Sarawak United Peoples\u2019 Party (SUPP) Public Complaints Bureau (PCB) Chief cum SUPP Kota Sentosa Chairman, Wilfred Yap called on all Sarawakian to strive to enhance a spirit of patriotism, truly love Malaysia and recommit ourselves to our Malaysia Family (Keluarga Malaysia) within the context and with emphasis on the spirit of Malaysia Agreement 1963 as envisaged by our founding fathers as we celebrate Malaysia Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Any misunderstanding will create a wedge citing an example that recently, a suggestion by a Federal Deputy Minister on the proposed introduction of several Syariah Bills in Parliament which has gained wide publicity, amplified by the social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thankfully, he said, the incident is not the norm but it illustrates how issues of race and religion will always be highly emotive and can easily divide us. We must be sensitive towards the feelings of all segments of our diverse communities and never forget that the social and religious harmony that we currently enjoy did not result from every group stridently insisting on its identity and rights but was the fruit of mutual understanding and compromise by all stakeholders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even though Malaysia Day falls amidst the COVID-19 pandemic this year, Yap said, we must remember that it is only through unity, harmony and understanding among the people of Sarawak, Sabah and Malaya that will bind us all together as one people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sarawakians, he added, always pride themselves on being a uniquely harmonious and multiracial society. However maintaining racial and religious harmony is a continuous process and needs to be continuously refreshed, reaffirmed and reinforced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sarawak United Peoples\u2019 Party (SUPP) Public Complaints Bureau (PCB) Chief cum SUPP Kota Sentosa Chairman, Wilfred Yap called on all Sarawakian to strive to enhance a spirit of patriotism, truly love Malaysia and recommit ourselves to our Malaysia Family (Keluarga Malaysia) within the context and with emphasis on the spirit of Malaysia Agreement 1963 as envisaged by our founding fathers as we celebrate Malaysia Day. Any misunderstanding will create a wedge citing an example that recently, a suggestion by a Federal Deputy Minister on the proposed introduction of several SyariahRead More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29225"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29227,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29225\/revisions\/29227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}