Foreign Immigration

Let us not quibble over the matter.

It's obvious that the division chief Ahmad Ismail should be hung, drawn and quartered for repeating seditious statements that pertain to the citizenship of the Malaysian Chinese - likening them to filthy off-the-junk immigrants who will never share the rights of the natives! Is it any wonder that the usually reticent Chinese have raised their hackles in protest?


Are we immigrants still after all these years?
How dare he even question it? Do these politicians even stop to think before they speak? Immigrants most of us might have been a century ago but our decades here have certainly proven our loyalty as a citizen of this country.

A mere slap on the wrist could hardly be called a worthy punishment - since no less than immediate exile to a torturous gulag would suffice for such grievous insult! Although no matter what they finally charge him with, hopefully this precedent serves as a deterrent to any political ingenues seeking to rise meteorically in the ranks by uttering such seditious anti-Chinese rhetoric.

But I have to admit my sympathies go out to the racist fella.

Let us not be so naive in thinking that he's the sole bearer of such Malay supremacist sentiments ( such racist embers usually vigorously fanned during political gatherings ). How is he any different from the bigots who'd tell the Chinese to return to their supposed homeland if they don't like the governance of the country? By chance, Ahmad Ismail is just the handy scapegoat who got collared publically! During the political rally where he allegedly made his speech, no doubt he had a large number of ardent supporters - who although they might not have agreed wholeheartedly to his fiery comments - didn't even bother to raise a single whimper of protest.

So these are the people we should fear most - the silent majority easily swayed into such racial prejudices by a select militant few who still hold on to the concept of supreme Malay hegemony - dismissing the other races as mere troublesome squatters in their land to be deported at the government's behest.

Although if they regard the term immigrant to be an insult, I really have to question the intelligence of such bright thinkers.

Seriously. Are there any true natives in the world any more at the moment? Not even the aborigines can claim to have been a native of their lands since before creation! Surely Adam and Eve didn't multiply in an instant simultaneously all across the world so we must all have been immigrants sometime in the past.

It doesn't take a genius. Short of having a family tree that's rooted to one place for literally eons - and obviously interbreeds endlessly producing genetic dead ends - can anyone honestly say they don't have a single immigrant in their ancestry?