Wholegrain
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You need to look further than this. Malaysia like many Muslim countries are walking a tight rope, preaching religious hate on one hand and controlling extremism on the other. Above is the percentage of Muslim who support death for apostasy. Malaysia Malay is surprising way on top of many middle east countries. Middle east sectarian intolerance is understandable due to thousands of years of sectarian war. Malay does not have blood spillage hate between their non muslim minorities. All the hate today against minorities are self fabricated and self inculcated, and not because of injury by non muslims.
Malay Muslim used to be extremely relax and tolerant decades back. Today you see more Malay woman on veiling than many years ago. Malay Muslim like many other Muslim elsewhere self radicalize and self-victimize.
There are many reasons for that. One is to unite the core race, the Malay via Islam. By inculcating intolerance, the Malay elites are screwing the mind of their people. If something goes wrong, the country could be in trouble.
Malaysia has a strange system of categorizing ethnicity.
In Malaysia, Malay ethnicity has nothing to do with blood. You just have to speak Malay, identify as Malay and believe in Islam. So since Malays get benefits under Bumiputera system, if a Chinese convert to Islam and identifies as a Chinese Muslim he will not get any benefits or be treated equally, he has to "become a Malay" and adopt Malay language and ethnicity to become Bumiputera. Only Malays are viewed as real Muslims.
I heard that because of this, some Malaysian Chinese think that converting to Islam means turning into a Malay and that by only being a Malay you can be a true Muslim.
I do not think identifying ethnicity with a religion is a good idea.