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A campaign to boycott non-Muslim products, believed to have been quietly unleashed by opposition UMNO Malay nationalist and PAS Islamist parties has spread like wildfire, at least on social media. On the surface, it certainly looks like a declaration of war against the minorities in the country, especially ethnic Chinese whose prowess in the business world is unparalleled.
Since the spectacular defeat in the last May general election, UMNO, the supposedly backbone of the Barisan Nasional coalition, has been happily stirring up racial and religion sentiments among the Malays that the Muslims and Malay Rulers have lost power to the “Chinese, Christians and Communists”. The goal was to spread hatred among Malays against Chinese and Hindus.
According to Malaysiakini portal, a Facebook group that is pro-Muslim business has seen its members grown from 10,000 to over 1-million in just 2 weeks. That’s a jaw-dropping 9,900% jump in membership. Chinese and Hindu haters, of course, celebrate the achievement as if they have won the FIFA World Cup. They have taken to social media to gloat about their “power”.
That’s fine. What is amusing though, is the confusion over the scope of the boycott. Apparently, the boycott campaign started when the Islamic Consumers Association of Malaysia (PPIM) suggested to the Islamic Development Department that halal certificates should be issued in the native language of the product’s manufacturers so that consumers can identify if they are Muslim or otherwise.
So, initially they wanted the Muslims to boycott non-Muslim products. Then, for obvious reasons, they changed their mind and clarified that it was a campaign to buy Muslim-made products first. But as far as emotional and gullible UMNO and PAS supporters are concerned, their understanding remains – boycott everything produced or made by non-Muslims. Period.
Can they make up their mind? There was no such thing as being half pregnant. Why can’t they just go full force in their campaign against non-Muslim products? What is so hard in determining whether products made or sold by non-Muslim are either “haram” (forbidden) or “halal” (allowed)? Are they saying there’s such thing as a quarter-halal or half-halal?
Malaysia Halal Logo
Yes, it’s perfectly alright if the ignorant and narrow-minded Malays choose to boycott non-Muslim products. But as they soon found out, more than 90% of products is made or produced by the so-called infidel “kafir” non-Muslims – either local Malaysian Chinese or the Chinese from mainland China. And they hadn’t a clue that they have very little leverage against the non-Muslims.
The “nasi lemak” breakfast consumed by Malays every single morning, and lunch and dinner thereafter, contains onions, shallots, garlic, chilli and other spices imported from India. And most of the Malaysian importers are companies owned by minority Chinese, including NSK Trading Sdn Bhd, the favourite wholesale store where Malay-Muslims seek cheap groceries.
Did the Malays know that NSK (New Seng Kee) is a Lim’s family business first started at Chow Kit in 1985? Another Malay’s favourite destination, Econsave Cash & Carry, is a Malaysian family-run retail brand owned by ethnic Chinese. Econsave’s history goes back to 1955 when Lai Poh Tian sold the family’s only cow and borrowed some money to sail to what was known then as Malaya.
Today, supermarket chain Econsave, infamous for its “Compare Our Prices” slogan, is a multi-billion business with 57 retail outlets providing jobs to more than 6,000 people, mostly Malays. Yesterday (September 3), general manager Mas Imran Adam lodged a police report against two Facebook accounts which had spread lies that the supermarket did not sell Muslim products in its outlets.
The ignorant Malays who falsely accused the Chinese of being racist probably hadn’t a clue that Econsave actually has a Muslim general manager in its payroll. Not that Econsave would go bankrupt with the boycott, but sure, go ahead with the campaign and let’s see who will be the first to be jobless and unable to put food on the table for family members.
Giant Hypermarket
Alternatively, the idiotic Malays eager to boycott non-Muslim products can go to Aeon, Giant or Tesco. But all those hypermarkets are owned by foreign non-Muslims. Giant, founded in 1944 as a small grocery store in Kuala Lumpur, was owned by the Teng family until 1999 when Hong Kong-based Dairy Farm International Holdings bought a 90% interest in the chain.
Tesco is a multinational retailer from the United Kingdom while Aeon (formerly Jaya Jusco) is owned by the Japanese. Do you realise that even Sogo, arguably the most favourite shopping heaven for the middle-income Malays, actually belongs to another Chinese kafir called Andrew Lim? Sogo is no longer owned by PERNAS Corporation or Sogo Japan since 2002.
In 2002, Mr. Andrew initiated a management buyout and KL SOGO today is a 100% Malaysian (Chinese) wholly owned and operated, but with a franchise agreement with Sogo Japan to allow the continual usage of the Sogo name. And you don’t need a rocket scientist to tell which race constitutes the majority of the staff of Sogo in Malaysia. So, go ahead and boycott Sogo.
In the food business, Malays’ favourite restaurants such as KFC, McDonald’s, Texas Chicken, Burger King and whatnot actually belong to foreign non-Muslims but operated by local fast-food operators through something called franchising. Starbucks Malaysia is owned by Berjaya Group tycoon Vincent Tan, whose empire included convenience store 7-Eleven.
That’s right. In case the clueless Malays didn’t know, employees of 7-Eleven – mostly Malay-Muslims – are all under the employment of Vincent Tan. How about “99 Speedmart”, another local convenience store brand so successful, it opened its 1,000th outlet in August 2017? Unfortunately to the racists and extremists of UMNO and PAS, 99 Speedmart is another Chinese success story.
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The founder of 99 Speedmart is Lee Thiam Wah, who has been wheelchair-bound since eight months old, and had only 6 years of formal education. Sales revenue of 99 Speedmart reached RM3 billion in 2016 – up from RM2 billion in 2014. In comparison, Tesco Malaysia only posted revenue of RM4.45 billion in the financial year ending February 2017 with 71 outlets.
KK Super Mart, a 24-hour mini-supermarket chain which was a favourite target among robbers, was founded by Douglas K.K. Chai, obviously another ethnic Chinese. KK sells both Gardenia (owned by Syed Mokhtar al-Bukhary) and Massimo (owned by Robert Kuok) bread. So, will the Malays buy Gardenia bread, knowing very well it would enrich the Chinese owner of KK?
But do you also know that in 1969, together with Sye Slocum and Jim Humpries, two Americans with vast experience in bakery, Malaysian Chinese Wong Tze Fatt co-founded the Gardenia brand of beverages, bakery and creamery food products? Yes, Mr. Wong, who was murdered in 2004, was the Chinese millionaire who started Gardenia brand in Sabah.
Robert Kuok’s empire is not limited to Massimo bread only. The consumer brands associated with the billionaire include Shangri-La hotels, various brands of flour, Marina frozen food, Seri Murni, Krystal and Neptune cooking oil, Jordan toothbrushes and oral care products, Snow brand infant formula, Goodmaid household cleaning products, Kart’s frozen food and the list go on.
Interestingly, Golden Screen Cinemas Sdn Bhd (GSC), Malaysia’s largest cinema exhibitor with over 41% market share, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of PPB Group (a member of the Kuok Group). Perhaps the Malays should boycott GSC and go to TGV for movies. However, TGV is owned by tycoon Ananda Krishnan, another non-Muslim.
The only Muslim-owned cinema – MBO – was already sold to private equity firm Navis Capital Partners by then-owner Abdul Rashid Abdul Manaf. However, due to pressure from increasing costs and slowing revenue growth, even Navis is looking to dispose of its MBO business in Malaysia. Does this mean the Malays will boycott cinemas entirely in the name of Muslim dignity?
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British India, Mr. D.I.Y., Secret Recipe and Chicken Rice Shop are just some of the local brands owned by local non-Muslims but flocked by Malay community all the time. From Chatime to Tealive, those Malays hooked to bubble tea would form long queue just to get their kicks, despite the fact that the Taiwanese-born tea drink is not a Muslim product.
Hilariously, every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday, the Malay-Muslims would religiously queue at Magnum, Sports Toto and DaMaCai to try their luck betting on 4D numbers or Jackpot. Clearly, these are not Muslim products, are they? You can bet your last penny that those Malays, including police officers, can never abandon or boycott the non-Muslim product called betting game.
Perhaps there’s a reason why Kelantan is in such a sorry state, despite being ruled by the PAS Islamist party based on the strictest Islamic Law. Jobs were scarce and the state has recorded the highest number of HIV or AIDS cases in the country. They have no idea how the world trade works so much so they probably thought condom is another type of flavoured chewing gum.
Smartphones from Huawei to Oppo to Vivo to Xiaomi – even Apple – are all made by non-Muslim Chinese. From lighting bulbs to fridge to TV to every single electrical appliance at home, nothing escapes China. And when all those components arrived at Malaysian ports, they readily go to mostly Chinese-owned warehouses or shops, thanks to their well established business ecosystems.
Two different Chinese-owned tyre shops, less than 200-metre apart, sell a same brand and model of tyre at an unbelievable price difference. One shop sells at RM145 a piece while the other at cut-throat prices of RM210. Besides operating costs and expenditures, business strategy and supply chain contribute to the dog-eat-dog business world even among the Chinese.
Malay-Muslims should co-exist with non-Muslims for their own good. They’re simply not built to excel in the world of trade and business. From a complicated product like halal airline Rayani Air to a business as simple as Digital Mall in Pertama Complex, they had tried but failed spectacularly. Rayani Air, proclaimed Malaysia’s first “Syariah-compliant” airline, had gone bust just 110 days into operation.
A Malay youth, Shahrul Anuar Abdul Aziz, who was charged for stealing a mobile phone that triggered a bloody racial riot outside Low Yat Plaza in 2015, was acquitted by the Kangaroo Court in 2018. Three Chinese handphone salesmen were arrested by police instead and were fined RM1,800 each for committing assault. As a result, UMNO set up Digital Mall to rival Low Yat.
Today, after “handout” free rental runs out of juice, all the Malay traders at the 4-storey Pertama Complex are eating dust. If they can’t even survive selling ready-made branded IT products without handouts, exactly how could they promote non-existent Muslim products? Get the gist? To talk big about boycotting non-Muslim products is one thing. But to actually do it is another thing altogether.
You can only start a trade war or boycott if you either own the technology or knowhow of certain products (as in the case of the U.S.) or you have the financial muscle to engage a trade war (like China). Trump can hurt the Chinese flagship Huawei because America owns the technology. China can hurt American farmers because it has tons of money to buy more expensive soybeans from Brazil.
The silly group of Malays yearning to boycott fellow Malaysian non-Muslim products have none of the above. They neither have the replacement products, nor the deep pocket to teach non-Muslims a lesson. The biggest joke was when UMNO’s newspaper – Utusan Melayu – and PAS’ newspaper – Harakah – ran into debt. Those newspapers are Muslim products, obviously.
While financial-stressed Utusan has total debts of RM139.19 million as at June 30, PAS stunningly owed NAJ Press Resources (M) Sdn Bhd, a Muslim-owned printing company, a staggering RM3,053,204.59. Harakah reportedly had fled and is now being printed by a non-Muslim-owned business. So much for inciting Malay-Muslims to boycott non-Muslim products. - FT
Excellent. Must watch on hate crime debate at the UK Parliment.
We should learn from them how to stand against hate speech...
We should learn from them how to stand against hate speech...
British MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi launched a scathing attack on PM Boris Johnson over his past remarks on Muslim women. He demanded an apology from Johnson and said that such remarks have led to a surge in hate crimes in the country. Mr Dhesi received applause from fellow Opposition Labour party MPs. Dhesi, who is the first turban-wearing Sikh MP in British history also challenged the British prime minister to order an investigation into alleged Islamophobia within his own Conservative Party.
Politik sempit dan rempit...
1. Hari ini 62 tahun yang lepas buat kali pertamanya Bendera Malaya atau Persekutuan Tanah Melayu dikibarkan selepas bendera Penjajah British, Union Jack diturunkan.
2. Di Stadium Merdeka, dengan disaksikan oleh Raja - Raja Melayu dan ribuan rakyat berbilang kaum, Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Alhaj telah melaungkan laungan MERDEKA !!!
3. Perundingan Kemerdekaan tercapai apabila Raja - Raja dan sebahagian besar masyarakat Melayu BERSETUJU memberi kerakyatan kepada pendatang dari China dan India yang dibawa masuk oleh British dengan syarat penduduk asal negara, Melayu/ Bumiputra diberi sedikit Hak Istimewa.
4. Kegembiran mencapai Kemerdekaan terbantut apabila rusuhan kaum berlaku pada 13hb Mei 1969.
5. Kesan dari rusuhan itu maka syak wasangka dan tuduh menuduh di antara 3 kaum utama berterusan sehinggalah ke hari ini.
6. Bak kata Tun Dr. Mahathir, Perdana Menteri bagi kali 2, dan yang mempunyai pengalaman luas selama 22 tahun sebagai Perdana Menteri, bukan senang memimpin sebuah negara berbilang kaum seperti Malaysia.
7. Umpama 'Menatang Minyak Yang Penuh' , masing - masing kaum sering berkokok dan bertindak bagai cuba 'Menegak Benang Yang Basah' TANPA PEDULI perasaan orang lain.
8. Tanpa disedari pihak asing telah berjaya meniup api perkauman di kalangan rakyat ketika itu.
9. Ia ditambah pula oleh beberapa faktor dalaman yang tidak sabar melihat perubahan kepimpinan.
10. Adalah tidak adil sama sekali menuding jari menyalahkan satu kaum atau parti semata - mata sebagai punca utama perbalahan kaum itu sedangkan 'Tepuk Sebelah Tangan Takkan Berbunyi'.
11. Kini selepas peristiwa berdarah itu berkubur genap 50 tahun lamanya namun perpaduan dan kerharmonian berbilang kaum mula menghantui kita semula.
12. Berbagai isu yang sepatutnya tidak berbangkit telah dengan sengaja diperbesarkan sebagai tajuk perbincangan utama oleh mereka yang mempunyai motif tertentu.
13. Kebebasan bersuara disalahgunakan secara berleluasa oleh media cetak dan elektronik dan oleh segelintir pengamal - pengamal sosial media yang cuba menjadi juara yang dipanggil 'loud minority' yang TIDAK bertanggungjawab.
14. Sepatutnya mereka membantu menyejukkan suhu yang sedang membara, BUKANNYA 'Menyimbah Minyak Ke Dalam Api'.
15. Mereka yang mempunyai cita - cita dan gelojoh, berharap kepimpinan negara hari ini boleh ditukar ganti dengan angkara tersebut.
16. Bagi mengelakkan pergaduhan kaum dari berlaku, Mufti Perlis telah menyarankan agar corak pentadbiran Saddam Husein dilaksanakan.
17. Walaupun Saddam dianggap sebagai 'kuku besi' namun ketika itu jarang sekali kedengaran perbalahan serius diantara berbagai puak dan Pemisah Kurdish di Iraq.
18. Tun Hussein Onn, Bapa Perpaduan, pernah berpesan "Jangan sampai anak cucu kita mengencingkan kubur kita dek kerana kegagalan mengurus negara dalam keadaan porak peranda".
19. SEBENARNYA MENGURUS NEGARA TAK UBAH SEPERTI MENGURUS KELUARGA KITA SENDIRI.
20. Walaupun Zakir Naik telah memohon maaf namun serangan berterusan oleh DAP dan pelampau Hindu sebenarnya cuba 'Menutup Pekung' yang LEBIH BAHAYA :-
i Kenyataan terbuka Pemimpin Tertinggi DAP yang juga Menteri Sumber Manusia, M Kulasegaran bahawa orang Melayu adalah pendatang sedangkan orang India adalah penduduk asal negara ini.
ii. Wathya Moorthy yang pernah menuduh bahawa rakyat Malaysia keturunan India di sini dianak-tirikan, namun beliau tetap dilantik sebagai Senator dan Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri yang menjaga hal ehwal perpaduan.
iii. Dr. Ramasamy, Timbalan Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang adalah seorang lagi 'extremist' yang berkiblatkan politik perkauman yang sempit.
21. Negara sepatutnya mempunyai pemimpin - pemimpin yang bersikap sederhana dan toleransi BUKANNYA sikap pelampau yang ditonjolkan oleh mereka.
22. Pelampau Cina pula melalui Dong Zong terus berkeras asalkan mereka berjaya mendapat apa yang mereka rancang.
23. Setiap kali Pilihanraya Umum diadakan, mereka akan mengemukakan berbagai tuntutan berupa 'ugutan' atau 'blackmail' jika mahukan sokongan pengundi masyarakat Cina.
24. Dunia dan masyarakat Cina tempatan tahu dan sedar bahawa kaum Cina di Malaysia menikmati kemewahan ekonomi dan kesejahteraan hidup, adalah dengan sikap bermurah hati penduduk asal.
25. Mereka memilih menutup mata bahawa sekolah aliran Cina dan India TIDAK dibenarkan wujud di Indonesia dan Singapura, begitu juga di Thailand.
26. Mereka juga sepatutnya berterima kasih dan menghargai dengan bantuan kerajaan yang menelan ribuan jutaan ringgit yang diberikan sebagai bantuan kepada sekolah sekolah mereka selama ini.
27. Sebenarnya apa yang sedang dimiliki oleh kaum Cina dan India dalam bidang pendidikan di negara ini adalah TIDAK MENGUNTUNGKAN mereka! Kedudukan ini serupa dengan kewujudan sekolah sekolah antarabangsa yang diterokai oleh sebahagian besarnya dari kalangan kaum pendatang.
28. Belum pernah perbalahan antara kaum utama berlaku sejak peristiwa berdarah 13 Mei 1969 tapi kini dengan isu - isu yang berbangkit ia mula menimbulkan kegusaran di kalangan rakyat yang cintakan keamanan!, lebih bahaya penyakit benci membenci ini diperturunkan kepada anak - anak muda yang tidak memahami sejarah.
29. Memahami kelemahan dan kegagalan orang Melayu itu sendiri, UMNO dan PAS pula membakar semangat kebencian terhadap kaum lain dengan menggunakan isu perkauman dan agama, sedangkan berbagai bagai dasar dan agensi diperkenalkan bagi membantu kaum Melayu dan Bumiputra. Sayangnya, semua ini masih belum berjaya mencapai apa yang diidamkan oleh semua.
30. Mereka lebih mementingkan kedudukan diri dan parti masing - masing dari kepentingan masa depan anak bangsa Malaysia itu sendiri.
31. JANGAN MENGOTORKAN LEBUHRAYA MALAYSIA BARU DENGAN MENABUR SAMPAH SARAP.
32. JANGAN AMALKAN POLITIK SEMPIT DAN REMPIT WALAUPUN PUN MAJORITI KITA TAHU MEREKA INI ADALAH KELOMPOK YANG KECIL YANG DIPANGGIL 'LOUD MINORITY', jika tidak dibendung dan lebih baik lagi dihapuskan sahaja, ia pasti membahayakan pengguna yang lain. Mereka ini sebenarnya sedang cuba untuk meruntuhkan apa yang telah terbina selama ini.
33. Kepada Perdana Menteri, Menteri Hal Ehwal Dalam Negeri dan kepada Ketua Polis Negara, ingatlah, jawatan yang dipegang ini adalah satu AMANAH yang pasti dipersoalkan diakhirat kelak.
34. Semoga kita dapat membuang segala yang KERUH dan jadikan sambutan Kemerdekaan kali ke 62 Tahun ini sebagai titik permulaan Malaysia yang kita benar benar cintai. - Tamrin Tun Ghafar
Ini contoh orang Cina berjiwa Malaysia,jom tolak perkauman!
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