Lim slams Negri MB for urging Umno Youth members to trash coffee shops

Looi Sue-Chern Looi Sue-Chern Updated 6 years ago · Published on 21 Mar 2018 2:25PM · 4 Comments

Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng says Barisan Nasional is indulging in hate politics. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Farhan Nazmi, March 21, 2018.

LIM Guan Eng today slammed Barisan Nasional for allegedly playing hate politics, after the Negri Sembilan menteri besar told Umno Youth members to flip over tables at pro-opposition coffee shops.

The Penang chief minister said Mohamad Hasan was inciting hate with his “threats of violence”.

“He was recorded on video telling Umno Youth members to flip over tables and he would bail them out if they got into trouble with police.

“A menteri besar can make such threats of violence. Is that not hatred? What he said has gone viral on social media,” Lim told a press conference today.

Mohamad was recorded making the remarks at an Umno event.

In expressing support for Umno Youth chief and Rembau MP Khairy Jamaluddin, Mohamad told Umno Youth members to ensure Khairy wins the seat comfortably in the 14th general election.

He said Umno Youth members play an important role and must do more than put up party flags.

“If there are coffee shops that have become ‘nests’ of those who slander the government, we ‘gempur’ (attack) those coffee shops. Flip over their tables.

“If you get caught by police, I will post your bail. Don’t give the opposition face,” Mohamad was recorded as saying, to cheers from the audience.

“Who is indulging in hate politics?” said the DAP secretary-general of Mohamad’s remarks, and citing how Penang BN had put up posters attacking the state government yesterday.

Lim brought up Mohamad’s remarks when commenting on the criticism hurled at him over a video showing the Penang chief minister singing along to a children’s song that had anti-goods and services tax lyrics in Jelutong last Saturday.

Prime Minister Najib Razak, without mentioning names, has slammed an “opposition leader of a northern state” for being “willing to stoop to the level of indoctrinating children with hatred for the government”.

Police are investigating Lim under Section 233 of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission Act, which criminalises the use of the internet for communications that are “obscene, indecent, false, menacing or offensive in character, with the intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass another person”.

Lim said he was merely criticising a government policy, and was not trying to incite hatred against the federal government, political parties or leaders. – March 21, 2018.

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  • As said and we all know where the blame for the thuggish behavior, abuses and intimidation lie: UMNO. I have always believed we are taught what is right and wrong from childhood. It seems umno members in particular their so called leaders are not. And considerd themselves above the law and can do as they like. UMM!

    Posted 6 years ago by HC Lung · Reply

  • I am actually quite supportive of the idea of the two contending parties going toe to toe. Seeing that all that people are going choose this election is the lesser of the two evil, and seeing how the lesser of two evils is the always the one that is stronger than the two. I think the people deserve to know who is stronger , before we make our choice .

    The way we are going to find out who is the No matter what anyone says, I don’t think Anyone will be convinced that one side is good and clean while the other side is evil and corrupt .

    People just want to know who is stronger , And and measurement of who is stronger is simple - the one still standing when the dust clears is the one that is stronger . Let the games begin

    Posted 6 years ago by Nehru Sathiamoorthy · Reply

  • I am actually quite supportive of the idea of the two contending parties going toe to toe. Seeing that all that people are going choose this election is the lesser of the two evil, and seeing how the lesser of two evils is the always the one that is stronger than the two, I think the people deserve to know who is stronger , before we make our choice .

    I don’t think Anyone will be convinced that one side is good and clean while the other side is evil and corrupt, no matter what each side says.

    I think People just want to know who is stronger , And and measurement of who is stronger is simple - the one still standing when the dust clears is the one that is stronger . Let the games begin

    Posted 6 years ago by Nehru Sathiamoorthy · Reply

  • Were the kids at an age to be able to understand what GST connotes?..

    Posted 6 years ago by MELVILLE JAYATHISSA · Reply