CHEERS....Marina
(left) poses with Bersih Co-Chair Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan outside a police
station in Petaling Jaya, November 7, 2011.
By : SHAZWAN MUSTAFA KAMAL
KUALA LUMPUR : Tun Dr
Mahathir Mohamed has cautioned his daughter to be wary of her outspokenness as
well as support for groups like Bersih and sexuality rights movements, saying
these may affect her family members who are still active in politics.
The forthright Datin Paduka
Marina Mahathir has disagreed with her father on occasion, most notably her
consistent support for the electoral reforms group. She had participated in the
last two Bersih rallies in the city capital.
“I do hope she will realise
what she is doing is not good for herself, not good for the government party at
least. She should also be sensitive about her brother who is contesting in the
election,” Dr Mahathir said, referring to his son Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir, who
is currently international trade and industry deputy minister.
The former prime minister
said this in an interview with online television station The Malaysian Observer
(MobTV).
“She doesn’t care about what
people think. I care about what people think... if not, I won’t get anywhere.
“Maybe it’s because she has
no ambition so she speaks her mind. I cannot agree with the things she is
doing, but nowadays you cannot tell your children ‘please stop this, please
stop that’; they have a mind of their own,” said the country’s longest-serving
prime minister.
Dr Mahathir said while he
respected her stand on speaking up for the underprivileged, he did not like the
idea of her “associating” herself with Bersih whose agenda, he believed, has
been “hijacked” by the opposition.
He also told his daughter to
draw a limit to how much support should be given towards the lesbian, gay,
transgender and bisexual (LBGT) community.
“She (has) never said she
supports this; I hope she doesn’t. She cared for this people...but she has to
draw a line between them and the idea that being homosexual is okay, (or that)
men marrying men is okay,” he stressed.
Marina is a grownup now, I'm sure she knows what to do.
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Hope that their different political leanings will not affect family relationships.
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Marina ada haluan di sendiri.. tapi kena pastikan haluan dipilih benar2 tepat.
ReplyDeletePilihlah ntara kepentingan politik keluarga atau politik sendiri yang diperjuangkan??
ReplyDeleteMahathir mahukan anaknya, Mukhriz menjadi seperti Najib dan Hishamuddin yang kedua-duanya adalah anak-anak kepada bekas Perdana Menteri negara. Jika Mahathir berjaya untuk menjadikan anaknya itu pemimpin besar dan akhirnya menjadi Perdana Menteri maka beliau akan berjaya untuk menyambung tradisi yang pemimpin-pemimpin yang akan datang mesti datang dari keluarga bekas-bekas Perdana Menteri.
ReplyDeleteMahathir kena sedar bahawa bukan semua boleh dikawal oleh beliau.
ReplyDeleteAnak kepada Mantan PM Dr M menyokong BERSIH..Ini menyebabkan masalah berlaku dalam keluarga.
ReplyDeleteSetiap tindakan pasti ada baik buruknya
DeleteTindakan Marina pasti memberi impak kepada Mukhriz
ReplyDeletejangan risau la.. rakyat Malaysia pun matang juga.. mereka tidak akan mengaitkan hal2 keluarga dengan politik.. jika pemimpin itu baik, maka baik la undi yang dia dapat seklipun adiknya banyak membuat perkara yang tidak baik..
ReplyDeleteyang perlu Tun M risaukan ialah kedudukan UMNO/BN setiap kali beliau membuat kenyataan yang kadang kala mengundang kontroversi di negara ini..
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