{"id":1427,"date":"2008-02-27T22:32:41","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T14:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/02\/27\/indian-muslims-demand-for-bumiputra-status\/"},"modified":"2008-02-27T22:32:41","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T14:32:41","slug":"indian-muslims-demand-for-bumiputra-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/02\/27\/indian-muslims-demand-for-bumiputra-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Muslims demand for bumiputra status!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great move by PERMIM! With 600,000 members, they practically telling UMNO to give the status or lose a number of votes! Checkmate? Hmmm&#8230;if want to consider the 5.2 million UMNO members and not to mention more than 10 million Malays&#8217; feelings, then maybe the ruling party will forgo 600,000 votes in order to salvage at least 5.2 million votes! Would the Malays accept the Indian muslim? Or will the leader of PERMIM end up like HINDRAF 5?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Indian Muslims seeking bumiputera status<br \/>\nBy : K. Harinderan<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Wednesday\/NewsBreak\/20080227173020\/Article\/index_html\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PETALING JAYA, Wed:<\/p>\n<p>The Federation of Indian Muslim Associations, Malaysia (PERMIM), which represents 600,000 Indian Muslims, have called on the government to acknowledge and award them Bumiputeras status and resolve their problems in education and employment.<br \/>\nAt press conference today, its president Syed Ibrahim Mohd Esmail, highlighted the lack of opportunities in higher education, lack of employment and promotions for government jobs and absence of a platform to represent the community at federal level.<\/p>\n<p>They also seek the government&#8217;s help to recognise them as Bumiputeras and to initiate affirmative action on the minority to uplift their socio-economic stand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great move by PERMIM! With 600,000 members, they practically telling UMNO to give the status or lose a number of votes! Checkmate? Hmmm&#8230;if want to consider the 5.2 million UMNO members and not to mention more than 10 million Malays&#8217; feelings, then maybe the ruling party will forgo 600,000 votes in order to salvage at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[130,46],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","category-indian","tag-election-2008","tag-racial-integration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}