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[Hang Li Po]

Kata Usman Awang dalam puisi Melayu-nye...

Melayu di tanah Semenanjung luas maknanya:
Jawa itu Melayu, Bugis itu Melayu
Banjar juga disebut Melayu, Minangkabau memang Melayu,
Keturunan Acheh adalah Melayu,
Jakun dan Sakai asli Melayu,
Arab dan Pakistani, semua Melayu
Mamak dan Malbari serap ke Melayu
Malah mua'alaf bertakrif Melayu
(Setelah disunat anunya itu)

.....

dalam Utusan hari ni ada dilaporkan tentang Melayu Kelantan adalah melayu sebenar.siapakah melayu sebenar.dan melayu sebenar itu bagaimana.


Orang Kelantan Melayu sebenar?

Oleh ROZILAN SALLEH

PULAU PINANG 13 Julai - Benarkan Melayu Kelantan merupakan orang Melayu yang paling asal di negara ini berbanding dengan orang Melayu di tempat lain?

Hipotesis mengenainya mungkin berasas berdasarkan kajian pensyarah Sains Forensik di Pusat Pengajian Sains Perubatan, Univerisiti Sains Malaysia (USM) Kubang Kerian di Kelantan, Dr. Zafarina Zainuddin.

Menurutnya, hipotesis itu juga berdasarkan kajian awal terhadap genetik Mithochondial-Ssid Deoksiribonukleik (Mithochondial-DNA) di kalangan beberapa penduduk di pedalaman Kelantan yang tidak pernah keluar dari kawasan mereka.

Bagaimanapun, katanya, hipotesis itu memerlukan kajian lebih mendalam mengenai Siapa Melayu Sebenarnya yang akan dijalankan menerusi Rancangan Malaysia Kesembilan (RMK-9) dan dijangka siap tiga tahun lagi.

Ketika ini, katanya, terdapat 12 etnik Melayu di negara ini termasuk mereka yang berasal dari Indonesia termasuk Jawa, Bugis, Minang, Champa dari Kemboja dan Yunan dari China.

“Bagaimanapun kajian ini bukannya untuk mengubah sejarah bahawa orang Melayu berasal dari tempat lain tetapi adalah untuk mencari fakta terbaru berdasarkan penyelidikan kita sendiri,'' katanya.

Beliau berkata demikian ketika ditemui selepas majlis penyerahan tesis hasil penyelidikannya mengenai kajian genetik dan forensik pergigian oleh seorang lagi pensyarah Sains Forensik pusat pengajian yang sama, Dr. Mohd. Fadhil Khamis kepada Jabatan Hal Ehwal Orang Asli (JHEOA) di sini hari ini.

Tesis itu diserahkan Naib Canselor USM, Prof. Datuk Dzulkifli Abdul Razak kepada Ketua Pengarah JHEOA, Datuk Fadzil Mahamud.

Pada masa yang sama, kata Dr. Zafarina, kajian itu juga bukan mahu menidakkan status Melayu di kalangan etnik-etnik Melayu yang lain tetapi lebih kepada untuk mengetahui etnik Melayu yang mana paling awal wujud.

Dalam pada itu, penyelidikan terulung beliau dan pertama di negara ini yang memberi tumpuan kepada perbandingan genetik Mithochondial-DNA mengesahkan perbezaan antara populasi Melayu Moden dengan Melayu Proto.

Pengesahan itu yang berdasarkan tempoh masa kewujudan dan kandungan Mithochondrial-DNAsekali gus mengenepikan anggapan bahawa generasi paling awal orang Melayu yang ada pada masa kini Melayu Proto.

Pada masa yang sama, hasil penyelidikan Dr. Zafarina itu membuktikan Melayu moden berasal daripada populasi 'Mongoloid' dari selatan China atau 'Austranasian' yang berhijrah ke kawasan lain di Asia antara 6,000 hingga 8,000 tahun dahulu.

“Ia berbeza dengan populasi Melayu Proto yang wujud lebih awal iaitu kira-kira 200,000 tahun dahulu dan berasal dari Afrika,'' ujarnya.

Beliau yakin hasil kajian itu dapat digunakan dengan lebih meluas dan pihaknya berhasrat menghasilkan satu pengkalan data khusus sebagai rujukan bagi membangunkan masyarakat Orang Asli yang berjumlah kira-kira 150,000 orang di Semenanjung ketika ini.

Sementara itu, Dzulkifli berkata, kajian seumpama itu perlu ditingkatkan bagi mencari sebanyak mungkin maklumat agar menjadi hak milik negara.

http://utusan.com.my...mp;pg=po_02.htm

[Liang Jieming]

Interesting. When did malay writers drop the word "Cina" and start using "China"?

[LYY]

Dalam pada itu, penyelidikan terulung beliau dan pertama di negara ini yang memberi tumpuan kepada perbandingan genetik Mithochondial-DNA mengesahkan perbezaan antara populasi Melayu Moden dengan Melayu Proto.

Pengesahan itu yang berdasarkan tempoh masa kewujudan dan kandungan Mithochondrial-DNAsekali gus mengenepikan anggapan bahawa generasi paling awal orang Melayu yang ada pada masa kini Melayu Proto.

Pada masa yang sama, hasil penyelidikan Dr. Zafarina itu membuktikan Melayu moden berasal daripada populasi 'Mongoloid' dari selatan China atau 'Austranasian' yang berhijrah ke kawasan lain di Asia antara 6,000 hingga 8,000 tahun dahulu.

“Ia berbeza dengan populasi Melayu Proto yang wujud lebih awal iaitu kira-kira 200,000 tahun dahulu dan berasal dari Afrika,'' ujarnya.

so orang asli should be called ... africanar malay

[Liang Jieming]

I thought the theory was that the 1st wave of original aborigines were also from southern China?

[sg_han]

Interesting. When did malay writers drop the word "Cina" and start using "China"?

should be after cina become almost deragatory after anti chinese riots in indonesia. tionghoa is the common word in indonesia to call the chinese

the orang asli are also discriminated btw in malaysia

[Genghis_Khan]

wow!
how true is the statement ?
Any proof ?
It seem to be a baseless articles with no proper research..
Anyway, i agree with the Melayu type stated by Hang Li Po so do we called all Melayu by their origin like Melayu Acheh, Melayu Mamak, Melayu indo and so on..

[sg_han]

oh ya the chinese were also "NOT DISCRIMINATED"...ya this is true

[Hang Li Po]

so orang asli should be called ... africanar malay

Negrito @ Semang (Malay Proto)

[LYY]

http://www.sacred-te...a/sss/sss05.htm

THE MALAY MAGICIAN

ANTHROPOLOGY and history confirm the various stages in the development of the Malay magician.

First he was the Indonesian animist, requiring no initiation into his office and no help from a familiar spirit. Hunting, fishing, planting, and healing the sick demanded merely different experts acquainted with the practice and customs of the particular craft. In the ritual of the rice-field, for example, a midwife or other old woman took the leading part, because her sex had a beneficent influence on the fertility of the crop, and her experience with human infants qualified her to handle the rice-baby. Courtesy and persuasion and diplomatic language were the weapons of the Malay magician of animism.

Next came the shaman. Comparative study has, revealed that shamanism was "the native religion of the Ural-Altaic peoples from Behring Straits to the borders of Scandinavia," and "probably of the early Mongol-Tartar peoples and others akin to them, for example, in China and Tibet." Its part in the religions of Malaysian tribes reminds one that on linguistic grounds it has been surmised the Malay descended from the continent of Asia and that anthropologists detect in him a Mongol strain. The shaman still retains his pride of place among the aboriginal tribes of the Malay Peninsula, Negrito, Indo-Chinese and Proto-Malay. One word is used by the Malay both for the magician expert in some particular line and for the shaman who controls spirits by the help of a familiar. But a distinction between them is recognised. "Upon the exercise of the shaman's power every Malay looks with considerable dread, and the least orthodox shakes his head when it is mentioned." Islam looks far more askance at the shaman who calls down spirits at a séance than at the commoner medicine-man who relies solely on charms and invocations covered with a veneer of orthodox phraseology. His brothers in magic respect the shaman more highly. In Kelantan when a shaman is operating in any district "all other medicine-men are disqualified for the time being."

Sometimes the Malay shaman wears cords round his wrists and across back and breast over each shoulder and under the opposite arm. He can use cloth of royal yellow at a séance. Rarely he is a Raja. In Perak the State shaman was commonly of the reigning house and bore the title of Sultan Muda. He was too exalted to inherit any other office except the Sultanate, and according to one account could ascend no temporal throne. He was allotted a State allowance from port dues and the tax on opium. The twenty-fifth holder of the office was a grandson on the distaff side of Marhum Kahar, a famous ruler of Perak in the eighteenth century: on the spear side he was a descendant of the Prophet! The wife of its holder bore the title of Raja Puan Muda. His deputy or heir-apparent was styled Raja Kechil Muda. So, too, in parts of Timor two Rajas are recognised-a civil raja who governs the people, and another raja who can declare tabus and must be consulted by his colleagues in all important matters.

At a curative (but not apparently at a State-cleansing) séance the spirit-raising shaman may be a woman. During the last illness of Sultan Yusuf, a nineteenth century ruler of Perak, a séance was conducted by Raja Ngah, a scion of the reigning house on the female side, "a middle-aged woman dressed as a man" for the occasion-a device I have seen adopted by Malay midwives also. In Kelantan the shaman may be a Malay or a Siamese woman.

Negritos and certain northern Sakai placed the bodies of dead shamans in shelters built among tree-branches. The soul of a Negrito magician may enter tiger, elephant, or rhinoceros, and there abide until the animal dies, when the soul at last goes to its own heaven. Some Kinta Sakai used formerly to leave the corpses of magicians unburied in the houses where they died. The Jakun of Rompin put them "on platforms and their souls go up to the sky, while those of ordinary mortals, whose bodies are buried, go to the underworld." Other Jakun believe that great magicians are translated alive to heaven. Clearly it was the custom of the Peninsular aborigines not to bury a magician. His soul might inhabit a large animal temporarily, but found its way in the end to some place in the air that is full of the unseen spirits he controlled. Malays have long buried their magicians. "The majority of sacred places in the Patani States are the reputed graves of great medicine-men." But in two of the States on the west coast, at least, when a practiser of black magic is in the throes of death, it is believed that the spirit of life can escape only if a hole is made in the roof of the house.

A shaman by inheritance comes into possession of a familiar spirit, or perhaps he may inherit one from his preceptor. In Patani it is said that if a shaman does not bequeath his (or her) art to a pupil before dying, then his clothes, drums, censer, and other magical appurtenances will generate a savage ghost. There, too, it is held that hairy persons are especially qualified to become magicians. The Benua, a Proto-Malay tribe, believe that the soul of a dead shaman (who has to be left unburied in the forest) will in the seventh day attack his heir in the form of a tiger: if the heir betrays no fear and casts incense on a fire, he will fall into a trance and be visited by two beautiful female spirits who become his familiars; if the heir fails to watch by the corpse and observe this ritual, the dead man's soul enters a tiger for ever. According to the belief of the Jakun his familiar spirit comes to a shaman by inheritance or in a dream. In all accounts the shaman must acquire as his familiar a spirit that has not found rest. This he does in a trance, often during a vigil beside a grave.

Kelantan Malays prescribe a method of acquiring a shaman's powers that shows an accretion of Muslim belief on a primitive idea, akin to the Proto-Malay superstition that round a grave a ditch must be dug wherein the soul of the deceased may paddle his canoe. Sitting one at the head and one at the foot of the grave of a murdered man, the would-be shaman and a companion burn incense and make believe to use paddles shaped from the midrib of a royal yellow coconut palm, calling the while upon the murdered man to grant magical powers. The landscape will come to look like a sea and an aged man will appear, to whom the request for magic must be repeated. Now one of the evidences of Muslim saintship is the ecstatic vision or dream of the Prophet or of one of the greater saints of Islam. Possibly the "aged man" was Luqman al-Hakim, the reputed fattier of Arabian magic. One day, according to Kelantan belief, the Angel Gabriel was commanded to upset Luqman and his books at sea as a punishment for his pride, and the finders of the few scattered pages of those books became medicine-men in their several countries. A Selangor account corroborates the Kelantan belief that Luqman was the first magician: he lived in the sky, was descended from Adam and Eve, was a son (or perhaps brother) of Siva, and so a link with the Hindu element in the modern Malay medicine-man's shibboleth!

The Malay has always been apt to ascribe greater power to foreign magic, whether that of a naked illiterate aborigine from the woods or that of a Hindu trader or an Arab missionary. In an eighteenth century history of Perak it is recorded how among the medicine-men in attendance on the daughter of a famous Malay ruler there were Sakai from the jungle. Magicians, like prophets, have more honour outside their own borders. It is no wonder, therefore, that the Malay midwife learnt from the Hindu all the magic he could teach for the great occasions of birth, adolescence, and marriage, or that the Malay shaman added gods of the Hindu pantheon to his demonology and made invocations and offerings to Siva. Long before the introduction of Islamic mysticism, Hinduism had encouraged the Malay magician to fortify his powers and command the wonder of the credulous by ascetic practices. Malay romances, paraphrased from Indian originals, are full of stories of heroes who acquire magic, especially for warfare, by retiring into a hermit's seclusion on a mountain-top. In Patani there is a "curious belief, perhaps more Siamese than Malay, that no man can become a really great magician in any country in which the peaks of the hills are rounded, and that therefore the State of Patalung, in which there are many conical hills, produces the most powerful medicine-men in the Malay Peninsula."

When Islam came, the Malay magician sat at the feet of its pundits, studied their arts of divination, and borrowed their cabalistic talismans. Before his old incantations he set the names of Allah and Muhammad, often in impious contexts. He detected his latest avatar in the living saint of Islam, to whom folk resort "for advice in legal disputes or as to the success or failure of an enterprise or as intercessor for the sick or to get a child or to remove blight or plague or confound enemies." He will, therefore, seclude himself for certain days of the week or for a period, the practice being given an Arabic name and having a religious colour. Sometimes he keeps celibate. Or he may fast to impress the common herd and enable himself to see visions. A magician of this type is generally a disciple of a crude form of Sufism derived from India. A Selangor account, strongly affected by Neo-Platonic ideas, makes Allah (as Absolute Being beyond all relations) the first of magicians. "When haze was still in the womb of darkness and darkness in the womb of haze, before earth bore the name of earth or sky the name of sky, before Allah was called Allah or Muhammad was called Muhammad, before the creation of the Divine Throne and its footstool and the firmament, the Creator of the worlds was manifested by Himself and He was the first magician. He made the magician's universe, a world of the breadth of a tray, a sky of the breadth of an umbrella.... The magician before time existed was Allah and He revealed Himself by the light of moon and sun and so showed Himself to be verily a magician." The first sentence of this quotation is a Malay paraphrase of the Prophet's simile for God before the creation: "the dark mist above which is a void and below which is a void." As Skeat has suggested, the conception of a miniature universe, Plato's "fixed archetypes," would remind the Malay of the relation of the tiny Indonesian soul to the physical body. It reminds also of Ibn 'Arabi's saying that all the universe contains lies potential in God like the tree in the seed. Indeed, one Malay account of the origin of the magician relates how at the Muslim word of creation (kun) "the seed was created and from the seed the root, from the root the stem, and from the stem the leaves," and then in the same sentence relates how the word of creation brought into being a miniature earth and sky. So time has changed the Malay brother of the Siberian shaman into a humble relative of the Sufi mystic.

Are there traces of the magician in the Malay king? Among some, at least, of the Proto-Malay tribes of the Peninsula the commoner chief or Batin is judge, priest, and magician.

Between the old-world commoner chiefs of the matriarchal tribes of Negri Sembilan and the Raja ruler there are several ties. Like the magician (and the European district officer!) both can influence the weather: a wet season will be ascribed to a cold constitution! Both are chosen from several branches of one family, theoretically from each branch in rotation, actually from the branch that happens to possess the candidate most suitable in years and character. Both, therefore, like the Malay magician hold "offices hereditary or at least confined to the members of one family."

Like the Brahmin the Malay magician and the Malay ruler have a tabu language. A king does not "walk" but "has himself carried"; he does not "bathe" but is "sprinkled like a flower"; he does not "live" but "resides"; he does not "feed" but "takes a repast"; he does not "die" but "is borne away." Of the dozen or more words constituting this vocabulary half are Malay, half Sanskrit. Shaman and ruler both have felt the influence of Hinduism.

Like the magician, the ruler has wonder-working insignia of office. The tambourine and other appurtenances of the shaman will generate an evil spirit if not bequeathed to a successor. To tread on a Malay State drum may cause death: even a Chinaman has been known to swell up and die after removing a hornet's nest from this terrific instrument. The regalia of a Malay ruler were miraculous talismans that controlled the luck of the State. Quite recently in Malacca a pretender to the chieftainship of Naning got hold of the insignia of office, refused to surrender them, and declared that possession of them gave him a good title.

In the old annual ceremony of expelling malignant spirits from a Malay State, the ruler took a leading part. And in the ritual of the now obsolete Perak court magician there are two noteworthy details. At the séance held during his last illness Sultan Yusuf was placed shrouded on the wizard's mat with the wizard's grass-switch in his hand to await, as at an ordinary séance the shaman alone awaits, the advent of the spirits invoked. Again, after the annual séance to "revive" the Perak regalia, the State magician bathed the Sultan and in his person the genies of the State, who would seem therefore to be regarded as His Highness' familiar spirits. According to an old account the State shaman of Perak was eligible for the Sultanate, and the Raja Muda, or heir to the throne, could become State shaman.

Modern man has forgotten that in appropriating buffaloes with peculiar horns, albino children, turtles' eggs and other freaks of nature, the Malay ruler started not as a grasping tyrant but as a magician, competent above all his people to face the dangers of the unusual and untried. For under paganism, Hinduism and Islam magician and raja dead and alive have been credited with supernatural powers. It is claimed for a modern Malay magician that he can remain under water for an hour! It was claimed for a bye-gone ruler of Perak that every Friday he could translate himself to Mecca and once brought back three green figs as evidence of his journey. The graves of kings and the graves of magicians have been alike the object of worship.

[sg_han]

hanglp where did u get that map?

[Mikhail Li]

I thought the theory was that the 1st wave of original aborigines were also from southern China?

Asia Tenggara dihuni oleh ras Australoid (termasuk diantaranya Melanesoid), sebelum dibanjiri oleh ras Mongolid dari Cina Selatan. Saat ini hanya tersisa sedikit dari Australoid tersebut (seringkali disebut Weddoid, atau Dravida, sebutan yang sebenarnya kurang tepat). Adapun mengenai Melayu (yang sebenarnya sama sekali bukan ras, baik Proto Malay maupun Deutro Malay, semuanya datang dari Cina selatan). Kalau ada orang yang menyebut Negritos sebagai "Malay" itu hak mereka. Tapi secara budaya, mereka jauh sekali dari budaya Austronesia.

[Mikhail Li]

Terdapat 6 ras yang menghuni bumi ini. Kata "Ras/Race" ini sama sekali tidak boleh dikacaukan dengan "etnis", karena banyak sekali orang yang mempergunakan kata "ras" dengan maksud "etnis".

Ras Kaukasoid
Adalah ras kulit putih. Walau sebutan putih tidak selamanya benar, karena warna kulit mereka juga beraneka raga. Istilah kaukasoid berasal dari nama pegunungan kaukasia. Benua Eropa (yang sebenarnya hanya sebuah semenanjung di benua Asia saja) adalah daerah di mana ras ini sangat dominan (sebelum masa imperialisme). Selain Eropa, Bangsa-bangsa Hamit di afrika utara dan bangsa-bangsa semit di Timur tengah merupakan anggota dari ras ini. Di anak benua India, serbuan bangsa Arya yang barbar menjadikan India utara dan tengah menjadi basis mereka, menggeser penghuni sebelumnya ke selatan. Dan tentu saja di wilayah kaukasus sendiri sampai ke selatan (Iran). Pada masa sekarang ras ini adalah ras yang jumlahya paling banyak di muka bumi.

Ras Australoid
Austra berarti selatan. Ras ini adalah ras yang berkulit hitam. Tentu saja derajat kehitamannya berbeda-beda. Pada masa lalu, ras ini memiliki penyebaran yang luas dan jumlah yang besar. India adalah daerah di mana ras ini mencapai kemajuan yang tinggi dan mendirikan peradaban yang besar. Tentu saja sebelum mereka diserbu oleh bangsa Arya dari utara. Selain India, Asia Tenggara, Kepulauan Nusantara, dan Asia Timur juga menjadi tempat mereka. Saat ini di Asia Timur sudah hampir tidak ada lagi jejak-jejak mereka. Di Asia Tenggara beberapa dari mereka masih tersisa sebagai suku yang terasing di pedalaman. Sebagian besar dari mereka kemudian terasimilasi oleh ras lain yang datang dari utara. Tidak semua ras ini berkebudayaan cukup tinggi. Ada anggota ras ini yang sangat primitif, belum mengenal pertanian sama sekali, contohnya adalah penduduk asli benua Australia.

Ras Congoid
Pada masa lalu ras ini sering disebut "negroid". "negroid" berarti hitam. Karena "kaukasoid" mengacu pada nama tempat, bukan warna kulit, maka seharusnya ras ini tidak disebut dengan warna, tetapi dengan tempat. Oleh sebab itulah maka sekarang orang banyak yang menyebutnya Congoid, karena pusat ras ini ada di Kongo, Afrika.
Ras ini menguasai Afrika. Kemudian bangsa kulit putih membawanya ke luar Afrika sebagai budak. Saat ini banyak sekali keturunan mereka yang ada di dunia baru Amerika.

Ras Capoid
Kata "Capoid" mengacu pada "Cape" yaitu semenanjung. Yang dimaksud dengan "Cape" ini adalah daerah Afrika bagian selatan. Ras ini adalah ras yang sudah sangat tua. Warna kulitnya cenderung gelap, tetapi tidak hitam. Saat ini keturunan mereka menghuni Gurun Kalahari di Afrika bagian selatan. Contohnya adalah etnis Bushmen dan Hottentot. Ras ini menjadi terkenal setelah ditampilkan dalam film "God Must Be Crazy"

Ras Mongoloid
Adalah ras kulit kuning. Secara garis besar, dibagi menjadi 2 kelompok (sub-ras) yaitu Northern mongoloid (Mongoloid utara) dan Southern Mongoloid/Paleomongoloid (mongoloid selatan). Di asia, yang merupakan pusat mereka, batas antara mongoloid utara dengan selatan ini adalah di Cina, yaitu di sekitar lembah sungai Yangtze (Changjiang).
Yang termasuk mongoloid utara, adalah oang-orang Cina utara, kemudian suku2 mongolia, samoyed, orang jepang utara, korea, ainu, aleut, Indian-Amerika, Finn, dsb. Sedangkan yang termasuk mongoloid selatan adalah orang-orang cina selatan, Melayu, dan Polinesia.
Perbedaan fisik kedua jenis mongoloid ini cukup besar. Mongolid utara secara fisik mirip dengan ras kaukasoid, sedangkan mongoloid selatan dekat dengan ras autraloid. Walaupun demikian mongoloid utara dan selatan ini berasal dari satu leluhur.

Melihat hal tersebut, jelas bahwa orang melayu merupakan bagian dari ras mongoloid. Sedangkan beberapa suku bangsa yang oleh beberapa orang dimasukkan ke dalam golongan melayu, sebenarnya termasuk ras Australoid.

[qrasy]

This is clearly a translation from English wikipedia.

Malay vs South Chinese vs North Chinese. The distance of which is higher you think? And how can you believe that North Chinese is Caucasoid-like?

Also, in Malay the Australoid mixtures are very obvious....

[galvatron prime]

i ask this question during a history lesson in my secondarly school in group project in 1990 about history of malay race and i ask my history teacher she anwser me and my classmate l[ saya bertanya guru sejarah semasa saya di tingkatan 2 ,siapa sebenarnya orang'melayu ',dia menjawab semua orang yang beragama islam dan menduduki semenanjung malaysia yang beragama islam ialah melayu dan bangsa cina dan india yang menganut islam juga' melayu' ,saya bertanya lagi orang thai and orang filipina juga sama keturunan dengan orang melayu yang terdapat dalam buku sains ,dia menjawad mereka bukan melayu ,orang thai yang beragama islam sahaja dianggap 'melayu 'jika indonesia and filipina itu islam juga 'melayu' ,orang asli adalah orang asal melaysia yang berketurunan negroid dan berdajat rendah dan 'sakai ' mereka bukan melayu sungguhpun mereka ada yang menganut islam ,orang portugis tidak boleh masuk umno kerana mereka bukan islam tapi kalau menganut islam boleh disebut melayu juga dia turut mejawad apabila ada murid lain tanya soalan ini.] the people in malaysia are always said muslim are malay and malay are muslim, orang asli are inferior race and' sakai ' so they are not malay even they are muslim ,filipina and siam are malay in race but not in malaysia because they are not muslim as she told me in english ,she a malay teacher as well and respected in school .

[sg_han]

the whole malay passage just means this----->????

"the people in malaysia are always said muslim are malay and malay are muslim, orang asli are inferior race and' sakai ' so they are not malay even they are muslim ,filipina and siam are malay in race but not in malaysia because they are not muslim as she told me in english ,she a malay teacher as well and respected in school ."