On Apr 3, 2010, Malaysiakini reported: Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak said Malay rights group Perkasa is “not so extreme' that it cannot be accommodated by the Umno-led government. In an interview aired on satellite news channel Al Jazeera last night, Najib spoke on behalf of Perkasa in saying the non-governmental organisation was “by and large supportive of Umno.” Today, in conjunction with Malaysia Day, there's a blog entry in PM's personal website entitled 'Our Fight Against Extremism'. While PM Najib did not specifically name any extremists and clearly define extremism, Raja Petra Kamarudin has written an article entitled 'What extremism means'.
So you see, my dear Najib, if we really want to be non-extremist then there is much we need to change. To shed extremism there is much we need to shed. And the first would be to shed the attitude that we have a right to decide how someone lives his/her life and what he/she has to believe in and follow.
NO HOLDS BARRED
Raja Petra Kamarudin
Bernama reported today that Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak wants Malaysians to fight extremism and to accept his 1Malaysia. Before we can fight extremism we must first understand what the word means.
Extremist (noun): a person zealous about a belief (Synonyms: agitator, die-hard, fanatic, radical, revolutionary, revolutionist, ultra, ultraist, zealot, illiberal, immoderate, stubborn, obsessive, single-minded, biased, unreasonable, bigot, intolerant, prejudiced, passionate, etc.)
Going by the above, almost 100% of Malaysians can be described as extremists. After all, who amongst us could tolerate/allow what we would regard as an insult to our race, religion or nation? Would we not passionately defend what we would consider our rights, dignity, freedom or whatever?
That would make us extremists. Read more here.
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