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...My version of history.NO HOLDS BARREDRaja Petra Kamarudin

Thursday, 28 January 2010Malaysia-today.net

So, with due respect to Dr Mahathir, it was actually the other way around.Umno was the one that split the Malays. And now Umno grumbles that theopposition is splitting the Malays? And, worse still, Umno split the Malays to

serve the British interest and as a British running dog.

Dr M blames PAS, PKR for dividingMalays- By Shazwan Mustafa Kamal,

The Malaysian Insider

Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamed delivered ahistory lesson on Malay unity today andblamed PAS and PKR for dividing thecommunity because of what he claimedwas their greed for power.He also described PAS and PKR amongmany other Malay-based political partiesas Umno splinter groups responsible fordisrupting unity among Malays.

Speaking at the National Library today ata special Bicara Perdana talk, he saidthat it was a historical fact that the firstpolitical party which was united andfought against the British for Malay rightswas Umno.

He added that it was the unity of theMalays in backing Umno that made theBritish pull out and abandon their plansfor a Malayan Union at the end of WorldWar Two.

The former PM pointed out that it wasthe Umno ulamas, who had split from theMalay nationalist party in the 1950s toform PAS.

This was because they weredissatisfied when they were not given

positions within the state and federal

legislatures, according to Dr. Mahathir.

PAS, in the beginning, were ulamasfrom Umno. They were upset that theywere not chosen in the legislative andstate legislative assembly...moreeducated and English-speaking Malayleaders were chosen and they were nothappy with this.

If you get selected, you become a YB,and then you got paid RM300, he said.

The former premier said that theseulamas went into seclusion, then formeda new party so that they could contestto become candidates.

The split between the Malays startedjust because they wanted positions. Thatwas when PAS was formed.

Later on the same thing happened withKeadilan, as well as the now-defunctSemangat 46...all these were splintergroups from Umno.

Dr Mahathir also defended the socialcontract, the so-called unwrittenagreement between the Malays and thenon-Malays during independence, byaffirming that without the agreement,Malaysia would not have been formed.

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If there was no social contract, theterms and conditions of allowingcitizenship to non-Malays would havenot taken place. One million outsiders

were given citizenships at the time.

Mustapha Hussain: MalayNationalism Before UMNO

THE MEMOIRS OF MUSTAPHAHUSSAIN, 1910-1957

KMM: The Young Malay Union (1938)

Dr Burhanuddin Al Helmi

Dr Burhanuddin, a colossal name inMalay left politics, was not a KMMmember. KMM only contacted him aweek after the fall of Singapore. IbrahimYaakub and I interviewed him beforesuggesting that the Japanese MilitaryAdministration employ him as Advisor onMalay Customs and Religion. DrBurhanuddin accepted the postgraciously. Had he declined, KMM wouldhave brought in Ustaz Abu Bakar AlBaqir, founder of the religious institute,Madrasah Maahad Il Ihya Assharif inGunung Semanggul, Perak.

Dr Burhanuddin worked in Singaporeinitially, but when the Japanese MilitaryAdministration for Sumatra and Malayawas incorporated, and its HQ moved toTaiping, Perak, so did Dr Burhanuddin.We should commend Haniff bin

Sulaiman, a faithful Taiping KMMmember for introducing Dr Burhanuddinto the public in Perak through talks andreligious sermons. That made it easy forthe Malay Nationalist Party (MNP), thesuccessor of KMM, to gain a foothold inPerak, when Dr Burhanuddin founded itin 1945.

Dr Burhanuddin was a remarkablereligious figure, who combined the logic

of science and Islam most effectively.

Before World War II, he was aschoolteacher in Singapore and dabbledin politics from a distance. He hadwritten many protest letters to the presson the Israeli Occupation of Palestine,and was once arrested and detained in

a Police lock up. Although not a KMMmember, he was very influenced by it.

Ahmad Boestamam

According to a statement given to medated 12 November 1975, AhmadBoestamam, another great name inMalay left politics, joined KMM a coupleof months before the Japanese invasion.He took over the post of Assistant

Secretary from Abdullah Kamil, who hadleft Kuala Lumpur. Boestamam statedthat although he was a member of thedaily Majlis editorial board, led byIbrahim Yaakub in Kuala Lumpur, hewas never once invited by IbrahimYaakub to join KMM, although two othereditorial board members (Abdul SamadAhmad and Mohamad Salehuddin)were.

National List of KMM Members WhomI Knew

Kuala Lumpur

Abdul Samad bin Ahmad, Majlis, KualaLumpurMohamad Salehuddin, Majlis, KualaLumpurAhmad Boestamam @ Abdullah Thani,Majlis, Kuala LumpurMohd. Yassin bin Salleh, Malayschoolteacher, Kuala LumpurHamzah bin Alang, businessman,Kampung Baru, SelangorAbdul Rahman Tambi, clerk, KampungBaru, SelangorMustaffa Yunus, barber, KajangSelangorSaidi Hashim, book store owner, Kajang,Selangor

Ahmad, Agricultural Department,Cheras, Selangor



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Hashim bin Mat Dali, Pucung, SelangorAhmad bin Mohd. Amin, AgriculturalDepartment, SelangorJohar bin Kerong, AgriculturalDepartment, SelangorRais bin Abdul Karim, Agricultural

Department, SelangorAbdul Rauf, Agricultural DepartmentSelangor,Hamzah Sanusi, Kuala Selangor

Perak

Tuan Haji Ariffin, Kuala KangsarZainal Abidin bin Kassim, TechnicalSchool student, Kuala Lumpur (son ofRich Man Kassim in Tapah Road)

Mohd. Nor bin Abdul Shukur, IpohMohd. Mustaffa bin Ali @ Majid, IpohAminuddin, IpohIsa bin Sulaiman, Agricutural Schoolgraduate and Malay schoolteacher,PerakPak Cik Ahmad, self employed, TaipingHaniff bin Sulaiman, insurance agent,TaipingMohd. Judin, Agricultural Department,Kuala Kangsar

Junid Mahmud, Malay schoolteacher,Tapah RoadTuan Haji Mohd. Yusuf, Batu GajahAhmad Shafik, Gunung SemanggulAbdullah Che Dat or Abdullah C.D.,Clifford English School, Kuala Kangsar(the youngest KMM member at 17)Abdul Rahman RahimMohd. Hanafiah Abdul Rahman

Pahang

Mohammad bin Baginda Besar,smallholder, BentongYahaya bin Hussain, AgriculturalDepartment (my brother)Kamarulzaman bin Teh, AgriculturalDepartment, Bentong

Negeri SembilanJaafar Sidek

Achih bin Haji MasudThaharuddin Ahmad

Zubir Salam

Penang

Putih Badri bin Chek Mat, Al Mashoorschoolteacher

Abu Bakar Mohd Noor, KelawaiUstaz Abdul Majid

KedahMohammad Ariff

MelakaMohd. Isa MahmudIbrahim EndutAbdul Hamid Abdul

Trengganu

Abdul Majid bin Haji MohammadIbrahim TahirWan Daud Ahmad (Datuk)

JohorHaji Abdul Hamid Fadzil TahirIlias KarimMusa, Agricultural Department, Muar

Kelantan

Abdul Kadir Adabi, writerIbrahim Mustaffa, journalist

Endnotes To Chapter 18

British Police Officer J. Birch, who onceserved in Bagan Serai, Perak was sentto arrest me in Taiping, but theJapanese militarys speedy advanceforced Birch to retreat. He diverted toTeluk Anson (now Teluk Intan), hoping toarrest Raja Yahaya, a Police Officerabsent without leave, but Birch wasunlucky to be in the Japanese way. Hewas killed.

Translated by Insun Mustapha

Edited by Jomo K. S.



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Okay, you have read Tun Dr MahathirMohamads lecture on history, which Irepublished above. Now, compare DrMahathirs version of history to mine.

And, to support my version, I offer you

just a very small extract from MustaphaHussains book, Malay NationalismBefore Umno.

If you were to read the entire book(which I have), you will discover thatthe Malays united to fight forindependence from Britain long beforethe Second Word War and long before

Umno was born in 1946.

Then the British created Umno. And Ihave also written about this, about ten

years or so ago, which was published inHarakah, when I interviewed an oldboy of MCKK, Datuk Andika, whodied a couple of years ago in Kuala

Terengganu at the age of 100.

Datuk Andika related how he wasencouraged and financed by the Britishto set up the first Umno branch in thestate of Terengganu, which was inDungun.

The British allowed Umno to campaign

for Merdeka the length and breadth ofMalaya. But when the KMM people didthe same, the British detained them

without trial.

In short, the Malays were alreadyunited long ago. And they were unitedagainst the British. But along came theBritish who created Umno. And the

purpose of creating Umno was to splitthe Malays and kill KMM.

It was actually a very clever strategy.The British in fact did the same in the

Ottoman Empire, if you were to studythe history of Lawrence of Arabia. TheBritish invented this marvelous strategycalled divide and rule. And it workedall over the British Empire.

So, with due respect to Dr Mahathir, it was actually the other way around.Umno was the one that split theMalays. And, worse still, Umno split theMalays to serve British interests and asa British running dog. And now Umnogrumbles that the opposition issplitting the Malays?

And let Royal History Professor KhooKay Khim prove me wrong.


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