My comment was published in malaysiakini’s “Your Say” column, available at http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/87828. An extract from that column is as below:
[Background of the issue: Khalid Ibrahim, the Selangor Menteri Besar’s (MB) suggestion to reserve 10 per cent of places in Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) to non-Bumiputeras and foreigners. His suggestion received heavy protest]
Har Wai Mun: The MB's reasoning for his suggestion is to allow UiTM students to gain more exposure and be friendlier to people of other races.
If anyone thinks his reason is not correct, the logical counter-point would be along the lines of either ‘the suggestion would not allow students to gain more exposure and be friendlier to other races,' or ‘allowing students to gain more exposure and be friendlier to people of other races is not beneficial'.
Hopefully, the MB's suggestion will be viewed constructively and is not obscured by communal sentiment. Non-bumis will be an asset to UiTM.
Quoting a declaration on various placards on parade at the demonstration, the MB's suggestion might not only ‘Selamatkan UiTM' (Save UiTM), but might propel UiTM to be a world-class university that makes all Malaysians very proud!
[Note: My other published articles in malaysiakini – shorten and modified from the entries in this blog is as below]
Fuel price hike: Alternative suggestions
www.malaysiakini.com/letters/84381
A post-tsunami, early-Merdeka wish list
www.malaysiakini.com/letters/87363
Unstoppable Anwar against immovable BN
www.malaysiakini.com/letters/87496
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