If there was ever a racial riot in Malaysia started by that
stupid remark, have no doubt, that remark was just the beginning of
a planned political manipulation.
No riot of massive scale and damaging nature will be sparked
without being well planned and organized. This was what
happened to Jakarta back in 13 May 1998.
Riots can easily be sparked when sentiments are high. You
only need a small incident between two races to ignite a massive
scale of unrest, if all are well planned and organized.
However, I believe the majority of Malaysians are more civilized
and educated and not that easy to manipulate comparatively.
Furthermore, Chinese and the Malay live in harmony for centuries in
Malaysia. So it will not be as effective to use racial as an
issue for political means.
In any case, the Malaysian better have their security forces
stand-by and these forces shall only have "peace-keeping" as the
only objective, and they shall not be serving the political
interests of a bias party like they did in Indonesia. On the
day of the riots, police and armies were on paid holidays and those
on duties put on civilian clothes to instigate riots. Leaving
only the commander of the marines and his troops to do the dirty
job.
Even their security forces are all one sided race, how to keep
peace, all the while, malaysia does not have a good balance in
racial discrimination, it is alway there, the tension and
dissatisfaction. However, what kept them for so long is perhap
tolerance and endurance, so at times, these emotion overwhelmed
certain top leaders and they started to slurp out racial remarks,
otherwise all should be ok and fine. I believe no one in malaysia
likes to have riots and fighting among each other. Things should
settle in a way of big to small, small to nothing.
