YOURSAY | Race-based politics may be around for a long time

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Fred Flint Stone: This is a great article by academician Rosli Khan on race-based politics.

As for former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad, how come the Malays continually voted and believed in his racist policies and corrupt intentions for so long?

I feel nothing can straighten Malaysia’s corrupt and vindictive succession of political leaders. They are all tarred with the same brush of corrupt underhanded dealings when it comes to monies and contracts, which should benefit the country and the people, but instead, the only people who benefit are the corrupt political parties and their leaders.

Malaysia is not a poor country by any means, but its wealth is only shared by a select few with little disregard for the population. This is absolutely true when you see the inner sprawls of badly maintained buildings and habitats that the remainder of the populous live in, with spiralling unemployment rate and the high cost of living.

It truly would take an exceptional leader to take and move Malaysia forward, but the people first need to rid themselves of our existing corrupt leaders.

Justice: For some politicians, especially those without or just unable to develop or compete politically on good policy matters for all Malaysians in the country, they, especially PAS, Umno, Bersatu and Pejuang, can only survive or thrive on the politics of race or religion.

For most in these parties, it’s deliberate. Without playing on race and religion, they just cannot succeed to divide Malaysians and manipulate or hoodwink their fellow Malay-Muslims and maintain their political control or power.

So, politics of race and religion in Malaysia will be around for a long time to come. Those Malay-Muslims who think, accept and are open to multiracialism had been and will be ostracised, vilified and demonised as traitors of their race and religion by those politicians who thrive on race and religion.

The non-Malays can only dream and at the most talk of multiracialism. But they will find it extremely difficult (though not impossible) to lead the fight against race and religious politics here in Malaysia. It is and must be the Malay-Muslim majority who must rise, lead the fight and defeat racial and religious politics.

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