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There are lies. There are pure lies. And there are statistics, or so goes a modern saying.

We love statistics and many use statistics to lie. Academicians and social scientists too love 'statistical package for social sciences' to crunch human emotions, fear and sorrow. We massage numbers to mould conclusions to our heart's ideological desire.

In Malaysia, we have been doing this with the New Economic Policy, unemployed graduates, drug addiction, casualties of war and victims of natural disasters, among others. Attach race and ethnicity as elements and we see the political-economic and ideological dimension of the issue.

What's the latest figure of Muslim apostates - 100,000 and growing? We're now playing the numbers game with religion. There is danger to this.

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