It appears that the heat on race and religion is not going to wane and therein lays a siege on Malaysia’s future.

Each passing day is seeing more clarion calls for blood and rights along race and religious divides. Politicians do not seem to exercise any trace of wisdom against the destructive forces that lie dormant within the universal dichotomy of mankind along racial and religious perimeters.

One wonders with spasmodic fear why are our politicians drumming up war cries as they trump up claims of race-rights and religious exclusivity. Did we not learn from the history of the world of how innocent people perished in vain all because of race and religious supremacy pitting man against man?

Please honorable Prime Minister, can you stop all these dangerous antics and war cries of your men and women? For the love of Malaysia and all our future children who are yet to be born, we have a moral obligation that is of a categorical imperative.

Not only must we ensure at all cost that the consequences of our thoughts, feelings, words and deeds translate to the good of all Malaysians, we also have that uncompromising duty to ensure that our very intentions are subjected to a moral ethic that safeguards all humanity.

If the government machinery continues to slack in the war against religious and racial dichotomies, then the nation’s supreme monarchy has to be implored to act justly and in a timely manner.

Malaysia is a blessed and sheltered land. It is a land of dreams and hopes for all Malaysians for all times. We therefore, cannot think along the narrow alleys of race-rights and religious prerogatives. If we do, then we are guilty of forsaking God and man.

On the contrary, if we are to make any iota of progress on our fifty-one years of history that has its root in hundreds of years before, we must think, speak and act as one nation, who respect, accept and protect each other without conditions.

The politicians must stop becoming the devil or the devil’s advocate. They must instead come to ground level and be quick to appreciate the hopes, pains, fears and joys that the ordinary rakyat cradle in their bosom as they plod through each day.

The harmony, respect and rooted determination for success, honour, peace and goodwill that permeates Malaysian society must be safeguarded and hoisted high by all leaders from all corners of the political divide in order to make further progress for the nation and its people.

Any politician, who speaks, acts or even thinks of holding on to his or her power-pole by fanning racial and religious disharmony deserves no sympathy from all loving Malaysians.

Please politicians, for the love of God, King and nation, stop your ugly antics. Make a positive paradigm shift while there is still hope. We can if we want to.