If somebody call me stupid, idiot ,rascal ,or even more demeaning words i dont put them in my calling card and tell people that i m being call such.If at all i want to complain i would say people are badmouthing me ,thats all because these are not palatable words to the ears.This is my opinion as a common man.Abdullah Hussein being National Laureate should have been more sensitive to use such terms though some one would have actually used the words before on the Indian.By introducing this novel to our students we are just increasing the vulgar word vocabulary for the students.They will without hesitant use these words on others especially indian students which will create extreme tension in schools.We already facing huge disciplinary problem in the schools.Even some teachers are making racially slurred speeches towards Indian students what to speak of when these words are taught in the class rooms.Just imagine indian students sitting in the class and listening that their previous generation was call this and that.For that matter how Malay students will react when they hear that their forefathers was lazy to work in estates, plantations and tough difficult job so much so workers from abroad has to brought in forcibly, in the case of indian workers ?.My opinion is making this novel compulsory for form 5 students means forcefully but subtly increasing the inferiority complex among Indian students and superiority complex among Malay students.This is a very dangerous situation.This a very well planned long term strategy to slowly but surely annihilate Indians in Malaysia.This is the hidden agenda. This do not sound well for national Integration.1 MALAYSIA means nothing if this crap novel is expunged from the schools

Here, i only speak of what is based from the article above and not for anyone to say that i should or not believe what was posted. If the official gave his view on the literature to the education ministry that it's not for a history textbook but for literature, i agree completely although i've not read the book. If someone has found sensitive issues and thus within knowledge of a ministry itself, there is no need to even look & read the book. If one is to be finding for truth and somewhat defending, i'd say by all means go buy & read it if you're afraid copying it will bring you legal suits. By buying it, you've given your support already wanting to debunk myths & rumours not knowing the true contents. If you've read a little of the contents and decided it's really suiting to your support & you buy the book, you have judged by the few pages of the book. A form 5 student has to undergo the entire textbook in his year of his studies. There is really little time to decide should the book go to schools or not. This book has to go through the ministry to be decided and then for the students to decide the path they choose. Let that fair process go through for it seems to me this book is new and not undergone complete filtration before reaching educational institutions. As i've been a malay literature student myself, it's plain ridiculous how i found the contents of the literature books i've been taught with back then. Still, with no inclination to the contents irrelevant to me, i just absorbed the basic knowledge of the structures of literature and chose to get low marks for the irrelevance of the story whether based on truth or not. I pondered how knowing the story would benefit me in my future career. Oh, how i've read and learnt from an insensitive malay teacher how provocative such malay literature writers can be towards students who are in the learning process. During my times in my secondary school, i was learning which groups to avoid for the future and you know what.... after decades, i still feel i'm getting back to school. No plain reader should judge on his own fair support of the content of the book that it be released for others and especially for students to read too. That's being insensitive already. Let's not judge either ways, just stay neutral, be plain sensitive to all sides and speak on fact, experiences and truth on what's being spelled in the textbooks nowadays. To make the views more clear and fair, how about getting all the teachers (not just the malays) and the students to place their honest views on what's been taught in schools here.. and then maybe we could come to some plans for a brighter country? If the textbook writers are bent on their own agendas, what do you think the country will be cropping for the future? If politicians are bent on their own propaganda, god knows what's lurking behind for the people of the country in the near future.

In a haste to make money, using the IMalaysia theme, Abdullah Hussain, has penned this so called novel. To make the passage way easier for selection of his novel in the education mainstream, he has cleverly inserted some racial slurs ( hitting out at the NON-Malays) that is normally accepted and protected by the UMNO overlords and the Education Ministry officials. Sadly, it shows how low national laureates will go to make money. Judging from his book, Abdullah Hussain is a street laureate (karyawan kaki lima) churns out garbage litterature(sastera sampah).