“Sometimes politicians take the easy way out in their bid to remain popular by playing up religious and racial issues. This causes uneasy feelings among the people who may only be the followers and have no inkling about the issues being fanned.”

— Abdul Halim of Kedah

mysinchew.com http://www.mysinchew.com/node/67694 12/12/2011

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Kadangkala orang politik mengambil jalan mudah untuk mengekalkan populariti dengan memainkan isu agama dan perkauman. Inilah yang membuatkan keresahan dan kucar-kacir di dalam masyarakat yang mungkin hanya menjadi pengikut yang tidak langsung faham isu yang diapi-apikan itu

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King of Malaysia 1927–2017

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