The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Saturday December 11th, 2021 – International Mountain Day
Malaysia: How Ketuanan Melayu (Malay Supremacy) became an ideology of greed – Challenges to legitimacy by Murray Hunter
Malaysia, as a federation is based upon nine Malay Sultanates in the peninsula, with two of the old Straits Settlements, Penang and Melaka, along with Sabah and Sarawak. The royal families had a major say in the construction of the constitution, creating a modified Westminster democracy with some special powers given to the Sultans, via a five year rotational position of supreme monarch among the sultans, known as the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong. The civilian political leaders, then led by Tunku Abdul Rahman ran a multi-cultural democratic coalition after Malaya gained independence in 1957.
After the race riots in May 1969, a group of Malay-centric Young Turks in the dominant Malay-based coalition party UMNO, created a political crisis where Tunku Abdul Rahman was forced to resign in 1970, and replaced with Tun Abdul Razak Hussein. This new administration oversaw the enactment of a racially affirmative economic policy aimed to create positive discrimination towards the nation’s Bumiputera’s, or defined indigenous peoples under the constitution. Along with this New Economic Policy (NEP), a less talked about National Cultural Policy or Dasar Kebangsaan Nasional was also introduced. This policy had the objective of developing a dominant national identity.
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A Love Poem by David Sparenberg
“What if a person comes up
comes right up before another person
and says nothing
not a word, not a single word”
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La Kahina: mythes et realites by Joseph Gatt
Bon nombre de mythes circulent dans la littérature historique sur Dihiya Kahina. Les mythes disent qu’elle aurait conduit une armée Berbère, en tant que juive, en Kabylie et dans les Aurès où elle aurait fondé un royaume juif en marge des invasions Arabes du 7ème siècle.
On dit que la Kahina était une guerrière puissante, en quelque sorte au rang de général, et que c’est la mère fondatrice de la Kabylie, d’une Kabylie juive à l’origine.
Pas de fumée sans feu comme on dit. Mais j’ai longtemps rejeté le mythe, parce que, dans la tradition juive, les femmes ne prennent pas la place de leader. De même, aucune trace écrite ne reste de la Kahina, même pas un courrier qu’elle aurait fait parvenir à un royaume oriental ou occidental ou quelque chose.
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Ghostin’ 21#23 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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