Former Federal Territories Umno Youth chief Razlan Rafii said in a tweet in Malay that a slanderer had died, which meant one less slanderer around.
His remark was slammed by PPBM Youth chief Syed Saddiq Abdul Rahman, who said Malays were not raised to insult accident victims.
“If this is the new Umno, then it strays from Malay culture,” Syed Saddiq, who is also youth and sports minister, said on Twitter.
The Muar MP was joined by other social media users who also reprimanded Razlan, reminding him that Islam did not condone such behaviour. One internet user also urged him to delete the tweet.
However, Razlan brushed it off, saying that one should remember the deeds of the deceased.
He later told Malaysiakini that he had not meant to insult Ng, and that he wished for him to rest in peace.
His comment was reminiscent of remarks in 2014 by then-Langkawi MP Nawawi Ahmad, who posted a picture of the accident which killed DAP’s Karpal Singh, accompanied by a newspaper article titled “An Islamic state can only happen over my dead body”.
Nawawi, who was referring to Karpal’s opposition to PAS’ call for an Islamic state, later apologised.
On Wednesday, Bukit Gelugor MP Ramkarpal Singh was thrown out of the Dewan Rakyat after refusing to retract his statement calling Umno Youth “gangsters”.
He had been referring to an incident in 2009 when his father, Karpal, was surrounded and mobbed by some 30 Umno Youth members at the Parliament lobby.
Ng, 40, was involved in an accident on the Grand Saga Highway at 12.30am. He died at the scene of serious head injuries.
It is believed that the Nissan X-Trail SUV he was driving had rammed into the back of a trailer.
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