DAP: Talibans without turbans
Hear Hannah Yeoh extolling the religious and ethical virtues of the DAP vis-à-vis the “morally bankrupt and low-class” BN/Umno. Read the unending volley of sneering condemnations by Tony Pua, the self proclaimed economic expert, on the inferiority of Malaysia’s mainly Malay Muslim civil servants, government leaders, police, military, economic performance, weapon systems, universities and education system.
FMT LETTER: From Calvin Sankaran, via e-mail
In his book, ‘The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters’, Professor BR Myers challenges the prevailing conventional wisdom amongst the academia that the Hermit Kingdom is a hard-line Stalinist communist state was founded on twin principles of Marxism and Confucianism.
In his brilliantly-written book, Myers observes that most “academics, think-tank analysts and other Pyongyang watchers have neglected to study the worldview of the military-first regime and instead choose to make sense of Juche Thought, a sham doctrine with no bearing on Pyongyang’s policy-making.”
Prof Myers’ central theme is that North Korea’s guiding ideology is a race-based nationalism derived from Japanese fascism, rather than any form of Communism. He summarises core principle of this ideology as follows: The Korean people are too pure blooded, and therefore too virtuous, to survive in this evil world without a great parental leader.
As I read Professor Myer’s book, a staggering revelation dawned on me – of the uncanny parallels between this bellicose pariah state and another race-first organisation that is closer to home – the DAP. The similarities between North Korea and DAP are numerous and encompass the entire spectrum of politics – ideology, world-view, policies, party propaganda tactics, governance and even leadership style.
Both of these entities are dynastical, father and son dictatorships despite their professed adherence to social democratic ideology. In reality neither is even remotely socialist nor democratic despite the regularly held show elections and lofty sloganeering.
Just like Kim Dynasty up North, the Lim Dynasty rules DAP with an iron fist. If the Korean spin doctors mythologise the Kim family and accord them with superhuman powers, the DAP mythmakers similarly elevate the Lims to tokongs and demigods.
Party leaders are relentlessly portrayed as intellectual Titans and of possessing Saint-like morality while their opponents are derided as bottom-feeding pond scum. Listen to the endless triumphalism and chest-thumping of Lim Guan Eng on his and his party’s managerial and moral superiority in ruling Penang over the “racist, inept, corrupt and immoral” BN/Umno.
Hear Hannah Yeoh extolling the religious and ethical virtues of the DAP vis-à-vis the “morally bankrupt and low-class” BN/Umno. Read the unending volley of sneering condemnations by Tony Pua, the self proclaimed economic expert, on the inferiority of Malaysia’s mainly Malay Muslim civil servants, government leaders, police, military, economic performance, weapon systems, universities and education system.
Racism forms the central tenet of DAP’s doctrine and electoral vote-winning strategy. Taking a leaf out of the Koreans’ playbook, the party positions itself as the courageous defender of Chinese Malaysians against the marauding mobs of Malay Muslims who are intent upon seizing their wealth and brutally snatch their cultural and language rights.
Like their Kimchi-loving Korean comrades, DAP’s racist message and intentions have been carefully camouflaged and couched in noble-sounding, lofty, jazzed-up and ultimately empty slogans like “Malaysian Malaysia”, “Middle Malaysia” and “Bangsa Malaysia”.
Over the last several decades the party has been engaging in a ceaseless racial agitprop to tear the Malaysian social fabric apart by using highly emotive ethnic issues such as the NEP, the quota system, vernacular education, etc.
Lately the party has ventured into newer territories and has taken on an expanded role – as the vanguard-in-chief of the Christian Talibans – an increasingly vocal, assertive and powerful group with its sacred epicenter located in Subang Jaya.
