I’m not shocked by the revelation that some children are refusing to sit next to their Christian or Muslim classmates. I knew it was coming.
On Oct 15, Puncak Borneo Member of Parliament Willie Mongin raised concerns in the Dewan Rakyat about religious intolerance among primary school children.
He said a teacher told him that some children said: “I don’t want to sit with them because they eat pork,” or “I don’t want to sit with them because they wear a cross”.
This is far more than a classroom management problem. It is a symptom of a society that is quietly fracturing along ethnic and religious lines — and in Malaysia’s multiethnic reality, that fracture is a national security threat.
