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19-08-2021, 10:42 AM
From wikipedia
Boycott call
Ismail Sabri sparked a firestorm in 2015 with a Facebook post urging Malay consumers to boycott monopolising and profiteering Chinese businesses that discriminate against non-Chinese entrepreneurs, arguing that it was necessary for Malays to exercise consumer power to prevent "profiteering" by Malaysia's ethnic Chinese, who control over 90% of Malaysian economies. [10]
In reply, political analyst Wan Saiful Wan Jan, said in personal capacity that any Malaysian voter regardless of race, would be repelled by Ismail's comments. “I think the reaction of any right-minded Malay or Chinese who believes in Malaysian unity would be of disgust … The Chinese voters will remember what he said when it comes to the vote”.[11] Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar stated that the minister would be investigated under the Sedition Act 1948 and Ismail Sabri has since deleted the Facebook post.[12]
Low Yat 2
Ismail Sabri sparked controversy in 2015 when he proposed establishing "Low Yat 2," a digital gadget mall that would only house Malay traders. He claims that "Low Yat 2" will be able to compete with Low Yat Plaza, Malaysia's most well-known electronic products store. [13] Although the traders are all Malay, Ismail calls on the minorities to support the mall.[14]
MCA then-president Liow Tiong Lai said that the setting up of Low Yat 2 would only hurt racial relations, and described the proposal for the bumiputra-only mall as an “antagonistic approach”.[15] Fellow UMNO member Saifuddin Abdullah also criticised the proposal, claiming that Ismail Sabri's proposal would be detrimental to Malays and Malaysians in general, and that having commercial sectors divided by ethnicity would be counterproductive.[16]
Taylor's University sponsorship cancellation
Taylor's University terminated the services of a bus operator who utilised their vehicles with the university's logo to transport passengers to the racially-motivated 2015 Malay Dignity rally. According to Ismail Sabri, the sponsorship for the next intake of students to Taylor's University will be terminated by MARA. However, he did not specify the reasons for the revocation. When questioned if this was due to the cancellation of the service, he answered, "There are many reasons." Ismail stated that he will notify Mara's director-general to evaluate its funding of Taylor's University. [17]
DAP's Teresa Kok criticised the decision, calling it a "personal vendetta and abuse of power", and called for the cabinet to censure Ismail Sabri, as well as challenging him to publicly reveal the reasons for the decision, as well as publish the internal report which led to the decision.[18] MCA's Chai Kim Sen said the minister's inability to state even one reason for this decision was not only “unbecoming” but “even childish”. He said his latest announcement about Mara would only “further weaken his already-tarred reputation as a racist”. He further condemned the minister for working against the government's aspirations of producing 160,000 foreign students by 2020 and added, “Education institutes are expected to remain apolitical.[18]
Vaping industry
On 9 November 2015, Ismail Sabri stated that he supports the vaping industry in Malaysia. He says that the Malay-dominated industry is a success story for bumiputera entrepreneurism despite health warnings by the Malaysian Health Ministry.[19] He has gone further in hoping that the unregulated industry can expand globally.[20] Many prominent doctors and physicians have publicly chided Ismail Sabri's support for the industry,[21] including the Sultan of Johor Ibrahim Ismail, who publicly decreed that all vape outlets must be shut down by 1 January 2016.[22]
2018 pre-general election comment
On 13 April 2018, Ismail Sabri again provoked a controversy when he said "Every vote for the DAP is akin to giving power to the Pakatan Harapan (PH) pact to eliminate the purported Malay “special rights” and the “uniqueness” of Islam" as was reported by the Malay language-newspaper Utusan Malaysia.[23] This was subsequently responded by Kit Siang, who said that Ismail Sabri seemed "to be attempting to frame the coming general election as a battle between the Malays and Chinese as well as between Islam and its enemies",[24] and asked if Ismail Sabri and the UMNO-owned newspaper of Utusan Malaysia would be charged under the government's recently passed "Anti-Fake News Act 2018" for the provocative comments.[24] Kit Siang also explained that Pakatan Harapan's basic documents, including its election manifesto, had been clear and specific in giving unconditional support to Article 153 on Malay special rights and Article 3 on Islam as the official religion of the Federation,[24] also saying that although the DAP or other races party managed to form a new government in the country if winning the election, the Malays will never perish since the overwhelming majority of Malaysian voters are still Malays and the overwhelming majority of parliamentary and state assembly constituencies in the country are Malay voter-majority constituencies.[25]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismail_Sabri_Yaakob
Boycott call
Ismail Sabri sparked a firestorm in 2015 with a Facebook post urging Malay consumers to boycott monopolising and profiteering Chinese businesses that discriminate against non-Chinese entrepreneurs, arguing that it was necessary for Malays to exercise consumer power to prevent "profiteering" by Malaysia's ethnic Chinese, who control over 90% of Malaysian economies. [10]
In reply, political analyst Wan Saiful Wan Jan, said in personal capacity that any Malaysian voter regardless of race, would be repelled by Ismail's comments. “I think the reaction of any right-minded Malay or Chinese who believes in Malaysian unity would be of disgust … The Chinese voters will remember what he said when it comes to the vote”.[11] Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar stated that the minister would be investigated under the Sedition Act 1948 and Ismail Sabri has since deleted the Facebook post.[12]
Low Yat 2
Ismail Sabri sparked controversy in 2015 when he proposed establishing "Low Yat 2," a digital gadget mall that would only house Malay traders. He claims that "Low Yat 2" will be able to compete with Low Yat Plaza, Malaysia's most well-known electronic products store. [13] Although the traders are all Malay, Ismail calls on the minorities to support the mall.[14]
MCA then-president Liow Tiong Lai said that the setting up of Low Yat 2 would only hurt racial relations, and described the proposal for the bumiputra-only mall as an “antagonistic approach”.[15] Fellow UMNO member Saifuddin Abdullah also criticised the proposal, claiming that Ismail Sabri's proposal would be detrimental to Malays and Malaysians in general, and that having commercial sectors divided by ethnicity would be counterproductive.[16]
Taylor's University sponsorship cancellation
Taylor's University terminated the services of a bus operator who utilised their vehicles with the university's logo to transport passengers to the racially-motivated 2015 Malay Dignity rally. According to Ismail Sabri, the sponsorship for the next intake of students to Taylor's University will be terminated by MARA. However, he did not specify the reasons for the revocation. When questioned if this was due to the cancellation of the service, he answered, "There are many reasons." Ismail stated that he will notify Mara's director-general to evaluate its funding of Taylor's University. [17]
DAP's Teresa Kok criticised the decision, calling it a "personal vendetta and abuse of power", and called for the cabinet to censure Ismail Sabri, as well as challenging him to publicly reveal the reasons for the decision, as well as publish the internal report which led to the decision.[18] MCA's Chai Kim Sen said the minister's inability to state even one reason for this decision was not only “unbecoming” but “even childish”. He said his latest announcement about Mara would only “further weaken his already-tarred reputation as a racist”. He further condemned the minister for working against the government's aspirations of producing 160,000 foreign students by 2020 and added, “Education institutes are expected to remain apolitical.[18]
Vaping industry
On 9 November 2015, Ismail Sabri stated that he supports the vaping industry in Malaysia. He says that the Malay-dominated industry is a success story for bumiputera entrepreneurism despite health warnings by the Malaysian Health Ministry.[19] He has gone further in hoping that the unregulated industry can expand globally.[20] Many prominent doctors and physicians have publicly chided Ismail Sabri's support for the industry,[21] including the Sultan of Johor Ibrahim Ismail, who publicly decreed that all vape outlets must be shut down by 1 January 2016.[22]
2018 pre-general election comment
On 13 April 2018, Ismail Sabri again provoked a controversy when he said "Every vote for the DAP is akin to giving power to the Pakatan Harapan (PH) pact to eliminate the purported Malay “special rights” and the “uniqueness” of Islam" as was reported by the Malay language-newspaper Utusan Malaysia.[23] This was subsequently responded by Kit Siang, who said that Ismail Sabri seemed "to be attempting to frame the coming general election as a battle between the Malays and Chinese as well as between Islam and its enemies",[24] and asked if Ismail Sabri and the UMNO-owned newspaper of Utusan Malaysia would be charged under the government's recently passed "Anti-Fake News Act 2018" for the provocative comments.[24] Kit Siang also explained that Pakatan Harapan's basic documents, including its election manifesto, had been clear and specific in giving unconditional support to Article 153 on Malay special rights and Article 3 on Islam as the official religion of the Federation,[24] also saying that although the DAP or other races party managed to form a new government in the country if winning the election, the Malays will never perish since the overwhelming majority of Malaysian voters are still Malays and the overwhelming majority of parliamentary and state assembly constituencies in the country are Malay voter-majority constituencies.[25]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismail_Sabri_Yaakob
