Who INSULTS the Malays most

First and foremost, I am a third generation constitutional Malaysian Malay Muslim as far as I can tell from my secondary school history project I did in 1996.

That being said, there are those who may have a history of their ancestors and families living in this nation longer than I have.

I am partially Chinese, Indian, Indonesian Malay and Malaysian Malay, which we can all say are the four biggest groups in Malaysia currently. All I can say about this is that my parents must have taken Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad's racial genetic co-mingling which he suggested in his The Malay Dilemma seriously.

As much as I am a Malay, I am not a supporter of Umno, nor am I a supporter of PAS or any political party.

Instead, I align myself to individuals, among them PAS's Khalid Abdul Samad and Mujahid Rawa (regardless of his anti-smoking crusade), DAP's Charles Santiago and Tony Pua, PKR's Nurul Izzah, Elizabeth Wong, Nik Nazmi and Rafizi Ramli, and Umno's Saifudin Abdullah, Husni Hanadziah and Nur Jazlan.

Seri Delima assemblyman R.S.N. Rayer

As a graduate of UiTM, I am thankful for what Umno has done in the past, but that doesn't exclude them from criticism. Nor does it exclude UiTM from criticism.

As such, I don't find an insult to Umno as an insult to myself as a Malay, nor do I see calling for UiTM to open up to non-Bumiputeras an insult to myself.

Similarly, I do not find it taboo for a non-Muslim to wish me salam, or to use Islamic phrases. This is because I see it as positive, as them trying to emulate our culture, not as a threat on my religion.

In other words, I am not paranoid.

In the past year or so, we have somehow seen that any insult to Umno, having Iban-language Bibles, or the religious authorities, is considered an insult to Malays.

Umno is not a representation of all the Malays in Malaysia. The fact that they lost Shah Alam in the last two general elections is solid proof of it. Mind you, we have more than 90% Malay population in this parliamentary constituency.

The Isma president, contrary to his wife's belief, is not the representative of all Malays. After all, if he thinks the Chinese are tresspassers, then he is equally saying I myself am the product of a trespassing ancestor.

A Penang assemblyman calling Umno "celaka" is also not an insult to myself, because I have seen students right out of UiTM who just got their first jobs giving out the same expletive remarks when they read news coverage of the auditor general's report.

And by the way, these were former BN Youth volunteers during the 2013 general election.

I am not a traitor to Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah for thinking that both Mais and Jais are in the wrong and have totally lost the plot by seizing Bibles and having fake ex-Christians hold a talk in UiTM, regardless of what Perkasa Negri Sembilan suggests.

And if they think they need to behead me for this, I suggest they check in with the Sultan of Selangor over using the royal courtyard for the guillotine.

I believe the Malays have to now take a stand against all these views, and voice them out as ardently as possible, that we are no longer represented by extremists.

Now is the time for the Malays to take a stand and tell those in charge to either stop it or face the consequences of misrepresenting us to the entire world.

It is time to take legal action against the extremists to gag them from making unwarranted statements that tarnish the image of the Malay race.

If not, the greatest insult to the Malays would be the insult we do to ourselves by letting the voice of the loud few destroy whatever pride we have left in ourselves as a people, as a community, and as a majority in this country. –TMI