I saw a few comments on facebook, blogs and other sites expressing disappointment. They say UMNO this, Najib that, Malaysia sucks, I want to migrate, something along those lines. I decided to join the bandwagon.
I’m disappointed with those who only look at one side of the coin, and when they do look at the bigger picture, they decided to ignore the other side’s argument. In other word, bias. As well as selfish if I do not know more.
Take Sultan Azlan Shah’s recent call on judges to be impartial and apolitical. Some commenters on The Malaysian Insider think that His Highness wasn’t being apolitical when he should have been by appointing Zambry as Perak MB. To be honest, I really don’t know whether he was indeed being apolitical or not when appointing Zambry, but to use that as an argument to say he was taking sides is, I think, pretty ridiculous. First and foremost, it is his prerogative to refuse Nizar’s call for dissolution of assembly, and when the king does that, the MB shall resign. If I’m not mistaken, the Perak constitution says “should the King refuse to dissolve the assembly, the Chief Minister shall resign”. I’m no law expert, but to me that sounds pretty much like Nizar has to resign. Although it doesn’t state what would happen if he didn’t. If it’s up to me, I would also look for an alternative to Nizar as MB and I’ll appoint him. It’s that simple. But then again, I might be wrong. Anyway, what I wrote there showed that Sultan Azlan Shah was just being rational and not that he took sides. People might forget that right after the March election there was still no Pakatan Rakyat. Even now, I think PR is still not an official party but only a coalition between PKR, DAP and PAS. Anyway, looking at the results, BN was the party who held the majority at the time and should have ruled the state. But no, Sultan Azlan Shah told them to wait because he heard those three parties were forming a coalition, and if they did, they would be the majority in the assembly. So they did and the coalition was formed as PR, and that’s it. Sultan Azlan Shah then appointed Nizar as the MB to head the “mixed government” and rule Perak. UMNO people could’ve said that His Higness was taking sides but again, I think he was just being practical.
Another point in hand is the PPSMI. Some who claim as the Malay language heroes fought PPSMI like there’s no tomorrow, claiming that it will kill the national language. Success followed. They must be happy now that the national language survives the horrific policy. Although I also do not agree with Maths and Science being taught in English in primary school, but I would heavily agree if it is only done in secondary school (at least for the time being). Those 7-year olds in some rural areas might not even know what addition or multiplication are, what more asymptotes or domain theories. Even some adults do not know them. At least when the reach the age of thirteen, they could understand easier the meaning of the word domain in mathematics. Anyway, back to the so-called fighters. Why did they not fight against vernacular schools? SRJK does not use the national language at all apart from the learning of the language itself. Isn’t that would a far greater threat to the Malaysian language than PPSMI? As far as I have great great respect to A. Samad Said and Prof Ungku Aziz, I think they were picky in choosing what they want to fight. Men of their calibre could have easily fought for one type of school like the one Mukhriz put forth recently but came short of any media publisity.
Anyway, my point is, please look at the bigger picture. My picture might not be the biggest, but I think is bigger than some.
