Gerakan condemns insulting remarks against Ruler

Gerakan condemns insulting remarks against Ruler

Cheah Soon Hai: Police must take immediate action

Press statement by

Gerakan Deputy President

Dato’ Cheah Soon Hai

7 August 2014

Gerakan Deputy President, Dato’ Cheah Soon Hai condemned the recent Facebook post by an Indian youth, who made insulting statements against the Yang di-Pertuan Agong. As a response, Cheah called for an immediate police response against the Indian youth.

“There is an increasing number of cases involving racial and religious conflicts in the last two months. For instance, the insulting comments that complained about the loud azan by Kelvin Yip on Facebook as well as the disrespectful comments made by Chow Jack on the same social site against Prophet Muhammad, Perak Sultan Raja Nazrin Shah and Prime Minister Dato’ Sri Najib Razak. All these have led to misunderstanding among different racial groups, seriously impacted the country and endangered national harmony. Therefore, I have the reason to believe that this series of events were initiated by certain parties, with the malicious intent to incite racial hatred.”

Cheah pointed out that, recent racial or religious tensions were obviously meant to incite negative emotions among the people to create troubles. As such, he called upon all Malaysians, regardless of Muslims or non-Muslims, not to fall into this trap, and to unite against racism.

Cheah emphasized that, Gerakan is a multiracial party for all Malaysians, and hence would never tolerate racism. He also urged the police to carry out immediate investigation on all cases involving racial and religious conflicts, and to reveal the results to the public, in order to quell public distrust against the police.

“I realize that many people tend to associate the series of events happened recently to the Kiki incident in Kuantan, which I feel is incorrect. I must emphasize that, Kiki case is a criminal case which included blackmail and security threat. As such, it was a separate case, which is irrelevant with racial and religious conflict,” said Cheah.

Cheah added that, our country has no room for racism and extremism. As such, I solemnly urge all concerned parties to cease from uttering racially and religiously offensive comments, as it is detrimental to our national development. We must stop any racial chauvinists from continuing their misconducts.