Are Malays that easily confused? By Mariam Mokhtar

Malaysiakini : COMMENT | The Thean Hock Keong temple in Penang tried to host a Hari Raya open house but found that the event was blocked. The reason offered? Authorities claimed it could “confuse Muslims”.

The temple had gone out of its way to be accommodating: all food was halal, local mosque leaders were consulted, promotional materials were revised, and every effort was made to respect sensitivities.

However, the authorities treated the Malay community as if they were incapable of distinguishing hospitality from religious threat.

Many Malaysians realise that this is not an isolated incident. It is part of a long-standing pattern in Malaysia, where the majority Malay-Muslim population is routinely treated as fragile, childlike, and in need of constant supervision.

Are we at risk of becoming a religious nanny state, whereby harmless words, gestures, meals, and symbols are policed under the guise of “protection” and “preventing confusion”? A few will claim that we have become one.

Asam Pedas : Religious bigotry has power. That’s why daft people who have zero skill set or intellect chose to be clerics. When they do become clerics, equality daft people give them power that they don’t know what to do with. 

The safe and popular way will be elevate an already elevated faith and demean and insult the intelligence of smarter people. Little do they understand that all this gives them an of optics of stupidity!! And they are.

PurpleDragon0476 : Mariam is right…this “confusion” claim is really about control, control, control of everybody. Down with UMNO/Madani for crashing this country into the ground.

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