Islam and Anti-Semitism in Malaysia

The Islamization of Malaysia has gone quite unopposed in the past few decades. The Malays have gotten to the point of thinking that the terms Muslim and Malay are interchangeable and synonymous, thereby blurring the line between race and religion.

Looking back at media from before the 70's, one could see that Malays who appear in movies, advertisements and the paper do not wear a tudung, or hijab, and in fact are actually quite progressive for today's standards. Another fun fact would be that Malaya's first Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, had alcohol in his house to entertain guests and presumably also drank. But that was all before the arrival of Wahhabism.

Currently there is a lot of hate and suspicion in the Muslim communities towards the West, the Jews and Christians. It is quite similar to the sentiments of those of Muslim communities abroad where they blame societal issues on a collective of vague and oppressive "enemies of Islam". This is actually a very effective way of rallying the Muslim community with a common enemy as well as to control them.

One can also observe an increasing amount of local Malay men who start dressing like Middle Easterners, forgoing the songkok in favor of the taqiyah and something that is similar to the tagelmust. In addition to that, they have started growing beards similar in style to the Arabs as well as wearing the thawb on Fridays for prayer instead of the sarong. The women too have started wearing veils over their faces instead of just the open faced hijab.

On the other side of the Muslim spectrum, you have those who do not take their religion seriously. Some are Atheists or Agnostics, but there are others who just do not care. The former two are few and far between, but are used as examples of "western influence" in order to reinforce the narrative of the "enemies of Islam" trying to undermine Malaysia and Islam.

One only needs to look at Singapore to see how Islamization has affected Malaysia. When Singapore initially broke off from Malaya, the Ringgit was about twice that of the Sing Dollar, but now the tables have turned. A small island with limited resources and space overtaking its larger counterpart who has both resources and land is indicative of Malaysia's failure. I would like to also point out that there is an obvious racial/religious quota in Malaysia especially when it comes to hiring employees for governmental institutions. This, in addition to the benefits given to the Bumiputera (a privilege given to Malays and indigenous tribes but not to any other citizens of the country) makes a significant portion of the population very laid back and without a sense of urgency. This in turn creates a lot of inefficiency and a country where half of the population is on a pseudo-wellfare system.

I would also like to add that it is a nice touch that this article is published on Malaysia's independence day.

I have worked in Malaysia for nearly two years and what is abundantly clear is that it is the non-Muslims who are generating the wealth on which the country relies. And yet through indoctrination and pure laziness many Muslims hold these people in contempt for their own failings. Malaysia wishes to destroy the Indian and Chinese schools and force upon them the same schooling which via Islam is ruining the country. Those in power have sold their souls to Saudi for 30 pieces of silver.

Mahathir Mohamad? Does anyone listen to this man any more? He was an idiot when in power.

If Malaysia does continue to go down this increasingly Islamic fundamentalist route it will decline dreadfully. From my recollection, the Bumiputra movement was a deliberate policy of placing placed ethnic Malays in positions of authority and power without which the rather more industrious Chinese dominated business. For all I know (and suspect), they still do but Malays probably take the credit (and money). There were race riots in 1963 I think, where Chinese were attacked and killed by Malays.

Islamic fundamentalism is the last thing Malaysia needs. If an exodus of other, non-ethnic Malay Malaysians occurs then severe damage to Malaysia would. I suspect, be hard to avoid.

Unpalatable as it may be, my feeling is that Malaysia's success, upon which people like Mahathir strut, relies in large part on ethnicities other than Muslim Malays. Embrace Islam all you like but be prepared for the consequences and don't whine when things fall to pieces. Just my opinion, obviously.

The Wahhabi doctrine spread throughout the Muslim world by Saudi money and Imams has little to do with Spiritual Islam which is mainly tolerant and non-violent. Whenever Wahhabism gained a foothold in a country chaos, violence in the name of religion and division will prevail and become difficult to control as an example, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Politics and political ambitions of politicians will not lag far behind. The ruling political elite will make it a crime to question the legitimacy of the political order and the harsh punishments imposed on the poor and the powerless will increase while those in power and their cronies will be immune.

Since 1957 a single Muslim party (UMNO) has defacto run Malaysia. A "Malay" is a non-existent entity. Basically Malay and Muslim is synonymous. The policy in Malaysia, since Mahathir took power for 23 years, was to encourage non-Muslims to convert to Islam. Religious intolerance that existed in the 1950s, 60s was slowly disappearing as mosques were being funded by Saudi Arabia which had its own agenda. Today, 2016, the Malaysian and Indonesian mosques have zero religious tolerance.

Having said that affirmative action came with its own disease-corruption. The Malaysian governments affirmative action policies are de facto and de jure policies of racial discrimination. Malaysia refuses to affirm any international treaty that enables domestic jurisdiction to be a venue to challenge the New Economic Policy. Years of corrupt practices in affirmative action policies made many Malay/Muslims very rich while others were left out. The split came over the past 10 years when Malays found themselves in a situation that their steward of Malay rights and Islam was a corrupted entity that provides benefit for its members and cronies. Malays have now a civil war of sorts. From time to time the government tries to deflect the breakdown blaming the non-Malays for the failing economy. The government (UMNO) to stay in power supports Islam to consolidate their position. This has drawbacks. Crime has increased with bad government-assassinations on the streets-never before seen.

The group that has been left out-thousands of young Malays are and will be disgruntled and heading towards radicalization. As we speak thousands of student unable to fight for power democratically have moved the fight through Islam. They say that UMNO is a haram party and this is where the problem starts. UMNO is an arsonist and a firefighter. With the influx of Muslims from all over the world-Malaysia will end up like Pakistan.

It appears to me that both Wahhabi and Shia Islam have been exporting world wide to nations originally Buddhist, Christian with a Jewish population are deliberately funding their extreme versions in order to create discontent and fear in the rest of us. As a little girl I recall Malaysia was never Muslim this is a recent problem and only proves the intent of Islam both Wahhabi & Shia to dominate the world and demand we all subjugate ourselves to Islam. Obviously in Malaysia Wahhabi Islam has been very successful and is now in power in Malaysia.

How is it possible to have anti-Semitism for people who never met a Jew in all of their life? Simple! Take them into a Midrasah funded by Saudi Arabia the new ally of the Jewish state of Israel against Iran. They too will fast become anti-Semites. Great example of the religion of peace in action.