Faced with a police report accusing him of slander and sedition, The Star ’s group managing director and CEO Wong Chun Wai said that the allegations against him were 'incoherent'.

“It's a strange police report. I really do not understand the basis and essence of the report. It sounds incoherent. I am a moderate who advocates against extremism in racial and religious issues,” he told Malaysiakini .

Wong ( right ) was responding to a police report lodged earlier today by Jaringan Melayu Malaysia’s Federal Territory chief Faizan Mohd Nor at the Dang Wangi police station in Kuala Lumpur.

In the police report sighted by Malaysiakini , Faizan accused Wong of giving the impression that Malays are 'poor, stupid and uncivilised racists' in his weekly column in The Star on Feb 1.

“Wong Chun Wai had written and published an article that is confusing, slanderous, and seditious on par with opposition news portals and newspapers,” Faizan said in his report.

He also raised a range of questions about Wong and concluded his police report by urging The Star to sack Wong.

The questions included whether Wong was working with the opposition, who is 'sponsoring his work' and why is he not fostering national unity.

'A deep concern for all'

“As a mainstream and prominent newspaper that has a printing license from the Ministry of Home Affairs, it ( The Star ) must uphold government policy, (and) become a mouthpiece that talks about national unity and not incite racial tensions in Malaysia,” he said.

Wong’s 38-paragraph column was published last Sunday under the headline 'A deep concern for all' in which he expressed concern over the racial undertones behind the Datum Jelatek protest on Jan 25.

Some 1,000 people had showed up for the protest against an ongoing luxury mixed development project ( left ) there that day and about 10 of them broke into the project site armed with wooden sticks and iron rods.

They protestors claimed that only wealthy ethnic Chinese from Malaysia and abroad could afford to buy the project's condominium units hence driving out local Malays living in a '100 percent Malay' area.

The Selangor State Economic Development Corporation (PKNS) has since clarified that t1,097 buyers have registered their interest in the 674 units available and they were all bumiputera.

'Must not be allowed'

Wong said in his column that such race-based protests should not be allowed and urged the authorities to take action.

“No one should be allowed to think that such race-based protests are tolerated or, worse, encouraged, because the authorities continue to close an eye to such protests.

“This is not the Malaysia that rational Malaysians know. We certainly cannot allow such extremists to take control of the country’s directions.

"Whatever their race or religion, they must not be allowed to grow and threaten the country that we all call our home,” he wrote.