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Fazri @tenoq
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Dulu ada sorang pernah tanya aku, what does it mean to be Malay? Yes, dia non-Malay Dan itu soalan jujur, bukan sinis.

Pendapat aku macam ni: etnik Melayu ni tak ada significance di pentas dunia. Kita ni bangsa kecil. A minority among minorities.
Bangsa dan Tamadun Melayu agak muda, tak cecah ribu2 tahun macam tamadun Cina, India, Arab, etc. Kita tak ada backstory yang epic.

Bahasa kita tak ditutur warga dunia. The largest Malay population in the world speaks Indonesian Malay, not Bahasa Malaysia.
Bahasa kita tak ada tulisan huruf sendiri. Kita terpaksa tumpang tulisan Arab Dan tulisan Roman.

Budaya Melayu mostly warisan dari Indonesia, Siam Dan India. We are born from our own culture.

Orang Melayu Malaysia dalam tidak sedar, sdg menghadapi identity crisis.
Stereotype Melayu apa? Malas, menipu, tak tepati janji etc,.

Benar atau tidak, belakang kira. That's the label we are stuck with, like it or not.

Bumi yang dipijak ni pun, nama je Tanah Melayu - padahal orang asal dah lama ada sini. Melayu is the first Pendatang.
Everything about being Malay points to insignificance. Dan aku tak tahu kenapa orang Melayu sangat taksub dengan idea "bangsa pilihan" ni, walaupun tak ada basis.

Tapi orang Melayu sekarang ada satu identiti yang menaikkan status dia kepada bangsa yang "paling power"

Islam.
Dari sekolah kita diajar yang umat Muslim adalah umat terbaik. Tak kisah la kau hamba, kau buruh, kau askar, Islam is the great equalizer. Status kau sekarang bukan dikalangan manusia, tapi di mata Tuhan.
Islam itu suci. Islam itu sempurna. Islam itu best. Islam is everything a Malay is not.

From there, identiti Islam menjadi satu2nya identiti yg tinggal untuk orang Melayu.

That's why bila Islam "dicabar" orang Melayu cukup marah.
To deny Islam is to deny his identity. To deny the one thing that makes the Malay feel important to in the world.

So what does it mean to be Malay, kawan tu tanya. Pada pendapat aku, Islam tu adalah tongkat identiti orang Melayu.
Tapi sekarang aku rasa kita dah boleh lepaskan tongkat tu.
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