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Some in national schools making non-Muslims wear tudung
Responding to calls for more single-stream schools, Mahathir says
the practice is making the schools less attractive to Chinese and
Indians
KUALA LUMPUR - Some people in national-type schools are trying to
make non-Muslim students wear the 'tudung' (Muslim head scarf for
women) and 'baju jurung' (traditional Malay dress), Malaysian Prime
Minister Datuk Seri Mahathir Mohamad has said.
This will thwart efforts made by the government to make such schools
more attractive to Chinese and Indians, he told reporters after meeting
Barisan Nasional members of Parliament at Parliament House on Monday.
He was commenting on calls that more single-stream schools be set up to
check racial polarisation among students, following Senior Minister Lee
Kuan Yew's recent remarks that Malaysia's education system did not
promote national integration.
Mr Lee made his remarks at a recent dialogue with Singapore's
Malay-Muslim community where he put forward the case for closer
integration with the other communities.
'We have avoided separate communalised groups as in Malaysia, where
Malay students at universities and schools mix only among themselves, and
so do the Chinese and the Indians separately,' he said.
Since then, the issue has been the subject of debate in Malaysia, with the
Education Minister endorsing Mr Lee's remarks and two other senior
leaders defending the education policy.
Both the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) and the Malaysian Indian
Congress (MIC) have come out in support of vernacular schools.
Said Dr Mahathir: 'In order to maintain vernacular schools, the government
continues to provide them with assistance. At the same time, we hope
these communities will send their children to national-type schools.'
He added that having more People's Own Language (POL) teachers and
classes would be one way to make national-type schools more attractive.
'Parents who send their children to national-type schools can then be sure
that they will learn their mother tongues and that there will be no pressure
on them to accept Muslim practices,' he said.
Dr Mahathir also said the government would encourage more language
teachers into the service for this purpose.
He said Malaysia was one of the few countries where people were free to
learn and speak their own mother tongue.
One way of promoting national integration was to implement Vision
Schools, he said, but the opposition had politicised the issue.
'Whatever we propose, they make a political issue of it and they bring in
racial elements that make a small matter big,' he said.
'Whenever we want to do something, we are opposed by the opposition,
who feel that, as the opposition, they must oppose everything.' --The
Star/AsiaNews Network,New Straits Times
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