1. Non-Malays and maybe quite a few Malays have strongly criticised my piece on the Bar Council. I am made out to be against free speech, human rights etc.
2. What I was talking was about sensitivity - about the need for people to be sensitive to the feelings of other people. It was not about Islam or its teachings or its history per se. It is about the Malays and the non-Malays in this multiracial, multi religious country and their sensitivities.
Funny. He must have forgotten about his sensitivity to sensitivities when he wrote the book 'The Malay Dilemma' and spoke about Malay rights.
You can catch an example of such of his blog posting here.
20. If what we want is to be able to provoke people as a matter of right more than our own well-being and that of fellow citizens then be insensitive and have open debates by selected people whose views are already known, who are insensitive to the sensitivities of others but are very sensitive about their rights to be insensitive, whatever the cost to others and the country.
I wonder then why UMNO members have to speak about Malay rights and about Malay supremacy. Aren't these opinions already known? And insensitive?
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