The Malays have special rights everywhere....so it seems.

In these days when such phrases as entitlements, influence peddling, rent-seeking business opportunities, bumiputra, ketuanan Melayu and nepotism are not the sort of things one speaks about when in the company of anybody with half a brain, there always has to be the exception from who else but someone from PAS...and no lesser person than the Perak PAS chairperson.

In these days when meritocracy trumps nepotism, when one's caliber and integrity are prized over religious bigotry, racial polarity, and incompetence, and when one's patriotic endeavors, courtesy, and consideration for others are respected over one's indifference, indolence, and often insolence to others who are different to us.....along comes this PAS bigot to tell us of 'Malay special rights' in the civil service.

Is it any wonder then, that too many Malaysians are wondering why that once courageous, upstanding, and decent Malay, is such a rarity, today?

It would seem that today, flattery will get the Malay anywhere he chooses to go. And in the case of this Perak PAS chairperson, he flatters himself by claiming that there are special Malay rights in the civil service...alluding to a "social contract" that we Malays have with the other non-Malays...and in this way hopes to weasel himself into the good books of the Malays.

I think not. The only social contract that has a place in Malaysia today is simply the one that says "All Malaysian are at one with one another" The Malays deserve to be in the civil service just as any other Malaysian deserves to be in the civil service. Meritocracy must rule.

Let us all hope that this PH government will have the political will and the courage to make that happen soonest. Anything else would be a betrayal of the promises that PH leaders have made to the electorates when they asked that we give them government to allow them the opportunity to make Malaysia a safe and decent haven for everyone that calls Malaysia home.