When an MSM head honcho who has his own column in a national daily starts his own blog, you’d be forgiven for wondering what gives, until you realise that this big time newsman is probably also fettered by an editorial policy dictated by the BN government from speaking his mind through his own column.

Hence his need to ‘release’ in blogosphere.

As I’ve not kept trackof Wong Chun Wai’s postings in his Blog, I was grateful for Nat’s latest posting which drew my attention to WCW’s latest post, ‘The realities of Malaysian politics’.

Nat, in my view, justifiably took exception to WCW seemingly equating BN with Pakatan in his post.

Nat, I thought, summed up WCW’s skewered viewpoint when he asked “how can you say that ideologically, race-based BN is no different than race-blind Pakatan?”

As I went through WCW’s post, though, it was the first line in the last paragraph that rattled me.

‘There’s another reality non-Muslims must understand - issues relating to Islam that does not infringe upon their rights is best left to Muslim groups’.

Is this not advocating the UMNO / MCA / MIC ‘Melayu jaga Melayu, Cina jaga Cina, India jaga India’ mentality?

Read more at: http://harismibrahim.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/the-very-mentality-that-got-us-into-the-mess-were-in/

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