Clash of Civilisation - Is UMNO starting one?

“The Malays have never taken to the streets so do not force us to do so as we will draw our parang (machete) to defend the Ketuanan Melayu (Malay supremacy) in this country.”

Abdul Rahim is said to have made the statement in his speech as the chairperson of the Malay Economic Body (Gabem) during a ceremony in Malacca last Saturday. (Source: Malaysiakini and Mental Jog)

My goodness! I couldn't believed myself that a chief minister, albeit an ex-CM, a past UMNO supreme council member, and an influential person from UMNO, would say such thing. Would such statement cause fear and instigate the minds and effect negative thoughts and reactions from those target groups?

If the current government, the A-G and the de facto law minister can accept such statement as justified and not seditious, what's going to happen if other groups would also call on their "people" to take up arm to defend their own creed and assert supremacy?

I hope and pray that the government would prove to the citizen that they are still a sound and sane government; otherwise insanity will take over the nation's people and trigger the clash of civilisation.

We have no reason to take this threat lightly, says Carl G. Jung. Such subversive elements who, sheltered by political hegemony and the sense of justice, are now holding the incendiary torches ready, with nothing to stop the spread of their idiot ism. One should not, however, overestimate the thickness of our social stratum. A rather more pessimistic view would not be unjustified, since the gift of reason and critical reflection is not one of man’s outstanding peculiarities.

Rational argument can only be conducted with some prospect of success only so long as the emotionality of a given situation does not exceed a certain critical degree. If the effective temperature rises above this level, the possibility of reason’s having any effect ceases and its place is taken by slogans and chimerical wish-fantasies. The collective possession results would rapidly develops into a psychic epidemic. (read further here)