Yoursay Priority Should Go To Fixing Potholes Not Renaming Roads

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YOURSAY | ‘Instead of renaming roads, there are many KL roads that need repairs.’
Minister wants Jalan Palestin to replace English road names, not Raja Laut
2 cents: Naming a road to "Jalan Palestin" in support of the Palestinian cause and a peaceful resolution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict is merely symbolic. I'm sure Malaysia could do more in this area.
Never mind the symbolic effort, Federal Territories Minister Annuar Musa appeared totally clueless on this matter. It was "Jalan Raja Laut 1" that got renamed, not "Jalan Raja Laut".
Raja Laut as a historical figure still has its place in history in the form of a major road that stretches from Jalan Tun Perak to Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah.
On the other hand, Annuar, are you trying to say that Charles Walter Hamilton Cochrane, the most senior administrator of the Federated Malay States from 1930 to 1932, does not deserve a place in history?
Malaysianheart: When there are so many new roads in housing estates that just have numbers, why not give these roads new names?
In the first place, those roads with historical names were named precisely of some significant event or person or place for us to commemorate and remember.
Leave these road names as they are. They are historical records of sorts. We should keep them and cherish them.
It is like you want to change your ancestor's name to something else just because they are no more around and you want to forget them.
Can we at least have some respect for our history to remind us of where we came from and how we got here?
Bobby0: History is one of the main drawing points for tourists. And it not only attracts tourists but reminds us of our past.
It shows our forefathers’ contribution to our nation. Each road sign signifies the contribution of somebody great or his sacrifice for the nation.
We cannot eradicate history, even how much we try. The records are there in the archives for anybody that has the interest to see. Even now at a click of the button, the full information appears on a screen before us.
Charity, as they say, starts at home. We should first learn as to how to take care of our own first before we reach out to others.
How many roads in Palestine have even one Malaysian name or even some sort of significance to our nation?
Ranjit Singh Malhi: Big minds focus on significant changes to develop the nation and promote greater unity. Small minds focus on changing road names which only result in "syok sendiri" (self-satisfaction).
The British were part of Malaysian history, and despite some shortcomings, left behind a strong civil service and a robust legal system. Palestine has little to do at all with the history of our nation.
What a shame. May God bless Malaysia and provide our leaders "hidayah" (guidance) to lead the nation effectively to greater heights.
Olxrev: First of all, is renaming a road to whatever really that important? Especially compared to the current situation faced by us - that being the Covid-19 pandemic?
Secondly, rather than renaming roads, why not go and fix roads that require repairs. There are many suburbs I am pretty sure need new roads or repairs.
TheTruthPls: Is this is all this minister is good for?
Is anyone bothered with the atrocious condition of the roads in Kuala Lumpur, especially around Jalan Klang Lama and Jalan Kuchai Lama? So many uneven roads and full of potholes, especially in front of the wet market.
Ubi-Wan Keledek: Of all the problems they need to address in the country, they are obsessed with renaming roads to 'show support' for certain other peoples. I wonder if they understand the word “priority”.
And by the way, have they conducted a survey to ensure Malaysians support the idea?
The Middle Man: One can only shake one’s head to read the shallow standards of our politicians barking on unimportant issues and ever ready to spin the racial overtones they are known for.
At this rate, don’t expect our country to progress at all.
Falcon: This a classic social engineering and subtle deleting of the nation's history by covert operations such as this.
It started long before in stages in other areas. So where does it end?
At the root of all these clandestine deliberations is a vulgar, race, religion fascism at play. Is it a move to create a fake historical narrative to feed the current gluttonous and racist appetite of some people to deny facts that certain communities contributed to what Malaysia is today?
And no shame in adopting fiction as part of one's history? What delusion, denial and hypocrisy.
ZainiHussin: It looks like certain Malaysians’ mindset has been ‘colonised’ by the Arab culture. They are our new ‘colonial’ masters.
Forever colonised, Malaysians have no identity of our own. We should now work to attain ‘merdeka’ from them. So pathetic. Wassalam.
Norman Fernandez: Now that Jalan Raja Laut 1 has been changed to Jalan Palestin, all because to show the world that Malaysia stands in solidarity with the Palestinians, it is also time for Malaysia to change other road names.
To show our solidarity with Kashmir, we can change Jalan Masjid India to Jalan Kashmir. Not forgetting the Uyghurs, maybe we can also consider changing the name of a road in Jinjang to Jalan Xinjiang or Jalan Uyghur.
Lastly, and for the moment to show that Malaysia is committed to becoming the voice for the Rohingyas, it is only appropriate a road in Selayang be renamed Jalan Rohingya or Jalan Rakhine.

Let us show the world, our commitment to stand in solidarity with the oppressed and defenceless. 
Hopefully, the 57 Muslim OIC countries can find a street in their country to name it after Malaysia too. - Mkini

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