Green Is The Colour

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o take over the helm of the rule. Here, Fernando is suggesting that extremism only broods intolerance and contempt for people who are different from oneself, thus hampering the nation’s efforts to unite the people through a common national identity. Besides that, Malaysia’s current Prime Minister, Dato’ Seri Abdullah bin Haji Ahmad Badawi had also reminded us of the nation’s vulnerability to such issues in his speech titled “The Challenges of Multi-Religious, Multi-Ethnic and Multi-Cultural Societies”:
We are more inclined to search for differences rather than recognize commonalities. We tend to reject diversity rather than embrace it… societies that are multireligious, multiethnic and multicultural are particularly vulnerable.

Therefore, extremism and fundamentalism would only lead to more political instability and the “genocide” of others apart from the fundamentalist group. Hence, from a political perspective, Malaysians, no matter Malays or non-Malays are forced to ponder on the issue of whether are they willing to for...