董总强烈抗议和谴责玛拉工艺大学副校长丹斯里阿都拉曼阿萨及前上诉庭法官拿督莫哈末诺阿都拉的种族极端主义及破坏国民团结的言论

                   2013年5月13日

据报道，玛拉工艺大学副校长丹斯里阿都拉曼阿萨（Abdul Rahman Arshad）及前上诉庭法官拿督莫哈末诺阿都拉（Mohd Noor Abdullah）于5月12日在“后第13届大选检讨会：穆斯林的领导和生存”论坛上，提出把各源流学校改制为单一源流学校的狂言，莫哈末诺阿都拉甚至声称各源流学校的存在不被联邦宪法承认的谬论，并就第13届大选成绩恫言及煽动要报复华裔公民。董总今日就此特发表文告，强烈抗议和谴责上述两人的种族极端主义及破坏国民团结的言论。  

1．第13届全国大选，我国选民行使公民权利进行投票。但是，上述两人的言论显然是在恐吓及煽动报复选民，完全违背我国公民的合法权利，违反法治和民主精神。他们的种族极端主义言论，破坏国民团结，伤害社会和谐。董总认为，政府有必要在法律上对上述两人采取追究责任。

2．我国各民族接受和发展母语教育，符合我国宪法精神和联合国有关人权、公民和政经文教权利等宣言或公约，是不容被剥夺的权益。英殖民地政府曾经在1951年巴恩报告书提出废除华文学校及淡米尔文学校，遭到人民强烈反对而以失败告终；《1961年教育法令》第21条（2）赋权教育部长可随时把华小和淡小改为国小的臭名昭著的条款，早已受到历史的唾弃。由此可见，上述两人煽动种族仇恨及对抗言论，才是真正分裂国民团结，完全背离现实和国情，违背了理性论证的基本要求。

3．第13届全国大选成绩显示，我国有一半以上的各民族选民，特别是年轻选民已经厌恶和唾弃种族政治、种族极端主义和贪污滥权等社会现状，同时极度不满民族平等、民主和自由的权利长期以来受到无理和任意侵犯。这正是当权者必须正视和认真纠正的问题。

5月12日，前高等教育部副部长拿督赛夫丁提出警告，“巫统作为国阵的主干，必须继续走中庸路线，如果转而倾右，那就等于自杀”。董总认为，这是对阿都拉曼阿萨、莫哈末诺阿都拉的当头棒喝，单元主义和种族极端主义者只会损害国家和各民族人民的利益，必会被人民所唾弃。

Statement from the United Chinese School Committees' Association of Malaysia (Dong Zong)

Date：May 13, 2013  

It has been reported that Pro Chancellor of Mara University of Technology Dr Abdul Rahman Arshad and former Appeals Court judge Datuk Mohd Noor Abdullah proposed during the "Review of Post-13th General Elections: Muslim Leadership and Survival" forum on May 12 that multiple language education streams in the country should be converted into a single language stream. Datuk Mohd Noor Abdullah even claimed that the existence of multiple language streams were not recognised in the Federal Constitution, and vowed revenge against Chinese Malaysians who voted for the opposition. Dong Zong hereby strongly protests and reprimands the extremist remarks made by these two individuals. Their remarks have been highly detrimental to national unity.

1.Malaysian voters exercised their rights as citizens of this country by casting their ballots in the just concluded 13th General Elections. Unfortunately, the irresponsible remarks by these two persons have wickedly attempted to intimidate and incite retribution against the voters in contravention to the statutory rights of Malaysian citizens to vote as well as the spirit of democracy. Their racist and extremist remarks have not only hijacked national unity but also dealt a severe blow on social harmony. Dong Zong feels that it is imperative for the Government to pursue legal liabilities against these two people. 

2.Malaysians of all ethnic backgrounds have come to accept and develop mother tongue education which is in conformity to the country's constitutional spirit as well as international proclamations on human and civil rights. Such entitlement must not be denied by any individual. The British colonial government had in the 1951 Barnes Report attempted to abolish Chinese and Tamil schools but the proposal was thwarted because of the strong resistance from the people. Section 21 of the Education Act 1961 empowers the Education Minister to convert any national-type Chinese or Tamil primary school into a national primary school, but this was also discarded by the people. We can see from here that the seditious remarks intending to incite racial hatred and confrontation have been the actual culprit that thumps national unity in contravention to the realistic situation in this country as well as the fundamental requirements for rationality. 

3.The GE13 results show that more than half of Malaysians from all ethnic backgrounds, in particular young voters, have shunned race-oriented politics, chauvinism, corruption, power abuse and other irrational social realities. They abhor the chronic violation against their rights to ethnic equality, democracy and freedom. This is an area those in power must seriously look into and make amends. 

4.On May 12, former deputy higher education minister Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah warned that UMNO as the backbone of Barisan Nasional must continue to take the moderate path, and that the party will be committing political suicide if it shifts further to the right. We in Dong Zong feel that this should serve as a wake-up call for both Dr Abdul Rahman Arshad and Datuk Mohd Noor Abdullah that singularism and racial extremism will only serve to jeopardise the interest of the nation and its people, and be eventually trashed by the rakyat.

（来源：董总网页）