“All Muslims are Malays so it does not matter if they are Chinese or Indians. If they are Muslims then they are Malays,” the speaker replied.
I am one of the privileged few to have attended a local public university and learned the meaning of hate, thanks to the ever popular Biro Tata Negara.
All undergraduates were forced to attend this programme or else they would not be eligible for graduation.
Muhyiddin has defended the BTN courses
The BTN under the Prime Minister’s Department brought in “intellectual” speakers who were supposed to enlighten the students about the meaning of being a Malaysian but instead it felt more like a communist propaganda camp brainwashing those attending about the importance of “Ketuanan Melayu”.
The camp would usually take place during the weekends. Students would have to register early in the morning and the programme would last the whole day.
The organisers were always on their guard, asking participants to show their student identification cards each time they entered the hall, fearing the presence of outsiders.
In the hall, students were asked to turn off their mobile phones.
During the lectures, questions were planted among the audience and the students were advised not to ask any other questions.
One speaker began with the history of Malaysia and how much the country had gone through, always emphasising the May 13 riots.
He stressed the point of how much the Malays had sacrificed and how the community should be united especially from outside threat — the Chinese community.
He said that the Chinese community were “the Jews of Asia” and were just itching to take over when Malays were disunited and broken.
The speaker also revealed a greater Chinese conspiracy where the Chinese Malaysians were working together with Singapore to topple the Malay government.
“Do you want to become like the Malays in Singapore?” he asked.
He also went so far as to criticise Malay girls for dating boys from other races.
He added that they should not be cheap and embarrass their families.
Once, a student told the speaker that as Muslims, we should also respect other races who are also Muslims.
“All Muslims are Malays so it does not matter if they are Chinese or Indians. If they are Muslims then they are Malays,” the speaker replied.
This is why I was relieved when I learned that the Selangor government had moved to ban its civil servants, employees of state subsidiaries and students at state-owned education institutions from attending any BTN courses with immediate effect.
However I believe racism in varsities does not end at BTN because classrooms have also become victims of ignorant scholars.
My friend was verbally abused during his sociology class when he did not agree with the points made by his lecturer.
“You must be DKK,” the lecturer told him.
“What is DKK?” he asked.
“You must be darah keturunan keling (descendents of Indians),” the lecturer said, pointing to his dark skin.
My Saudi friend was also shocked by the comments made by his lecturer in his Islamic civilisation class.
“We should save our Orang Asli from the Chinese people. They are like the Palestinians and the Chinese are Israel. We must fight the Jews,” the lecturer told his students.
The lecturer even failed one of his students in his oral exam when he quoted a Western scholar in his presentation.
“You should be ashamed of yourselves. You are a Muslim and should only use Islamic scholars,” he scolded the student.
I was personally saddened when my Islamic law lecturer compared Christianity to Head & Shoulder’s 3 in 1 shampoo in referring to the religion’s Holy Trinity.
I feel that racism has been institutionalised in our country and that BTN is only the tip of the iceberg.
Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin defended BTN yesterday and claimed that it was not racist but is line with the 1 Malaysia concept.
I have to humbly disagree and would like to suggest maybe the ministers should bring their overseas children home and let them have a taste of what BTN is.
By Asrul Hadi Abdullah Sani
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BTN- is truly the beginning of the end for Malaysia if DPM can defend its racists ways.
It is hypocrisy for the BN government to advocate 1Malaysia and in the same breath use the BTN to preach hate. This is so like Nazi Germany that it is scary. The key difference here is the elite who live off the hands of UMNO in luxurious conditions use controlled racism to manage the rest of the malays by preaching hate to contain the other races.
Organized racism has been used before in South Africa and Nazi Germany with terrible consequences and if UMNO continues down this line, this nation is set for a terrible time and consequence. Thank God for the presence of PR in the corridors of power. Since they came in, all the evil which we knew existed but layed hidden have been revealed. There is more to come for sure.
If the BTN is supposed to foster unity, why should the programmes subject to the OSA? Its because the indoctrination is insanely about BN politics and Islam vs the rest.
The reason why government servants and students have to attend, contrary to what the DPM thinks, is that it is mandatory to being confirmed in the service. Many who sit through the BTC courses bite their tongues even if they disagree with the trainers because it has been shared that during the trainings, those who ask questions are sought out and asked about their family history etc. Naturally people get worried and do not bring their experiences out of the training centre.
But a few have been brave to document what they experienced and today political leaders are bold enough to address the real issues behind the BTN. Let not the government kid us that the BTN is nothing but an innocent, unity fostering programme. It is definitely not.
The DPM defending the BTN course remind me of the similarity of the Israel PM saying that it is right to continue with the building of settlements in the occupied areas of the Palestinians.
In fact racism and religious strive does not exist naturally in a big way in Malaysia. The greatest problem which Malaysian must deal with is none other than the BN led by UMNO which has been using racism and religion to divide and rule. Their concept of rule is divide the people first and rule. Generally Malaysians are less racist and if it does is because of the top leaders from UMNO using it to benefit themselves and thus justified the use of ISA to arrest and oppress the people. So whoever think that there is racism or religious strive have fallen into their wicked trap....
BTN is conducted by norrow minded people with evil agenda for others. The course contents of BTN are anti non Muslims, anti Christians, anti Chinese, anti West, anti Jews, anti Indians. It is breeding ground for negative values. Worst of all it is part of the PM Office and hence funded by the Malaysian Government to hate others who are not Malays and not Muslims. This is well and truly the worse abuse of powers and public fund in this UMNO led government. This is facism at work in Malaysia. Sack the DPM. who supports the BTN. Sack this Government in the next GE for its misuse of powers and public monies. If this Government is allowed to govern any longer, Malaysia is doomed for sure.
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