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PRESIDENT'S SPEECH AT THE AWAKENING PROGRAMME, INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY - 10 MARCH 2007


Yang diraikan Ayahanda Tan Sri Aziz Abdul Rahman, Chairman Board of Advisors of Pertubuhan Profesional Melayu & Pewaris Bangsa (ProWaris)

Yang Dihormati Ustaz Hamidon Abdul Hamid, Deputy Rector of Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia.

Yang Berbahagia, My Brother Encik Shuhaimi Ismail, Senior Partner of Hisham, Sobri & Kadir representing the companies and the professional firms who are exhibiting for the Awakening Event today at UIA.

Yang Berbahagia, Assoc Prof Dr Shukran, the Director of Alumni and Career Services, UIA and his team.

Board of Advisors and Barisan Peneraju and Members of ProWaris Malaysia.

My Brothers and Sisters of Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia.

Assalamualaikum wbt.

This Project called the Awakening is part of ProWaris' 100-year plan to revive the Malay dominance domestically, regionally and if can, internationally. If the Jewish community were chased away from Baitul Muqaddis and came back 100 years later through execution of strategic long term plan, ProWaris' 100-year commitment for Malay and Islam will be the same, insyaAllah.

Brothers and Sisters

Today, we are put in a very challenging position. As you can recall, 9-11 Tragedy has become a license for the West to drown Islamic image openly in the eyes of the world. While 9-11 tragedy is used as a political reason, globalisation on the other hand is used by the West as an economic reason.

Do you know that some of our leaders today have put the Malays at the most critical stage of its survival due to globalisation? We are now at the edge of the possibility of being vanished. Why I say this is because the Malays are now so confused, and the worst thing about it is they are now led by leaders who use Malay Agenda to strengthen their political position but execute projects that have the consequences of vanishing the Malay Race from its own land.

Why do we have to be afraid of globalisation? Globalisation will definitely fail. It will destroy the world like Capitalism. It will fail, drop and break like Communism.

Enough with 9-11, Globalisation and our Malay Leaders. It is going to be a never ending story.

ProWaris has made its own analysis on the reasons why the Malays are what the Malays are today.

Brothers and Sisters,

Ever since I can remember the act of self criticising one's race have been a special privilege that was best owed to my race, the Malays. Even our folk stories are always entwined with tales of stupidity, laziness and brash judgment. Children of yesteryears are told and retold of iconic characters like Pak Kaduk, Mat Jenin, Pak Pandir and not forgetting Si Luncai. Yes, we laugh! And yes, we smiled at the absurdity of the stories while sometimes nodding agreeably as if this is what being a Malay is all about.

We addressed ourselves as 'Orang Kita' every time we engage in Malay bashing session. It's either "Orang Kita Malas", "Orang Kita Dengki", "Orang Kita Mudah Lupa" and the list goes on and on. Not forgetting the profanity that we cursed among ourselves every single living day of our lives. Today, I would like to take this opportunity to shed some light on a positive note by dwelling on the greatness and supremacy of being a Malay.

Brother and Sisters, young and old………listening or not (with a cheeky smile)

First and foremost I would like to congratulate all of you present today as living proofs that Malays are not intellectually left behind. Your presence today has debunked an age old belief left by our past colonialists. We are not and never were an intellectually inferior race but maybe we were left behind by the system. Some people might argue that some of you are accepted solely based on a racial biasness and not your intellectual capabilities. If this true then, shouldn't you all be wandering aimlessly down the hall like a mindless zombie. That is not the vision that I encounter today.

I would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate the Malay Race on being able to be highly competitive. This is much more prevalent in UIA students where they live to study and compete among other races. Even in the great days of Malacca the Malays have always been a highly competitive race. We have always welcome traders from around the world. Maybe this is the kind of spirit the Malays today are personifying in the upcoming Free Trade Agreement. Let us face the upcoming liberation with the confident and bravery that our forefathers have passed on to us.

Lastly, I would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate the Malays on being able to be fair. Fair in governing this multiracial country with diplomacy and sometimes force. We lived our daily life with charm and brute, mistakes and victories, happiness and sadness but never once unfair.

You may have realised, we Malays are sympathetic to our race and kinder to others. Seeing the hopeful and gentle eyes of all of you today sends a hope in the future that we, Malay as a race will always remain a fair and just race. Let us not forget that we are still a young race, like most of you present today.

Every single breathing day of my live, I've witnessed countless victories that we have achieved as a proud and young race. I sincerely believed that there is more to come. And just like me, to those who still believe in the superiority of Bahasa Melayu. I say to you "Mungkin hak istimewa Melayu sudah harus ditukarkan kepada hak Melayu yang istimewa" like my Brothers and Sisters in UIA. Seharusnya kerajaan tidak lagi boleh menghalang Anak-Anak Melayu Yang Istemewa untuk mendapatkan pelbagai kemudahan pembelajaran, peluang-peluang pekerjaan dan perniagaan!"

This IS the "Awakening!"

We are aware and are quite clear of the problems that we are facing..We realise and understand about our objectives and goals. And have plans on how to achieve them.

This is the time for us to wake up and prepare our future destiny and to strive to re-uplift our honour, religion and race.

For, this is what our struggle is for.

Wassalam.

FERIZ OMAR
President of ProWaris Malaysia
for and on behalf of Barisan Peneraju ProWaris Malaysia


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