{"id":1472,"date":"2008-03-03T09:49:26","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T01:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/03\/03\/indian-muslim-youths-want-malay-status\/"},"modified":"2008-03-03T09:49:26","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T01:49:26","slug":"indian-muslim-youths-want-malay-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/03\/03\/indian-muslim-youths-want-malay-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Muslim youths want Malay status"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following earlier demands by KIMMA for bumiputera status<\/a>, now something called GEPIMA wants to be known as Malays. Hmmm…first they have to abolish their GEPIMA movement and join some Malay youth movement. KIMMA threatened the government by saying they have 600,000 over members. I wonder how many members GEPIMA has. Also 600,000 or maybe slightly less at 300,000?<\/p>\n

But what the guy says is true:<\/p>\n

Federal Constitution states that an Indian [or any other\u00a0person]<\/span>\u00a0is a Malay “if he professes the Muslim religion<\/strong> [islam]<\/span>, habitually speaks Malay<\/span> and conforms to Malay custom<\/span>“.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Damn, if not for the “profess Islam” clause, I can be a Malay too \ud83d\ude42
\nCall us Malays, say Indian Muslim youth<\/p>\n

source<\/a><\/p>\n

KUALA LUMPUR: Members of the Malaysian Indian Muslim Youth Movement (Gepima) want to be known as Malays and not Indians.
\nAnd they do not think this is an outrageous request since the Federal Constitution states that an Indian is a Malay “if he professes the Muslim religion, habitually speaks Malay and conforms to Malay custom”.<\/span><\/p>\n

These traits are practised by Muslims of Indian origin today, claimed Gepima president Mohamed Kader Ali.<\/p>\n

“I am a second generation Malaysian and I can safely say that from wedding rituals to the food we eat and the language we speak<\/span>, we conform to Malay customs all the way.<\/p>\n

“As such, Gepima is appealing to the government to streamline the laws and recognise Muslims born after independence as Malays in their birth certificate.
\n“We have been facing this problem for the past 50 years.<\/p>\n

“We have written several letters to the National Registration Department but it keeps saying that it can’t do anything about this.”<\/p>\n

Kader’s son, 24-year-old Syed Osman Mohamed, cited an incident last August when he went to the Registrar of Companies to apply for a business permit. “In the forms that I filled up, I stated Malay as my race<\/span> and Islam as my religion. But the officer called me up and asked me to change it to Indian<\/span>, based on how I looked. “He only had my MyKad and it does not state there whether I am Indian or not<\/span>,” Syed Osman said. “We feel uncomfortable to be known as Indians<\/span>, because people automatically think we are Hindus<\/span> when we are actually Muslim.”<\/p>\n

Kader added that Muslims of Indian origin suffered an inferiority complex by being regarded as Indians. “Our children do not even know how to speak Tamil<\/span>. “They only converse in Malay<\/span> and our wives wear baju kurung or kebaya<\/span> nowadays, no more the saree.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following earlier demands by KIMMA for bumiputera status, now something called GEPIMA wants to be known as Malays. Hmmm…first they have to abolish their GEPIMA movement and join some Malay youth movement. KIMMA threatened the government by saying they have 600,000 over members. I wonder how many members GEPIMA has. Also 600,000 or maybe slightly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[121],"class_list":["post-1472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-kimma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}