KUALA LUMPUR, July 5 - The Malay youths in DAP are given mere “spear-bearer” positions as the party leadership is still dominated by the Chinese, an Utusan Malaysia columnist said today.
Utusan columnist Ku Seman Ku Hussain said in his column on Mingguan Malaysia, the Sunday edition of the Umno-linked daily, that Malay youths might as well not join the opposition party if they were given such low-ranking posts and attacked their own race.
“It’s not worth the ‘sin’ of betraying your religion and race,” Ku Seman wrote.
“If you’re dreaming of a senior position in the party, you might as well wait for the moon to turn blue. Even former DAP vice-chairman Tunku Aziz Tunku Ibrahim, the most senior Malay in the DAP then, couldn’t whiten the DAP that’s black with race politics,” he added.
Tunku Aziz resigned from the DAP in 2012 shortly after criticising the Bersih 3.0 rally, with his remarks going against his party’s stand on the gathering for free and fair elections.
The DAP has been recruiting several Malays in a bid to build up its multi-racial image, including Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud, a young Malay woman whom it fielded in the Teluk Intan by-election, and more recently, former Johor PAS Youth member Sheikh Omar Ali and national laureate Datuk A. Samad Said.
