Raja Petra: I’m a Malay nationalist, so what?
Controversial-blogger says he will not accept a Chinese, DAP-dominated government using PKR and Amanah Malays as puppets and proxies.
(FMT) – Controversial-blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin says he is a Malay-nationalist and will never accept a Chinese-led DAP government.
In a New Straits Times interview today, Raja Petra refuted claims that he suddenly became rich after supporting Prime Minister Najib Razak.
He said the problem with the people who made these claims was that they thought those who supported the government were doing so because they needed money.
“It never occurred to them that we are supporting the government because we want to make sure that the Chinese DAP-led opposition would not grab power and set up a Chinese DAP-dominated government with Malays from Amanah and PKR as their proxies and puppets.”
He stressed that he could never accept such a government.
“So I am a Malay nationalist. So what? Why does that make me a racist?”
He said Chin Peng used to tell the Chinese that they must support the Communist Party of Malaysia or they would be traitors to the Chinese.
Similarly, he claimed that the DAP told the Chinese they must support Pakatan Harapan or else they were traitors to the Chinese race.
“So why can’t I tell the Malays you must support Umno or else you are a traitor to the Malay race? What makes them right and me, wrong?” he asked, adding that he was also proud to be a Malay-nationalist and if that offended anyone, that was their problem.
“First close down all your Chinese and Tamil schools before coming to talk to me about ‘there should be no Malays, Chinese and Indians but only Malaysians’.”
In an Asia Sentinel article, it was alleged that Raja Petra suddenly became very rich and opened a restaurant in Manchester and bought a brand new BMW after he started working for Najib in June 2015.
In the interview, Raja Petra said he had sold his house in Sungai Buloh to set up the restaurant and the BMW was a second-hand car bought a couple of years prior.
Raja Petra left Malaysia in February 2009 and has been living in Manchester ever since in self-imposed exile, where he continues to run his MalaysiaToday website.
