Setting the stage for race-baiting in Malaysia

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COMMENT | Once you let the genie of hate speech and race-baiting out of the bottle, it is not possible to put it back in.

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| On Sept 20, I wrote about the significance of a political pact signed six days previously between Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang. To quote me:

The message is loud and clear: non-Malays who wish to call themselves Malaysians must subscribe to the ideologyThe"social contract" Zainal was referring to is the supposedagreed during the negotiations leading to Malaya’s independence in 1957. According to this version, the non-Malay leaders in the Malayan Alliance agreed to the principle ofReputable historians of Malaya do not have a consensus on this issue.

Four Malaysian universities, including Universiti Malaya, the most prestigious university in the country, were listed as co-organisers, with the vice-chancellor of UM giving a speech which warned non-Malays not to challenge the social contract. I’m trying to imagine what the DAP and Warisan members of parliament were thinking when they saw Mahathir and Azmin Ali holding hands with top leaders from Umno and PAS and other right-wing Malay groups, while the official Harapan government policy is one of"shared prosperity" and inclusion. In fact, just 24 hours earlier, Mahathir launched the Shared Prosperity Vision 2030, promising national unity and to narrow the country’s inter-ethnic income gap to below 10 percent by 2030.

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