Politicians playing on sentiments 'IS there a religious war on in Malaysia?' a 40-something friend I recently visited in Iloilo City in the Philippines asked me. 'Why do you say that?' I asked. 'That's what I read in the news,' he said. I explained to him that the religious and racial noises turning up in headlines are being made by politicians from both sides of the Malaysian political divide. 'Malaysians of all religions and races live in harmony, and their main worry in life is the rising cost of living.

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