Bukit Aman has information that Penang, Selangor, the Federal Territory and Johor are the states most beleaguered by racial problems. These four comparatively more developed states have a stronger multiracial composition compared to the others.

Going by the above police profiling, Terengganu is apparently out of the loop, being predominantly Malay. I caught up with some old friends in their kampung there and they lent a heart-warming insight into how the non-Umno ummah think.

One expressed his sympathy for marginalised Indians. He said there are indeed the poor among his own people just as there are of other races. But he added the Malays however poor generally had their own land whereas Indians who lost their jobs in the plantations and estates … well, what have they got?