{"id":10993,"date":"2014-11-25T18:27:10","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T10:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=10993"},"modified":"2014-11-25T18:27:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T10:27:10","slug":"umno-must-divorce-perkasa-if-it-is-not-an-extremist-political-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/umno-must-divorce-perkasa-if-it-is-not-an-extremist-political-party\/","title":{"rendered":"UMNO must divorce Perkasa if it is not an extremist political party"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10994\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ibrahim_ali-aziz_shamsuddin-abdul_hamid_mohammad-PERKASA-231114-TMI-AFIF.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10994\" class=\"wp-image-10994\" style=\"padding-left: 20px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/ibrahim_ali-aziz_shamsuddin-abdul_hamid_mohammad-PERKASA-231114-TMI-AFIF.jpg\" alt=\"ibrahim_ali-aziz_shamsuddin-abdul_hamid_mohammad-PERKASA-231114-TMI-AFIF\" width=\"450\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10994\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perkasa at its National Unity Convention, in Pusat Islam KL (Pic courtesy of The Malaysian Insider)<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">DAP has asked UMNO to publicly divorce Perkasa to distance itself from its racist image.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cBy fully endorsing Perkasa, how can UMNO deny that it is an extremist political party that panders to racist ideology of dominance and superiority?\u201d asked DAP Secretary General Lim Guan Eng in a strongly-worded statement today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lim said that the Perkasa chief Ibrahim Ali had inflamed non-Muslims when he openly called for the Malay and Iban version of the Bible to be burned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cUMNO leaders not only failed to condemn him but an UMNO Minister even supported him,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lim also added that the public were outraged at the federal government&#8217;s attempt to justify the threat as a constitutional right to defend Islam and that there was\u00a0no intention of offending Christians.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also slammed the right-wing group for urging Putrajaya to take immediate action over the \u201cphenomenon\u201d that there are more non-Bumiputera students than bumiputera students who are exempted from repaying their PTPTN loans because they obtained first class honours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Perkasa, in its National Unity Convention together with what Lim Guan Eng called \u201ca coalition of racist Malay NGOs\u201d at the Pusat Islam in Kuala Lumpur said that the Malaysian government should study reasons why Bumiputera students\u2019 academic results are declining compared to non-Bumiputeras.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;In this context, the Malaysian government should review whether PTPTN exemptions should be given to Bumiputeras alone, in line with Article 153 of the Federal Constitution,&#8221; said Ibrahim in the convention\u2019s National Unity Memorandum.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Instead of rewarding excellence regardless of race, Lim said, UMNO endorses Perkasa who intend to discriminate against excellent students just because they are non\u2013Bumiputeras.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lim said that the UMNO\u2019s support for Perkasa was also apparent in the disappearance of 1Malaysia from Prime Minister Najib Razak\u2019s speeches and rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He asked MCA and Gerakan leaders to bring up in the Cabinet weekly meeting tomorrow that UMNO publicly divorce Perkasa to prove Barisan Nasional\u2019s commitment and sincerity in opposing Perkasa. -The Rocket<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAP has asked UMNO to publicly divorce Perkasa to distance itself from its racist image. \u201cBy fully endorsing Perkasa, how can UMNO deny that it is an extremist political party that panders to racist ideology of dominance and superiority?\u201d asked DAP Secretary General Lim Guan Eng in a strongly-worded statement today. 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