PAS questions lack of legal action against minister Ismail Sabri for his call to boycott Chinese traders.
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KUALA LUMPUR: PAS today accused the government of selective prosecution when it came to Umno leaders, as it questioned the lack of legal action being taken against minister Ismail Sabri after he called for a boycott on Chinese traders.
“If such a statement was given by an opposition party leader, surely the authorities will quickly drag him to court under the Sedition Act,” PAS information chief Mahfuz Omar was quoted as saying in the Malaysian Insider today.
“Don’t blindly support like a drunkard on toddy,” he added, lampooning the press conference held by 92 Umno division chiefs in support of the Minister of Agriculture and Agro-based Industry yesterday.
In a bid to ease mounting racial tension, prime minister Najib Razak made an official announcement yesterday that Ismail’s call for Malays to boycott Chinese traders was directed at all businesses that refused to lower prices and not just the Chinese.
Ismail has received heavy criticism from all sides for being racist and seditious with his race-specific suggestion.
Not buying Najib’s watered down version of Ismail’s call to Malays was MP for Shah Alam Khalid Samad who attacked Ismail as being a “racist” and “stupid”.
“There is no way that the high prices of goods can be blamed on one race… It is stupid and oversimplifying matters. It is as if the prices went up because the Chinese want it to,” he told a press conference at his office in Shah Alam today.
In his message, Ismail had said, “As long as Malays don’t change, the Chinese will take advantage to oppress the Malays.”
Soon after the furore over the statement, Ismail pulled it down from Facebook and issued a clarification saying he meant consumers were the majority and traders the minority, but ending up reverting to his original line of thinking in that all Malay consumers should target the minority Chinese traders.
KUALA LUMPUR: PAS today accused the government of selective prosecution when it came to Umno leaders, as it questioned the lack of legal action being taken against minister Ismail Sabri after he called for a boycott on Chinese traders.
“If such a statement was given by an opposition party leader, surely the authorities will quickly drag him to court under the Sedition Act,” PAS information chief Mahfuz Omar was quoted as saying in the Malaysian Insider today.
“Don’t blindly support like a drunkard on toddy,” he added, lampooning the press conference held by 92 Umno division chiefs in support of the Minister of Agriculture and Agro-based Industry yesterday.
In a bid to ease mounting racial tension, prime minister Najib Razak made an official announcement yesterday that Ismail’s call for Malays to boycott Chinese traders was directed at all businesses that refused to lower prices and not just the Chinese.
Ismail has received heavy criticism from all sides for being racist and seditious with his race-specific suggestion.
Not buying Najib’s watered down version of Ismail’s call to Malays was MP for Shah Alam Khalid Samad who attacked Ismail as being a “racist” and “stupid”.
“There is no way that the high prices of goods can be blamed on one race… It is stupid and oversimplifying matters. It is as if the prices went up because the Chinese want it to,” he told a press conference at his office in Shah Alam today.
In his message, Ismail had said, “As long as Malays don’t change, the Chinese will take advantage to oppress the Malays.”
Soon after the furore over the statement, Ismail pulled it down from Facebook and issued a clarification saying he meant consumers were the majority and traders the minority, but ending up reverting to his original line of thinking in that all Malay consumers should target the minority Chinese traders.
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