Historical distortions of our history by belittling the contributions of non-Malays and emphasising the contributions of Islamic civilisation in the development of our country's early landscape are deplorable.

Perkasa's supreme council member Professor Dr Ramlah Adam is guilty of asserting that the history books were 'well-balanced' and not belittling the contributions of the non-Malays.

Subsequently, as pointed by historian Dr. Ranjit Singh Malhi, she recanted and admitted that the Form 4 syllabus "had placed a lot of emphasis on Islamic civilisation and that the government was working to revamp it".

The study of history should always depict the truth on how historical events unfold not embellishing it to seek glorification of one's race and religion.

Any intellectual who attempts to distort and dishonestly portrays historical events is guilty of an act bordering on intellectual dishonesty

A living example of the non-Malays contribution to the country's development is even evident till today.

Visit any cities in the west and east coast and one cannot escape the simple truth that non-Malays occupy all the major towns and cities. Who therefore was responsible for their development?

In fact it would be hard pressed to even find a Malay township even in the heartland of malay majority states like Kelantan and Trengganu.

Perhaps Professor Ramlah Adam should take a trip from the coastal roads from Kelantan, Terengganu and Kuantan to the small township of Kuala Pilah in Negeri Sembilan and witness for herself the unfortunate truth that Malay kampongs still occupy large tracts of land which has remained undeveloped for almost since time immemorial.

If Islamic civilisation had indeed played an important role in the early development of the Malaysian landscape then why are these Malay lands still undeveloped and mired in poverty?

History in many ways has a tendency to reflect reality and such reality cannot be diminished by wanton lies and intellectual dishonesty by people like Professor Ramlah Adam.