@Ray
I will not needlessly prolong my reply for your case is very simple: you have very little knowledge of Malaysia and whatever miniscule knowledge you have about us is derived from polluted sources.
Sadly, you suffer from delusions. Your humbug pandering of little knowledge and minuscule knowledge indicates that your frustrations to refute me on facts and ground experience.
I have personal and on ground knowledge and not based on written material. However, I do not wish to divulge personal details on a open forum.
Your view on our country is excruciatingly contradictory. On one hand you claim that Malaysia is "Strife ridden" because of the dominance of the ethnic Malays, yet you claim that Malaysian business is dominated by the ethnic Chinese. If the ethnic Chinese are so discriminated against then why are they able to dominate our economy? You see if your line of thought is to be followed then it would appear that ethnic Chinese, being non-Malays, will practically have no rights in our country. But how come they're so well off and dominant? Or more importantly, how come they continue to invest and thrive in Malaysia?
If your country is a bundle of contradiction, it is rather lame of you to claim I have contradictory opinions. The point is simple. Malaysia wants to be a Muslim nation, but it can only do so in name, but not in character since money is what makes a country tick. The Chinese (Malaysian) control your economy and they hold the Muslim aspirations, notwithstanding the most discriminatory law of
Bhumiputra, cupped in the folds of their palm and squeezing it anytime these misplaced aspirations is attempted to make it go out of hand.
The Chinese cannot be discriminated by the Malay Muslims, for the simple reason that they are self sufficient and require no sops and crutches from the Govt as the Malay Muslims get through the discriminatory
Bhumiputra nonsense, and since they control the Malaysian economy, they dictate and get their place in the sun.
I know your particular concern are ethnic Indians. I can only assume based on your statements against Malaysia that in India all you read about Malaysia are alleged atrocities against ethnic Indians in Malaysia. You are fed with biased coverage by your mainly Hindu media. You see if the ethnic Chinese can dominate Malaysian economy then why can't ethnic Indians do the same? But ethnic Indians are well represented in the list of important people in Malaysia. Do you know Datuk Sekhar? Personally, my business hero in Malaysia is not ethnic Chinese and not ethnic Malay, he is ethnic Indian. This is him:
You state -
In India all you read about Malaysia are alleged atrocities against ethnic Indians in Malaysia. You are fed with biased coverage by your mainly Hindu media? Do you think I care what the media has to mention, be it anywhere? I believe only what I see. By the way, it is not Hindu media. Some are Christian owned as also Muslim owned.
It is the functionally illiterate, who think anything Indian is Hindu. I, for instance, am not a Hindu, but you will still call me and even ex President Abdul Kalam to be Hindus, since it suit your agenda!
Of course the Indian origin Malays should be on their own two feet as the Chinese. However, they are discriminated by the
Bhumiputra nonsense, and to be clear, the people who went to Malaya in the old days, were not the educated or the class that rules. I have seen them operate mostly as blue collar workforce. While the Malay Muslims are bone lazy, the Indian origin are not allowed any quarters to improve, thanks to the
Bhumiputra claptrap.
Yet, an Indian origin did become the Prime Minister of Malaysia. He was Mahatir Mohammed. He's Indian born to Malayali (Kerala) father declares Malaysian website after he got himself tangled in the latest race flap.
Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad started life NOT as a Malay but a Malayali -the people of Kerala in south INDIA, where his father came from.
At university in Singapore, Mahathir was listed as an INDIAN.
Perhaps this explains why Mahathir became MORE Malay than many Malays, all the while pursuing a politics which had scant time for Malay instincts for consensus and compromise.
(Note: Mahathir was born and named as Mahathir s/o Iskandar Kutty @Mahathir Mohamed. Mahathir's father, (Iskandar Kutty) was a school teacher of Indian origin, specifically Malayalee (people who speak Malayalam), NOT to be confused with Malay, having migrated from the southern state of Kerala, while his mother was a Malay. - Malaysian Unplug)
He did well because he hid his actual identity and like any good politician pretended to be 100% Malay Muslim and went ballistics to prove him so.
And ofcourse, we cannot forget the fact that he was a Muslim - the most important criterion to be accepted as a Malay. Remember Lee's anguish in the Malay Parliament and the rationale for Singapore's being?
I wanted to mention this, but I thought it would not be appropriate.
