Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 4:55 pm Post subject: Reprimand and discipline JJ for racist remarks
Lim Kit Siang
The Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi should reprimand and discipline the Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation Datuk Seri Dr. Jamaludin Jarjis for his disgraceful conduct in making racist and derogatory remarks about Malaysian Indians when he met Malaysian students in California on Monday (30th April).
During his official visit to California on Monday, Jamaludin met some of the Malaysian students studying in California especially the ones from TPM Academy twinning programme at the Belacan Grill Malaysian Restaurant, Redondo Beach, Ca.
One of the students was Sheena Moorthy, a third-year Biotech Malaysian student in CALYPOLY.
Sheena complained that during the 3 ½ hour session, Jamaludin passed a few racial remarks on her, being one of the two Indians present there.
Sheena has formally written to the Prime Minister to complain against Jamaludin for the “totally uncalled-for racial insults”, citing the following instances:
Incident 1 - Each student had to briefly introduce themselves. When it came to her turn, while speaking he interrupted her and asked if she knew Samy Vellu, because he knows him. She did not see any relevance in that and he mentioned it a few times for no apparent reason.
Incident 2 – He gave a speech regarding how agriculture started in Malaysia. He mentioned how the British invested in Malaysia and made farmers work. Due to the lack of work force, “buruh India” was brought in. While mentioning this, he looked at her saying “that’s how we get Indians in Malaysia”.
Incident 3 – After saying he is going to get MARA to help the Bumiputra students, he looked at her and asked “How many Indians are here?” Sheena did not keep track of number of Indian students so she mentioned that in the room there were two (pointing to another Malaysian Indian friend, who is fair skinned) and Jamaludin looked at him and asked “Oh. You are an Indian? Which means you are an upper class Indian and she is the lower class one” (pointing at her). Jamaludin went on to say that, “Oh, I am not going to help upper class Indians, I only help the lower class ones. They are the ones that need it’.
Sheena left the room feeling very insulted as the Minister had judged her based on her skin colour.
This incident happened in front of a crowd of about 100 people including students, officials from the Malaysian Consulate, TPM, Tourism Malaysia, etc. But everyone is afraid and nobody is prepared to stand up to speak the truth.
I can fully understand Sheena’s hurt feelings at being humiliated and insulted by Jamaluddin in public. All right-thinking Malaysians should support Sheena’s demand for a public apology from Jamaludin.
Sheena’s sister, Dr. Sheela Moorthy, who is currently living in the USA and supporting her sister’s education at CalyPoly, is so incensed that she has written to the media to express her disgust and anger that a Minister of a multi-racial country should be making such racist and derogatory remarks about Malaysian Indians at a function abroad, giving the country a bad image.
Sheena has also written to complain about Jamaluddi’s biased and disgraceful conduct to several Malaysian Ministers, including the MIC President and Works Minister, Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu.
I hope Samy Vellu would raise the Sheena issue at the Cabinet meeting next Wednesday to add his voice to the growing demand for public apology from Jamaludin and to support the Prime Minister to reprimand and take disciplinary action against the Science, Technlogy and Innovation Minister.
Jamaludin is still in the United States as he is currently leading a 300-man Malaysian delegation to the Biotechnology Industry Organisation (BIO) Convention in Boston, Massachussets.
to hell JJ....first learn how the malays eneded up here....most probably they came to sell b@ckside ..... jalan jalan cari makan konon !!!! JJ ancestors could b someone people sitting on tree tops, drinking some lebah juice & urinating from up there which was used as a shower bath by his other ancestors standing down the tree.....
No point shouting and jumping mad. The Bn government knows very well the indians, even if spitted on their face, will still go on to vote for them. Jamaluddin jarjis is not the first one to utter racial remarks. Badarudin from Yan mentioned the word "keling" and got off scott free. Only the opposition MPs raised up the issue.
look at the chinese voting trend in Ijok by-election. Even the PM aknowledged the chinese have swing the votes against BN. the chinese are clearly upset with the keris-waving umno members and equity issues.
But what about the indians. Whatever remarks , how degarotory it is, will cool down when the election comes.
The former PM Dr. M said the chinese are strategic-minded people. When will the indians learn?
Forget about MIC or Samy Velu!! I bet my last dollar that Samy will not demand a public apology from JJ.
well said guruji... our ppl haven't realize the drastic changing of the global... when we all goin to think bout ourselves? ... ur rite... Samyvelu busy with his robbers... so there's no use hopin on him... _________________ If you can't love it, simply don''t hate it...
civilization. that's only answer for this disgust. pity the minister who don't know how to give a proper speech in international level. connratulation for perfect cabinet in Malaysia. We Indian must support BN although they call us keling, buruh,pendatang ........ time to wake up.
I would like to point out that the chinese have very bold newspapers that are more outspoken then all the other mainstream newspapers...and the indians have???on samy vellu paper and one subra paper?
Who brought civilisation to this "kattans"?which religion they embraced centuries ago?Who gave them an uplift in agriculture sector?
What right do this dumb lazy bums have to insult indians? half of their culture originates from hindus.They dont have their own language, most borrowed from others ,such as sanskrit,english,other south east regional languages.Even their belacan!!! dont belong to them (frm thailand).
If anyone has been to Kelantan,terengganu, u's probaly come across nattans who are much darker than indians, so what shall we call them? low class malays?
And frags, ur correct.Tamil newspaper will highlight cinema stars wedding, jothika getting pregnant and never ending tamil nadu political news.Our local tamil newspapers dont even have section for stock market or business. Sad
this dumb minister who make the plan to do teh tarik,playing batu seremban
in space for the 2 astronauts, actually nothing to be proud of, they just tumpang wit russian guys, thats y they dropped the indian women earlier, i forgot her name...
The #@*% hole minister didnt know the history of msia, the indian are the people who landed this "SURVANABUMI" 1st..the proof Lembah Bujang in Kedah,
half their culture is from HINDU rituals..
proud of their pahlawan melayu even they not even melayu instead they are chinese, when i study history lesson in secondary school there was hang tuah,jebat,lekir,kasturi and another im nt sure..now they removed the five hangs
frm the history after getting evidence that they were chinese..the 6 feet picture of hang tuah in Muzium Negara also removed..wakakakaka
MELAYU MEANS IN JAVANESE FUGITIVE..tats y if u ask any malays they will say
im mixed jawa or bugis or etc, no 1 will say Im 100% malay..such a shame on their race...
Indian in Ijok got their chance to prove but sadly failed, bt chinese community in pekan Ijok gives their vote to PKR, Pak Lah also note this, this is what the result of last education minister waving kris while saying his kris will bath in chinese bloods....
Bt v treated as 3rd class citizens, called pariah keling,pemabuk,samseng etc..
WHAT OUR MAKKAL DO THEY VOTE BN...GO BACK HOME WATCH SERIAL , ASTRO
MALAYSIAN INDIANS NEED TO CHANGE THEIR MINDSETS !!!!!
We need more vocal indian MPs who will not b afraid to b the voice of our community and fight for our rights. And our society in general shud know wat is rightfully ours. Never let anyone push us around. Yet MIC is not doing enough for its community as how MCA does. I've heard of MCA adopting indian students who r gifted intellectually but financially poor. But i am not so sure if MIC has done such a thing... or maybe i have not read on it..... yet. However.... very few successful indians r willing to help their less fortunate indian mates..... instead they move away to have a better life overseas for themselves. So how do we solve the predicments of the less fortunate ones and our community at large? Do we fight back by ourselves or go thru the proper channels and wait till we get a better MP to fight for us?
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No point shouting and jumping mad. The Bn government knows very well the indians, even if spitted on their face, will still go on to vote for them. Jamaluddin jarjis is not the first one to utter racial remarks. Badarudin from Yan mentioned the word "keling" and got off scott free. Only the opposition MPs raised up the issue.
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