By Anak Mami
The first questionable whether Interlok is English or Malay terminology? Why did Pena never feel shy about Malay language as ``Bahasa Pinjaman?'' or PENA never work hard o create any new malay words? Malas tapi mahu samseng.
To UMNO and the gang what is Interlok means?
Interlock covers the period from the early 20th century to Malaya's independence from British rule. The main theme in this novel is the integration of the various majority races of Malaya and how the Malays, Chinese and Indians, represented by three families, have contributed towards this sovereign nation.
Pena should just shut up and understand the sensitivities of the others. Indians may be the minority but it doesn't mean that they have no feelings. What if the same were to be written of the Malays. Please be more civilised before PENA open your mouth
Zakir's stand to gather Malay NGOs to defend a 'factual' novel that purportedly promotes integration among the various ethnic groups ...
Well, it's laughable at best. If he's trully genuine in his wishes, he should be engaging the groups, and find out why and what is it that the Indian groups find objectionable. He's an intellectual, after all. Can't he explain? What fact can he establish by gathering people and protesting? Will the objectionable view points become less offensive if a large number of Malay NGOs gathered to support it?
Since BM became our first language in schools; unfortunately, thanks largely to UMNO's misguided policies and confused priorities, it remains a second-class language outside, in the private sector.
The Malays themselves do not respect their language.
Question: do the Malay elite read Bahasa Malaysia? They don't even speak it these days, even in their houses! So, who is to be blamed for the pitiful state of Malay literature?
As our best wishes to Rakyat in year 2011, please say laoudly ``Go to Hell PENA , racist Pena'' as with most umno institutions with "national" in front. Nary a whimper over Kutuksan over the decades past!
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