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Malaysia's melting pot on the boil http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/IC24Ae01.html By Baradan Kuppusamy KUALA LUMPUR - Asian melting pot Malaysia is gearing up to celebrate 50 years of independence from British rule, [1] but the racially diverse country still boils from the colonial power's ethnic-based divide-and-rule legacy. there is a growing clash between resurgent Islam led by Malays and the secular constitution favored by the minority ethnic Chinese and Indians. "The situation is worrisome," Abdullah told Malaysians during a televised address last December, appealing for racial understanding, tolerance and national unity. Foreign visitors who view on the surface a seeming peaceful and stable...

"Malaysia's Jihad against Singapore" Malaysian Government's policy of discrimination towards the non-Mulsim citizens (Chinese, Hindus, Buddhists) are worse than the dircriminatriy treatment of the Blacks by the White Government of South Africa in the days of apartheid. However just for mentioning this fact by the former Singapore leader Lee Kuan Yew landed him trouble. Malaysia's Jihadi campaign to silence him lead to his offering "apology" for simply mentioning the truth. Like the Pope controvery, this is another addition to Muslims' Jihadi campaign of intimidating people seeking to speak the truth about Islam and Muslim's actions.

SINGAPORE - A Singapore court Friday sentenced two ethnic Chinese to prison for posting racist remarks about ethnic Malays on the Internet, in what is considered a landmark case underscoring the government's attempts to crack down on racial intolerance and regulate online expression. Animal shelter worker Benjamin Koh Song Huat, 27, was jailed for one month while Nicholas Lim Yew, an unemployed 25-year-old, was sentenced to a nominal prison term of one day and fined the maximum 5,000 Singapore dollars ($2,969) for racist comments against the minority Malay community. "Racial and religious hostility feeds on itself," said Senior District Judge...