Selective enforcement fuelling religious tensions By R Nadeswaran

Malaysiakini : COMMENT | Can a raging fire be doused with a garden hose? And what chance is there when unseen hands control the flow?

I write this as a citizen more than a journalist, having “long held my horses” when commenting on race and religious issues, because in Malaysia, “offending the sensitivities of Muslims” has no boundaries.

What many will see as fair comment can and will be used to intimidate or silence critics of the system, which obviously is in dire need of reform and improvement.

From air wells resembling crosses, to the sale of beer in convenience stores in Muslim-majority areas, to the attire of flight attendants and athletes - almost anything can be branded “sensitive”.

Not by any decree of the government or religious authority, but by some self-appointed politicians and unknown men of the cloth who claim to speak for the flock, perhaps for their two minutes of fame on national television.

The lesson was clear decades ago: in 1978, nine men stood trial in the Klang Sessions Court for killing five people who had smashed idols in a Hindu temple in Kerling, Selangor. That memory lingers, and today I fear history may repeat itself.

Housing project in Langkawi, 2015

The current blaze, if left unchecked, threatens to consume the nation while those in power look away, unwilling to confront the anger of a marauding mob emboldened by each passing day.

VP Biden : It's years of ketuanan indoctrination at play together with what you have said as being weak economically. 

Forget about the civil service,look at the ordinary malay in the street, they keep quiet and don't tell their " leaders" from both sides that this temple issue is not the same all over, there was no land titles in estates, the land act was not established when temples were built etc,so many inaccuracies but all keep quiet because they get what they want. 

No righteousness nor morality at play here...but food must be halal, not the mind.

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