“The RCI [Royal Commission of Inquiry] has been told numerous times that
the highest levels in the federal government, during the Mahathir era,
gave thousands of Muslim Filipinos and Indonesians Malaysian citizenship
to ensure that Sabah became a Muslim-majority state in less than a
decade. From 1970 to 2010, Sabah’s population increased by 390 percent!
This was to guarantee Muslim political hegemony and ensured that the
native Kadazandusun, previously the majority in Sabah, will never be
able to politically challenge a Muslim-led leadership, both in Kota
Kinabalu and Putrajaya. One witness, a civil servant who issued the
Malaysian identity cards illegally, openly told the RCI he saw it as his
duty to ensure Muslim dominance.”
“Today, there is intense political competition and constant tensions
between the Muslim and non-Muslim population in both states, and racial
tensions so prevalent in Malaya is starting to manifest in East
Malaysia. The younger Muslims from East Malaysia are starting to
distance themselves from their non-Muslim neighbours and becoming super
sensitive to all issues pertaining to Islam, mirroring the breakdown of
racial relations in the peninsula.”
