Mission Interlok: The cloning of Ridhuan
When American teen sensation Miley Cyrus (who gained celebrity for playing Disney’s Hannah Montana) parodied the slit-eyed Chinese, there were howls of protest. She apologized. ‘Sepet’ is scattered throughout Interlok like birdshot but its author Abdullah Hussain remains unapologetic. Yet writing in The Malaysian Insider, Sen Tyng Chai bemoaned the widespread “wave of blind criticism” … 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: 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 He labels “an extremist demand” the call by Indian NGOs for the novel ‘Interlok’ to be withdrawn as a Form 5 exam text.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
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
Ridhuan Tee — kinda scary, truly!
Pix: A mass grave in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. This is a follow-up to our previous posting Nazi-uan Tee Strikes Again! Why do we say that Ridhuan is scary? To give you a clearer picture, here’s a brief explanation of the features of our blog dashboard. Hartal uses WordPress. As blog administrators, we know a few … Continue reading
Nazi-uan Tee Strikes Again!
by Eyes Wide Open “Christmas celebration sometimes looks as if they form more than 50 per cent of the population. Out of respect for religious freedom, no restriction has been imposed, although it should be celebrated moderately as they are less than ten per cent of the population.” “…jika tidak ada arahanpun, sepatutnya pihak gereja … Continue reading
UPDATE: MCA hypocrites!/Uztaz who said ‘King Kong’
Ustaz Ann Wan Seng — who said Buddhism is the religion of “Kong Kali Kong” — was recipient of the Selangor Tokoh Maal Hijrah award 2009. He was also recipient of the national Excellent Saudara Muslim award in 2008. He’s honorary secretary of the Malaysian Chinese Muslim Association (Macma). Incidentally, Ridhuan Tee is Macma vice … Continue reading
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