Pandangan di FGR & “Fear of militancy boosts Mahathir
through by-election win” (AFP)
Webmaster banggang delete posting aku
Aku cuba beritahu malam tadi Ketari akibat Sept 11
tapi
Mon Apr 1 18:27:14 2002
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Kadang-kadang aku tengok Webmaster FGR dan orang BA di
FGR ini terlalu emosi sampai tak mahu berita-berita
yang tak sedap didengar oleh mereka.
Malam tadi aku cuba memberitahu bahawa salah satu
sebab kekelahan DAP di Ketari adalah ekoran dari Sept
11. Orang Cina takut kepada militancy dan negara
Islam. Malangnya posting aku kena delete. Biasalah
dengan FGR ini.
Lain kali Webmaster FGR dan konco2nya di FGR ini
kenalah pergi bertanya dan bebual dengan orang Cina
untuk memahami apa perasaan orang Cina selepas
peristiwa September 11. Jangan jadi 'arm chair
specialists'.
Kalau BA nak menang kena kaji dan kenalpasti masalah.
Penting bagi BA untuk akur bahawa kaum Cina di negara
ini takut dengan negara Islam dan militancy yang
dikaitkan dengan Pas. BN dan media arus perdana telah
berjaya menakut-nakutkan kaum Cina. Kita mesti akur
akan perkara ini, kerana bila dah akur kita cuba
atasinya. Kalau tak mahu menerima hakikat sebenar maka
akibatnya kita akan kalah teruk nanti di 2003 (mungkin
pilihanraya umum diadakan November 2002
ini...berhampiran ulangtahun Sept 11).
Saya bukan cakap kosong bila saya bertubi-tubi membuat
posting malam tadi bahawa ketakutan Cina terhadap
negara Islam dan militancy mempengaruhi kemenangan BN
di ketari. Sejak Sept 11 (sebelum itu KMM) saya telah
banyak bertanya kepada rakan-rakan saya dari kaum
Cina.
OK dulu. Saya nak pi ambil anak di sekolah.
LAPORAN AFP
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“Fear of militancy boosts Mahathir through by-election
win” (AFP)
KUALA LUMPUR, April 1 (AFP) - Fear of Islamic
militancy has helped weaken opposition to Malaysian
Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, analysts said after
his coalition won a sharply increased majority in a
by-election.
The National Front won Sunday's election for the
Ketari seat in the central Pahang state assembly
against the Democratic Action Party (DAP) with a
majority of almost 10 times its 231 lead in 1999.
The front, which includes parties representing all
major ethnic groups, saw its candidate, Yum Ah Ha,
beat the Chinese-based DAP's Choong Siew Onn by 7,153
votes to 4,949 on a voter turnout of 71 percent.
"The middle-class ethnic Chinese have shifted to the
National Front, and it's a trend that will augur well
for the government," said Michael Yeoh, chief
executive of the Asian Strategy and Leadership
Institute.
He said although support for the DAP among rural
Chinese was still strong, voters were concerned about
the party's former links with the Parti Islam
SeMalaysia (PAS), which wants to set up an Islamic
state.
The DAP was once part of the Alternative Front
alliance with PAS, the National Justice Party
(Keadilan) and the Malaysian People's Party.
But it withdrew soon after the September 11 terror
attacks in the United States over PAS's goal of
setting up an Islamic state.
"They are found to be caught between the devil and the
deep blue sea," Yeoh told AFP.
"The Chinese are concerned about their linkages with
PAS, but on the other side, since they are no more
with the opposition coalition, they lose the support
of the Malays."
A political analyst told AFP the win in Ketari, where
the electorate is 54 percent Chinese, 39 percent Malay
and seven percent Indian and others, was the result of
Mahathir's moderate Islamic rule and his government's
crackdown on suspected militants.
"This is an endorsement of the government's strong
reaction against militancy," said Abdul Razak Baginda,
executive director of the Malaysian Strategic Research
Centre.
"Non-Muslims like the strong stand and it shows beyond
doubt that the non-Malay population in this country is
squarely behind the government," he said.
Analysts say support for Mahathir, which had dwindled
over the sacking and jailing of his former deputy
Anwar Ibrahim, had risen since the US attacks because
of fear of Islamic militancy.
Between December 9 last year and January 24, Malaysia
detained more than 30 people linked to the Malaysian
Militant Group (KMM), which allegedly trained in
Afghanistan.
The suspects are held without trial under the Internal
Security Act, which allows for indefinite detention.
Abdul Razak said the next general elections, which
must be held by 2004, would not see a repeat of
November 1999 when the opposition increased its
representation to 45 in the 193-seat parliament.
"People are more realistic today, than say in 1998,
since the rise of militancy," he said.
"If the government continues showing it is ready to
grab the bull by its horns, this could well be the
beginning of the end of Malaysia's infatuation with
the opposition."
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AFP.
Forward oleh Nurul Embong dengan pesanan kepada
pemimpin BA jangan perlekehkan ketakutan Cina terhadap
militancy dan negara Islam...teruk padahnya pada
prestasi kita di pilihanraya nanti. Yang penting kita
jangan syok sendiri hingga lalai. Bila ada penyakit
carilah ubatnya segera sebelum bertambah mudarat.
Nurul Embong
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Terbitan : 2 April 2002
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