Comments by "K `" (@user-jt3dw6vv4x) on "Why a 96-Year-Old Former Prime Minister of Malaysia Might Run Again" video.

@CRenggi Progressive Muslim? Do you not realise how ridiculous that sounds? If a Muslim has to be identified as a "progressive Muslim" then it means they aren't following the core teachings of Islam. How is that not clear to you? Malaysia is in this state because of radical Islamism and as long as that continues and as long as people continue to support that, Malaysia will continue to fail to progress into a stable high income nation and it will continue to be viewed negatively by the rest of the world. Hardcore fanatical religious beliefs derived from regions that are nowhere near Southeast Asia and completely culturally incompatibile with indigenous Eastern religions is why Malaysia (and other Muslim-majority nations in Asia-Pacific) are lagging.
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@CRenggi So in other words if they're young and are Muslim and can be classified as "progressive" then they aren't following basic Islamic teachings.
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@CRenggi With so many Malaysians Muslims identifying with Wahhabism and other ultraconservative branches from the Middle East, I'm not surprised that you have to say "progressive Muslim" because the strand of Islam originally practiced across Asia-Pacific (Pakistan all the way to Indonesia) was different to the version practiced in the Middle East. Now terms like "progressive Muslim" have to be coined because the original strand of Islam practiced in Asia-Pacific is increasingly being lost.
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@CRenggi Do you call everybody that disagrees with you a "communist"? Do you even know what communism is?
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@CRenggi ...and this is why Malaysia is still a third world country. Ultraconservative religious beliefs and governance don't go hand in hand
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@CRenggi Don't you think you need to get to the root of the problem? What is blaming the people going to do if the root of the problem is not addressed? People are following ultrareligous beliefs, that is the issue. They are behaving in these regressive ways because of these ultrareligious beliefs.
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@montaser9985 ...and that's why Malaysia hasn't progressed.
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@montaser9985 Clearly not when it keeps on failing to hit its targets. Isn't Malaysia supposed to be a developed country now? It's 2021. It failed to become a high income developed nation in 2020, its original target. Malaysia is actually going backwards, that's why people continue to leave that country and move overseas, particularly to Singapore and Australia.
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@montaser9985 When ultraconservative religious teachings dictate how nations are run then talking about religion is relevant. It can't be denied that ultraconservative religious teachings are increasingly influencing the way Malaysian society behaves.
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@montaser9985 I'm speaking about ultraconservative branches of the religion imported from the Middle East that have changed people's way of thinking in Malaysia. The truth is every high high income ultraconservative Muslim-majority nation that has become a high income economy is due to exploitation of migrant workers and/or oil. You can't compare the success of UAE, Qatar, Kuwait or Bahrain to the success of Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan or Japan when the former nations have developed through oil harvesting and exploitation of migrant workers. In fact, the majority of people who live in those countries are not even local citizens but foreigners (mostly from South and Southeast Asia). The locals also do not work, that's why white collar workers are also employed in large numbers to work in these countries. In other words, foreigners are the ones that have propped up those economies. Same thing applies to places like Saudi Arabia, they all rely heavily on foreigners to keep them afloat. Their failure to control COVID-19 really showed how much they rely on foreigners. Brunei is kind of an exception. They became rich through oil harvesting but they also rely on foreign workers too, not to the extent that exists in the Gulf nations though. Another reason for why Gulf nations have succeeded apart from what I already stated is because ultraconservative Islam is native to the Arab world. It is part of the local's cultural psyche and is very different to Malaysia or anywhere else outside of the Arab world. Ultraconservative Islam is not native to Malaysia. In fact, it's supplanting the original strand of Islam practiced in Malaysia before people started adopting Arab cultural practices.
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@montaser9985 Regressive laws in the name of conservative religious ideas permeate Malaysian governening system. Malays can only be identified as "Malay Muslim" is one such example. Malays who don't practice actively practice Islam (e.g. going to the mosque each week) or convert to another religion or become atheist can't be identified as such under law and thus are subjected to the same laws that Malaysian Muslims abide by. Bumiputera laws claim to uplift the indigenous ethnic groups but Malaysian Indian Muslims and Malaysian Chinese Muslims are classified as "bumiputera" because they practice Islam and apparently practice Malay culture and thus are "Malay" because "being Muslim and practicing Malay culture equals Malay" in Malaysian society.
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