Are the non-Malays overreacting? - Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy

So-called 'social contract', which is a form of subservience to Malay political control, if not economic control.

Malaysiakini : “Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable. We are against such a situation and will not allow it. Those who use religion in such a manner have fooled our people; it is against just such people that we have fought and will continue to fight.” – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

COMMENT | Recently there has been outrage by mainstream Malay political operatives, activists, journalists and religious bureaucrats about the role the media plays – often times Malaysiakini – in ratcheting up racial and religious issues.

Malaysiakini had to put out an editorial position on this issue, reassuring people that reporting the news is not the same as stoking racial and religious anxieties. This has always been an uneven playing field. The major part of the problem is the race-based politics of this country.

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