By Mohd Ariff Sabri, MP for Raub

I am puzzled. Which type of Chinese is the threat to Malays? The DAP member who sits on the stool and crate drinking tiger or anchor beer or eating char koay teow or tau foo fa, or the rich Chinese magnates who crowd out thousands of Malays from the land? The Chinese chukongs who buy off selected Malay leaders including Malay rulers who then go on grabbing land in the thousands of acres, take away estates, developed land owned by the government on very favourable terms- which is the greater threat to the Malays?  The DAP ah bengs who sit at the back in DAP congress with legs on chairs in front or the Chinese chukongs who walk invisibly along the corridors of power?

We hardly hear a murmur from Perkasa or Isma in this case. As I said, the walking ATM machine to Ibrahim Ali is a Chinese.

During the by elections in Teluk Intan, UITM came out strongly against the DAP candidate. She was branded as an ingrate and a traitor to the Malays. Her crime? – having graduated from UITM, she became a DAP member.

To UITM and to countless other Malays, people like Dyana are traitors. The DAP in particular is the enemy and a threat to the Malays. DAP had dared to induct a Malay and an UITM graduate at that as a member. The Chinese in DAP, its supporters, are the enemies of Malays.

Something isn’t right here.

If you go down to Iskandar region, almost all the property there is owned by Chinese. Probably most of them are BN and UMNO supporters. They are not a threat to the Malays even though they are gobbling up all the property there and crowding out Malays in Johor.

The Chinese from Hong Kong and China who come down and buy out properties, thus owning part of Malaysia are not considered a threat.

Can anyone tell me, are DAP members among the owners of the property in Iskandar?

The DAP member, who sits on crates, drinking tiger beer or Anchor beer, yam-senging out merrily- he is the threat to the Malays.

What about the big tycoons? The YTLs of Malaysia who recently said crony capitalism must go. He has benefited from being in that select club of crony capitalists by getting sweet heart deals, accumulating cash reserves that enable them to set up businesses overseas- he is not a threat to the Malays? He like others Chinese who are actually a threat to Malays are in fact celebrated. Take out the IPP at Paka and see what happens.

The Chines tycoon who drove out Malays in Bukit Katu Ara and then developed it into sprawling Tropicana, he is not a threat to the Malays. The Chinese tycoon who co-developed large tracts of land belonging to PKNs is not a threat to the Malays.

I don’t see UITM- as the citadel of Malay rights and interest coming out with guns blazing against all these people. I don’t see Perkasa, that UMNO surrogate which speaks what UMNO cannot speak openly, coming out shouting against these Chinese who are crowding out Malays.

The Chinese tycoon who practically took over palm oil estates from Pahang GLCs is not a threat to the Malays. The Chinese contractor who is literally the owner of PADEC Pahang, is not threat to the Malays. The Chinese tycoon, who gobbles up large tracts of land in Kuala Lipis and Raub, is not a threat to the Malays.

But the nondescript DAP member, who sits on boxes and crates, drinking anchor and tiger beer and speaking coarsely as unpolished Chinese do, he is a threat to the Malays. The ordinary Chinese who sits on stools, eating Char Koey teow or having his curry me, tau foo fa, or the ordinary Chinese doing marketing at the Sempalit New Village market in Raub- he is the threat to the Malays.

The rich tycoons and cukongs who represent the real threat to the Malays are not considered so because they have the money and resources to buy off Malay leaders. They have the money and resources to even buy off Malay rulers. They are not the threat to the Malays.

But the DAP member who may not actually understand what DAP is all about is an enemy because, the DAP as a political party, is out to replace UMNO and BN as the government. That represents a threat to the Malays because when the DAP and pakatan rakyat replace UMNO and BN, the latter lose the monopoly to define who is and who isn’t the enemy.

What is happening to the Malays? We are allowing ourselves to be duped and tricked by UMNO and its BN running dogs into accepting how they define things. The downtrodden Malays and Chinese, all ordinary people, are united in being victims to corruption perpetrated by the rich and select Chinese and Malays; we are all united by having to live under a governance system that converts  enemies into heroes, and ordinary people into threats to each other.

Malays want to grow and prosper and yet they allow themselves to be led by mediocre and hollow people. It’s the JKKK thinking right up the higher reaches of Malay power. We want to develop kampungs and villages, yet we allow the mediocre, riffraff, the village bullies, the bank and school jagas to lead the kampungs. We want the Malays to be uplifted yet we allow ourselves to be led by JKKK quality Malay leadership.

Then they define the ordinary Chinese, the tooth-picking and speaking coarsely DAP member as a threat to the Malays.

And to UITM- do they get extra validation by having a person of Ibrahim Ali’s calibre as its board member? In that way, UITM becomes an exalted institution pursing academic excellence?

* The views expressed in this article are the personal opinion of the writer