{"id":1454,"date":"2008-03-01T22:43:59","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T14:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/03\/01\/badawi-admits-being-responsible-for-equal-education-opportunities\/"},"modified":"2008-03-01T22:43:59","modified_gmt":"2008-03-01T14:43:59","slug":"badawi-admits-being-responsible-for-equal-education-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/03\/01\/badawi-admits-being-responsible-for-equal-education-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Badawi admits being responsible for equal education opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmm&#8230;that means can convert all the partially-aided schools to fully-aided status and provide equal education opportunity to all? Streamline university entry paths? Open up MARA? hmm&#8230;.so many things need to be changed.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Responsibility to aid every Malaysian, says PM<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/3\/1\/nation\/20080301182445&amp;sec=nation\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By R.S.N. MURALI<\/p>\n<p>KUALA TERENGGANU: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi acknowledged that he would fail his responsibility as a good Muslim leader if he deprives non-Muslims in the country equal opportunities and quality education.<\/p>\n<p>Citing versus from the Quran, Abdullah said it&#8217;s his paramount onus as a Muslim head of state to witness non-Muslims develop under his leadership.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even Prophet Muhammad ensured that minorities under his care were not deprived during his era, even though they were not Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My responsibility is to aid every Malaysian regardless of their religion, and quality education should also reach Chinese and Tamil schools,&#8221; he said Saturday when addressing some 2,000 Islamic scholars and teachers at Wisma Darul Iman here.<\/p>\n<p>Abdullah said the needs of minorities and non-Muslims should not be ignored by Muslim leaders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They should listen and provide the necessary remedies; that is a good leadership professed by Islam,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmm&#8230;that means can convert all the partially-aided schools to fully-aided status and provide equal education opportunity to all? Streamline university entry paths? Open up MARA? hmm&#8230;.so many things need to be changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[112,19,225,20],"class_list":["post-1454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-discrimination","tag-education","tag-politicians","tag-tamil-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454","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=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}