Outpouring of support and sympathy from netizens for YOG critic Abdul Malik
August 26th, 2010 | 
Author: Instead of being intimidated into silence, netizens come out strongly to voice their support for YOG critic Abdul Malik who shot to international fame instantaneously after being arrested by the Singapore police for “inciting violence and public disorder”.
Mr Malik had posted a comment on his Facebook taking Dr Vivian to task for the YOG mass food poisoning scandal on 15 August which caused 21 YOG volunteers to suffer from diarrhoea after taking food provided by the YOG caterer.
According to the New Paper, Mr Malik posted a comment written in capital letters saying that the incident showed it was time to “burn” the minister. In the same posting, he also called on the public to “rally together”.
He was arrested at his workplace two days ago by three plain-clothes police officers from Bedok Police Division whose Commander is DAC Teo Chun Ching and Head Investigator is DSP Goh Tat Boon.
Below is a snapshot of the original comment posted by Mr Malik who got him into trouble with the police:
In a comment posted on “I hate YOG” Facebook, Mr Malik thanked netizens for their support and words of encouragement.
Below are some comments from netizens expressing their support for Mr Malik:
Clement Lin:
“HERO!!!!!!!!! you’re a brave lad Malik and you have my support!”
Kang Wei Jie:
“For your courage, Malik, I salute you… Keep the posts coming in!”
Masri Mohamad:
“Malik you my Singapore Idol!”
Mohammad Shahid:
“Abdul Malik Ghazali, we are behind you. They have squandered our taxpayers money and what did we get? There’s more publicity for the Commonwealth and even Asian games rather then this silly YOG business.”
Zulkarnian Hassan:
“Someone’s got money to b#$@, 400 million of it. Thanks for giving us a new 4 letter word, Malik.”
Azmi:
“Hahaha dun need $400 million to spent, just need MALIK to do the job done!! Hahah thanks dude… Hahaha!!”
Mr Malik insists that his conscience is clear and has nothing wrong and he will continue to speak up for fellow Singaporeans.
The fear-mongering tactic employed by the Singapore police doesn’t appeared to work this time as MrMalik is turned into a sort of celebrity overnight.
With the YOG drawing to a close, Mr Malik has proven to be its “grand finale” and is expected to hog the international limelight for the next few days to come, no thanks to the Singapore police.
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Posted in Editorial, Y O G | 
Tags: Abdul Malik, Singapore Youth Olympic Games, Y O G, YOG critic arrested
there is ONE person who needs to apologize 400 million times for his stupidity and incompetence – if you’re paid millions to plan a budget and can’t do it right, you deserve to eat shit.
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TONIGHT YOUTH OLYMPIG GAME CLOSING CEREMONY. WELL DONE. ABUDUL MALIK. YOU HAVE DONE A GREAT JOB TO HUMILIATE PAP BEFORE YOG CLOSING CEREMONY.
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this guy has history, he has issues. cant be trused. morally and ethically salah. how to even trust?
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fcuk PRC, fcuk foreigners
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Beside not able to produce but still when facing TV media interview like to talk craps and wayang like taiji masters. This kind of so-called ministers we are now having… I really want to vomit and throw out everytime see his face on TV. I will only had 1 reaction… quickly turn to other channel or if not close the TV and go to my ipod to listen to a more proper sound then to hear the craps speaks !!!!!
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I realised the number of people actually who oppose the ruling party is actually small
small when compared to the entire population
most who are against are those found in the net and they are same people over and over again
look at the participant of TR
it is the same old people that is contributing
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What is wrong with these people? I’m sure the gov is doing all that they can for the country. Even if there are mistakes made, at least we are still fortunate to be able to go to work of which welfare is taken care of and also get paid, kids go to school with no fears and getting the best education, having a roof over your head. Isn’t that all enough to thank the gov for? We should feel lucky that YOG is held here. Makes a small country more recognised. For those supporting that narrow minded guy, straighten yourselves up and think straight. Think for the future, all the glory YOG could bring to us.
Flood wise is definitely inevitable but 1 thing for sure is that measures are being taken (if you do read the papers and open your eyes). As for food for the volunteers, those are being handled by caterers etc. So why blame the govt for it? Again, now measures are being taken. So why make such a big hoo-hah now when problems are already solved? Dun be selfish. By all means, if living here does not work for whoever out there, feel free to move out from here. Dun create a scene in this peaceful country.
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With all these importing of trashes we are facing threat as never before !!!
Our childrens now had to ballot for a seat in their born land as so many importing in makes us had to fight for our livingspace too !
What and who causes it to made us now had to face this kind of craps situation ????
Anwser is this : Papappies loh !!!!!!!! We all should for our childrens and ourselves vote these regime out or at least cut them down to sizes reduce them to without 2/3 parliament then they shall know we are not to be easily bully “DRAFT voters” !!!!!!!!
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＠AussiePR:
Stop sprouting profanity at foreigners. If not for us, where would Singapore be?
Foreigners are only 36% of the Singapore population but contribute 45% of the GDP. That means that locals’ contribute LESS GDP per capita compared to foreigners. 你没有资格骂.
Be grateful to foreigners.
Don’t blame Dr Vivan, he was on a jet in other countries when the planning of YOG happened. How can it be his fault???
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do we really need to have a YOG in singapore to rally support for sports. do we really need imported talents to represent us? Why can’t we dedicate a sports minister to specifically groom a good local talent team of sportmen over a period of 3-5 years. If he do not perform sack him. we are talking about managing and motivating our local boys and girls to perform at a much lower budget and where all singaporeans will support.
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Now MSM subjected dirty tricks once again… Look @ straits times.
They purposely revealed that malik was jailed before in the last paragraph. Why have to do that? To discredit him and his movement. I’m really so sick of this.
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Even political parties have come up in support of Malik….
It is also disturbing that comments made by netizens can be taken out of context and be misconstrued by the authorities who are showing increasing signs of paranoia.
Mr Abdul’s use of the word “burn” is a figure of speech and should not be taken literally just as Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s violent imagery of meeting his opponents in a cul-de-sac and drawing a hatchet is not taken literally by the police.
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@PAP FT Supporter:
August 26, 2010 at 10:48 am
I feel so shameful for you. Foreign Trash like you come from a FUCK UP country have to lick and suck PAP for job. Don’t you have any self pride left? If you have to trade your mother for job I am sure you would have done that too. You, like Vivian without the PAP probably would have to prostitute yourself for a living elsewhere.
Don’t blame you and Vivian it your mother’s fault for being ASS born-ed.
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Ladies & Gentlemen,
Let’s re-focus and not lose sight of the issue. I’m convinced that the majority of Singaporeans were supportive of YOG when we first won the rights to host it. We were very proud.
So what happened?
Pride became embarrasment and enthusiaism became apathy…even enger because:
S$100+ Million balloned to $387 Million (…worse when we learnt that a similar event could be hosted in Europe for just S$4 Million).
Substandard food served to volunteers and was not quickly improved until TR raised the issue.
… and the list goes on …….
The problems are crystal clear and so are the solutions to anyone with the authority to resolve them. It’s a question of integrity, accountability and courage.
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@PAP FT Supporter:
August 26, 2010 at 10:48 am
Foreigners are only 36% of the Singapore population but contribute 45% of the GDP.
Even if we assume that it is true for argument sake, you are horrendously out-dated. GDP has already been thrown out as a viable measure of national well being. If you still insist on it, then you should find yourself a secluded island somewhere in the Pacific. You could then send smoke signals to the rest of the world from there (since you can’t blog from there) that YOU are contributing 100% GDP in that kingdom of yours.
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ABDUL MALIK will end this YOG will a louder bang than all the fireworks can summon!
Way to go!
Your fearlessness burns brighter and than YOG torch!!!
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We should fight our battles intelligently. One should not give one’s opponents an excuse to put one out of action prematurely.
“Rally them together and vote them out” sounds ok.
“Burn Vivian Balakrishnan…” sounds a tad extreme because it could easily be interpreted as an incitement to harm someone. Of course it could also mean something totally innocuous. But the fact that it could be interpreted otherwise provides one’s opponent with a chance of getting oneself into unnecessary trouble. Unnecessary because it could all be avoided by a more careful choice of words.
Take Alex Au of Yawning Bread, for example. He has often criticised the government harshly but so far, has not got into any trouble — he doesn’t mince his words but he also chooses them very carefully.
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@PR:
You are here to work that’s all
Did you contribute to Singapore in any way ?
If you have contributed in any way , state it …
Did you donate blood ?.
I did during the Spyros shipyard disaster .
Did you give sweat to singapore ?
I did 2 years NS as a signaler in 3rd signal battalion .
Did you participated in NDP ?
I did in 1982 as a marching contingent in JALAN BESAR STADIUM.
Did you contribute to society ?
I and my family did , by donating to community chest every month.
And help Previously JALAN BAHAR old folk home cleaning once a month.
It’s much , but i did my part , what about you ?
SO shut the fuck up .. Dont tell Singaporean to go if they are not happy.
You get the fuck out of my country, you smell ,when you talk i can
pinpoint you are a FT you sound different .
I tell you what , if there is a war any tru blue Singaporean can pick
up a riffle and fight .I guess you will hide in some toilet and pee
in your pants.
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I pity Malik… he is just voicing his own frustration. But from history, we know whoever is against the BIG PARTY will either end up in jail or bankrupt. I pray Malik will escape ill fate…. ~sigh~
Nevertheless… Thumb-up for Malik for voicing out when most Singaporeans are too scared to do so.
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MOLESTER MARK CHOW CAN BE TRUSTED? I BETTER TRUST ABDUL MALIK.
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The only highlight of YOG is ABDUL MALIK! Well done, Singapore needs legions of people like you!
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They burn our reserves from all those failed investments like Seventh Month paper money and yet no poodle do any investigation or go after those accountable. Only know how to pick on the small flies and act like big bully….shameless.
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Serves Malik right for slandering while brain dead!!! No Brainer!!
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Never like the taxi driver who took action to bu@n the MP, but this Malay just verbally say bu@n also a crime? He just said it for “嘴講爛耙爽” (“chui gong lump par song” in Hokkien)
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Paranoid Pigs:
August 26, 2010 at 12:50 pm
They burn our reserves from all those failed investments like Seventh Month paper …
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How true!
and.unlike malik-small fry he is-they did not just metaphorise the word ‘BURN’,they actually BURNT it all away.
i guess our Singapore Zoo will be the MOST EXPENSIVE ZOO in the world with the high price paid for the pandas,another FIRST in the world by our smart scholars.
it seems so easy to squander away taxpayers’ money but when it comes to our citizens,the miws feel the PINCH???
GOD,i want to be a panda my next life!
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i want a proper YOG BUDGET explanation by the goverenment before the next election and please dont bully singaporeans by arresting at workplace and because of that their family affected Police dont blindly toture singaporeans
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FT puts in 45% of the GDP.
where you get that figure from? PAP?
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I find it is very disrespect to our MP here. At least he managed to bring YOG here to Singapore. If i were still in Burma, may not even get to see it live.
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LIONS ROAR:
not fair statement
i guess if the comment was from a chinese than i think the arrest may be delayed or even never
the good thing about the malay community which i truly admire is their cohesiveness unlike the chinese who would sell their daughter for money or kill their daughter so they can have a son (observation as well as from newspapers)
the impact of the his statement may have more impact than one think
look at china, tainted milk killing so many kids because of money
do we hear this kind of stuff from the middle east or malaysia
we have to get our priorities in life right
if moderator thinks this a racist post please do delete it
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387 million could have help real poor Singaporean but these swines rather spent it on some stupid event…. that PAP shit…. they should all be replaced immediately otherwise Singapore will become bankrupt.
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Stay FOCUS. They can do whatever they like but be resolute in the commitment to vote them out when the time comes. Let them continue to create shit to fuel our determination to kick them out & let no carrot that will lure you away again.
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Warning only lah
You small fly
Govt. only focus on the Head of a organization, NUS student body, a association head, labor unrrest…blah, blah, blah
You really think Govt. had nothing better to do, to catch small fly
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picknose,what are you trying to say here?
my statement not fair?
which one?
or do you mean something else.
can you be more clear when commenting.
regards.
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LIONS ROAR:
GOD,i want to be a panda my next life!
NOT FAIR STATEMENT BECAUSE YOU BEAT ME TO IT TO WISH TO BE A PANDA IN MY NEXT LIFE
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Malik was DUMB ENOUGH to use “burn” in his statement. In my opinion, he deserved it thoroughly. I do not condone mistakes made for the YOG event, but in this case, the retard shoulda let his frustrations known in better ways.
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Can the opposition or alternative parties just challenge every GRC and ward please nevermind the resource issue, silly infantile obstacles set up to amke it difficult for you and the silly fear “lose again”. Use everything plus the kitchen sink folks!!!
Else…it is the same old same old like previous GEs…even if opposition/AP wins 49% and PAP 51%…the silly parliament we will probably again still have 2 opposition/AP MPs or slightly more and the usual 82 or slightly less PAP MPs…now how nutty is that!
No real substance or true discussions in Parliament…might as well don’t have the parliamentry system since the votes for all policies is always disappropiately in favour of the PAP. Only the obtuse are unable to see and accept the sheer nutty “rationale” or “logic” of such a “set-up”.
sad lei to see this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-m9fn1yeEI&ob=av2e
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i guess if the comment was from a chinese than i think the arrest may be delayed or even never
????????????????????????????????????
hey!are you a pap mole trying to stir one singaporean against another here?
there are chinese who get screwed by the govt and the police every day.
this writer,malik,just so happens to be a malay.
there are the chees and lims and picknose,you stink!
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@PR – I was born here 50 yrs ago..back then there was no such thing as alternative media..many such things were aready happening then !…but of course nobody or many people knows…even between our Citizens self,… don’t believe me ?…then please by all means..takeup the New citizenship (if offered) to you …welcome to the Party ( but don’t say we didn’t warn you )
@Pricknose – you are jus being naive -there are many more such sites.
Something must be very wrong here in SG ,otherwise, why are all these Citizens voicing out their frustrations and concerns ???
Ever cross your mind ?…or perhaps you are jus like @PR..coming here to “Gain all the benefits”,jus b’cos you see “Good things and can take it for free” dosen’t mean that netizens here are ingrate. All Trueblues aready did contribute something “the day when they we already born “….Where were you ??? You Male/Female ?? Ever don’t National service ??? ( Mind you 21/2 yrs + 13 years reserve )…all can easily equate to 3 to 4 years of a Youthful Precious time as well as a Good Degree …which many could have attain with this “Compulsory lost time given to stupid NS”..and New Citizens n PRs are exempted…wat nonsense indeed !
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PAP is ridiculous! All of us have the right to post whatever feelings on our own web pages. Is PAP going to arrest few millions of Singaporeans who have facebook accounts? I’m angry over this news.
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PaP Ft supporter, if you have not done NATIONAL SERVICE, SHUT UP!
STAND UP FOR SINGAPORE!
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They need to come out and draw the line clearly… stop being ambiguous to their advantage. Creating a catch 22 scenario…
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PAP FT supporter, i was once a PAP supporter. Now i no longer support PAP as PAP has done too many mistakes. Too many mistakes that PAP should be vote out.
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PAP offers wealth, fame, and power.
It’s a Lee Kuan Yew’s feudal meritocracy system.
Said a wrong word you’ll be in big trouble.
Great Asia called them PAP civil servants, now you guys got it?
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欲加之罪何患无辞！
F this useless PAP government, but chose your words carefully.
Do not use words frequently used by terrorists and religion fanatics.
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With the YOG drawing to a close, Mr Malik has proven to be its “grand finale” and is expected to hog the international limelight for the next few days to come, no thanks to the Singapore police.
HUH? What? YOG already started?
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The Papies is one party that we can do without. Remind your friend and relatives note to vote the Papies in the next election or there will be “hell” years in Singapore.
All constituencies must be challenged so that we don’t give the Papies a mandate to rule.
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those critics are simply taking advantage of the singaporeaness in them… imagine singapore to 3rd to 1st world .
Having a world class status and internet access how lame of us to blame a Govt which took good care and provided world class status for us.
Imagine we being part of Msia and under the rule of Najib and Badawi, good joke wldnt it be, look at our ministers…. each and everyone are in the status of House of Lords, with expertise and experience , great public admin knowledge, such bright leaders we have got, our ministers are not any tom dick and harry who can suka suka represent our country ok….
each and every of our mps and ministers are world class natured, just go to the Govt website and read about them , look at their education and experiences. No other countries in this world have a complete natured ministers ,good character,good education, good expertise and experience and public admin quality ,just look ard in the world ,that will answer. Rather than giving lousy comments in facebooks and TR
Just like children blaming their parents, even after they gained good education and good upbringing from them, unfaithful children will still blame their parents, such children must be burnt, not the parents for their good deeds.
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Well, seems like this abdul malik’s comment has back-fired and burned himself.
Don’t worry! Allah will protect him like he did to mas selamat. He will be fine, let’s move on
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Definition of the word. Place it yourself in proper context.
http://onlineslangdictionary.com/definition+of/burn
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I rather trust a mental insane person or convicted criminals than trust PaP =P
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There is a valid reason for the massive outcry among Singaporeans and netizens due to the questioning by the Internal Security Dept and subsequent arrest of YOG critic, Mr Abdul Malik by the Singapore police.
Abdul Malik using the monicker, Malik Syasha Sotongz had commented in a Facebook on 18/8/2010 at 6.02 pm, “This is the time for us to burn Vivien Balakrishnan and the PAP!!! Rally together and vote them out!!!”
Due to the mismanaging of YOG by MCYS minister, Dr Vivian Balakrishnan and other incompetent PAP ministers like in handling the recent floodings and Pro Alien Party’s pro-foreigner and ultra-liberal immigration policies, what Abdul Malik is trying to mean is rallying Singaporeans to apply burn (meaning intense anger) to MCYS minister, Dr Vivian Balakrishnan and the dominant ruling party and to vote them out during election time.
So the word, “Burn” here does not literally means “To destroy with fire” but means idiomatically “To be Very Angry”.
So what Abdul Malik is trying to state in the Facebook is – “This time we are now very angry with the incompetent Dr Vivian and PAP and rally local voters to vote the PAP out during this coming general election!!!”.
So if Abdul Malik is to be unjustly convicted by a PAP compliant Singapore court, I predict all the Malays voters will show their support and vote for the opposition parties during this coming general election.
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@PAP FT Supporter:
( .. If not for us, where would Singapore be? .. Be grateful to foreigners..)
You got me all riled up…
Let me tell you something, the majority of singaporeans do not need people like you, we were all doing just fine until you came ..and why should we be grateful to you ??? How have you improve our lives of ordinary singaporeans ?
And to all foreigners like you, YOU be grateful that you are working and living in a safe and stable country PROVIDED BY SINGAPOREAN…….. Don’t forget that…
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