Racist jibe: Pakatan leaders say it is rich coming from Khairy
By Neville Spykerman, The Malaysian Insider
KUALA LUMPUR: Pakatan Rakyat (PR) leaders have scoffed at Khairy Jamaluddin and urged him to look at himself and his own party before calling anyone else a racist.
The Umno Youth chief described DAP’s Lim Kit Siang as a “borderline racist” in a blog entry on Saturday.
He slammed the Ipoh Timur MP for describing the aborted unity talks between PAS and Umno as being against the concept of 1 Malaysia.
According to Khairy, this shockingly implied that Malay-Muslim unity was not good for the country.
However, PJ Utara MP Tony Pua said Umno and its youth chief should first denounce the concept of "Ketuanan Melayu" before calling anyone else racist.
He said unlike Umno, the DAP is not calling for Chinese or Indian unity but Malaysian unity.
“We fight for ‘Ketuanan Rakyat’ or people’s supremacy.” he said.
DAP’s Charles Santiago, in defending his party’s stalwart, said Lim was speaking out against Malay political hegemony or dominance in a multiracial Malaysia.
“Khairy is just trying to score brownie points among the Malays by hitting out at Lim.”
