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As at 11:34hr today, Malaysiakini has published 11 comments from readers on the ‘ultimatum’ which was issued by Umno Youth against MP Loh Seng Kok (BN/MCA - Kelana Jaya) for his speech in Parliament on religion and politics.

I notice some Screenshots regulars, like CK and LC Teh, have responded.

Here's a sampling of readers' response, from Shufiyan Shukur:

Loh Seng Kok wasn’t really far off in his speech when he complained about ‘imbalanced’ history textbooks, prayer recital guidelines and the difficulty of non-Muslims with regards to places of worship.

My fellow brethren strut around thinking that we shaped this nation. Well, let me tell it to you guys, others have shed blood for this nation, and if it were only possible to put the blood from all the races into barrels, classified by race, I wager that non-Malay blood would probably fill up more barrels. And if you could do it for sweat, the result would be the same.

Without the sacrifices and hard work of all Malaysians, this country would be hmm… maybe like Papua New Guinea. Anyway, without the Chinese and Indians who influenced the culture of this peninsular, we Malays would still be strutting around half-naked. They civilised us, before Islam did.

So my brethren, cut some slack. Recognise and acknowledge the contributions of others who helped give us so much. (I won’t touch on the issues of prayer guidelines and worship that Loh brought up as well, lest my brothers in Islam label me murtad [apostate] which would be most scary.)

To read the other 10 readers' commentaries, here's the URL to the voxpopuli (people's voice) at Malaysiakini: http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/49036 (subscription required).

Send your comments to voxpopuli@malaysiakini.com. You may indicate anonymity if you so require.