前首相女儿，社会工作者玛丽娜马哈迪公开抨击国阵政府，指他们对当前的宗教乱局故意视而不见，保持沉默，放任这项课题持续在回教徒与基督教徒之间燃烧。
她质问国阵政府：难道非要等到局势发展至不可收拾的地步才来亡羊补牢吗？
玛丽娜同时指责国阵政府讲一套做一套，表面上呼吁全民亲善团结，幕后却对各种极端种族宗教言论采取纵容的态度。【国阵领袖现在已经大失民心，但是，显然的，他们直到今天还不明白为什么多数人民唾弃他们。】
玛丽娜是在她的英文星报专栏向国阵当权者开炮。这也是她历来措辞最强烈的一篇专栏文章。
她质问：【我们到底拥有怎样虚伪的领袖？只会空口讲要人民谅解与团结，却放任那些与政府有关联的所谓非政府组织不断发表极端的煽动言论！为什么他们不阻止呢？他们到底害怕什么？为甚么害怕？难道他们害怕失去极端主义选民的支持吗？】
三天前，雪州宗教局在不知会雪州政府的情况之下擅作主张，伙同警方人员到雪州天主教会捣乱，不但违法扣留300多本马来文本圣经，还滥用权力将两位神父扣留。这一切都违反了内阁于2009年为基督教徒制定的11项声明。但是纳吉政府却选择闷不吭声，放任雪州宗教局的傲慢与滥权行为。
因此外界对此的解读，是纳吉政府试图放任雪州宗教局挑动宗教之间的敏感神经，煽动穆斯林与基督教徒之间彼此仇视，从而达到转移人民焦点，掩盖治国无能导致民怨沸腾的课题。这种将国民团结、宗教和谐问题也敢敢拿来玩弄，通过挑拨种族宗教仇恨来达到保护政权目的的行为十分要不得，其心可诛！
玛丽娜以不点名的方式抨击国家领导人，把自己家人累积财富的事看得比人民疾苦更重要。故意忽略社会弱势群体的福利，只注重私人利益；这种要不得的行为令人民愤怒。
它不客气的说：【大马人民现在被一群无知、没有知识，没有文化教育修养但是又狂妄自大的领袖领导着。】
她说：【我们穆斯林逢年过节都祝贺所有大马人佳节快乐；但是曾几何时，我们自己的宗教信仰忽然变得那么脆弱了？脆弱得经不起任何打击？】
【现在我们穆斯林似乎有越来越多的忌讳了。穆斯林被告知这些不能碰，那些不能看；这在上个世纪的七八十年代是完全没有的。】她说：【看来《大马能》Malaysia Boleh有需要改称为《大马不能》Malaysia Tak Boleh了！】
她说：【现在我们穆斯林被告知不能够对其他人好，因为这会危害到我们的信仰；我们也被告知不能对别人坦诚，因为这样会对我们的宗教信仰带来伤害；非穆斯林也被告诫不可以跟穆斯林谈及宗教问题，因为这样可能会伤害到他们的信仰。】
曾几何时，穆斯林对自己的信仰忽然变得那么没有信心了？那么轻易就会被其他宗教影响？
【于是，基本上，马来穆斯林忽然都成了需要受到无微不至的保护的弱势群体，我们（穆斯林）没有政府保护就活不了了？任何其他宗教族群如果取得比我们更大的成功，那就是对我们造成伤害？天呀！他们真的相信通过压迫其他宗教，就是前往天堂最快的捷径？什么逻辑？】
玛丽娜在专栏中写道：【现在我们的国家拥有一个不得民心的政府，有趣的是，这个政府好像还不知道为什么他们不得民心。他们自以为是的认为，人民需要的是给予伊斯兰宗教更大的权利和金钱；结果更加倒行逆施。】
她说，实际上，人民要求的其实很简单：公平施政；还有大选前的承诺必须兑现。人民现在恼火的是领导人讲一套做一套，轻易推翻自己大选前的承诺，这让人民感觉受骗了。人民会牢牢记住你言而无信的做法，不要期望人民善忘。今天你不遵守信用，下届大选将会付出惨重的代价。
Marina Mahathir raps Putrajaya for keeping mum on serious issues
Social activist Datin Paduka Marina Mahathir (pic) hit out at Putrajaya today for keeping silent on simmering contentious issues affecting the country.
In her “Musings” column in English daily The Star, Marina said that the country’s leadership may preach about unity, but remained silent over sensitive statements made by certain parties.
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“What sort of leadership do we have which only mouths platitudes about moderation and unity, yet has absolutely nothing to say about the type of extreme pronouncements made not only by so-called NGOs, but also by some parts of government?” she said.
“Are they oblivious or scared? And if they are scared, why?”
Her article struck a chord with Malaysians, with many sharing it on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.
Without mentioning names, Marina said that the country’s leaders would rather spend time defending family foibles than speak up for the most vulnerable and defenceless in society.
“How embarrassing is that?”
Malaysians, she said, were being led by people who were ignorant, unschooled and yet proud to be so.
“We have celebrated the Gregorian new year for ages. So how did it suddenly become a Jewish celebration?
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“We have wished our fellow Malaysians the best during all our festivities. So how did it suddenly become a threat to our faith? Or is our faith so fragile that it can hardly withstand anything?”
She said on a daily basis, there are more and more things Malaysians are told they cannot touch on, so much so that the country’s slogan of “Malaysia Boleh” might as well be turned to “Malaysia Tak Boleh”.
“We are told we cannot be nice to each other because it might endanger the faith of some of us.
“We are told that we cannot talk frankly because some people, obviously with weaker constitutions than the rest of us, might get offended.
“We cannot do anything without treading on eggshells because some people have paper-thin skins.
“So basically, the Malaysians we are supposed to be proud of are those with weak faith, who need constant government help and have such inferiority complexes, that anything and everything that anyone else does better is offensive to them.
“These are the people who think the fastest way to heaven is to oppress other people. Lovely!” she said.
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She said the country now has a government in power which is disliked by the people and yet, they were unable to understand why that is so.
“And it is responding by thinking that all that the people want is more religion and to be bought.”
Even that is “failing miserably”, she said.
“There is a simple premise behind election promises and pledges: They need to be kept. Either that or rely on people’s short-term memory. Which isn’t reliable by any measure.
“It’s astounding to me that simple logic doesn’t apply to the way our politicians think.”
She ended her column with her wish for 2014: that many more Malaysians will wake up and realise the danger our country is in.
“That to survive in the world today is by being strong.
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“And strength comes from being educated and in tune with the realities of the world, not living in some fantasyland filled with bigots.”
Marina is also the daughter of Malaysia’s longest-serving prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
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