{"id":1964,"date":"2008-05-28T21:53:12","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T13:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/05\/28\/hindraf-supports-bangsa-malaysia\/"},"modified":"2008-05-28T21:53:12","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T13:53:12","slug":"hindraf-supports-bangsa-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/05\/28\/hindraf-supports-bangsa-malaysia\/","title":{"rendered":"HINDRAF supports Bangsa Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>BUTTERWORTH: The Government should implement the Bangsa Malaysia concept to give equal opportunities to all Malaysians, Hindu Rights Action Front national co-ordinator R.S. Thanenthiran said. He said the concept, which recognised a citizen not by his colour, religion or his cultural background, could help promote greater unity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We should give the Bangsa Malaysia concept a chance. Political parties should no longer be race-based. &#8220;Politicians should also stop using racial and religious sentiments that could disunite the people,&#8221; he said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said it was important for Malaysians to identify themselves as Bangsa Malaysia and not by their race.<\/p>\n<p>Thanenthiran also called on Indian youths to continue using tolerance, patience, love and peace in their approach to resolve problems.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Similarly, we wish the Government will accept our requests to sit down and talk amicably about Hindraf&#8217;s concerns,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/5\/27\/nation\/21367867&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUTTERWORTH: The Government should implement the Bangsa Malaysia concept to give equal opportunities to all Malaysians, Hindu Rights Action Front national co-ordinator R.S. Thanenthiran said. He said the concept, which recognised a citizen not by his colour, religion or his cultural background, could help promote greater unity. &#8220;We should give the Bangsa Malaysia concept a [&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":[21],"class_list":["post-1964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","category-indian","tag-hindraf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964","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=1964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}