Rohingya migrant performs silat and netizens wonder if they plan to dominate Malaysia soon

 

AND WHEN we Malaysians thought that Rohingya migrants singing Negaraku is a cause for concern, here comes a worse “threat.”

Recently, netizen @kamaghul shared a video on X, showcasing a Rohingya migrant performing silat. A harmless display of martial arts? Not according to the internet’s most imaginative strategists.

Within minutes, netizens had apparently uncovered what they believed to be a decades-long masterplan.

Never mind that the video merely showed someone practising a martial art that thousands of Malaysians also practise. Online commentators were already busy drafting the script for what they viewed as the next blockbuster  political saga.

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Some wondered whether learning silat was an attempt to get Malaysian citizenship.

Others quickly pointed out that speaking fluent Malay or embracing local customs does not make someone Malay.

One commenter further claimed that the migrants were deliberately seeking out local spouses in order to establish roots in the country.

Netizen @erico303677 also condemned the graceless performance.

    

Another suggested that long-term political ambitions were somehow part of the equation. The theories became increasingly ambitious.

“Not only silat, they have Muay Thai clubs now too,” remarked one netizen, as though participation in martial arts were the opening phase of a sophisticated statecraft programme.

But perhaps the prize for Most Dramatic Forecast went to the commenter who confidently predicted that Malaysia could one day have a Rohingya prime minister.

At this point, the conversation had travelled so far from the original video that it practically needed its own passport.

Thankfully, there was still netizen @FaqeerIlm to remind everyone in the comment section that it is not a crime to learn silat.

Perhaps that is the true lesson from this episode. If a Rohingya migrant starts supporting Harimau Malaya, there will be concerns about a future Football Association presidency.

And if he ever uploads a video making teh tarik, some netizen somewhere will probably conclude that Phase Three of the masterplan has officially begun.

For now, however, the alleged conspiracy appears to consist of little more than a man learning silat — which remains considerably less dangerous than Malaysians learning how to jump to conclusions.— Focus Malaysia