This is after the Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin lecturer resigned as a lifetime member of the MCA last month over the Barisan Nasional (BN) Chinese party’s opposition to hudud law.

“I’ve said it before, I am Chinese and I was born Chinese, Allah made me Chinese. I will always be Chinese,” he was quoted in the Malay Mail online as saying.

He denied being “more Malay than the Malays” in defending the Government’s agenda to promote the Malay language and Islam.

Tee added he would continue to fight for the Malay language and Islam. “I fight for them. Don’t try to oppose it,” the online portal quoted him as saying.

“These people are too embroiled in fighting for their race, their language and their schools that they’ve forgotten that the national agenda should also be strengthened,” he said.

He said Chinese Malaysians continued to fight to maintain vernacular schools at the cost of students being unable to speak Bahasa Malaysia, the national language.