I wish to rebut Abakjr's Champion the Malaysian race for unity which manages to skip several steps of logic.

  • The vast majority of non-Muslims in this country do not blame Islam for the ills of this country. They just blame the politicians for mixing religion, in particular Islam, with politics. Umno's Islamisation programme is meant to further its political power more than anything else because with an opposition foe like PAS, it cannot lose such a powerful tool. It has nothing to do with Islam and its teaching.

  • That each ethnic group wishes to retain its own identity is in no way a hindrance towards building a Malaysian race except in the minds of hegemonists i.e., insecure people who can only deal with others from a position of dominance and not equality.

    • Even if all ethnic groups speak the same language, wear the same clothes and eat the same food, racial polarisation will still be glaring so long as all groups are not treated equally under the law. Look at Indonesia and other African countries and you will realise that without equality under the law, everything else is just cosmetics even after half a century.

    Cosmetic integrations are real only to politicians.