Stay in your tempurung, katak!
(translation of title: “Stay in your coconut shell, frog!” This is a popular Malay saying to refer to someone who is poorly exposed).
For someone who’s all about travel, I would really like to know from which skanky tempurung did Tengku Adnan, Malaysia’s Tourism Minister, crawl out from.
Marina Mahathir’s Rantings blog linked an outrageous outburst by the Tengku in Sin Chew (a Malaysian Chinese paper) as blogged by Elizabeth Wong, a prominent Malaysian activist, who did a quick translate on the piece:
Bloggers are liars. They use all sort of ways to cheat others. From what I know, out of 10,000 unemployed bloggers, 8,000 are women.
“Bloggers like to spread rumours, they don’t like national unity. Today our country has achievements because we are tolerant and compromising. Otherwise we will have civil war.
“Malays will kill Chinese, Chinese will kill Malays, Indians will kill everybody else.â€
He asked people not to believe bloggers and gamble away Malaysia’s future because 50 years of Merdeka (Independence) takes a lot to achieve it.
“We have to show to the people our positive attitude. If the world learns from us, there will peace and no civil war.
Are these leaders we’ve put in our government?
Never mind the flippant disregard for International Women’s Day or the doubtful accuracy of his little ‘factoid’ there that “80 per cent of unemployed bloggers are women”, and the clever little slur there of racial mass murder, but where on God’s green earth is his media training?
Do they give media training under the tempurung? They certainly have managed to elicit some covert intel on umemployed bloggers that nobody else has, that’s for sure.
Pop over to Liz’s entry for more links and a full commentary.
Posted in Imperfect Malaysia, Imperfect World
March 11th, 2007 at 12:22 am
It’s appaling to know someone of his calibre to say such s**t. Why is he putting his nose where it doesn’t belong? Don’t think VMY is doing that well so far.
March 11th, 2007 at 3:57 am
Shallow Hal in action, I say! Maybe it’s some political thing to get some attention thrown his way…?
March 11th, 2007 at 6:24 am
Yvy, I won’t even give him the credit of being so conniving. This all started because some female journo who also blogs wrote a bad entry about the recent floral parade in her blog.
Celine, the racial slurs are the worst. If he was an MP it would already be bad enough. I want to see if they will fire one of their own and be detained under ISA for inciting disharmony!
March 11th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
This is so sad and at the same time embarassing !!
March 12th, 2007 at 3:20 am
Jenn,
Firing their own - that will be the last thing. And if our dear friend is reading this, we are all talking facts not lies!! I just met with some ex-colleagues who work for one utility company that will only get supplies, etc from his own group of companies. This is called nepotism - and this bloke is high ranking - he owns feraris, helicopter, utility companies, etc. Sigh…. when will they learn. Some say they will and can never and hence, will always rely on the chinese, who is always the smarter and cunning ones.