Umno hits the panic button with Perkasa-led Malay meet

Now, we have heard it all. Two Muslims from Umno with Indian roots, de-facto prime minister Mahathir Mohamad (Malayalee) and Zainuddin Mydin (Tamil), met in secret in Putrajaya on Mon with 250 other Perkasa diehards led by Ibrahim Ali the motor mouth.

They were also joined by the Tamil-speaking Sanusi Junid, a one time Menteri Besar of Kedah who claims to be an Acehnese, and former deputy federal minister Khalid Yunus.

The secrecy surrounding the meet, according to Mahathir in the media, was to prevent it being labelled as one of racists. He lamented that one could no longer mention the word Malay without being labelled a racist. Indeed, members of Malay-speaking communities in Peninsular Malaysia – Mahathir being a case in point – are not Malay at all.