What's up with us Malaysian? Are we turning into a violent society?

( Somali student’s fatal vacation >By Aizat Sharif - January 23, 2009


Another Wangsa Maju mob attack, another African dead. Somalian Kadar Abdul Kadir Said, 22, had been looking forward to hanging out with his friends during the long semester break. Instead, he is now dead.


(Can the police enlightened us about this unfortunate incident?)


The business administration student from Insaniah University College in Alor Setar, Kedah, died after a senseless attack that was eerily reminiscent of the one that claimed the life of a Chad student last September, about one kilometre away. Kadar, from Mogadishu, was savagely beaten by a mob of 17 who, eyewitnesses claimed, were high on alcohol.


(The Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Higher Education and Home should come together and look into these incidents for they are not totally isolated cases. There seem to be a tendency amongst the locals (Malaysian) to treat foreigners (especially African) with bad feeling and intentions. There could many reasons for this but most probably the several cases involving a few Africans with criminal activities such as the "black money scams" had created a sort of unfair assumptions about these students from Africa. This is something that the three ministries must sort out and muinvestigate upon and see what the real reasons for this things to happen and what can they do to help. The ministers concern must do everything in their power to try to educate Malaysian regarding this as well. I heard that in some of the colleges where they go to, they are intentionally outcast by their fellow students. Many of them claimed that Malaysian students refuse to be friend with them and refuse to study together. Is this true?

We must remember that not all of these students have criminals intentions. They are here to study and to learn from us! Why are we treating likewise?