Pengetua Rasis: Muhyiddin Yassin Perlu Dipertanggungjawabkan

Pengetua 'rasis': Pemuda BN senada dengan DAP

Pemuda BN turut menyeru kerajaan tidak memandang remeh isu seorang pengetua yang didakwa menghamburkan kenyataan perkauman supaya ia menjadi isyarat tegas terhadap tindakan bertentangan dengan gagasan 1Malaysia.

Sehubungan itu, gabungan 14 sayap Pemuda dalam parti itu sepakat berpendapat insiden yang didakwa berlaku di Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Tunku Abdul Rahman, Kulai, haruslah disiasat sepenuhnya dan sekiranya benar hendaklah dihukum dengan keras.

Menurut satu kenyataan bersama hari ini, Pemuda BN mencadangkan hukuman yang berat dikenakan menurut peruntukan bawah Seksyen 504 Kanun Keseksaan.

Sekyen tersebut - berhubung "kecenderungan menghina bagi tujuan mencetuskan provokasi bagi mengganggu keharmonian" - memperuntukkan hukuman penjara sehingga dua tahun, denda atau kedua-duanya.

Kerajaan didesak bertindak ke atas seorang pengetua sekolah yang didakwa menghamburkan kata-kata perkauman yang menghina pelajar Cina dan India pada satu majlis anjuran sekolah tersebut di Kulai, Johor.

Senada dengan DAP?

Penasihat DAP Lim Kit Siang dalam satu kenyataanya berkata, tindakan disiplin yang paling keras perlu dikenakan terhadap pengetua SMK Tunku Abdul Rahman, Siti Inshah Mansor yang didakwa mengeluarkan kata-kata itu.

Lim berkata tindakan perlu diambil terhadap Siti Inshah memandangkan tindakannya itu bertentangan dengan konsep 1Malaysia yang dipelopori perdana menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

Katanya, Siti Inshah sanggup mengeluarkan kata-kata yang begitu menghina, menyinggung dan rasis itu dalam satu majlis untuk melancarkan sambutan Hari Kebangsaan sekolah tersebut.

Ironinya, tema sambutan Hari Kebangsaan tahun ini ialah '1Malaysia Menjana Transformasi,' kata Lim lagi.

Menurut beberapa laporan polis yang disebarkan di dalam talian, Siti Inshah didawak mengeluarkan kata-kata berkenaan pada 12 Ogos lalu ketika mengulas mengenai masalah disiplin pelajar.

Didakwa, beliau menyatakan bahawa pelajar Cina "tidak diperlukan" dan perlu "pulang" ke China manakala pelajar India patut membuang ikatan tali di pergelangan tangan mereka.

Beliau juga didakwa berkata hanya anjing yang memakai tali seperti itu.

Lim berkata, insiden tersebut membangkitkan semula ingatannya kepada kenyataan menghina yang dibuat oleh bekas ketua bahagian Umno Bukit Bendera Datuk Ahmad Ismail dan juga oleh bekas pegawai khas perdana menteri Datuk Nasir Safar. -mk

Punish ‘racist’ principal, not cover up, parents demand

Denying that it was a “misunderstanding”, parents want the Education Ministry to take stern disciplinary action against the Johor school head accused of spouting racist slurs, claiming that it was not the first incident.

One parent even alleged the ministry was trying to “cover up” the case at SMK Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra in Kulai.

“Parents are very unhappy that the authorities are citing misinformation and misunderstanding that the headmistress had made the remarks.

“It wasn’t a misunderstanding. Even the teachers have given their statement to the police. The teachers confirmed what has been reported by the students,” a parent told The Malaysian Insider, refuting Education director-general Tan Sri Alimuddin Mohd Dom’s response yesterday that the case was just a misunderstanding and had been resolved.

“If it was, then why did the state Education Department tell her to make an open apology to the non-Malay students and teachers?” he asked, and related that principal Siti Inshah Mansor had been loudly booed by the student population in the attempt.

“The government is trying to cover it up,” claimed the 46-year-old business consultant, who asked not to be named, fearing repercussions to his job.

The father of two said parents were mulling setting up a formal parent action group to pressure Putrajaya into action.

“Some disciplinary action must be taken. Even if not dismissal, at least demote her. If just transfer her out, it won’t solve the problem.

“She has done in before. In her previous school, she called Indians Nigerians,” he said, claiming Siti Inshah, who was formerly the principal of SMK Kelapa Sawit — another school in the same Kulai district — had been transferred out following similar complaints.

The police are currently investigating the case under section 504 of the Penal Code for provocation which carries a maximum imprisonment of two years, a fine or both.

A total of 17 complaints have been lodged with the police against the principal so far.

A copy of one report made last week and recently put up on the Malaysia-Today website listed several racist and derogatory remarks allegedly made by Siti Inshah, including likening Indian students wearing prayer threads on their person to dogs and ordering dissatisfied ethnic Chinese and Indian students to “return to China or India”.

Part of the lengthy police report lodged by a 16-year-old student alleged: “She gave the example of owning a Proton Saga with two passengers who are Munusamy and Chong. Munusamy and Chong were only passengers. They cannot claim any right to the car. This is the same as Malaysia in which the non-Malay students are passengers.”

Similar “racist” allegations have been reported made by senior civil servants, most notably by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s then-political aide Datuk Nasir Safar in January this year at a 1 Malaysia event, and signal a rise in racial tensions among Malaysia’s multicultural society. -TMI

Ulasan GB

Ke mana perginya Muhyiddin Yassin, Timbalan Perdana Menteri merangkap Menteri Pelajaran yang juga rasis orangnya?

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