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| Did this Professor blame the NEP for "soaring" crime? Posted: 21 Oct 2013 11:10 PM PDT
In Policies favouring the Malays have something to do with "soaring" crime? (3540 Jalan Sudin, Oct 18), blogger Nuraina Samad draws us to The New York Times's audacity of suggesting that the NEP was partly to blame for Malaysia's crime rate. I agree with her: "What a load of bull!"Exceprts from the NYT: "Critics of the government's approach say that amid what they call an obfuscation of crime statistics and the sudden crackdown, any real discussion of the roots of Malaysia's crime problem is being lost. They blame not only a police force that they view as corrupt and ineffectual, but also income inequality and the alienation of ethnic Indians who represent 7 percent of the country's population, yet, according to the police, make up two-thirds of gang members. Some suggest the government needs to modify the country's seemingly inviolable preferential policies for Malays, who receive scholarships, cheaper housing and government contracts as part of a policy dating from the 1970s. Ahmad Ghazali Abu Hassan, a professor at the National Defense University of Malaysia, says the system of preferences for Malays "should be modified to address inequality within our society, without identifying race." Particularly in need of help, he said, were ethnic Indians. "I still believe that poverty is the root cause of this," he said." -Read full article Wave of high-profile crimes has put Malaysians on the defensive Someone ought to interview the Universiti Pertahanan Nasional professor, though. I don't see him blaming the NEP at all. On the contrary, Prof Ahmad Ghazali may actually be suggesting that because the NEP has been successful in reducing poverty, the policy should be expanded to include non-Bumiputera poor, especially the Indians, in order to help Malaysia bring down crime ..  | ||
| Yellow card to Khalid Ibrahim over UKRC field Posted: 21 Oct 2013 03:00 PM PDT
"Dinner will be served after the protest," UKRC president Andrew Gopal told me. But dinner will be the last thing on the minds of the residents, club members and UKRC supporters who will be staging the protest tomorrow. They'll be wondering if the UKRC will ever be safe ... A decade ago these good people fought the Selangor state government when it was under the BN to save the field. The people prevailed, the greedy developers were kept at bay, and the UKRC field was declared an "open space" by Khir Toyo, who was the MB then. In 2008, Pakatan Rakyat seized Selangor from the BN and a new state government under MB Khalid Ibrahim, which promised to be friendlier to the people, came in. Last July, Pakatan was returned to power in Selangor for a second term and Khalid was sworn in as MB again. Then this month, the MPAJ declared that the UKRC had no right over the UKRC field and, with the backing of the MB and the might of the state government, "snatched" the field away from the Club. Deja vu ...  |
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