Malays today view Umno as being more of a threat to them, compared to DAP, claimed former Umno minister Zainuddin Maidin.

In his latest blog posting, Zainuddin said DAP, which has been labelled chauvinistic, has now matured politically, is progressive, clean and efficient, and free from "narrow" religious sentiments.

"More Malays are seeing and understanding that the threat to Malay nationalism no longer comes from DAP, which wants to 'Malaysianise' the country, but from Umno, which wants to 'Chinanise' (menChinakan) Malaysia through economic colonialism...