{"id":2289,"date":"2008-08-11T00:05:17","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T16:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/08\/11\/mic-goes-multiracial\/"},"modified":"2008-08-11T00:06:45","modified_gmt":"2008-08-10T16:06:45","slug":"mic-goes-multiracial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/08\/11\/mic-goes-multiracial\/","title":{"rendered":"MIC goes multiracial!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only in stance, so don&#8217;t go and storm the HQ for membership forms! Samy Vellu <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/8\/10\/nation\/22049004&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">say<\/a>s MIC had learnt a lesson from the General Elections:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MIC will adopt a multi-racial stance in dealing with the people\u2019s problems, party president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said here.<\/p>\n<p>He said the problems facing the Indian community could only be resolved through a non-racial approach as was evident after the 2008 general election.<\/p>\n<p>There must be understanding and respect among all races. There must be a give-and-take attitude. Only then can we all survive as a Malaysian race, he said here yesterday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>MIC will still represent Indians, he says and will ask for what is rightful.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We will only ask what is rightfully ours without infringing upon the rights of the other communities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Question: Is asking for children not to be unilaterally converted by spouse who convert to Islam can be considered as &#8220;asking for what is rightfully ours without infringing upon the rights of the other communities&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Question: Is a convert to Islam who unilaterally convert the children without spouse&#8217; knowledge and involvement is considered an act of &#8220;asking for what is rightfully ours without infringing upon the rights of the other communities&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Off Topic &#8211; Manchester United lifts Charity Shield after beating Portsmouth 3-1 in penalties. Full time was 0-0. Game just ended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only in stance, so don&#8217;t go and storm the HQ for membership forms! Samy Vellu says MIC had learnt a lesson from the General Elections: MIC will adopt a multi-racial stance in dealing with the people\u2019s problems, party president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said here. He said the problems facing the Indian community could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[24,225],"class_list":["post-2289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-mic","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289","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=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}