What are the conditions to form a Malay Dong Zong?

The problem with the Malay identity however, is not that it is under threat, but that it is unable to establish its dominance.

Nehru Sathiamoorthy

Muhyiddin recently called for the creation of a Malay Dong Zong .

According to him, there is a need for an umbrella Malay body to be organised along the way that the Chinese are organising themselves under Dong Zong, to advocate for Malay interests.

What are the chances that Muhyiddin’s call will be heeded?

Zero.

Why?

Because for Muhyiddin’s call to be heeded, Malay leaders in Malay NGOs and political parties will have to accept that the Malay identity is under threat. It is only if the petty Malay leaders and organisations believe that their identity is under threat, that they will become amenable to bend their knees to Muhyiddin to save the Malay identity.

The problem with the Malay identity however, is not that it is under threat, but that it is unable to establish its dominance.

If the Malay identity was under threat, even the Malays will not be speaking the Malay language or following the Malay way of life according to the Malay worldview. This is clearly not happening.

What is happening instead is that the Malays are simply unable to spread their influence to the minority races and ethnicity in the federation. The Malays today are simply not able to make the minority races and ethnicities in the country adopt their way of life, language or worldview. Instead, the momentum to reject the Malay identity – be it their language or what they believe is the proper form of attire –  is only increasing amongst the non-Malays in recent times.

Having your identity threatened is the problem of the weak, which the Malays are not.

Being unable to spread their influence is the problem of the not weak but not yet strong, and this is the position that the Malays are in.

It is only those who feel weak and threatened that will unite. Those who desire to feel strong will actually seek to be alone, because it is the nature of winners to stand alone.

Considering this, what the Malays currently want is to consolidate their strength, not unite to survive.

You only unite to defend yourself when your survival is at stake. When you wish to have imperium, you will only be interested in consolidating your strength.

Asking the Malays to unite is like asking the lions to unite to defend themselves against the cats. The Malays are not going to do it for the same reason that the lions won’t do it – they won’t do it, because lions are not threatened by cats.

A lion will only be interested in consolidating its strength to rule the forest. In the same way, the Malays will only be interested to join forces to spread their influence and dominance all across the federation, not to defend themselves against the minority races.

When you want to consolidate your strength, you are not going to call on the various Malay leaders to join forces with you – instead, what you are going to do is go after as many petty Malay leaders as you can, to remove them from the equation, so you can absorb their organisation into yours and consolidate your powers.

Because of that, the potential supreme leader that the petty Malay leaders will be instinctively most attentive to right now will not be the leader that wants their cooperation, but the one that is plotting their annihilation.

The petty Malay leaders will be most attentive to the potential supreme leader that wishes to annihilate them, because they will instinctively realise that the members of their organisation is willing to sacrifice them, in order to forward the greater good of their cause.

For a petty Malay leader to survive in the state that the Malays are in today, they have to become the sort of leaders who feel that “it is better to be the tail of a dragon, than it is to be the head of a rat.”

The petty Malay leaders that feel that it is better to be a head, even if it is the head of the rat, will be annihilated by the Malay dragon with the consent of the Malay grassroots.

Between Anwar and Muhyiddin, it is likely Anwar that is the Malay dragon.

Anwar is already eliminating many petty Malay leaders. Khairy and Hishammuddin are in exile. Syed Saddiq is most likely going to be humiliated and whipped soon, unless he resigns himself to become the “tail of the dragon”. Muhyiddin is being crushed by multiple court cases. The recalcitrant Malay leaders of the old generation like the late Daim Zainuddin was hounded to his last day and Mahathir is likely next.

That Anwar seems to be sparing Pas might be likely because he believes that at some point,  Pas will accept him as the supreme leader of the Malays, and rally behind his leadership, for the greater good of the Malay Muslim cause.

Pas after all, has always shown that it is willing to subordinate itself to even those who are weaker than itself, if it believes that it is for the sake of the greater good of the cause.

As a matter of fact, Pas is today subordinating itself to Bersatu, although Bersatu is weaker than Pas, for that very reason.

Pas however, looks like it is on the brink of changing its mind against Bersatu. Pas today, likely does not believe that the Malay Muslim interest lies in it subordinating itself to Muhyiddin and Bersatu.

Because of that, in the near future, Pas will likely either stand on its own or subordinate itself to Anwar’s leadership, because that is how it feels that the Malay Muslim interest can be best preserved and forwarded.

Muhyiddin might be publicly calling for a Malay Dong Zong, but Muhyiddin is not capable of creating a Malay Dong Zong.

Anwar might not be publicly calling for a Malay Dong Zong, but it is Anwar that is currently in the process of creating a Malay Dong Zong.

In this year of the Dragon, a new dragon is emerging amongst the Malay, after its old dragon retired in 2002 and went rogue in 2018.

That new Dragon’s name is Anwar, and I predict that this new dragon will be universally accepted as the new supreme leader of the Malays, even by Bersatu’s ally Pas, in the very near future.