YOURSAY | Unpatriotic to play up 3R issues, cause division

YOURSAY | ‘In a family, there will always be children of different strokes.’

Thought of PAS rule terrifies Chinese, ex-rep claims

BlackDeer5292: If you really think about it, people who play up 3R (race, religion, and royalty) issues are truly the unpatriotic citizens of our country. What could be more obvious than that?

In a family, there will always be children of different strokes. While a sibling can play up their differences to advance his or her own interests, the reason why God gives us differences is so that different siblings can support each other in different ways.

The parent's job is to ensure that siblings who cause all the trouble in the family will be dealt with, or there will be no end to their troubles.

May God guide us as a nation to care and respect each other as members of the same family. Only by our role modelling, will our children learn to do the same in future.

TorchLight: There is a very big difference between talking about 3R issues versus bringing up the 3Rs to cause divides in racial and religious extremism, or being disloyal to our highly respected royalties, who have always safeguarded our beloved nation Malaysian.

What Perikatan Nasional or PAS and some past figures brought up are subjects that cause tension (very dangerous statements) on 3R subjects amongst Malaysians.

They are trying to cause racial and religious tensions, persuading/influencing disloyalty (amongst the common people) against our royals.

Hence, the police and authorities are doing their best and utmost to prevent tension from building up in the communities. If PN, PAS, and some figures continue to test our enforcement agencies - there will come a time when they (after much advice and chances given) need to act accordingly.

It is just a matter of time, and it is no fault of our respected police and enforcement agencies. They are just carrying out their duties, as and when it is needed. That's all.

Pink: The Chinese are the minority. Of course, the culture, the language, the religion, and the lifestyles are dictated by the majority, more so in states like Kelantan and Terengganu, where the population is 98 percent Muslim.

I have lived in a country where there were only four percent Muslims. There were no Muslim holidays, Ramadan (fasting month), mosques, azan (call to prayer), halal restaurants, or Malay signboards. I just have to adapt.

I did not expect the country to bend backwards to please me. It is the same for other countries in the world. Go to France, Sweden, the USA, China, and India. They are all the same.

It is not about being second-class citizens, it is about living in a country where 70 percent of the population is different from you.

Our forefathers had decided that Malaya would be called the Federation of Malay States. They accepted the reality, and so should we.

On the Other Hand: Did the Malays in Kedah, Perlis, Kelantan and Terengganu assimilate and take on Siamese names when they were part of the Kingdom of Siam, where the majority of the population were Buddhists?

Are you trying to justify racial apartheid, @Pink? In the country that you stayed in, no one banned halal restaurants. You were always free to set one up yourself.

In Malaysia, radical Muslims expect non-Muslims to conform to a Muslim way of life, against their will. Your comment is full of half-truths and falsities.

Amadeus: @Pink, you mentioned you lived in another country, which you were not born in and ‘I adapt’. Here, we are born, some have been here for generations, not one or two.

I'm the fifth generation born in Malaysia. And yet, as non-Malays/ Muslims, we are still called pendatangs (foreigners).

We are being discriminated and if one starts doing research on immigrants, 90 percent of us are pendatangs. Some Malays are from Jawa and Aceh in Indonesia or even from Pakistan, aeons ago.

PurpleGopher1703: I concur with assimilation, however, the examples given by @Pink may be slightly flawed, or else everyone including the minority in China will be eating pork.

Having lived abroad, the West is liberal and accepts diversity. I worked in London in healthcare, there are many Pakistanis, Bengalis, and Somalis in the field.

The local council made it a point to have appointed translators and provided leaflets plus service signages in various languages (to help others understand) including Urdu.

Yes, they also allow Muslim ladies to wear headscarves and have laws against discrimination against minorities. They do a lot to welcome minorities and foster integration.

Privileges are afforded to minorities including quicker access to housing, healthcare, and social services. Malaysia is the opposite now, unfortunately.

TTSH: @Pink, the Chinese are a minority, but many have lived in Malaysia their whole lives, - and we are not a paltry tiny four percent. We are all Malaysians.

As for the US and the European countries, the migrants have a choice here. Why run away from your motherland where you are the majority to a foreign land that does not speak your language?

The fact that you are escaping from your country of origin means you are being oppressed by your own race.

So, you should be appreciative of your adopted countries, and assimilate into their societies. Do not expect the Western countries to change for you. Who are we to them?

Don't think the Western countries are not fed up with the migrants and refugees, who weigh heavily on their financial system? On top of that, these migrants create problems for their societies.

Angin Lintang: @Pink, you once lived in a country that had four percent Muslims. Were you unfairly treated? If you were, do let us know how and in what way.

No Ramadan, no Raya, no Malay signboards are unfair treatments? I hope you're not thinking this. If you are, obviously something is very wrong with you.

Malaysia was formed as a multi-cultural country. I need not go further than that. Whatever country that you have lived in is foreign land, to you.

Almost all non-Malays are worried about PAS coming into power. Almost all Malays who are smart enough share the same fear. It is about the country's economy. Our livelihoods regardless of race or religion.

Only those who are so fearful of facing afterlife judgment for whatever they have committed or going to commit believe that by supporting PAS, they can give them a support letter in the afterlife.

So go figure.

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