Syed Saddiq Evades A Question: How Would You Steer The Malay Muslim Narrative In That Direction Towards Malaysian Malaysia?

Narrator: This came up on my for your page

Q: How Would You Steer The Malay Muslim Narrative In That Direction Towards Malaysian Malaysia?

Syed Saddiq: I think it is that exact narrative which kill the Malays, regress them for decades and imprisons them forever

Narrator: And now I'll be honest, I don't really know much about this politician and I'm not going to comment on Malaysian politics but I work in the public relations, PR field and so this was interesting to me from a PR perspective because it's a perfect example of a politician staying as they say: "on message" and not answering the question

Syed Saddiq: The same politicians who perpetrate this racist divisive narrative are the ones who don't even trust our national schooling system because they'll end up sending their kids for tadica in France and then primary secondary school in Eton but then say "oh you cannot change our national education system."

Narrator: But that wasn't what the question was about at all. The question was about how do you create a Malaysian Malaysia. He used that question as an opportunity just to slam Malay politicians as hypocrites.

He used that question to stay on message and his message is the Malay politicians are corrupt, the Malay politicians are manipulation religious sentiment for their own personal gains and they themselves don't participate in the system, that they're trying to perpetuate and they're putting their children in private schools overseas and so on and they have offshore accounts and everything, as if every politician doesn't do that, as if every wealthy person and super rich person doesn't do that, send their kids to private schools and have offshore accounts regardless of their ethnicity, regardless of their race, regardless of their religion, as if every politician and every high level business person, doesn't benefit their own family members and the people of their own race and ethnicity.

That's across the board, everybody does that, everywhere in the world, it's not unique to Malaysia, he didn't answer the question. I mean unless his answer to the question is that the Malay people should abandon their Malay identity, their Malay language, their religion.