If Only Abdullah Walked the Talk

Selamat Hari Raya Idil Fitri Maaf Zahir dan Batin from the blog.

It is indeed a time for rejoicing for our Islamic Brothers and sisters who have fasted for the last 30 days or so in an act of renewal.

I read the Prime Minister's message in the Star, I expected some act of forgiveness, he talked about it but he was unable to walk the talk. What happened to Raja Petra Kamaruddin who has been detained under the ISA for speaking his mind, he talks about openness, it is not the Malaysians who are not prepared for it as he puts it, it is the UMNO leadership in their narrow mindedness who are ill prepared for this, not really ill prepared, but who go all out in the crudest of manners to exploit it, make sentimental issues out of it, and stir the emotions of their followers for their own political ends.

The UMNO leadership has dwindled to nothing but a bunch of leaders with a mindset of street gangsters.

This was seen in one of the videos displayed on the YOUTUBE where Nazri a supreme council member seems to be yelling at another member of Parliament and telling him to shut up, calling him a racialist, and using other language that does not befit a member Parliament.

This was seen in the behavior of Ahmad Isamil, this was seen in the unsubstantiated allegations made about Theresa Kok by a former Menteri Besar of Selangor and an UMNO supreme council member as well.

It was seen in the language of UMNO members of Parliament using degrading names to reefer to "Indians" and terms that were an insult to the ladies of Malaysia.

What is paramount here here is the failure of the President of UMNO, and the Barisan Nasional, and the Prime Minister to have personally come out and directly have taken these people to task to stop it at the onset.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi could have stopped all thsi had he been firm right at the onset, which he chose not to do, in a deliberate attempt to win favour with the extreme right in UMNO in order to safeguard his position.

Sadly it did not work, it only portrayed him as a weakling, unable to make firm decisions, and a person over whom every, Nazri, Najib and Khairy could walk over.

Today in the Hari Raya message he calls for understanding.

Abdullah also asked for forgiveness for any wrong he might have done, Mr. prime Minsiter you can't keep people jailed as prisoners of conscience as you yourself knwo it is wrong and ask for forgiveness, who are we to forgive you for the sins you commit against others.