WHO is giving groups like ISMA the guts to call non-Muslims 'PENDATANGS'

Of late, Isma and its ilks, for God knows on what mission, have started bashing the "kafir-pendatangs" so relentlessly while bragging about the supremacy of the Malay-Muslims, that it has irked even Dr Mahathir into telling the group to shut up.

I wonder if all those who are championing the supremacy of the Malay-Muslims and condemning the so-called ‘kafir-pendatangs’ and accusing the latter of having intruded into this country, of having taken away the wealth of the Malay-Muslims, of being ungrateful to the Malay-Muslims for having accommodated them for so long, of not paying taxes, etc., have ever pondered one hard fact about religions in Malaysia, i.e., that they are all ‘pendatang’ religions, including Islam.

The non-Malay non-Muslims who were born in this country, regardless of their religions, who know only this country as the “tanah tumpah darah ku”, who have lived and toiled here all their lives to help develop the country, are not, and cannot by any stretch of imagination be termed as “pendatangs”. Their forefathers did come from other lands ages go, but they are long gone.

This ugly term “pendatang” was popularised by Dr Mahathir in his book The Malay Dilemma, forgetting that he himself is a descendant of someone who had come from India fairly recently, compared to other "pendatangs" who had come centuries ago. I wonder if he regrets using this term.

Very similarly, Islam and the other religions in Malaysia were not born in Malaya or Malaysia. They were all brought here. So they were all "di-datangkan" to this country.

Would it therefore be wrong to say that Islam and all the other religions in Malaysia are "pendatang" religions? If Islam itself is a "pendatang" religion (I mean no disrespect to the religion which I hold in high esteem, and am using this term for the sake of a heart-to-heart discussion), then is it fair for the followers of Islam to condemn the followers of the other "pendatang" religions?

Isma’s issue and that of its ilks is not about people being of Chinese, Indian, or of any other ethnic descent, but whether they are Muslim or otherwise. In their myopic vision, they think people can be of any ethnic descent as long as they are Muslim (even if recently converted). Otherwise they must be chased out of Malaysia.

Isma, please give a logical reason why it is the right of the descendants of those "pendatangs" who had adopted Islam as their faith, to condemn the descendants of other "pendatangs" who did not adopt the same faith?

Is it simply because the former outnumber the latter? Might is right? Or did God give you this right?

Was the Prophet so intolerant of those of other faiths? Did he condemn and drive them out of his land?

Isma talks as if God only created the Muslims. Then where did the non-Muslims come from? –TMI