A Wake-up Call to the Silent Majority.

This very interesting news feature was not reported in any of the main English dailies.
Just imagine that. A minister goes on record that UMNO has been misusing the Muslim religion in order to fish for votes.

This is indeed a revelation coming from the minister himself. He is appealing to the silent majority of moderate Muslims to make their voices heard lest the extreme element gain control of the government.

Isn’t that a scary thought? The silent majority must awake from their slumber and become proactive or we will end up like another Iran or Iraq.
Admitting an error is the first step to correcting it. Let us hope that the minister will take concrete measures to rally the support of the complacent Rip van Winkles.

Seeing that Malaysia cannot progress much further with race based political parties, perhaps Nazri will be courageous enough to get UMNO’s support to start a new party within BN that is not race based.

For example, this party could be called BN Party and made up of existing MPs from UMNO, MCA and MIC. Perhaps one third of all MPs should be asked to join this new party if they ascribe to the “secular nation” concept that Malaysia was founded on.

This BN Party will contest in the General Elections against all other parties so that the silent majority will get their chance to provide necessary feed-back.

This is one route to take to enable Malaysia to escape from the scourge of money politics.