Sandhora wrote:are you new to malaysia or are you defending the government action. please dont defend. indigenous people are being converted by state-sponsored missionaries since the 1970s in exchange for economic aid. of course the government dont report it. they dont ban, but the sharia police goes around poking around in peoples wedding telling us puppet shows and kuda kepang is HARAM lmfao. i saw it in my own eyes in Selangor
and i am a malay and the government of brunei and malaysia states that to become a malay you must be a muslim, what the crap is this?
im an ex muslim(religion) does that means im also an ex malay(ethnic group)??? does it makes sense to you
our culture is at stake belgian guy
I'm not defending anything. I'm just saying you are wrong to proclaim that there are forced conversions in Malaysia by any government institution. You can say that there is pressure, or some form of bribery by promising extra benefits, perhaps. But no forced conversions. And you in your previous post claimed that there was.
And no, you cannot "become" Malay. Malay is a race, you either are it or you're not. If you mean Malaysian, as in citizen of Malaysia, then no. You don't need to be Muslim in order to achieve Malaysian citizenship. As for being of Malay race: you cannot change race, mate. If you're not born Malay, you will never become it. That's how races work, I'm afraid. I am a Muslim, but I am not Malay. Nor can I ever become Malay, because it is not in my genes.
I suppose you are confused by the Malaysian rule that "every Malay is a Muslim". You seem to have misinterpreted this sentence and turned it around. What it means is that every Malay (meaning of Malay race) is automatically registered as a Muslim at birth. You can change religions, but no matter what you will always be registered as a Muslim in official records. Which means you will always remain subjected to Shariah law.
Is that a good rule? No, if you ask me. I consider it ridiculous to assume a person's religion based on his ethnicity. But this does not mean that you "have to convert" in order to become Malaysian. That is simply not true.
And, let me repeat this, in Malaysia you are actually better off being non-Muslim. A non-Muslim in Malaysia is allowed to drink, fornicate and what not as much as they want. A Muslim Malaysian however, risks getting arrested for that.
Again, there is a difference between culture and religion. You can perfectly well defend Malay culture, and I support defending that, and oppose extreme arabisation of Malaysia without being an islamophobic bigot.
