Malaysians are not idiots or imbeciles,

The findings are not at all surprising. This is partly because ethnic boundaries are real in our society and almost every sphere of public life is linked to ethnicity in one way or another.

It's back to square one. I don't think the situation is getting better.

But equating Islam and Muslims with violence and terror is not new. It has been going on for a long time.

The nation wants him to act. We cannot sweep these things under the carpet. These issues are complex and they seem to be the consequence of a certain mindset prevalent within the religious bureaucracy.

This would be against the grain with the way Islam is practiced in this region. I think Malaysian Muslims, like Indonesian Muslims and elsewhere in Southeast Asia, are not comfortable with this sort of very rigid, dogmatic approach to religion.