QUOTE(borgeouisbella @ Jan 29 2021, 12:32 AM)
That’s because mamakthir is of mixed parentage and Malays are generally more accepting of a Muslim than a non-Muslim. The problem isn’t so much of assimilating with the Malay, but rather to be Muslim.
To be honest, alot of the Malay identity has already been eradicated through islamisation in the 1990s anyway. I say this as someone with peranakan roots, and I’m darn glad back then marriages back then did not enforce religious conversions, because i would be miserable being bounded by religious law. However, because of this i’m not bumiputera, and I’m fine keeping it that way if it means keeping my freedom of religion.
Anyway, I like to believe the political system wasnt as bad as pre-mamakthir. I was still a kid back then, but it seems alot of the political issues we see today can be traced back to the policies he made when he was in power.
Therefore, one can only pray that someone can take draconian measures to ensure things will be set back on track. Will it get worse? Yes, for awhile. But eventually, things will get better in the long run.
the purpose of ex BNM writing the opinion piece isn't to 'liberate' he is still a helang, he's not even nice helang, his name do comes up in some blogs for Shaddy dealing after all.
it's likely to solve the middle income trap issues. afterall we just a wee bit more to go to escape it. since FDI aren't coming due to instability. and the pandemic itself had pretty much kills off much incompetent business and jobs. just a wee bit more efficiency and we will get there.
like I said, we have 2 problem. inability to decide and the very low efficiency due to lack of competition. he's writing it in a style to invoke racing to make what he wants a reality. lack of competition is important because it mean we aren't efficient nor innovative. just look at all the taxi driver,mas & ktmb union, mydin owners, AP king want to reduce AP numbers, private clinic owners benci klinik 1 Malaysia. every fucuking One all asking gov to kill off their competitor rather than be efficient, innovative or whatever.
telling people what others can and cannot do also distorted the market. basically nothing an owner can do again society pressuring others not to consume their products. other than playing the stupid nationalistic racing game as well that is.
this is on top of Inefficiency due to subsidies. be it fuel, electric,water, rapid transit, trains, roads, highway. everyone of those distorted the efficiency of the market.
as for Mahathir. well he was a dictators. just like every other dictators except for LKY they traded easy life for citizens in exchange for obedience.we pretty much was fucked up even today due to it. he was really smart as he quit the oil well run dry, forcing the problem to subsequent gov who try to liberalised to solve issue he himself created only for him to took advantage of the public displeasure of liberalisation to destabilise gov after gov. heck he even destabilise his own gov 1 years ago. hes a freaking dick.
but I won't blame him for Islamisation. in fact he tried his best to preserve secularism. JAKIM is shitty but it still better than whatever PAS want. as a graduate of UIA. I won't even called it Islamisation it's not even fundemantalism it's basically hardliners arab totalitarian salafism. washed with oil money & nothing to do they export it by funding Islamic movement worldwide and PAS was a receiptance of such fund. such harsh ideology are somewhat very popular in non well of area particularly the ghetto of Paris, slums of India and jeng.jeng.jeng former siamese vessel state who then being ignore by the british afterwards being administer by liberal secularist westernise Malay who again like everyone else just let them stay poor.
the 'old' straits Malay are still there,islamic law are rarely impose on the west coast after all. an assimilate but non muslim will never get accepted by the Taliban, i mean even me myself won't get to win their heart. during uni the way they treated me i know deep in their hearts I'm not one of them. why do you think people even malay in k/ like to make fun of wannie state?