Malacca Chief Minister Datuk Seri Haji Mohd Ali Rustam said a person who is a Muslim, converses in Malay and follows the Malay traditions is considered a Malay."Even if that person is Chinese or Indian or Kadazan, if they are Muslim or have converted, converse in Malay and follow the Malay tradition, then they are Malays."
"The Kadazans if they are a Muslim, we considered them as Malays, and if they have not embraced Islam, they are Bumiputeras. It is easy to become a Malay."
It wondered whether Mohd Ali Rustam was suggesting that the non-Muslim bumiputras should convert because his differentiation of Muslims from other Bumiputras seemed to suggest first and second class bumiputras.
No wonder Sabah's Malays population had increased dramatically in the last few years, making Kadazandusun becomes a minority in their homeland. Even Pakistanis, Filippinos, Indonesian and other immigrants are Malays because they're all muslims. What a cheap race? More, Read Here
3 comments:
Finally, someone with golden balls willingly defines 'Malays' and 'Bumiputeras'. Gheee thanks CM...however, proud to be 'Son of the Earth' ya.
gerubituai, it seemed that we actually has two distinctive class of bumiputra, but hopefully with the same rights and privileges.
We have known that "truth" forever. Don't you know that instead of "masuk Islam" it has always been "masuk melayu"?
There, the CM of Melaka has admitted openly what it takes to be a Malay. No wonder, the places that could have been filled by a genuine bumiputra were often times filled by the faux Malays like the Indian and Chinese converts at UiTM when I was a student there back in the 80s.
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