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Well perhaps you ought to direct your anger at Sin Chew and those other institutions like the DAP that use "Umbrella" terms (generalizations) about Malays and others everytime they don't get their way. For most part I do agree with what you are saying although not wholly. But it does hurt when the shoe is on the other foot does it not?

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Sin Chew continues with its contumely against the Malays using every known cliche to advance the Chinese communities historic discrediting of the Malays with the exception of those who tow their line. For starters the use of the word racism to describe the accurate description of the DAP as communists is a nonsense. The vast majority of the Malayan Communists Party were Chinese. A CIA report in the 1960's described the Party of Lim Kit Siang (the DAP) as Communists. It followed the shooting death of a Chinese cadre of the DAP who threw himself at president LBJ's motorcade during LBJ's visit to Malaysia in or around 1965. The funeral procession of that DAP cadre was a communist inspired gathering of communist slogans. You can't blame people from associating the DAP with the communists any more than you can apportion blame for terror activities in Muslims (justifiably or not). Communism is a political ideology not a race.

Further still the idea that there is such a thing as "Malaysian Democracy" (let alone Democracy anywhere in its pure form) when one considers the accommodation between the races in Malaysia which has led to that relative harmony in which they have existed since and prior to independence save for that period when Chinese Malayan Communists ran riot throughout the peninsula. Lee Kuan Yew himself was intolerant and suspicious of the DAP types and referred to them as "Chinese chauvinists" giving them no quarter.

PAS is not an invention or phenomenon of recent import. It has been there as a champion of the Malays since time immemorial and why not? Democracy as the Sin Chew trumpets it has in their own words been non existent in Malaysia as far as the Chinese at least are concerned.

Bersih, C4 and others including those foreign funded news journals have been complaining of dictatorships and the absence of democracy in Malaysia for decades. They have used media platforms and street marches to defame, defile and denigrate Malays and Muslims with relative impunity citing the occasional arrest and trial of those who have gone a step too far in their promotion of the open societies narratives.

As for the "threat of Islam" refer to Wan Aziza's interview on Al Jazeera with Medi Hassan in 2015 whereby she openly admits Anwar intends to turn Malaysia into a Muslim state. Turkey who backs Anwar solidly is also a Muslim state. So too is Iran where the anti Muslim forces are running riot. I raise Iran as a special case for mention against the Islamic bogey because, the largest number of Jews from the Middle East are from Iran. The majority who went to Israel to do Alia from Iran have returned to Iran to live under an Islamic theology debunking the fear mongering of the DAP and Sin Chew types who do nothing for the good of religious and racial harmony.

If Malaysia is or has been a Democracy then a Sin Chew or DAP must be mindful of the most fundamental element or principle of democracies. A government of the majority (in Malaysia's case, Muslims and Malays and not simply those urban ones). They can't simply pick and chose which principles of democracy they want at the expense of the majority to suit the Chinese.

It is time that the Chinese in Malaysia came to terms with their own existence and what it is thats wrong with it n places like Malaysia. There is little interference in their public consumption and sale of pork and gaming, alcohol and other things anathema to Islam. They can always negotiate with PAS rather than to shoot fear bullets from the sidelines.

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In Indonesia, Saudia Arabian investment in Mosques has resulted in growing numbers of youth who have embraced the Wahabi sect Islamic teaching-totally religiously intolerant. Many of the younger generation have been indoctrinated in these Madrassas-I fear the same is happening in Malaysia.

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It's indoctrination and brainwashing since birth. Only they can see the error of such extremism in their own experiences with the world at large when they are the ones eventually left behind.

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