{"id":2290,"date":"2008-08-11T09:07:38","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T01:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/08\/11\/hindraf-press-statement-on-forum-attack\/"},"modified":"2008-08-11T16:02:13","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T08:02:13","slug":"hindraf-press-statement-on-forum-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/08\/11\/hindraf-press-statement-on-forum-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"HINDRAF press statement on forum attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

HINDRAF<\/span><\/p>\n

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135-3 KEMAYAN SQUARE<\/span><\/p>\n

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70200 SEREMBAN<\/span><\/p>\n

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NEGERI SEMBILAN.<\/span><\/p>\n

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PRESS STATEMENT 11TH<\/sup> AUGUST 2008<\/span><\/p>\n

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BAR COUNCIL FORUM – CLEAR EVIDENCE OF AUTHORITARIAN STATE <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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POLICE COLLUDED WITH PROTESTERS \u2013 AN INSULT TO ARTICLE 10 OF THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION.<\/span><\/p>\n

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STATEMENT BY HOME MINISTER SYED HAMID IRRESPONSIBLE.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The latest fiasco on the Malaysian Bar Council forum on “Conversion to Islam” clearly indicates that our ruling government practices authoritarian policies where the elected representatives <\/span>and police are used to suppress civil liberties and <\/span>freedom of <\/span>expression in the pretext of security and public order.
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<\/span>The ruling government and its agents, ie police <\/span>were at their best<\/strong> to exercise their authority to allow the protest by the muslim mobs <\/span>to incite racial sentiments and storm into the forum and slander, humiliate and insult <\/span>the non-Malays.<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span>HINDRAF strongly condemns the veiled threat by Home Minister to the Bar Council that \u201che hoped that the Bar Council got the message that “there are certain things that are out of bounds for public discussion, even if held in a private place.” It is the duty of the country to protect its citizens who have gathered to discuss a legitimate concern of its community (under article 10 of the Federal Constitution) but to come up with such threats (especially) by the minister is most irresponsible <\/span>and insults the intelligence of Malaysians.<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span>Four (4) members of HINDRAF were arrested in a rainy day for creating an awareness of their cause in the recent CPA conference on 7th<\/sup> August 2008 but here you have over 300 protesters behaving aggressively, carrying inciting banners and storming into the Bar Council forum raising uncalled racial sentiments against fellow non-Malay Malaysians without fear and protected by the Royal Police Force. The statement by Home Minister appear to be condoning such \u201cviolent\u201d behaviour and supporting hooliganism and claims he has not received any complaints of threat to National Security or disturbance to public order is utter rubbish and nonsensical. \u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span>Such double standards is only prevalent in an authoritarian state<\/strong> where any issues that concerns the public and freedom of thought for egalitarianism is suppressed and oppressed to serve the interest of the majority Malay muslim.<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span>There is no actual racial issue<\/strong> in Malaysia, it is only incited and seeded\u00a0 <\/strong>into the public to create a scenario that best serves an authoritarian state to serve its own agenda against the goodwill and humanity for the Malaysian society that have co-existed <\/span>irrespective of their color, race, religion and creed.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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P.Waytha Moorthy<\/span><\/p>\n

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Chairman<\/span><\/p>\n

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Currently in London<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HINDRAF   135-3 KEMAYAN SQUARE   70200 SEREMBAN   NEGERI SEMBILAN.     PRESS STATEMENT 11TH AUGUST 2008   \u00a0     BAR COUNCIL FORUM – CLEAR EVIDENCE OF AUTHORITARIAN STATE   POLICE COLLUDED WITH PROTESTERS \u2013 AN INSULT TO ARTICLE 10 OF THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION.   \u00a0   STATEMENT BY HOME MINISTER SYED HAMID […]<\/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":[117,112,21,113,27,302,42,22],"class_list":["post-2290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","category-indian","tag-crime","tag-discrimination","tag-hindraf","tag-intolerance","tag-protest","tag-religion","tag-syariah-law","tag-waytha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290","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=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}