“Malaysians are also dismayed that at this important period, Hishamuddin, together with the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak and Deputy Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, had been out of the country.” (YB Kit)

Two suraus in the same town were attacked with arson on the same dawn. It seemed that the chances for these two cases to happen by chance out of accidents were very slim. The arsonists must have the malicious intent to have committed such serious crime in the midst of intense religious tension amongst different groups of religions in Malaysia.

Najib really made us wonder why he allowed Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin to leave the country at present when Najib himself was on an official trip to India. Who is the minister in charge as an acting Prime Minister at the moment when both Najib and Muhyiddin are still on an oversea trip. Is Najib really willing to give some ambitious men of malicious intent a good opportunity to overthrow the current BN Leadership with a bloodshed coup attempt? Why did the police still not take any action or come out with a concrete procedural control proposal for the administrators of the places of worship to follow so that the arsonists could possibly be detected in a much faster and much more efficient way, like using the aids of the CCTV being installed in front of the buildings of worship, or by encouraging the installation of fire insulation doors at the entrances of the buldings of worship so that more evidences could be collected from the residues of the vained arson attempt?

YB Kit,
Plain condemnation from all Malaysians is still inadequate for reducing or alleviating the racial tension and religious tension that have been created through the emotional incitement by the extremists who took advantage of the arson attacks on places of worship. An official statement from joint leadership of Pakatan Rakyat calling people to keep calm and not to speculate on the possibility of inter-racial retaliation or inter-religious vengeance is also very imperative at the present tension situation.

The feedback from some Malay friends of mine indicated that the Johorean Malays had the wrong perception that the Christians already took action to retaliate. Some Johorean Malays suspected the arson attack on 2 suraus in Muar was caused by “tindakan balas dendam” from Christians. It is imperative for the political leaders and the police to issue an official statement to pacify the people in order to alleviate the danger of a possible uprising from the less educated and emotional rural Malays.

We should not simply fall into the trap of some inciters of racial tension and religious tension. The inciters might want to arouse the inter-racial conflicts and to cause social unrest for serving their malicious intent of achieving the self-interested political advancement or for achieving the financial gains through the speculative economic attacks on the Stock Market Index Future Forward Selling Contracts and Currency Forward Selling Contracts. The Malaysians will be too naive to fall into the trap of the inciters and start to wrongfully suspect that the other race has already taken the violent retaliatory action on the “Allah” religious issue!