Utusan and their ilks are at it again - making fun of Najib's 1Malaysia?

Looks like the Prime Minister's PR drive (or exercise, if you prefer) of turning this country into a one nation entity - whereby every citizen irregardless of their race (ethnicity, language and religion) respects each other despite their differences - is heading into a bottleneck jam, if not a dead end street.

As if all of the racist statements and hatred sentiments toward the other races made were not blunders but deliberates, Utusan's controversial columnist, Zaini Hassan is again at his best - poking fun at his detractors.

This time it is against the 3 reports made by readers in response to his article Alkisah India di India dan India di Malaysia, published in Utusan Malaysia on 11 Dec, 2009.

To add insult to injury, Utusan portrayed its sarcasm through Zaini's caustic article: "Cuit 'mogok menulis' minggu ini" with a funny caricature of Zaini in all his Inglourious Basterds pose - hands and feet tied-up and duct tape on his 'big mouth' sitting on his armchair at his office (click on pic above for a bigger view).

The Malaysian Insider today published Dr Lim Teck Ghee's article condemning Utusan's arrogance in an article: Utusan Malaysia: Messenger of hate and spite on religion and race.

Dr Lim Teck Ghee emphasized the contrast between the noble values and reasoned and rational statements of his Muslim colleagues and the “Islamic supremacy” mindset and irrational and provocative ranting by the editors of Utusan Malaysia.

It makes him wonder what version of Islam is the newspaper promoting.

"The contrast between these Muslim colleagues committed to values of justice, freedom, equality and peace that are common to all religions and faiths, and the Utusan proponents of a racist and religiously warped social order for Malaysia could not be more striking," he wrote.

Meanwhile, in Facebook today, readers all over the country have been busy sharing their POV of what I consider another very damaging attempt towards the Prime Minister's 1Malaysia policy.

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