Malaysia is a secular state, and I feel it is best it is maintained so.

Religion is a very personal belief.

I would compare religion as your favorite colour.

There can be a lot of reasons why you love a particular colour, it's a feeling, it's a trust, it's a belief that can make you feel good.

But you can't force others to have the same likings - they have their own preference too.

Even if a person loves blue colour, there are navy blue, dark blue etc (e.g. Protestant and Catholic in Christianity, or Sunni and Shia in Muslim). I can't

So if a country is ruled by religion, especially a country that has multi-religions.. just imagine a person who loves orange colour, and force the whole nation to paint nothing but orange colour for their house, and wear nothing but orange shirt.

If you feel ridiculed - you can expect the exact ridiculous stuff happening in countries ruled by religion.

清明節拜神后，父母在吃+談論著用來拜祭的壽包。

媽：這個壽包，很干，很硬。
爸：哎呀，觀音剛才都吃得下去了，我們人也一定能。

The moment you see
those people fight over
the use of a word "Allah"
You may start to wonder
"Who are they to speak
on behalf of God?"

It's all plain assumption,
after all.

While we can't deny the fact that majority of the Malaysians are Muslim, we can, however, wish for a more open-minded Muslim leader like this ex-mufti of Perlis.

I thought from the first 4 minutes you can sort of know why Malaysia needs such a Muslim leader.

I'm not sure what's his point of 'allowing foreign artist to perform in Muslim country'

But I thought the recent ban on the foreign artists to perform in Malaysia means it's possible that it scared away some potential foreign investment.

I've always against to rule something or even a country by religion.

Conflicts between religions had caused wars and disaster for centuries.

Different people can already have different view on a matter - measure it by different religion will only complicate the situation.

So, making country a secular state is something worth thinking.

Racism, on the other hand is also equally bad.

Within the same race, there are people who can think that they are 'they are superior'.

And having rules and policies that favours a certain race will only cause disharmony and won't help unity at all (let alone, causing racism)

If you insist to rule by religion & race, I'd suggest 'Human' as the sole race and 'Human Rights' as the sole religion.

Ruling by religion & race, I can see 1Malaysia can never reach its objectives.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life.