‘SINCE YESTERDAY, MALAYSIA HAS BECOME THE LAUGHING STOCK OF MUSLIMS ALL OVER THE WORLD’: EXACTLY SO, BUT 60 YEARS OF UMNO BRAINWASHING & KEEPING THE PEOPLE IGNORANT IS DIFFICULT TO ERASE – AND LOOSE CANONS LIKE WAYTHA MAKE IT IMPERATIVE FOR PAKATAN TO COME UP WITH A COHERENT STRATEGY

PETALING JAYA: The peaceful holding of the anti-ICERD rally in Kuala Lumpur yesterday was a victory for New Malaysia but a setback for Pakatan Harapan (PH), DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang said today.

As Home Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin rightly said after the rally, it showed that the PH government would always respect the rights of the people to speak and assemble peacefully, as long as these rights are practised according to the provisions of the law and the Federal Constitution, he added.

The former Barisan Nasional (BN) government would never have recognised, respected and upheld the constitutional and democratic right of Malaysians to speak and assemble peacefully, as witnessed by what happened to the five Bersih rallies that took place from 2007 to 2016.

“But there is a major hitch — the organisers of the of the anti-ICERD rally in Kuala Lumpur did not want a New Malaysia, which was born on the historic day of May 9, 2018, to reset Malaysian nation-building policies to save Malaysia from the trajectory of a rogue democracy, a failed state, a kakistocracy and a global kleptocracy,“ Lim said in a statement.

“The organisers of the anti-ICERD rally came to destroy and not to create a New Malaysia. I said it was a setback for PH to build a New Malaysia because yesterday’s rally would not have happened if the PH government had handled the ICERD issue better.”

As constitutional law expert from the Universiti Malaya, Professor Shad Faruqi, has stressed, most of the criticisms against ICERD have no legal basis, Lim said.

He quoted Shad as saying: “However, as hate and fear are potent weapons in politics, the perpetrators have succeeded in polarising society and raising the spectre of violence.”

As Shad has pointed out, ICERD is neither anti-Malay nor against the Malaysian Constitution, Lim added.

Since yesterday, Malaysia has become the laughing stock of the Muslims everywhere, as 99% of the 1.9 billion Muslims of the world live in 179 countries which have ratified ICERD, including 55 of the 57 Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) nations, Lim said.

“But as Malaysia is a plural society, it is of utmost importance that the unity and harmony of our diverse races, languages, cultures and religions in Malaysia must be the paramount goal of the nation,“ he said.

“For this reason, Malaysia should not ratify ICERD until the majority of the races and religions in Malaysia are comfortable with it, support it and understand that it poses no threat to the various races, religions or the Federal Constitution but a step forward to join the world in promoting human rights.

“The PH government should not have allowed the organisers of the anti-ICERD rally to hijack, twist and distort the ICERD debate with the toxic politics of lies, hate, fear, race and religion to incite baseless fears that ICERD is anti-Malay, anti-Islam and anti-Malay Rulers.”

THE SUN DAILY

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