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  • Dr Mahathir: Malays Lack Good Values, Lazy And Uncompetitive

    Dr Mahathir: Malays Lack Good Values, Lazy And Uncompetitive

    KUALA LUMPUR — Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday once again lashed out at the Malay community in his country, accusing them of lacking good values and being lazy.

    Dr Mahathir said the country’s ethnic majority was not hardworking enough and therefore uncompetitive, causing them to trail behind the other races economically.

    This also resulted in the Malays being driven out from the main cities to the rural interior.

    “Like Alor Setar (the capital of Kedah) and now there are no more Malays there when it was them that raised the city. This is because the Malays are poor and they have no money so they sell their land. So what happens is now they stay outside the city,” said the former leader at a book launch.

    Dr Mahathir, who served as prime minister for 22 years and is regarded as the country’s “Father of Modernisation”, admitted that he may have failed to transform the country’s ethnic majority so that they become more hardworking.

    Despite all the government had done to help them, Dr Mahathir said the Malays still expected things to come easily and refused to adopt working cultures of more successful races, such as those in Japan.

    Japan was an integral part of the Mahathir administration’s Look East Policy. The policy was to push Malaysia to follow the East Asians in becoming diligent, hardworking and loyal.

    “I have tried for 22 years to help the Malays. Maybe I have failed, although some may say that I did achieve some success,” said Dr Mahathir.

    “Values dictate if one race should succeed or not … Like the Japanese, they are ashamed if they fail. That is why they are afraid to fail … But the Malays, they lack shame.”

    Dr Mahathir said the Malays are also bankrupt of honesty. He claimed of first-hand experience in the matter when his bakery company, The Loaf, tried in the past to sack several managers for stealing money from the restaurants.

    He said the establishment of his bakery was to help the Malays by giving them job opportunities but instead they stole his money.

    “That is the problem with the Malays. They don’t have honesty,” he added.

    Dr Mahathir is a staunch defender of race-based affirmative action policies as prescribed by the New Economic Policy, an economic model mooted in 1971 to close the socio-economic gap between the largely-urban Chinese and the rural Malays as well as other indigenous Bumiputera.

    Ironically, however, the former prime minister has admitted in the past that the programme has made the Malays more complacent, while noting that the system had been abused to enrich only a few elites who were close to the ruling party.

    But the former prime minister has continued to defend the policy, saying it was still needed to help the Malays compete and bridge the income disparity among the races.

    Dr Mahathir has also been at the forefront of criticism against Prime Minister Najib Razak and his administration for the past year. He has accused Mr Najib of corruption linked to state investment firm 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), and has launched a new party, the Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (PBBM) that he said would ally with the opposition to ensure straight fights against the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition at the next General Election, which has to be called by 2018.

     

    Source: www.todayonline.com

  • New PSLE Scoring System Will Dilute Elitism, Now Time To Stop Entry By Affiliation And Direct School Admissions

    New PSLE Scoring System Will Dilute Elitism, Now Time To Stop Entry By Affiliation And Direct School Admissions

    Your average 4-pointer will be faced with a tough decision. which school to pick as his first choice? what if RI only has a Sec 1 enrolment class of 400 and your 4-pointer knows that there are 4000 4-pointers in Singapore? He is not guaranteed entry into RI any more. The school of his second and third choice becomes very important also – if he picks HCI, for example, and their cut off is also 4-points, he basically has no chance of getting in if there are400 x 4-pointers who put HCI as first choice. so he will be forced to diversify his choice of schools.

    In the past, your PSLE 260++ students would all just go straight for the RIs and the HCIs and the RGSes, and go on to hang out together, go to tuition together, apply for scholarships together, marry each other, work in the same high paying jobs together, continue to decide policy together, and send their kids back to same schools together in an entire career and life track cut off from the rest of Singapore.

    With this scheme, there is a strong chance that they will end up in any number of 20-30 other schools instead of 2-3… spreading the talent pool. Doubling down on “every school is a good school”. Breaking the concentration of elitism. And this happens all the way down. It’s a good move.

    The next step is to end affiliation and to clamp down on DSA.

     

    Source: Joshua Ip

  • Foreign Worker Issue Is Beyond Economics And Politics

    Foreign Worker Issue Is Beyond Economics And Politics

    Many of my Brothers (compatriots) feel the stress of foreign workers in Singapore.

    When we discussed this issue at a deeper level, I realize its goes beyond economics and politics.

    Its about jobs and emotions.

    Its also dilemmatic.

    Their beef isnt towards Work Permit holders but S-pass and EP holders.

    S-Pass come here with a minimum wage, thereby making them cheaper to employ, very good indeed for SMEs.

    Our government deserves credit for imposing quotas. SMEs and MNCs alike must now employ x number of citizens first before they could bring foreigners here.

    And indeed, our government has visibly reduce their numbers , especially after 2011 GE.

    At an emotional, we see a few of S-Pass holders displaying uncivil acts and forming social clusters.

    FEW PRC Chinese blast their lungs in the public transports , Few Hindu Indians try to bring the cast system and Hindi language over and FEW Filipinos do not mix with people other than their own kind.

    Yet Singaporeans like me cannot afford to see them go. Why? Who else would remain to rent our HDB flats. And mind you, rental income is one way to offload kids’ burden of providing for his/her aging parents.

    EP holders come and reside in uptown. Their men, mostly whites, come and attract both local and foreign women. Just look at any Match-making sites and see how many Japanese ladies here are seeking White men. And black and white women rarely depends on local Singaporean male to hit on them.

    It is a stereotypical view that many Asian men hardly hit on any women , a phenomenon i cannot understand and have never experienced. Yes, I do hit on Black and White women boldly. If you a Black or White female, drop me a PM.

    Singaporean men feels the pressure of trying to start a family. And when they see all these unfolding their very eyes, they feel disgruntled , which escalates to xenophobic mindsets.

    We need to address this at an emotional level, no doubt.

     

    Source: Faisal Maricar

  • Fahmi Rais: Singaporean Muslims Must Learn To Protect Themselves Against The Supernatural

    Fahmi Rais: Singaporean Muslims Must Learn To Protect Themselves Against The Supernatural

    Let me share this story with you so that you can draw lessons from it.

    1. I opened a makan place in JB in Apr 2014. It reached full house in the first 2 weeks of operation.

    2. 4 months later at the start of Ramadhan, suddenly there were no customers. Chickens bought at 3pm turned bad and black by 5pm. Different kinds of grasshoppers and other insects started to fly into the cafe. Staff started to throw tempers at each other. Regular customers complaint that the cafe was always closed. New customers found it hard to locate the cafe despite receiving clear cut directions. Clumbs of earth was found stuck at the front entrance of the shop etc etc. It lasted for months and business was severely hit. We eventually lost all staff.

    3. Late October, while still strange things happening to the makan place, I met with the worst car accident in my life. 3 of my kids in the car suffered some injuries with my boy requiring stitching. The windscreen broke as a result of my head upon impact and my driver seat dislocated. The 4-wheel car went into workshop for 3.5 months. Many healers came to the makan place to ‘rectify’ the situation and believed that the accident was no accident. It was a heightened direct attempt to harm me and family since the business did not. The head on collision accident could have been fatal. I could have died. The makan place was eventually cleansed and got a new buyer.

    4. Coupled by our need to make things easier for our school going kids, we decided to return to Singapore late Dec 2014 and found a flat unit in Woodlands. We also wanted to leave behind the memories. It caused us extreme financial strain from Aug to Dec. Thankfully, many friends came to help us.

    5. But then in the new house, strange things started to happen in the first week. Foot steps could be heard after midnight around the masterbedroom. Room doors and toilet doors opening and closing on their own. Frame falling down. Sounds of running water heard even when the tap is off. Glimpses of moving shadows were spotted. At one point, my maid ran out of the house and waited outside because of fear.

    6. People with special skills, started to say that I was accompanied by Jinns and a man of God who recently came to the house to check started vomiting when entering the rooms in the house. A dear brother came and a rukyah rite was performed on me, wife and house last evening.

    7. Yesterday too after Asar, I suddenly fell ill without reason and recovered fully by this morning. All energy was sucked out that I had to perform my prayer sitting down as I could not find the strength to stand straight. The illness disappeared as fast as when it came, all without reason and medicine.

    There are many more strange things that happened which I shall not labour further in here. Suffice to share the above so that all of us, take precaution and always be on guard. The supernatural has nothing to do with modernisation. I am the President of the Supernatural Investigation and Research Society and am very close with so many talented spiritual healers, and yet if these kind of attacks can affect me despite the God-given qualities in me, it could have hit others more badly.

    Mere belief in God is insufficient. You have to be a practising person of faith. I am still battling the supernatural as I enter this diary-like entry on my open FB wall so that we can find strength in each other and help one another. Disbelieving does not mean ‘they’ cease to exist. I pray what I went through is just a story you heard and learnt and not something you are forced to experience first hand. It is threatening and if you have a family, your kids and spouse could be at risk.

    May God continues to protect us all. You may share this posting with good intent. I am not ashamed by sharing, belittled by the effect of doing so nor defeated by what have happened. Perhaps whoever that harbours the evil intent on me can read this and know that I am still standing.

    Salam and in good faith,

    Fahmi Rais

  • Proof That Foreigners Are Depressing Wages

    Proof That Foreigners Are Depressing Wages

    A TRE reader who works at an engineering company in Marsling sent us this job application for the position of Sales Co-ordinator. The applicant stays in JB and takes about 25 minutes to cross the causeway on bus.

    After currency conversion, the reader can expect a 280% pay increase. At the same time, she would be competiting for a job with a local polytechnic graduates with 2-3 years of experience.

    What do you think?

     

    Source: www.tremeritus.com