That ‘Chinese’ fler in the Interlok review panel
Assoc Prof Lim Swee Tin (pix) of UPM is the only Chinese in the 8-member Interlok review panel. MIC president G Palanivel was quoted as revealing that out of the 100-plus ‘errors’ in the novel, 85 concerned the chapter on Maniam. ____________________________ UPDATED (March 30): One of the NIAT panellists clarified at the press conference … Continue reading
Danger of normalizing ‘pariah’
UPDATE: Connected story, ‘Baby’s throat slashed, parents, siblings slaughtered‘ ooo.-O-.ooo ooo.-O-.ooo ooo.-O-.ooo ooo.-O-.ooo CiFwatch, which monitors the psychosis of The Guardian (a British paper that is determinedly anti-Israel), has a write-up which is useful in helping to elucidate the Interlok situation. In ‘Harriet Sherwood and the normalization of anti-Israel bigotry‘, CiFwatch blogger Adam Levick explains how he … Continue reading
Interlok rally: ‘Umno rasis’ / ‘Cina tak malu’
Malaysiakini.TV has footage of S. Jayathas’s arrest by police. The HRP information chief was nabbed when he started to chant “Umno rasis, Umno rasis”. You can still see the large bruise on Jayathas’ right arm from his last rough handling by police during the build-up to the rally. The Malaysian public is well aware of … Continue reading
Interlok: Chinese will happily sell their mothers too
Here’s our prediction. The rally later this morning at KLCC will be an all-Indian affair. Let’s wait and see, shall we? Now, why is it we don’t think that the Chinese will turn up? Because they see nothing objectionable about Interlok lah. After all it’s a historical book — even Chua Soi Lek said so. … Continue reading
Interlok: Ya lor, DAP pun nampak pada Melayu saja
By Sharifuddin A Latiff Thanks Greg Lopez for your comment on our posting Interlok: Could Ridhuan Tee be right after all? Our view is that DAP is just like Ridhuan in the way the party top leadership and certain segments of its second echelon are obsessed with the Malays and neglecting the minorities. Malaysiakini carried this … Continue reading
Interlok: Could Ridhuan Tee be right after all?
When a white novelist writes the dialogue of a black character, the condescension can make his reader cringe. Take the sample below: “I looks like gwine to heaven, an’t thar where white folks is gwine? S’pose they’d have me thar? I’d rather go to torment, and get away from Mas’r and Missis. I had so.” … Continue reading
Ridhuan Tee slams ‘Interlok’ protesters as extremists
Utusan columnist Ridhuan Tee today whacked the Indians in his article ‘Jangan menang sorak‘. He labels “an extremist demand” the call by Indian NGOs for the novel ‘Interlok’ to be withdrawn as a Form 5 exam text. He quotes the claim by Malay NGO group Majlis Perundingan Melayu that the Indians have “memutarbelit” (twisted) the … Continue reading
Ridhuan Tee at it again / Utusan on Sunday outsells Star
By Hartal MSM Uppercaise and Sakmongkol in their Jan 16 postings updated respectively on the newspaper circulation numbers and kind of readership. We’re adding our 2 sen here on the Icker factor. uppercaise blogged: ‘Metro, Sin Chew are tops, NST bottoms below 80,000‘ Citing the Audit Bureau of Circulation, uppercaise posted a list of the Top … Continue reading
Najib storm in X’mas teacup: Non-Malays over-reacting
By Sharifuddin A. Latiff The PM’s special officer who made the ‘no-crucifix request’ expressed her “heartfelt regret” in a statement yesterday. Datuk Hardev Kaur clarified that she had merely “requested” for a rostrum to be free from any Christian symbol at the Dec 25 Christmas party where Najib was guest-of-honour. Hardev is a former NST … Continue reading
Icker-Tee’s penis envy
Pix: Visualisation map of Guardian’s news coverage. — credit Benjamin D. Hennig (University of Sheffield) The map above visualizes in graphic form the number of news items carried by British paper The Guardian according to country geography. If you’ll compare the map (of how often any particular country has been mentioned in the paper’s major … Continue reading
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