Malaysia, the so-called "moderate Islamic State", is in truth a supremacist Islamic State, like all others. The difference is one of degree and brazeness, not of the nature of the state. The anonymous Malaysian friend who sent us this story alerts us of the practice of banking discrimination, of which this writer was unaware, and of the practice of "affirmative action" in higher learning, of which this writer was. The email is so good I'll quote it at length:
The prime minister, Abdullah Badawi, has reiterated that the New Economic Policy (dubbed the Never Ending Policy by detractors) will remain. The NEP is a "positive discrimination" affirmative action policy. But, probably being the first in the world to do so, this policy benefits the *majority* community at the expense of the minority. Apartheid is practiced openly in Malaysia, thanks to Islamic ways of doing things.
Muslims get a minimum of 7% discount on property prices in Malaysia. It is mandatory for property developers to specify the amount of discriminatory discount given to Muslims (under the term 'bumiputra discount') on their advertisements. During property expos, the discount for Muslims can go as high as 15%. Considering that the average middle-class Malaysian earns around RM3500 and the price of a decent piece of property is around RM250,000 to RM300,000, the discounts that Muslims get for buying property is not small at all.
Furthermore, some banking institutions have implemented policies of allowing only Muslim-owned legal firms to be their panel lawyers. Government projects also make it mandatory for Muslim-owned companies (called "bumiputra contractors") to be the only ones eligible. It is also an open secret that for public examinations, the Muslims always get better results because their examination papers are marked with a default handicap equivalent to the passing rate. However, these same students consistently exhibit poor command of mathematics and the English language at all levels, and are often rejected by foreign institutions of higher learning.[...]
Our friend is wrong--but only about whether this kind of discrimination is first practiced in Malaysia. Other majorities have treated their minorities in such ways and worse. This doesn't detract, however, from the vicious, unjust nature of affirmative action in general and these practices in particular. They are, besides economic discrimination, a weapon of Islamization; ethnic Indians and Chinese would have an incentive to re-label themselves as "sons of the soil" by becoming Muslim, or could simply choose to leave the country to escape discrimination. People who try to leave Islam, on the other hand, cannot do so at all by law. It is through practices like these, through the generations, that Islam obliterates other religions and cultures.
It's true that those aborigines are labeled as "Bumiputera". But tell me, SassyJam - how many Catholic Kadazans and Ibans that you know of are permitted to enter the UITM university, that till this day is Muslim-only? How many of them have received MARA scholarships for doing their Degree and Masters in the UK and the United States?
How many Catholic bumiputeras that you know of managed to become Associate Professors or even full-fledged Professors at local universities, compared to Malay professors?
How many catholic Kadazan or Iban owned construction companies qualified as "Bumiputera contractors" for major projects like the construction of Putrajaya, Cyberjaya and IDR?
Please remove the wool from your eyes. The government is only giving lip service by providing the aborigines with the "bumiputera" title when in reality they are not receiving the same bumiputera benefits as the Muslim Malays.
But, on the other hand, a "Bumiputera contractor" fronted by a Chinese who converted to Islam can clinch major construction deals under Maju Holdings, a turnkey main contractor. Chinese police officers can rise up the rank and file faster once they have an "Abdullah" behind their names.
Under the NEP, the Malay middle class, as a percentage of the total Malay population, is now close to 80 percent. In comparison, the Indian middle class is only within 60 percent of the Indian population. The Chinese middle class is also within 70+ percent of the overall population. Although a brunt of Malaysia's economic might lies in the hands of the Chinese, the "distribution of wealth" by the NEP hasn't helped the poverty-stricken Indians and Chinese, and has instead revered the fortunes of only the Muslim Malays, increasing their middle class from below 40% two decades ago till almost 80% at present.
If you know people working for analyst firms that come up with figures for the government think-tanks, you'll see what I'm talking about.
The NEP is now only a tool for the "Malay Agenda", an Islamic supremacist policy. It has already achieved its objective as far as wealth distribution is concerned (i.e. to make the middle class dominated by Malays).
Please wake up and get in touch with reality.. get to know people on the inside track.. don't just believe everything you read and hear in the state-controlled news outlets.
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