Wednesday, June 20, 2012

MY LETTER TO YB KUBANG KERIAN WITH REGARDS TO THE DEBATE ON STREET DEMONSTRATIONS: STRENGTHENING OR DESTROYING DEMOCRACY

To the honorable YB Salahuddin Ayub, as an MP and also vice president of a senior opposition party I think your statements during the recently organized debate by Sinar Harian were both out of order and veritably rude to all Hindu religion believers in our country. YB, this debate was to explore if street demonstrations strengthen or weaken a democratic system. Yet you likened a pious spiritual activity such as the holy Thaipusam festival to street demonstrations. This similarity you have advocated has slighted and desecrated the holy event and injured the feelings of the over 1 million Hindu believers in the nation.

YB, I would like to request you to please clarify how a holy Hindu religious event such as the Thaipusam celebrations can be likened to a politically and socially aligned event such as street demonstrations. The two mentioned events are apart as much as night and day. Thaipusam is a day that devotees fully embrace divine fervor and offer thanksgiving to the all pervading god for his blessings and ocean like compassions. By equating this holy event to a street demonstration is both insulting and very hurting to the Hindus of our beloved nation and also shows either your care less attitude towards the Hindus who belong to the Indian community or just plain naivety towards the lofty ideals of the Thaipusam celebration. Either way I feel it’s your responsibility to please clarify your statement or more appropriately unreservedly apologize for this gross mistake of a statement.

Too add insult to injury you have also said that the Hindus who carry the kavadi during this spiritual ceremony are semi conscious and yet they don’t need tear gas to keep the situation calm. Sir, this statement reeks of political expediency and is not a character becoming of someone so senior in our countries political environment. Belittling the practices of another religion and calling the devotees semi- conscious street demonstrators shows your lack of understanding and respect to the Hindu devotees of our Malaysia. In a land with such a rich tradition of many cultures and multi religious such statements are unwarranted and even seditious in nature. Bearing this in mind id like your response and clarification to your statement in the next 24 hours, barring which a more appropriate action will be taken.


NOTE: The latter was delivered to YB Tuan Salahuddin b. Haji Ayub - MP Kubang Kerian on 20th June 2012 at 18:50 hours.

7 comments:

dhanyaraam said...

Good one YB.. Hope to hear reply from him...

sharifah said...

YB, Give it to him. Memang this guy takda otak. As a fellow muslim and malay, I am truly ashamed of this Salahuddin. You stand much taller than him!

Anonymous said...

PROPHET MOHAMAD BIRTHDAY ROAD MARCH ALSO SAME AS STREET DEMOS AH?

Thuraisingham Shan said...

YB there are more serious thinks to be done fr the Hindu community,what yr talking is gutter politics, or to say cheapskate politics,read hard inbetween the line4s to decipher the pligh of the Indian community

Chandrasenan said...

Any reply from him YB? Is that how much our Indian sentiments mean to PAS and PR?

Anonymous said...

keep on the good work YB..

we must let the opposition MPs know that they must be responsible in any words that come out of their mouth..

we must let them know that they can't no longer be making ignorant, irresponsible and disrespectful statements and walking away with it..

1 malaysia

Unknown said...

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