COMMENT | Malaysians who are looking for leadership and the call for action should look east. Forget Putrajaya!

The East Malaysians excel at nation-building and have a better grip on authority than Putrajaya. They know that they have so much more to lose if the multicultural and multifaith society they have carefully built and nurtured, is allowed to crumble.

Why sacrifice decades of integration just because of the hate speech and belligerence of one wannabe hero-cum-politician from Merlimau, Malacca?

For over three weeks, Malaysians were forced to endure the hate speech fomented by Umno Youth chief Dr Muhamad Akmal Saleh, but it took the courage of one Sarawak minister...