politics and tension

 In the book Hard Truths, Lee remarks about Malays failing to integrate. It also reopens the thorny question of what integration should mean. Moreover, when Lee suggested that the community’s high regard for public piety is one of the stumbling blocks, it would have been perceived as throwing a challenge to their interpretation of Islam.

MR LEE LATER APOLOGISED, before the elections, in a move to assuage the malay community.