Right-wing Malay groups using Rome Statute, ICERD to gain influence, says academic
Syed Husin Ali says most Malays are influence by feudal attitudes. – The Malaysian Insight pic, Seth Akmal, April 27, 2019.
CONSERVATIVE Malay pressure groups are stirring controversy on issues such as ICERD and the Rome Statute in a bid to gain more influence, said sociologist and politician Dr Syed Husin Ali today. “Malays are mostly conservative, influenced by feudal attitudes. We think of ourselves as subjects,” said the former PKR deputy president at a public forum organised today at Universiti Malaya on the matter of the Rome Statute and its presentation to the Conference of Rulers.
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