Lim describes minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob as a "rabid racist" out to stoke racial tensions.
FMT
KUALA LUMPUR: DAP elder statesman Lim Kit Siang wants to know whether Prime Minister Najib Razak will continue to tolerate “rabid racist” Agriculture and Agro-based Industries minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob in the Federal Cabinet.
Ismail, said Lim in a statement, “has been dishonest in resorting to lies and falsehoods to incite racial and religious hatred, conflict and tension in the country”.
Commenting on the deafening silence from Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar regarding Ismail’s statement, the DAP veteran said the IGP would have jumped into action immediately, via tweets, if “the culprit” had been an Opposition leader instead.
Lim, who is also DAP Parliamentary Leader and Gelang Patah MP, noted that Ismail had singled out the Old Town White Coffee chain owned by Old Town Bhd, by saying that the “anti-Islam” DAP Perak chairman Ngeh Khoo Ham owned shares in the company.
He quoted Ismail as saying: “Malays are still refusing to boycott (Old Town White Coffee) what more when its owner is said to be the DAP Perak’s Ngeh family which is known to be anti-Islam. As long as the Malays don’t change, the Chinese will take the opportunity to oppress the Malays.”
Ismail, fumed Lim, had committed three sins in two short sentences:
Firstly, fanning racism and hatred in inciting Malays to boycott Chinese businesses; secondly, spreading the lie that Old Town Bhd was owned by the “DAP Ngeh family”; and thirdly, fanning religious hatred, conflict and tension by falsely accusing the DAP leader of being “anti-Islam”.
“I have just spoken to DAP MP for Bruas, Ngeh Koo Ham, and he told me that he had (tweeted) his denial two or three times previously that he or his family owns a single sen of share in Old Town Bhd, but Ismail had just ignored Ngeh’s earlier denials so as to pump racial and religious vitriol and poison to create a tsunami in Malaysia’s multi-racial and multi-religious waters,” said Lim.
“If Ismail does not resign or is not sacked by the Prime Minister on Wednesday, right-thinking Malaysians regardless of race, religion or region would expect all the other Ministers to make an issue of Ismail’s suitability to continue as Minister.”
This is not an issue of Umno or BN, nor is it an issue of Malay, Chinese, Indians, Orang Asal, or Muslims, Buddhists, Christians, Hindus and Sikhs, stressed Lim.
The issue is whether a rabid racist who could openly call for a confrontation of races, i.e. Malay consumers boycotting Chinese businesses, continued Lim, is qualified to continue as a Minister of government of a plural nation and “whether all other Ministers, whether Umno, MCA, Gerakan, Sabah and Sarawak BN parties, are prepared to be identified with Ismail by continuing to serve in the same Cabinet”.
FMT
KUALA LUMPUR: DAP elder statesman Lim Kit Siang wants to know whether Prime Minister Najib Razak will continue to tolerate “rabid racist” Agriculture and Agro-based Industries minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob in the Federal Cabinet.
Ismail, said Lim in a statement, “has been dishonest in resorting to lies and falsehoods to incite racial and religious hatred, conflict and tension in the country”.
Commenting on the deafening silence from Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar regarding Ismail’s statement, the DAP veteran said the IGP would have jumped into action immediately, via tweets, if “the culprit” had been an Opposition leader instead.
Lim, who is also DAP Parliamentary Leader and Gelang Patah MP, noted that Ismail had singled out the Old Town White Coffee chain owned by Old Town Bhd, by saying that the “anti-Islam” DAP Perak chairman Ngeh Khoo Ham owned shares in the company.
He quoted Ismail as saying: “Malays are still refusing to boycott (Old Town White Coffee) what more when its owner is said to be the DAP Perak’s Ngeh family which is known to be anti-Islam. As long as the Malays don’t change, the Chinese will take the opportunity to oppress the Malays.”
Ismail, fumed Lim, had committed three sins in two short sentences:
Firstly, fanning racism and hatred in inciting Malays to boycott Chinese businesses; secondly, spreading the lie that Old Town Bhd was owned by the “DAP Ngeh family”; and thirdly, fanning religious hatred, conflict and tension by falsely accusing the DAP leader of being “anti-Islam”.
“I have just spoken to DAP MP for Bruas, Ngeh Koo Ham, and he told me that he had (tweeted) his denial two or three times previously that he or his family owns a single sen of share in Old Town Bhd, but Ismail had just ignored Ngeh’s earlier denials so as to pump racial and religious vitriol and poison to create a tsunami in Malaysia’s multi-racial and multi-religious waters,” said Lim.
“If Ismail does not resign or is not sacked by the Prime Minister on Wednesday, right-thinking Malaysians regardless of race, religion or region would expect all the other Ministers to make an issue of Ismail’s suitability to continue as Minister.”
This is not an issue of Umno or BN, nor is it an issue of Malay, Chinese, Indians, Orang Asal, or Muslims, Buddhists, Christians, Hindus and Sikhs, stressed Lim.
The issue is whether a rabid racist who could openly call for a confrontation of races, i.e. Malay consumers boycotting Chinese businesses, continued Lim, is qualified to continue as a Minister of government of a plural nation and “whether all other Ministers, whether Umno, MCA, Gerakan, Sabah and Sarawak BN parties, are prepared to be identified with Ismail by continuing to serve in the same Cabinet”.
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