Malaysia government related Islamic finance group Takaful has issued an official statement on their website to apologize for the misunderstanding caused by an email sent that ‘advice’ Muslim employees not to greet Hindus Happy Deepavali.
The email was sent by Takaful’s religious department chief, Mohamed Fauzi Mustaffa. It took a while before the news was verified and spread to the public, with the government and public strongly critisizing the email for its narrow interpretation of Islam.
There are many rants about Malaysia Prime Minister, Abdullah Badawi, for failing to live up to his promise during his 3 years stint in the PM office so far.
Corruptions, political unsettleness, racial sensitivity, slow economic growth, environment problems have all been challenging the capability of Badawi, but he failed to provide the right answers at the moment.
The recent development of Asian Strategy and Leadership Institute (ASLI) issue has proved just one thing.. Malaysia government is always right!
The story started when ASLI produced a report that Malays control 45% of Malaysia’s corporate equity instead of only 19% from government official reports.
The Malaysian New Economic Policy (NEP), followed by National Development Policy (NDP) has been implemented for 37 years. Is NEP the effective way to improve the economic competency for Malays in all these years?
What I’ve seen is that a minor group of Malays are getting super rich, while large portion of Malays are not benefiting from NEP at all. The rich get richer, while the poor get poorer.
Welcome to Malaysia Society Weblog, a blog where I’ll share my views on Malaysia social political development.
I am not going to write another government bashing blog like many others, what I hope is to give constructive ideas and recommendations in various aspect, to raise social awareness and to give real contributions in making Malaysia a better place other than just complaning and whinning.
Also contradict to most social political blogs, I am not going to open the comment option… not at the moment, but I might consider open for discussion in future.
Malaysia is not a perfect country, but it’s a place I call home, and I’ll do my best as a Malaysian to make my nation a better place.
