From retail stores to even fried chicken, disputes concerning race and religion appear to permeate the length and breadth of the nation, threatening to undo its multiethnic and multireligious social fabric.

Acknowledging that trials and tribulations are part of evolution, academic Tajuddin Rasdi however warned that the situation would get “darker”.

In a previous podcast, the professor of architecture observed how Malay-Muslims have developed a siege mentality