Anti-Semitism in Contemporary Malaysia by Mary J. Ainslie

Author:Mary J. Ainslie
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789811360138
Publisher: Springer Singapore

[T]hey say that Chinese are the Jewish of the east. (P3)

Participants’ accounts also suggest that the rejection of Judaism and Israel is closely connected to a rejection of Christianity within the country. The negative discourses and conspiratorial characteristics of Judaism seem to also be attached to Christianity within Malaysia, to the extent that anti-Semitism may also provide a template for the growing animosity towards Christian minorities within the country. Most notably, Christianity is closely connected to the Chinese minority, and so is again reminiscent of the close links between anti-Sinicism and anti-Semitism in Southeast Asia. One Christian participant detailed the confusion and differing attitudes towards Christianity from Malay Muslims:Some Muslims make a distinction between the two and some don’t. Some of them say that we are for the Jews. It is just their Zionist agenda that is pushing over the Middle East or the world—depending on who you ask. Some of them will just flat out say that we are enemies of the Jews. So it depends on who you really talk to. (P26)

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