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PETALING JAYA: Maszlee Malik has threatened to take Umno Youth Chief Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki to court if the latter does not retract his claim that the previous Pakatan Harapan administration had intentionally glorified communists.
The former education minister also wants Asyraf to present an open apology.
Maszlee’s lawsuit comes hours after the Ministry of Education cleared the air about changes to the content of Form 4 history textbooks, saying it was finalized in April 2018, before PH came to power. .
Thanking the ministry, Maszlee said that he gives Asyraf until tomorrow morning to apologize and retract his claim.
“Otherwise, I will sue you for defamation,” he tweeted, adding that many had urged him to do so.
Asyraf had recently asked the education ministry to correct some content in textbooks that he claimed glorified communists as independence fighters.
He claimed that this was done intentionally by PH when he was in government to “sow the seeds” of a “Malaysian Malaysia” ideology.
Yesterday, former Deputy Minister of Education Teo Nie Ching also said that PH was never involved in the review process for school textbooks and said that he had left the job to the professionals.
Tonight, the ministry said that the publication of the Kurikulum Standard Sekolah Menengah history textbook was based on the Standard Curriculum and Assessment Document and the ministry’s standard operating procedure on textbook publishing updated in 2018.
