{"id":6263,"date":"2009-12-28T01:10:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-27T17:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=6263"},"modified":"2009-12-28T01:10:42","modified_gmt":"2009-12-27T17:10:42","slug":"you-want-to-be-indian-or-muslim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2009\/12\/28\/you-want-to-be-indian-or-muslim\/","title":{"rendered":"You want to be Indian or Muslim?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey, don’t look at me! That’s what ex-PM Mahathir said<\/a><\/strong> to the Indian Muslims at their function (dinner organised by the association of Muslim Kadayanallur in Penang). Yup, he was their invited guest, and I think they are regretting that now! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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To a claim that the Indian Muslims in the country have been neglected, Mahathir said they should choose to either become a Muslim or an Indian.<\/p>\n

“The country is very liberal and I think they (Indian Muslims) will be accepted by all if they can pick either to become a Muslim or Indian,” he was quoted as saying by Bernama.<\/p>\n

Mahathir said there was no difference between the various races as everyone is a Malaysian.<\/p>\n

“The federal constitution also defines a Muslim very clearly. If they want to become a Muslim then just follow the constitution,” he added.<\/p>\n

The former premier said if Indian Muslims in the country still call themselves as such, others might think that they still have links to their country of origin.<\/p>\n

“The problem of Indian Muslims will be resolved if they can decide and choose to become either a Muslim or an Indian,” he added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Maybe he’s confused (well, he is 84 after all) between race and religion. Obviously these folks are Muslims (and maybe even better ones than some of the majority race Muslims), so people would be confused with his call. Would JAKIM or the police investigate him for maybe trying to mislead the ummah or something? I don’t know much but I think that a crime has been committed here under some law for saying Indian Muslims are not Muslims.\u00a0The federal constitution (Article 160, I think) defines a Malay, not a Muslim.<\/p>\n

Maybe he just saying drop either Indian or Muslim from their association so that things are clearer for this community. So, the option is to assimilate, rather than integrate. The rational (and beneficial) choice would be to opt for Muslim (and also Malay).<\/p>\n

He also asked Chinese and Indians to call themselves Malaysians instead of Chinese or Indians. Says that the Indonesians and Thais do the same. Yup, but they still end up killing each other at the slightest problems, so its just rhetoric.<\/p>\n

So, the Indian Muslims need to choose now. What would be? Indian, Muslim or some choice words for our ex-PM?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey, don’t look at me! That’s what ex-PM Mahathir said to the Indian Muslims at their function (dinner organised by the association of Muslim Kadayanallur in Penang). Yup, he was their invited guest, and I think they are regretting that now! \ud83d\ude42 To a claim that the Indian Muslims in the country have been neglected, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[112,113,225],"class_list":["post-6263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","category-indian","tag-discrimination","tag-intolerance","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6263","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=6263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}