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The Challenge to Malaysia's Malay Supremacy Narrative

Has the Establishment created its own nemesis?

Dec 07, 2021
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By: Murray Hunter
Photo credit: MEI

While moderate Malaysia looks uneasily at the problem of so-called Ketuanan Melayu ideology, a kind of I-got-mine and you-can’t-have-it philosophy fostered by leaders like Mahathir Mohamad and Muhyiddin Yassin, another problem is approaching that from another direction threatens Ketuanan Melayu itself. That is radical I…

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