I cannot understand why political commentator Neil Khor would buy into Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin’s contemptuously populist and self-serving comments especially pertaining to his own party.

In this case, Khor agrees with Khairy that Umno could or is becoming a ‘fringe’ party in contemporary Malaysian politics. And this is being borne out, according to Khor, by the ‘Allah’ issue and the subsequent attacks on churches and a Sikh temple recently.

But all the evidence suggests the opposite to be true...