Wednesday, 03 Jun 2020 06:12 PM MYT
The death of George Floyd has sparked mass protests throughout America. The protests in retaliation for Floyd’s death have taken a violent turn with incidents of protesters using Molotov cocktails, arson and some resorting to damaging public property. Many have described the scenes as being akin to a warzone. More than 20 US cities are under curfew as unrest continues.Washington Post
Race and religious based identitarian politics has also spread its influence to Asia, an example being India. Having Hindu supremacy or Hindutva as its central core ideology, the BJP-led government under Narendra Modi has come up with a number of policies that have marginalized minority communities, particularly the Muslims. These include the Citizenship Amendment Act , the introduction of the National Register in Assam and the revocation of Kashmir’s semi-autonomous status.
Malaysia too has seen increasingly divisive political rhetoric along the lines of race and religion. The Perikatan Nasional government came into power on the basis of the idea of Malay supremacy and a narrative that the Malays were coming under threat by the Chinese dominated, DAP. PAS leader Abdul Hadi Awang himself had mentioned that the idea of the PN coalition was to consolidate Malay political power and Islam and lamented the fact that the PH government was controlled by non-Muslims.
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