COMMENT | My thoughts and opinions about racial and religious relations in Malaysia shift all the time depending on what I read in the media, my interaction with different people and just my general observation of the society around me.

What I can say is that how I feel about it is very fluid. In general, Malaysia is quite divided and polarised. It’s not something that I like to believe, but that is how it is.

For the most part, I feel that our politicians are the ones who create the divide and polarisation in Malaysia. This is most probably by the very fact that our politics are very race-based whereby a majority of our political parties are formed to “protect the interest of their people”.

I’m sure that many Malaysians will agree with me when I say that many of our extremist politicians’ polemics border on hate speech.