[...] Tawfik Ismail, the son of much admired former deputy prime minister Tun Dr. Ismail, says that he hopes to see Malaysians inspired by past great leaders and rise to achieve great things and bring down racial barriers."If the rise and success of president-to-be-Obama was inspired by the lives of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, and the dreams they dreamt, surely the dreams and aspirations of our multi-racial fathers and forefathers can inspire a similar event in this country," he says.
He urged all leaders who played a part in this nation's history to record their hopes and ideals and "put pen to paper and recorder to lips" so that "communalism and bigotry are sent to the dustbin of our history."
He said it was still not too late and that "we as a nation are still young."
Tawfik said this today at the launch of the book "Malaya's First Year At The United Nations", featuring letters that his father wrote to Malaysia's first prime minister Tunku Abdul Rahman. [read more]
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