Umno-led BN/Alliance had 59 years to get issues right …

Umno-led BN/Alliance had 59 years to get issues right …

Talk about mainstream print and electronic media, their propaganda is still blind support for the racist Umno-led Barisan Nasional (BN) federal government.

We at No News Is Bad News highlights one classic example by mysinchew which ends its propaganda essay like this: “We talked about the current political situation in the country, and we both agreed that Chinese Malaysians are slowly pushing Umno towards PAS without we realizing it.”

Now, who’s pushing who?

BN-Alliance have had 59 years to get or put things right, but did it?

Why are the racial and religious bigots allowed to say or do whatever they wish without running foul of the law?

They can even use the May 13 racial riots to threaten Malaysians and get away without any attention from the police. They can even claim words, like Allah, belong to them when the word had been in use universally long before the founding of Islam.

And now, words like “bak kut teh, bacon, beer, hot dog and char siew (Chinese barbecued pork)” are all a No, No, even though the ingredients are halal.

So, they now even want to dictate what type of words are deemed “clean” (halal) to be used in food menu!

And all these mysinchew implies the Chinese are to be blamed for supporting DAP and the Opposition.

But, for 59 years, the BN coalition partners, namely MCA, MIC and Gerakan, have been doing a really great job in the federal government protecting the rights of Malaysians by sucking up to Umno.

No one in the BN is to blame. Blame it all on the Opposition. Yes, Malaysians who don’t support the BN are all idiots and that is the majority of Malaysians as the 13th General Election (GE13) results showed:

"NO WONDER, THE CHINESE HATE BN – EVERYONE TO BLAME EXCEPT THEIR OWN BAD POLICIES: NOW UMNO’S PUSH FOR ISLAMIZATION & PAS IS THE FAULT OF THE ETHNIC CHINESE – BN MEDIA

Politics | October 28, 2016 by | 0 Comments


Looking back over the past one week, my feelings have been rather complicated. On the one hand I feel worried the government is doing everything it can to please a particular group of people without taking into consideration the possible consequences; on the other hand I’m also worried about the increasing trend of Islamization in this country.

We will be celebrating the country’s 60th anniversary next year, but for the sake of their own political survival, our leaders have taken the country further and further away from the ideals of secularism. The diverse cultural and religious heritage we have taken so much pride of is beginning to wane.

In order to please the 1.6 million-strong civil servants in the country, the BN government has made it much easier for them to take loans, further accentuating the already very serious household debt problem while posing more severe challenges to the Malay community in future.

The Chinese community has for years pinned its hope on the two-party system to save this country, but this dream is not going to get fulfilled anytime soon.

The opposition camp is still deeply planted in the quagmire of internal conflicts, unable to come up with a more reassuring cabinet line-up or policies that are more convincing than the BN’s.

The Chinese community used to count on the DAP but the party seems to be constantly embroiled in conflicts rather than more productive things, and its relationship with Pakatan allies is wholly established upon the delicate equilibrium in power-sharing and interests, one that could be at stake any time.


A closer inspection of this country reveals a worrisome and increasingly prevalent trend of lslamization. It happens so spontaneously and irreversibly that the moment we come to its realization, it seems to be have been enmeshed so deeply in our society.

PAS is putting all its effort and energy to see to the establishment of an Islamic state. What the party is doing now is to buy time to wait for its eventual fruition.

Take the steamy “Pretzel Dog” issue for instance, people started to throw in their comments after the incident came to light, all appearing to target specifically JAKIM. After the farce became an international laughing stock, minister in the PM’s Dept in charge of religious affairs Jamil Khir Baharom argued that JAKIM would not hold back Auntie Anne’s halal certification just because of the name of a product.

Some cabinet ministers have also voiced their frustration, blaming JAKIM officials for taking things into their own hands. But, after all the hoohahs, who among us will actually take the lead to call for the amendment of the relevant provisions on halal certification?

Our population is Malay- and Muslim-dominant, and this group of people is what all political parties in this country have been fighting so hard to win over. Umno is not going to take the lead to amend the halal certification provisions, nor will PKR and Bersatu, let alone PAS.

The A&W that we have grown so familiar with quietly changed the “Root Beer” on its menu to simply “RB”, and the iconic but contentious “Coney Dog” to “Chicken Coney” or “Beef Coney”.

A&W Malaysia CEO Samad Mohd Shariff said when you apply to JAKIM for halal certification, there would be a checklist you need to conform to, including an item on the naming of products. The company even changed its web URL from rootbeer.com.my to anwmalaysia.com.my for fear its halal certification would be revoked in future.

Actually, under JAKIM’s 2014 Halal Certification Circular No. 2, product names such as ham, bak kut teh, bacon, beer, hot dog and char siew (Chinese barbecued pork) are all non-halal, and such a ruling has been in place for many years, unlike what Jamil Khir has said food names will not affect the halal certification.

If not for the Auntie Anne’s incident, many may not even be aware that our Islamization agenda has gone this far.


Seeing the split in the Malay society, the only way out for Umno is to come up with more Islamized policies to please the Muslim community. And it appears that religion is the only tactic to bring the Malays together.

You only need to see how many Malay youngsters are being sent to Saudi Arabia and the Middle East for further studies to understand how closely knit is the Malay society to Islam.

If Umno fails again to secure the support of Chinese voters this time, the party will have no more reservations in engaging PAS.

I met Idris Jala, former minister in the PM’s department from East Malaysia, at a wedding dinner last week. We talked about the current political situation in the country, and we both agreed that Chinese Malaysians are slowly pushing Umno towards PAS without we realizing it.MYSINCHEW/Malaysia Chronicle"