A nation divided by the very leaders we depend upon ot lead.

"Ai Wei, do you know what my friend told me at breakfast this morning? In places in the East Coast, people of different races, Malays, Chinese and Indians sit down together in coffee-shops to eat halal and non-halal food. You eat your halal food while I eat my non-halal food just beside each other. Why is it so different here on the West Coast? Why are people separating just because of the different type of food they eat. Why is there this division?"

He has asked a very valid question. I know the Holy book, the Koran, says that Muslims must not eat pork but does God say that Muslim must not sit beside someone eating non-halal food? Does God say that Muslims must not look at non-Hala food? or is it a divisive ploy by the politicians in their divide and rule for then perhaps those politicians can seem to be holier or greater than the others. Perhaps that is why there are still politicians who claim their race is the master race in the country.

Whatever the reason, I must admit that they have done a good job of dividing the people, at least when it comes to patronising food outlets. However this does not happen in a state which has been ruled by the opposition for many years, Kelantan.

According to one source, there is even a shop selling pork just opposite a mosque. And Kelantan has a Mentri Besar who is very well versed in the muslim religion. Now, if that news is true, that is what I call a true understanding of what God wants, unity for all the children of God. Yet, Man has abused the name of God so often to achieve their own ends, even threatening to kill or kill which is a most ungodly act.Harming what God has created is in fact going against God. If god wants anyone gone from this earth, His wish will be done easily, not necessary at all through another human.

Politicians use religion because in Malaysia where a particular race is synonymous with the Islamic religion as there are laws to prevent their conversion or allow them to convert.It is time politicians do not abuse the name of God to achieve power and emulate the Kelantan government in displaying the good that is in Islam. Then, if the racial issues are also discarded, unity can be part and parcel of this nation. Then only can Malaysia be a united nation with nothing whatsoever to separate any citizen. Until then, we are never a nation, we are forever divided; the citizens are classed with one group more privileged than another, one group always striving for the nation yet never treated just as well in many spheres of life as a Malaysian.