COMMENT We all know that there has been a crisis facing the Kelantan royal household. The details are sketchy, and briefly: a palace guard was shot, the sultan confined to a hospital bed, a plane specially chartered to take him out from the state for medical attention elsewhere was refused permission to land. Then came the finger-pointing accusations made by Tengku A against Tengku B.

All the same, we have been told that this is a private matter and we as the subjects are not to speculate and to amplify the matter out of proportion.

So, Ibrahim Ali the self-appointed sentinel of the royalty and Malay culture (via Perkasa) has not mentioned it. Rais Yatim the sagely minister in his wisdom has also stated that we are not to magnify the case and making it into a national embarrassment. The prime minister too has intimated...