“As long as there are crazed or crafty leaders to play on old fears, a mob will turn cruel.”

- Leigh Brackett

COMMENT | There is this tendency to believe that religious and racial extremism in this country could be countered without a response from the state security apparatus.

A belief that the danger posed by the racial and religious agitations of Perikatan Nasional (PN) and PAS specifically are merely bumps on the road to a brighter dawn in Malaysia.

I submit that the religious and racial provocations are in reality the coming storm. Moreover, if there is no response from the state security apparatus, what we are going to be dealing with is the violent fallout from these extremists being denied political power by not only the electoral process but also...