Amy Cheong is not Lee Kuan Yew

What Amy Cheong wrote in her facebook denigrating my Malay/Muslim friends is wrong. It shows the contempt she has for others.

After her mindless act, PAP ministers and supporters alike went full throttle condemning her for her foolish insensitivity. Straits Times (9 Oct 2012) on its front page stated, "NTUC fires exec over online racist remarks" with the following:

• The NTUC takes a serious view on racial harmony in Singapore" said Lim Swee Say. "We will not accept and have zero tolerance towards any words used or actions taken by our staff that are racially offensive"
• Law Minister K Shanmugum called Ms Cheong's remarks shameful and unacceptable, adding that they confirm "deep fault lines in our society based on race and religion"
• Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said that Ms Cheong's comments were "offensive not only to the Malay-Muslims, but all the rest of us who value Singapore's multiracial spirit and who want to take it further"
• Acting Manpower Minister Tan Chuan-Jin said, "the reaction of some individuals does not reflect the values that the rest of us hold on to"
• Writing on Facebook from New Zealand where he is on an official visit, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said he was shocked to hear of the incident. "The comments were just wrong and totally unacceptable"
• Grassroots leader Lionel de Sousa, who is the secretary of the Inter-Racial and Religious Confidence Circle in Hougang, filed a police report yesterday. He said he wanted to send a signal that racist remarks should not be tolerated.

The sense of righteousness of the gentlemen above in condemning Amy Cheong, though timely, appears to be a little hollow to me.

Gentlemen, just where were you when Lee Kuan Yew was onto the following:

• "... to persuade Malay parents to look after their daughters more carefully and not to have teenage pregnancies which leads to failed marriages, subsequent marriages also fail and delinquents . . ." [Link] Why he had to highlight the Malay-Muslim parent instead of Chinese or Indian is beyond me.
• Mr Lee:  “Well, we make them say the national pledge and sing the national anthem but suppose we have a famine, will your Malay neighbour give you the last few grains of rice or will she share it with her family or fellow Muslim or vice versa? [Link] Why Malay as example again?
• Lee Kuan Yew's take on Muslim integration in Singapore [Link]
• In his interview with Charlie Rose at 31:57 [Link], Lee Kuan Yew appeared to stand corrected again even after he stood corrected.

While every mother's son in PAP is having an orgasm running down Amy Cheong for her "racist" post, I simply wonder where were they when LKY said things that (in my perception) were derogatory to my Malay-Muslim friends? Why were you not doing what you do now to Amy Cheong? Condemning racism!

In every race or community (religious or whatever), there are decent blokes, there are mean bastards and, worst of all, hypocrites! Please be fair - regardless of race, language, religion, gender and, most important of all, political status, position, power and wealth! 

Truth is Amy is not LKY. That is why she is paying and paying (PAP?) for a sin that may not be a sin to another who is powerful.

I guess power corrupts and absolute power corrupts beyond what our minds can comprehend.

Shame on those who practice double standards!

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