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LETTERS
May 16, 2000
We can survive without Umno
As a non-Umno Malay/Muslim professional, I think
the call
of Dr.Mahathir Mohamad in his closing speech in
Umno
General Assembly that Umno leaders and members
"must
now learn to operate in a 'hostile environment'"
(New
Sunday Times, May 14), is a sign of paranoia. He is
trying
to infest it to others too.
Mahathir was also reported to have said that "we
must
imagine that everyone is hostile towards us" and
"that may
include quite a vast section of society ..."
So, Umno is trying to start a civil war against
non-Umno
Malaysians? What is it trying to do? Don't we have
the right
to treat Umno as what it should be: just a
political party
that competes for power in the democratic
framework?
However, it seems that Mahathir has continued to
assume
that Umno is the nation, and those who are hostile
to Umno
is also hostile to the nation. How moribund is this
kind of
ancient Eygptian thinking!
Umno is not the nation. Umno is not even identical
with the
Malay community because as the results of the last
general elections show, Umno is just one of the
three
parties that are supported by Malays/Muslims. In
the 60
hardcore Malay/Muslim constituencies, Umno only
received
48.6 percent of the popular votes, while PAS and
KeADILan
obtained 51.4 percent in combination.
My family and myself have never been members of
Umno.
We have been with PAS. My grandfather joined PAS
when
it first formed in the 1950s. Without Umno, we
survive, and
survive honestly without material and moral
corruption. I
hope new Malay oppositionists in Parti KeADILan
Nasional
would be like us in PAS too: learn to survive as a
moral
community without the patronage of Umno. PAS'
experience has shown that, Insyallah, good Muslims
can
survive and prosper without Umno.
Dr.Z.Samad
Kuala Selangor
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