Dosa-dosa Umno kepada bangsa dan agama
Ku Li wants to bring Umno back to its perjuangan asal. The point is: what is this perjuangan asal? If you analyse Umno’s history from 1950, you can see Umno compromised on many things — which resulted in the 95% Malay majority being lost and for the country being turned into a secular state.
NO HOLDS BARRED
Raja Petra Kamarudin
Why did many of us support PAS in 1977 when Tun Hussein Onn took over as Malaysia’s third Prime Minister (he became PM in January 1976)?
Why did many of us support Semangat 46 when Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah a.k.a. Ku Li launched the party in 1988?
Why did many of us support PKR and Barisan Alternatif when they were formed in 1999?
Hmm…how ironical. 1977. 1988. 1999. Looks like a coincidence every 11 years.
The next 11 years was 2010, the year we launched the Malaysian Civil Liberties Movement (MCLM) to create a third force bipartisan movement (which is what they are talking about today but which we tried 11 years ago in 2010…hmm, 11 years lagi).
The answer is: because we found Umno wanting and not up to the mark.
In fact, many of us students of history knew about Umno’s “dosa-dosa kepada bangsa dan agama” since 1950 (by the way, 1950 was the year I was born). It is just that most Malays are jahil about history, so it is pointless talking about the matter to a bunch of village idiots.
Today, however, I have no choice but to talk about it since Ku Li has raised this matter when he said he wants to kembali kepada perjuangan asal Umno. What the fook does Ku Li mean about “kembali kepada perjuangan asal Umno?” What the fook is “perjuangan asal Umno” anyway?
Perjuangan asal Umno is “berjuang untuk bangsa dan agama”, is it?
Well, then let Umno’s track record speak for itself.
Umno was NOT set up to berjuang untuk Merdeka. It was set up to oppose the British plan to set up the Malayan Union. In 1948, the Malayan Union was abandoned in favour of the Persekutuan Tanah Melayu.
Note that: TANAH MELAYU.
That frightened the Chinese (who were Chinese nationals and not Malayan citizens). So MCA went to London to discuss independence or Merdeka with the British Colonial Office (Malaya at that time was under the BMA — British Military Administration).
And this, in turn, frightened Umno who thought an independent Malaya would be given to the Chinese (which was what Chin Peng and the Communist Party of Malaya or CPM also wanted).
That was Umno’s dosa number one. They did not ask for independence or Merdeka. They allowed the Chinese (MCA and the CPM) to discuss Merdeka with the British first. Hence, later, when Umno also discussed Merdeka with the British, the British refused to talk to Umno unless Umno, TOGETHER WITH THE CHINESE, talk about Merdeka.
The British refused to talk to Umno alone. It must be Umno PLUS the Chinese together. That was Umno’s first dosa. Umno opened the door to the Chinese to decide the terms of Merdeka. And this included granting citizenship to the foreigners so that the Malay majority dropped from 95% to just 50%.
Then, in 1951, Umno rejected the proposal from the religious wing of the party to introduce a more Islamic form of administration. Malaysia is a secular country, said Umno, so an Islamic system cannot be accepted (and gambling, liquor, etc., have to be allowed).
That resulted in the religious wing of the party breaking away from Umno to form the Pan Malaysian Islamic Party (PMIP). Umno literally broke into two with the secularists on one side and the Islamists on the other side.
And since that day, the non-Muslims have rejected the Sharia on grounds that Malaysia is a secular country, as stated by Tunku Abdul Rahman in 1951.
Many of us know about all this. Most Malays, however, do not because they just listen to what Umno leaders say, which is not always true.
Ku Li wants to bring Umno back to its perjuangan asal. The point is: what is this perjuangan asal? If you analyse Umno’s history from 1950, you can see Umno compromised on many things — which resulted in the 95% Malay majority being lost and for the country being turned into a secular state.
