KUALA LUMPUR: The Ministry of Education has sought to defend a controversial paragraph in the Form 1 Sejarah (History) textbook currently in use, reports the Malay Mail Online (MMO).

The disputed fact, which was pointed out by local writer Uthaya Sankar SB in his Facebook post on June 30, comes from a paragraph from the 2009 edition of the book published by Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka which reads –

“Kedatangan orang Portugis ke Timur dikaitkan dengan keinginan mereka meneruskan Perang Salib. Mereka ingin menghancurkan kerajaan Islam yang ada di Timur termasuk kerajaan Melaka yang merupakan pusat perkembangan dan penyebaran agama Islam. Pada masa yang sama, Portugis mahu menyebarkan agama Kristian.”

[Translation: “The arrival of the Portuguese to the East was associated with their desire to continue the Crusades. They aimed to destroy the existing Islamic governments of the East, including the Malacca government, which was then the centre for the expansion and propagation of Islam. At the same time, the Portuguese wanted to spread Christianity.”]

“The fact in that textbook is correct and there is no error and the fact is based on checks and verification by the Quality Control Committee by local history experts appointed by Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka,” the ministry was quoted by the MMO as saying, adding that the alleged “fact” was already stated when the current edition first went into print in 2002.

MMO named the Quality Control Committee members as Abd Rahman Ali (Chairman), Professor Dr Khoo Kay Kim, Professor Dr Sabihah Osman, Associate Professor Dr Abdul Rahim Abd Rashid, Dr Nabir Abdullah, Dr Abdul Razak Dali, Dr Ahmad Jelani Halimi, Mohd Supian Sabtu, Masariah Mispari, Johara Abdul Wahab, Hasnah Hamzah, Norjah Yusop, Muslimin Fadzil, Ahmad Zainudin Husin and Khairul Azman Suhaimy.

However, University of Malaya’s History Department Associate Professor Dr Sivachandralingam Sundara Raja, who sits on the Education Ministry’s oversight panel on history books, was quoted by MMO as saying that the disputed paragraph was incorrect although he claimed that the error was unintentional.

He said that the primary purpose for which the Portuguese came to Malacca was for spice trade.

He added, however, that other reasons such as spreading Christianity, weakening Islam and attaining glory have been present in local history textbooks since the 1960s.

According to the MMO report, the Committee had reviewed the matter on July 2.

Not many know about relationship between Ottoman empire and Malacca sultanate also..

Askar upahan Jawa huehue

Dafuq, where did these people get their history knowledge?

stupiak farking committe la.
They might as well just rewrite history and say all the sultanate in malaysia fell coz ini semua agenda yahudi!

From the higher being after smoking weed and sniffing coke.

but.. its like how showing how awesome the penjajah was and how awesome they still are now..

jais

Kedatangan Portugis ke tanah melayu adalah untuk mencari bakat bakat baru untuk menyertai kelab Sporting Lisbon supaya dapat melahirkan pemain setaraf Christiano Ronaldo

sejarah

history is written by the successor.......
cerita tak sedap, kita kasi ubah sedap.

They can't see the future, can't control the present and thus they are trying to reshape the past.

Crusader went protected holy land.

Melaka ada holy land ke?

nope they're templars

Dun have menyelam buat pyramid kat laut jepun?

Sound more gemilang

It is true because once Constantinople fell to the Ottomans in 1453 who then jacked up the prices of spices to the Western Europe. At the same time, the reconquista (which is part of the crusade) is happening in Iberia and once the last muslim kingdom in Spain fell, the conquistadors then decided that the crusades should expand out of Europe with Spain to the west (the American) and Portugal to the East (India and later the Far East).

The Bull of Demarcation by Pope Alexander VI and later decrees gave the rights to Spain and Portugal to colonize, exploit, and convert all non-Christian territory to Catholicism so yes, the arrival of the Portugese was also part of the crusades since the Holy Land was considered lost forever and inaccessible to the western crusaders.

betul....

yea, same goes to british by this logic. heck

doesnt matter, still lost to the portuguese and they help enrich the culture and language

This post has been edited by yokoloco: Jul 9 2015, 01:26 PM

bugima, everything also need to relate back to religion, why ah self esteem and self believe so little ?

Crusader.. haha. lawoook... jew mana jew mana.. must 3 kingdom lovely war