Malaysians are just as lazy especially.......................
In your country, people who work hard pay for people who don’t want to... We don’t understand, say parents of Malaysian 'bad Samaritan' riot victim
Last updated at 10:02 PM on 3rd March 2012
The parents of the student robbed by thugs posing as ‘good Samaritans’ during last summer’s London riots have accused Britain’s welfare state of encouraging people to be lazy.
With calm dignity, Ashraf Rossli’s Malaysian mother and father told of the trauma their 21-year-old son still suffers and the tough lessons the attack has taught them about this country.
Retired army officer Rossli Harun and his primary school teacher wife Maznah Abu Mansor yesterday spoke to The Mail on Sunday from Ashraf’s grandparents’ home on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur.
Criticism: Rossli Harun and Maznah Abu Mansor, pictured with their youngest son Futri, have given a disarming view of Ashraf Rossli's benefit-claiming attacker
Mr Rossli said: ‘The boy who attacked my son was young – he was only 17. But he wasn’t at school, he wasn’t at work, and he was getting Government money.
Mr Rossli, obviously you must be from a remote village where you do not see boys and girls as young as nine involved in robbery, gambling, pushing drug and selling their themselves in Bukit Bintang to Arab tourists.
‘The system in Britain makes people lazy. In Malaysia, if you want to earn money, you have to work. And if you want to earn more money, you have to study hard.
‘In Britain, people who work pay tax and it goes to people who do no work. I don’t understand that.’
Mr Rossli, you need glasses to see the abuse and misused of Rakyat's money by UMNO elites, Cabinet Ministers and their families. Rafidah Aziz when she was Wanita Chief received RM500,000 pocket money monthly from businessmen had the cheek to insist on a scholarship from the government for her daughter.
Everyday inside Mara Building thousand of Malays are there to ask for aid to start or save their business. The ones who do get have to pay commission indirectly to the staff there. After getting the money/loan the Malays will go shopping for new cars, new curtains for their homes, go for holidays. They will do everything that has nothing to do with business. So if you say that the British system is making the people lazy. You must be an alien not knowing your own race are the laziest lot. I too don't understand how you can ignore reality of the Malays here.
Impact: Victim Ashraf Rossli has been left psychologically scarred by the robbery in East London
The 50-year-old said the audacious robbery in East London had left a psychological scar on his son.
‘Now, when he sees a crowd of people coming towards him in the street, he will cross the road and walk on the other side,’ he said.
‘He is still affected by what happened and I don’t know how long that will stay with him. Maybe for a long time.’
The video footage of Ashraf’s ordeal – captured on a witness’s mobile phone – was seen around the world and shamed Britain.
It showed the accountancy student, bloodied and dazed after being punched and robbed of his bicycle, hauled to his feet by two men who make as if to help him.
In doing so they stole a games console and games worth £500 from his rucksack.
On Friday, 22-year-olds John Kafunda, of Ilford, and Reece Donovan, of Romford, were convicted at Wood Green Crown Court of violent disorder, robbery and later burgling a Tesco store.
At an earlier trial, 17-year-old Beau Isagba was found guilty of punching and breaking Ashraf’s jaw during the initial bicycle theft.
It was the revelation that Isagba was jobless and on benefits that stunned Mr Rossli.
Following the attack on August 8, Ashraf’s parents were shown around London by MPs and dignitaries.
Video evidence: Ashraf Rossli is helped to his feet, but then has his possessions stolen by Kafunda (in grey hoodie) and Donovan (in cap)
Lowest of the low: Their victim continues to tend to his wounds on his face as thieves make off with the contents of his rucksack
Their experience convinced them that Britain was a friendly and fundamentally decent country – but also left them with a worrying impression that the flames of the unrest may have been fanned by a system that overindulges troublemakers and the workshy.
‘This kind of system is not good,’ said Mr Rossli, whose only trip outside Malaysia before the attack on his son was a tour of duty in Bosnia in the Nineties.
‘I believe if you are physically well, if there is nothing wrong with you, you should work. They shouldn’t give money to people who can work but don’t.
Mr Rossli, let me show you the people who can work but cannot get any help from the government because they are non-Malay or half Chinese like my children. And I can even show you physically strong Malays who do not work but get money from the government and get free food everyday.
‘You should only give this money to the right people – people who are disabled, people who are ill, people who are in hardship. But not to people who are well and can work, but choose not to.’
I can show you people who are disabled, people who are very sick and people who are in hardship. But cannot get help from the Malaysian government. Just go to Brickfield and Chow Kit.
Asked what he thought of the youths who attacked his son, Mr Rossli said: ‘It is up to parents to raise their children. Children need to be taught civic responsibility and discipline as they grow up.’
Guilty: Reece Donovan, 24 (left) was convicted of theft while John Kafunda, 22 (right) was found guilty of robbery. The pair were both convicted of violent disorder
And he was also critical of the police. ‘The police in Malaysia would have taken action sooner,’ he said.
‘Your police let it grow and grow until it was out of control. I don’t understand why people were allowed to run riot and rob in that way.
'Here in Malaysia the police can catch you and grab you if you do something wrong. But in Britain it seems that you cannot.’
Malaysia’s government is known for being authoritarian, but Mr Rossli said: ‘After this happened, people asked Ashraf why he went outside when there were riots and he replied, “Because in Malaysia we are always free to walk outside”.
'We have a tough government in Malaysia, but when something like this happens, they take action. They don’t let it get out of control. The streets are safe.’
Vicious: Mr Rossli was set upon by another group, which included Beau Isagba, 17, pictured, who was convicted by a court earlier this month of punching him
Ashraf’s ordeal brought him face-to-face with youths who – while not distant from him in age – could not have been more different in attitudes and values.
They were looting, burning and thieving. Ashraf, by contrast, had been innocently riding his bicycle through Barkingside to a friend’s house to share a meal to mark the end of a Muslim fasting period.
An exemplary student who scored straight As in his high school exams, Ashraf had been in London for just a month after winning a Malaysian government scholarship to study accountancy at Kaplan International College in Islington.
The scholarship covered the £60,000 cost of his two-year course, which would have been impossible for his parents to fund.
In return, he must work for the Malaysian government for five years on his return, lecturing young accountancy students.
Ashraf’s family live in a simple three-room apartment in Kuala Lumpur’s Ampang district, half an hour’s drive from the grandparents’ home where they gathered yesterday. Their home is worth £30,000.
Grandfather Abu Mansor Bin Mohammad Noh, 79, who grew up when Malaysia was under British rule, said he was shocked to hear Ashraf had been attacked so soon after arriving in London.
But he believed his grandson should stay in the UK. ‘I still think England is a good place and I am proud of my grandson for earning the opportunity to study there. He is the first person in my family to study abroad,’ he said.
‘What happened to Ashraf doesn’t make me feel bad towards Britain. It is just a certain kind of person who does these things.
‘I believe most in Britain are very good people.’
Mr Rossli, there are many youth, especially Malays in Malaysia who are out of control and nuisance to the country. Their parents are not helping by not coming home to cook and look after the family. Many parents are too busy having fun to bother or they are too lazy to care. As money is so easy to get, they feel the responsibility of looking after their kids lies with the kids themselves. Check the statistic for rape, robbery, drug, abortion, abandon babies, abandon children, gambling, incest, murders, human trafficking, bribes taking, corruption, illiterate and HIV.
The crime rate is much higher in Malaysia than Britain if comparison on population is taken into consideration.
Here PDRM work only for UMNO. People like me do not get such efficient service you describe about our police.
Our education system suck like hell. That is why your son is studying in Britain.
So even though you are one of those lucky family who are provided for by the Government financially, you should not lie for the sick of getting into their good book. You pray five times a day and call yourself a Muslim, so how can tell such BULL SHIT and make a mockery of yourself. Tak Malu.
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