COMMENT | Mahathir insults Malays but wants all to identify as Malay

“I'm now 100 percent a Malay, I speak Malay and practise Malay customs and traditions.” 

- Dr Mahathir Mohamad

COMMENT | Whenever a ketuanan type questions the loyalty of non-Malays to this country, there is this rush to justify our existence, our very citizenship of this country.

I would rather let Dr Mahathir Mohamad do that for me. I would rather let the former prime minister remind anyone who believes like he does, why there would be no Malaysia without the non-Malays. I would rather let the former prime minister remind the ketuanan types what he really thinks of the Malay community.

Mahathir says that for non-Malays to be accepted in this country they have to self-identify as Malay, defined as someone speaking the language and practising the culture.

Here is the thing though. Over the decades, Mahathir has insulted the Malays, demeaned their cultural traditions, and mocked their religion and now he wants everyone to identify as Malay to prove loyalty to this country? No, thank you.

I would rather the ketuanan types just thank the non-Malays and realise that, without us, they would not have the platform they have to spew the horse manure that radicalises the majority community.

And that support continues today, but that was the topic of my last piece.