Melayu?

Will the real Melayu please stand up Melayu is derived from the Javanese word Melayu, there are many other words in the Malay vocabulary that actually come from the various Asian languages mostly those of Sanskrit Origin. 

The Sanskrit in Malay is derived from the Indian influence of the Majapahit, Sriviajaya and other Indian influences in South East Asia. 

This particular word in Bahasa Malaysia is derived from the word Melayu from Javanese. Javanese was the lingua franca of the people in the region having its own script, the original Javanese script had its origins in India and later the present day script which was actually taken from the Arabic script, the Bugis and the rest have dialects close to Javanese. 

The Malay language in its romanised context only evolved in the early part of the 20th century. In Javanese the word Melayu means running away, or a run away, that is why if you go to Java and ask a Javanese if he is Melayu he will feel very insulted. The word Melayu found on the statue as claimed in your URL; http://www.sabrizain.org/malaya/malays4.htm thus denotes that the person buried there was a Melayu, a "Run Away. 

These people the run aways whether in Sumatra or in the Malay Peninsula referred to themselves as orang Melayu, it is therefore no coincidence that the word orang is placed before Melayu, people who ran away so to speak. 

In the Malay Peninsular it was gradually accepted as the word to describe the Javanese, the Bugis, the Menang, the Achinese etc. and even the Kelantanese who are actually Yunanese and have their origins in China, because they recognized the fact that at the end of the day they were all Melayu, or Run Aways from their respective homelands the word was accepted by all these communities to describe themselves. 

In fact before the formation of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) all these so called people in the country had referred to themselves as Menang, Achinese, Bugis, Java etc. etc. and we all know that the Kelantanese used to treat the other Melayu, that is the Menang, Java the Bugis etc. as foreigners. 

Well for that matter even Mahathir Mohammed was registered as Indian in King Edwards College where he studied medicine, and a clearer look into our History will tell us that Hang Tuah is a Chinese. 

The Onn Jaafar family had Turkish heritage how they became Malay is anyone's guess, and if you remember well enough one of the first countries Tun Hussein On visited was Turkey, and today Onn Jaafar's grandson is the leader of UMNO youth.

 Now that should explain why some people say "dia masuk Melayu" and this phrase is very common amongst Malays. 

This so called Malay therefore very much like the Indians, and later the Chinese are Melayu in the very true sense of the word because they all left their respective countries to come to this location in South East Asia called Malaysia today. 

The real natives of the country are the Orang Laut, the Jakun, the Kadazaan, the Iban, the Senoi and the rest, and not the so called Orang Melayu, because these people are actually Javanese, Achinese, Bugis, people from the Mollucas islands, and other parts of neighbouring Indonesia, including the those from Cambodia and even China (Yunanese). 

That explains the word melayu found in gravestones in various parts of Sumatra too. 

These people, the runaways from Java to Sumatra and Malaysia were referred to as Java Kontra a term they despised by the Javanese Melayu and today in Sumatra they are referred to as Orang Transmigrasi which is more acceptable to the Javanese in Indonesia then the term Melayu. 

For Malay citizenship and for permanent residence reasons, the Orang Java, be they Sundanese, Orang Java Barat, Orang Java Tengah or Orang Java Timor, or any other Indonesian for that matter recognises the fact that the day he becomes a Malaysian citizen he is now an Orang Melayu that is a new word coined by Malaysians of these origins to legitimise their Bumiputraism. 

And to become Bumiputra this way that is by becoming a Melayu he has to profess the Islamic faith. 

This privilege is not extended to Dayaks, from Kalimantan, they are Dayaks and Ibans because they are not Muslims, or for that matter people of other faiths from among Sumatra, Java or any other Indonesian Islands. 

The irony of all this is the fact that if you look at the real Orang Asli of Malaysia as a whole you'll find out that the majority of them are not from the Islamic faith, and that is one of the reasons why in Sabah the registration department of the Federal Government legitimised and gave citizenship and permanent residence status to hundreds and thousands of illegal Fillipina immigrants from the Southern part of the Philippines. 

I therefore disagree with your attempt to legitimize the term Orang Melayu as a race, it is not and never will be. 

The so called Melayu must own up to their own heritage the way the Chinese and Indians in Malaysia proudly do. 

It is a shame, and in fact a disgrace that they are the only group of people who by this very act, show the world that they are ashamed of their own heritage. And who else can be so? Only those who run away or are banished from their own lands, for it is only such people who are ashamed of their own heritage. 

Why, even the customs, the traditions, the dressings, the architecture etc. of these so called Malays point to the fact that the so called Orang Melayu of Peninsular Malaysia are actually not one and the same people

You can't teach a Malay new tricks

"You Can't Teach Malay New Tricks"

by: Xroy Bogel

The sad fact of the matter is as one great man put it, "a government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always rely on the support of Paul, " and this government as we all know has been continuously robbing us to pay the Malays, so where do you think this will end?

For that matter in the case of the Judiciary we must remember that Anwar was a member of Team" A" in the great UMNO saga that resulted in the removal of Tun Salleh Abbas the then Lord President, the sacking of esteemed judges - George Seah, and Wan Sulaiman Pawenteh and, also the disciplinary action against Eusoffee Abdoolcader.

UMNO had the support of Anwar at that time as Anwar was then elected the Deputy President of UMNO, he was the Deputy Prime Minister and could have stood up against it at that time if he was a man of honour, today he has become victim of his own doing, and we must never forget that he was party to it.

Badawi on the other hand belonged to team "B" and today he practices the same things he and Razaleigh and gang were against when they fought Mahathir, for what they alleged were corrupt practices. It is more a case of "where is my share," and for the aspiring leaders amongst this group of crooks "'I'll be richer if I am up there." it's a case of, " you can't teach a Malay new tricks," because it looks like every Malay who assumes the post of PM will be up to the same dirty old tricks.

Today, and in the future such things will continue to happen because we lack integrity amongst our leaders, and I will very bravely say that there are indeed very few Malays who possess this quality called integrity, after seeing so much in the last fifty years I believe this conniving lot are just fighting to rest power for their own sake, and once there, we are but pawns.

The same applies to the Indian and Chinese leaders in government, these are the worst of the whole lot, they are the vampires, and for those of you who witnessed it, it will now explain why at one time Tan Koon Suan and Neo Yee Pan fought tooth and nail for the MCA presidency, its simple the person who wrests this position becomes a multi-millionaire at the expense of the people.
All MCA Presidents after Tan Swee Sin have become Million if not Billionaires. (Tun Tan came into Parliment rich and he was I still believe a man of integrity who looked at himself as a Malaysian leader more than a Chinese leader.) Isn't Samy Velu Samy Veloo a rich man as well.

So you see as long as we continue to accept all this nonsense about Malay superiority, and Bumiputra privileges we shall continue to be sidelined and be the same third class citizens we are.

The Malays in this country have been accustomed to all these illegitimate privileges grabbed thru political clout which was also gained through illegitimate means, and that statement may surprise you, but take a look at May 13, the truth about May 13 is now being leaked by Malays themselves who have learned to hate UMNO because they were kicked out of it. Raja Petra Kamaruddin has placed the blame squarely on Tun Abdul Razak and Dato Harun Idris.

Today they will tell you how UMNO used May 13 to quell opposition by the forceful formation of the Barisan Nasional, the subsequent redrawing of electoral boundaries, how they sent in family planning workers to the estates and new villages to teach Chinese and Indian housewives about the benefits of small families whilst they propagated the 75 million population policy amongst the Malays. (Note till today the official version of the Malaysian Government is that May 13 was started by the Chinese) (Read Raja Petra Kamaruddin to find out the true story.)

The Chinese population that once stood in the majority is fast dwindling, it's in the thirties (%) now, the foreign worker population now exceeds the Indian population so what clout do the non Malays have? Where do they stand? The Islamisation of the nation that was founded on a social contract to be secular has been unilaterally broken on the premise that consultation is no more a requirement, the Malays can do what they like, where has the sanctity of this contract gone?

And now this, the only institution (the judiciary) that once held sway on whom we could rely on for a decent dose of justice without fear and favour has also gone with the wind and been engulfed by this epidemic called corruption.

I hope some sanity prevails, I hope that men of honour still exist in our Malay Muslim community to put right these evils, and to be very straight forward, I think even if Anwar comes to power we will be faced with the same problems, to remain in power he has to play the same game, "you can't teach a Malay new tricks."