LETTER | After recent racial fiascos involving schools, this should be Dr M's first task as acting education minister.
| Barely had the Jawi brouhaha subsided, some right-wing groups threw a hissy fit about the Chinese New Year deco being put up in a school in Puchong. Before anyone could catch their breath and say"enough of this nonsense", the Ponggal controversy cropped up.
It is one thing for fringe groups like Dong Jiao Zong or a leader from little-known Parti Bumiputera Perkasa Malaysia to crave for media soundbites to push whatever twisted agendas they harbour, but it is totally unbecoming for an elected representative to stir racial sentiments solely for political expediency.
The duo had never criticised the Education Ministry's circular forbidding Muslim students from attending the festival, at least not in the tone nor fashion described by the PAS leader who was clearly out to score brownie points. Kudos to Kula and Ramasamy for being level-headed in tackling this thorny issue.
If we are armed with better knowledge about other communities' practices and traditions, it will be easier to peel away the layers of mistrust and prejudices that had become a stumbling block in achieving true unity some six decades into Merdeka. It will definitely be harder for the likes of Nik Muhammad to stoke racial hatred and sow discord.
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