the conservative and religiously inclined group and the radical ultra Malays; they would have to deal with probabilities like this. The Malays of yester years had no issues with the Non Malays being promoted to certain designations in the civil services and in the armed forces. If we take a stroll down memory lane and visit our nation's archives, we can see who was the 1st Rear Admiral of the Malaysian Navy when it was formed after the British Military Administration left the country in 1957. It was none other than Rear Admiral K Thanabalasingam. Before Air Vice Chief Marshal Sulaiman Sujak took over the Royal Malaysian Air Force in 1968, it was Air Commodore Alexander Johnstone who was in charge. Therefore our history shows what kind of people we were when the country was first formed and to what kind of people we have become after 68 years of independence. The Non Malays have got no issues as to who is in charge of the nation's armed forces. We know we don't have much of a say anymore because of the lack of participation. But as long as there is still an opportunity and room for a reset perhaps we may consider it as service to the nation but for that to happen it will take some serious mindset changes which one believes we are not in a state to do so today. But one always believes in hope.
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