Amazing Fact by Ali Gostan

I read this with the amazement of my 'friend' Ali Rustam aka Ali Gostan. This is the most outrageous statement of the year. He says and I quote "It is easy to become a Malay" and he continues, "Even if that person is Chinese or Indian or Kadazan, if they are Muslim or have converted, converse in Malay and follow the Malay tradition, then they are Malays." I find it amusing because the religion and the race are always kept distinct and separated. It has always being the case. So with his exclamation, it is to mean that as a Malay wouldn't it be the same as being a Malay bumiputra and thus accord the privilege as stated in the Constitution of the Federation. I have friends who had converted and yet do not have the privilege of being a Malay even though they converse in Malay, accepts the Malay custom and culture and yet the law refused to accept them to be a Malay under the Constitution. Weird?

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©Daily Express (Used by permission)

Kota Kinabalu: Malacca Chief Minister Datuk Seri Haji Mohd Ali Rustam said a person who is a Muslim, converses in Malay and follows the Malay traditions is considered a Malay.

"It is easy to become a Malay," he told a Press conference after Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman opened the Dunia Muslim Dunia Islam (DMDI) seminar, here, Saturday.

Elaborating on why Musa had said that more than 50 per cent of the State's nearly three million population are Malays, Mohd Ali, who is also DMDI president, said:

"Even if that person is Chinese or Indian or Kadazan, if they are Muslim or have converted, converse in Malay and follow the Malay tradition, then they are Malays."

"The Kadazans if they are a Muslim, we considered them as Malays, and if they have not embraced Islam, they are Bumiputeras. It is easy to become a Malay."