Sunday, August 31, 2008

Integration with distinction

Mahatma Gandhi has made it clear that he disapproved of seeking to convert people from one religion to another. Conversion would mean asking them to give up the use of names, symbols and rituals in which they were brought up from childhood and inducing them to adopt a new set of names, symbols and rituals. At the same time, people who follow one religion should understand the other religions professed by their fellow citizens. Most certainly, at least the religion of the vast bulk of our people which necessarily influences the life of the nation, should be understood by those who have been following other faiths. Integration does not mean the giving up of any creed or customs or the adoption of those of others but consists in all round sympathetic understanding.
~ C. Rajagopalachari

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Corruption - legitimate!

Malaysia could take comfort in that the blights of crony capitalism and political corruption, in their infinite variations, are universal. In America, the transfer of money from interested parties to politicians is ‘political contributions'; in Malaysia, outright corruption. The intent is the same in both. Presumably when the transfer of money is receipted and duly claimed as ‘business expense,’it all miraculously becomes legitimate.
~ Bakri Musa

Monday, August 11, 2008

reality and perception

There is no actual racial issue in Malaysia, it is only incited and seeded into the public to create a scenario that best serves an authoritarian state to serve its own agenda against the goodwill and humanity for the Malaysian society that have co-existed irrespective of their colour, race, religion and creed.
~ Waythamoorthy