When a child refuses to share a table with another child because one eats pork, we are no longer talking about a minor classroom incident. We are talking about a failure of national education.
Malaysia’s schools are now producing children who see difference as contamination, faith as a barrier, and fellow Malaysians as people to be avoided.
This is not unity. It is segregation being taught early, quietly and dangerously.
Puncak Borneo MP Willie Mongin recently revealed that some primary school pupils had refused to sit beside classmates of another faith. Among the reasons were that a classmate was eating pork or wearing a cross.
