Britain blamed for Indian Malaysians' 'plight' in ex-colony

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You forget to add us. We Buddhists have also started facing the heat from Secular fascists and their islamic and vaticanian overlords. Jihad's example you know very well, the attacks against Buddhists that led to riots from Myanmar all the way into temple blasts in Gaya; and from missionaries who have been bullying Buddhists into converting in Arunachal Pradesh, all in secret nod from secularist governments.

An Attack on the Integrity of India

we always have top leaders from the majority of that country, check any other country of the world. but Hindus are so liberal, that they are very easy to be "eaten" by others, a common understanding the rest of the world have got. and it all started during last 8-10 years of this un-elected PM, Manmohan Sign, who never fought any general election, belonging to Punjab and elected from a Rajya Sabha seat of North East, and he and his Italian lord has been consistently involved in destroying Hindu community from the back door. if she could be married to even Imran Khan type very liberal Muslim, she might be known as Jamima Khan, something similar name. but as she married to a Hindu Rajiv Gandhi, who never forced her to convert into Hindu, so this Christian background women then started digging grave of majority Hindus from the back door :facepalm:

the 12 years of growth rate of Indian economy since 1991 to 2002 was hardly around 5.35%, much lower than even 5.6% growth rate of India in 80s. Indian economy came on the high growth rate since 2002 only, when Vajpayee government made proper changes in the economic reforms of 1991. heavy investment in infrastruture/ supporting industrialization and more aggressive FDIs, all started during 1998 to 2004, which first time brought Indian economic growth rate to 8.4% by financial year 2003-04, and then he retired by june 2004, the first 8.0%+ growth rate since economic reform in 1991.... even if India faced heavy problems during 1998-2004 like Kargil war in 1998, economic sanctions due to 1998 nuclear tests, military stand off in 2002, biggest drought of last 80s years in 2002, fall of ASEAN economy in 1998 itself which brought down growth of many Asian economies, but India could still maintain 6.0%+ growth during 1998 to 2004......

but since this minority Manmohan again got strength, when he couldn't bring the growth rate of India back to 5.4% average of 90s, since he copied Pakistan's economic reform itself in 1991, he and his Italian lord then started many financial support for the minorities of India which is mainly intended to divide the united Indian society........ as, if Hindus don't discriminate with minorities for any religious or racial reason, then why would they accept that minorities are given heave financial benefits/ easy loans etc just because they aren't Hindus??????? even if per capita income of Sikhs and Christians is well above Hindus, while Muslims have too many kids so obviously they are poor, then why is there any reason to provide better opportunities to the minorities, just because they aren't Hindus??????

India needs a leader which may bring the Indian society to "equality". India musn't have any financial advantages based on religion, which is mainly intended to infuse misunderstanding among the common Indians, to divide them on the name of religions, which is against the basic concept of integrity of India. except women and Dalits, India must not allow any type of financial advantages based on religion :nono:
 

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Wherever there is the 'Religion of Peace', there is always a problem. From US to Philippines and from India to Sweden, every non-Muslim is suffering.
While I can't actually be bothered checking my facts for a Hello10 thread, am pretty sure McVeigh was Agnostic.

Have no particular knowledge of this Page guy but, most racist skinheads would be neo Nazis. Nazis aren't Christians as they consider Christianity to be "Jewish".
First let muslims stop discriminating minorities in their country oh sorry there is no minority alive in muslim majority country

both of these two sides are same..........

condition of minority buddhist/hindu/sikhs including CHristian in even the Indian neighbors, Pakistan/Bangladesh, is being discussed in the thread as below too :ranger:

=> http://defenceforumindia.com/forum/...-bangladesh-has-turned-assam-explosive-2.html
 

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Discrimination against Chinese in Malaysia for university places
Started by xng , Sep 02 2013 10:00 AM


Mr Soh and Ms Hanie both applied to government-funded medical universities

Soh Boon Khang scored a perfect mark of 4.0 in his high-school exams.

He was confident that this grade would allow him to become the first doctor in his Chinese family. Mr Soh wanted to become a surgeon, specialising in oncology.

He applied to medical school but did not get a single offer from a government-funded university.

"I feel very frustrated and very sad. I cried three times because I used to believe that a diligent student who excelled at academics stood to get a chance," he said.

Hanie Farhana, meanwhile, who achieved a cumulative grade point average of 3.75 out of 4, was recently accepted into medical school.

She comes from the country's Malay majority, also known as Bumiputera. Some of her non-Bumiputera friends who scored higher marks did not get into government-funded universities, she said. :ranger:

Ms Hanie felt she was given advantages over other races, such as access to certain scholarships not available to non-Bumiputeras.

"It is stated in the social contract back to independence [from the British] that Malays get special privileges and rights, whereas the non-Malays have their citizenship," she said, but added that she still worked hard and deserved her place.


'Something broken'

"The system should nurture talent - instead, we are creating generations of people who think that this country is unfair"

Chong Sin Woon
Malaysian Chinese Association
Malaysia is made up of 60% Bumiputeras, 23% ethnic Chinese and 7% ethnic Indians, with the remainder made up of other races.

Since Bumiputeras traditionally lag behind in education and business, under national policies, they get cheaper housing, priority in government jobs and business licenses.

Malaysia also used to set ethnic quotas in government-funded universities to ensure that more Bumiputeras had access to higher education, but that system was abolished in 2002. Since then, Malaysia's education ministry has said the system is based on merit.

Ethnic minorities dispute this. The academic year begins this month, and of the 41,573 places in government-funded universities available, 19% were awarded to ethnic Chinese and 4% to ethnic Indians. The rest of the seats were mainly allocated to Bumiputeras. :ranger:

Senator Jaspal Singh, with the Malaysian Indian Congress, which is part of the governing Barisan Nasional coalition, described it as the most unfair and biased university intake for ethnic minorities in decades.

Mr Jaspal said records showed that the number of Indians who applied to government-funded universities had remained steady, but those who were offered a place had dropped by more than half compared to a decade ago under the racial quota system, where at least 8% of the public university intake were Indian.

Ethnic Chinese representatives report that their student intake went down by a third in the same period.

"This year's intake resulted in many students with [perfect scores] of 4.0 cumulative grade point averages not getting courses of their choice, or worse, not being given places at all," said Mr Jaspal. Something was broken in the system, he said.

Deputy Education Minister P Kamalanathan was unable to confirm or deny whether the number of Chinese and Indian students accepted into public university had gone down since 2002. But he told the BBC that this year's figures alone showed that the system was based on merit.

"The success rate of the Chinese community in university is the highest in this country," he said.

Mr Kamalanathan said of all Malaysians who applied to universities in the 2013-14 academic year, 76% of ethnic Chinese were successful compared to 72% of Bumiputeras. The success rate for ethnic Indians was 69%.



Some students were left out, he argued, because there was big competition for a limited number of places on courses traditionally favoured by ethnic Chinese and Indians. Government data showed that there were 10 applicants for each of the 119 spots in the dentistry programme this year.

Some students with perfect scores refused to be placed in programmes other than the ones they opted for, he added.

The system is also not all based on academics, he said. Under the merit system, a student's academic marks account for 90% of the evaluation while 10% is based extra co-curricular marks. A student could also be rejected if they did not do well in a face-to-face interview with the university administrators.

"The entire university intake issue in Malaysia has nothing to do with race," he said.

It is a statement that is not easy for Mr Kamalanathan to say, since he is also part of the MIC party that Mr Jaspal belongs to - which is now pushing for more transparency.

He said that the problem was perception, and admitted that the ministry had not been forthcoming in the past with figures of the racial breakdown in universities.


'Unfair platform'

But others argue that university entrance is an unfair playing field and racially segregated.

Two of the most popular pre-university courses are matriculation and STPM. The former is in practice mainly reserved for Bumiputeras and can be completed in under one year. :facepalm:

Most ethnic Chinese and Indians are therefore limited to STPM, which takes almost two years and is seen as more academically challenging because it is tied to the University of Cambridge local examination syndicate and equivalent to British A-levels.
:facepalm:

The education ministry says the two programmes are comparable.

But Chong Sin Woon with the Malaysian Chinese Association said there are big discrepancies in the marking system in pre-university courses that has led to a widespread belief that the Chinese and Indians have to work much harder to compete with the Bumiputeras for the same university places. :toilet:

"So it's already an unfair platform even before you apply for university," said Mr Chong.

As the party's youth education bureau chief, Mr Chong used to receive a couple of complaints from students who achieved perfect marks but were not offered anything.

This year, the MCA said it received a record 19 cases, which is alarming for Mr Chong.

Earlier this year Prime Minister Najib Razak blamed his Malay-dominated coalition's weaker performance in the May general election on a "Chinese tsunami" - Chinese voters deserted him to back the opposition.

The lower number of Chinese in government-funded universities is perceived by some as a backlash against the community, said Mr Chong.

His MCA party, traditionally the voice of the Chinese community within the governing coalition, lost half its seats in parliament. For the first time since Malaysia's independence from the British, the MCA has no members in the cabinet.

Mr Najib has said he will help the affected students, but did not address the underlying feeling of discontent among the ethnic Chinese and Indians.

Mr Chong said the country needs to streamline pre-university exams for all races to create true meritocracy.

Otherwise they will leave, and they do, says Mr Chong. According to the World Bank, the ethnic Chinese make up the majority of the brain drain from Malaysia.

"The system should nurture talent," he said. "Instead, we are creating generations of people who think that this country is unfair."

Meanwhile, Mr Soh's appeal against his university rejection is still pending with the government, but he has already decided to register in a private institution.

He said he is disappointed with the government-funded universities, saying the whole experience had made him question his love for the country.

"If I have offers from overseas for a job after graduation then I think I will leave the Malaysia because the country doesn't appreciate me," he said. :wave:

BBC News - Is Malaysia university entry a level playing field?

Discrimination against Chinese in Malaysia for university places - Overseas Chinese - China History Forum, Chinese History Forum
 
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Malaysia Policy Brief: 2010 - 2011

Background | Religious Discrimination and the Legal System | Status of Human Rights | US Foreign Policy Objectives | Policy Recommendations | Download the Brief (pdf)

I. Background

Formerly a British colony, Malaysia is a Muslim-majority nation with substantial religious minorities, including Buddhists (19.2%), Christians (9.1%), and Hindus (6.3% - 7%).

Hinduism was established in Malaysia and Southeast Asia since at least the first century C.E. and flourished in the region until the 10th century C.E. The majority of Hindus currently living in Malaysia, however, are the descendants of Indian indentured laborers brought over by British colonialists in the 1800s.

Malaysia is a federal constitutional elective monarchy with Islam as the official state religion. Islam plays a significant role in public life and permeates all aspects of Malaysian society.

Religious minorities experience widespread persecution, such as restrictions on religious freedom, institutional discrimination, and political repression.

The U.S. has significant foreign policy objectives in Malaysia, such as promoting religious freedom and democracy, trade and investment, and regional security.

II. Religious Discrimination and the Legal System

Discriminatory Constitutional Provisions

Article 3 (1) recognizes that Islam is the official religion of Malaysia and provides that other religions may be practiced in "peace and harmony" in the Federation.

Article 10 subjects the freedom of speech and assembly to arbitrary restrictions in the interest of security, public order, and morality.

Article 11 protects the right of Muslims to freely propagate their religion, but prohibits other religious groups from propagating religion amongst Muslims.

Article 153 calls for protection of the "special position" of Muslim Malays and provides them with reservations and quotas in public service and government jobs, educational institutions, and in the procurement of business or trade licenses.

The Judicial System and Islamic Law :ranger:

The Federal Constitution of Malaysia establishes a parallel court system, with secular civil and criminal courts and Islamic Sharia courts.

The Sharia courts have authority over Muslims in issues such as religion, marriage, divorce, inheritance, apostasy, and religious conversion. Federal courts have no jurisdiction in matters that fall within the purview of the Sharia courts. :toilet:

III. Status of Human Rights

Religious Freedom

Minorities, including Hindus, Buddhists, and Christians, face increasing religious discrimination and inequality despite Constitutional protections and international human rights law.

Although the Islamic Sharia court system"Ÿs jurisdiction only extends to matters involving Muslims, non-Muslims have been increasingly subjected to the reach of Shariah Law in recent years. Hindus in particular have suffered explicit discrimination in cases adjudicated by the Sharia courts involving issues such as marriage/divorce, parental rights, conversions, and funeral rites.

The Malaysian government has failed to grant equal rights to non-Muslim places of worship. For example, approximately 23,000 Hindu temples/shrines in Malaysia have been denied legal status since independence in 1963, many in existence since the pre-independence era, while Muslim mosques built in the same period have been granted land titles. Furthermore, many temples have been forcibly relocated by the government or appropriated for "public use" under special laws.

Minority places of worship and religious institutions have often been attacked or destroyed by both Islamic extremists and the government. Since independence, 10,000 Hindu temples/shrines have been demolished or desecrated (includes private shrines located on plantation estates). In addition, following a High Court decision ruling that the "government"Ÿs ban on the use of "žAllah"Ÿ in non-Muslim publications infringed constitutional rights, including freedom of expression and freedom to practice one"Ÿs religion," several non-Muslim places of worship were attacked, including at least 10 Christian churches and a Sikh gurudwara.

Institutional Discrimination :ranger:

The official Bumiputra (sons of the soil) policy enshrined in Article 153 of Malaysia"Ÿs Federal Constitution sanctions discrimination against minorities, while providing benefits for the majority Muslim Malay population, including quotas in government jobs and educational institutions. The policy further requires that companies listed on the Kuala Lampur Stock Exchange must have at least 30% Muslim Malay ownership.

The Hindu and Indian minority faces discrimination in education and government jobs. For instance, only 1% of all government funds spent on education goes toward supporting Malaysian Hindus, and some government universities admit only Muslim Malay students, including University Teknologi Mara, which has 120,000 students. Furthermore, 95% of 1.2 million government employees are Muslim Malays (not including Tamil schools).

70% of ethnic Indians/Hindus are categorized as poor, with 90% in the daily or monthly wage-earning category.

Nearly 200,000 Malaysians of Indian ethnicity have been denied citizenship, despite having roots in Malaysia for several generations. They further lack birth certificates and identity documents, resulting in a denial of basic rights to education, healthcare, jobs, driving licenses, and formal marriages.

Political Repression

According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), the right to freedom of speech is severely restricted in Malaysia, with the government clamping down on journalists and banning several news publications critical of the government. Similarly, freedom of assembly remains under threat as the "local police refused to issue permits to activists for public assemblies, marches, and meetings, and used excessive use of force to break up unlicensed events.

Hindus and ethnic Indians remained politically silent until 2007, when they began to challenge the Malaysian government"Ÿs discriminatory policies. On November 25, 2007, a peaceful rally of more than 10,000 Hindus (some estimate the numbers closer to 50,000) was brutally suppressed by the government through the use of tear gas and chemically-laced water. Following the event, Malaysian security forces began to crack down on Hindu and Indian activists for asserting their basic democratic rights, and several leaders of the Hindu Rights Action Force (HINDRAF), a human rights organization, were arrested for their involvement in organizing the protests. Five of the arrested leaders were held at a detention center for 514 days. The government further banned HINDRAF and confiscated the passport of one of its leaders, Waytha Murthy, who now lives in exile in the United Kingdom.

The Internal Security Act (ISA) of 1960, which allows for indefinite detention without trial of those considered to be a threat to national security, has been used to silence political dissent and has frequently targeted journalists, academics, and political activists. Thousands of Hindu political activists have been arbitrarily detained without trial under the ISA.

Two of Malaysia"Ÿs largest political parties, the United Malays National Organization (UMNO) and the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), both promote Malay nationalistic agendas and pander to Islamic extremists.

IV. US Foreign Policy Objectives in Malaysia

Trade and Investment

The U.S. has strong economic interests in Malaysia as a trading partner and a market for direct investment.

According to the Office of the United States Trade Representative, U.S. foreign direct investment in Malaysia was $13.5 billion in 2009, and U.S. goods and services trade with Malaysia totaled $36 billion for the same year.

Malaysia is currently the United States"Ÿ 19th largest goods export market and is the 16th largest supplier of goods imports for the U.S.

The U.S. recently announced the inclusion of Malaysia in negotiations to create a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement involving the U.S. and seven other Asia-Pacific nations.

The Bumiputra policy not only economically marginalizes the Hindu and Indian minority, but also places burdensome restrictions on foreign investment in Malaysia.

Terrorism and Regional Security

There are several Islamic militant groups operating in Malaysia and Southeast Asia, including Kumpulan Mujahidin Malaysia (KMM), Jemaah Islamiyah Malaysia (JIM), and Abu Sayyaf. JIM"Ÿs parent organization, Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), and Abu Sayyaf have been designated as foreign terrorist organizations by the U.S. State Department, enjoy close relations with al-Qaeda, and pose a threat to U.S. security interests in the region.

Malaysia's location in Southeast Asia has been used as a strategic transit point for Islamic terrorist organizations in the region. As Islamic extremism increases its influence in Malaysia, it is critical to prevent Malaysia from becoming a safe haven for militant groups to launch attacks on Western targets.

Religious Freedom and Democracy

Strengthening secular and democratic institutions in Malaysia is critical to supporting a moderate Muslim democracy in the world and ensuring stability in Southeast Asia.

Promoting religious freedom and minority rights in Malaysia is consistent with America"Ÿs commitment to human rights and prevents the growth of Islamic extremism in the region.

V. Policy Recommendations

The U.S. should work with the United Nations and international human rights groups to exert pressure on the Malaysian government to provide religious freedom and equal rights to non-Muslims, and end repression of political dissent.

Non-Muslim places of worship, particularly Hindu temples, must be protected from further destruction, desecration, and appropriation by the Government. Legal titles should be granted to pre-independence Hindu temples on par with pre-independence Muslim mosques.

Any future military or economic appropriations to Malaysia must be contingent on the protection of human rights of ethnic and religious minorities, abolishment of the ISA, and reformation of all security agencies. Alternatively, any economic or humanitarian assistance provided should be used for the benefit of the economically marginalized and religiously persecuted Hindu minority.

Malaysia should be excluded from any future Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement until the Malaysia government ends its discriminatory Bumiputra policies.

Malaysia's continued membership on the UN Human Rights Council should be made contingent upon its signing and abiding by all international conventions and treaties on human rights.

Malaysia Policy Brief 2011 | Hindu American Foundation (HAF)
 

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