response to the human book

ok i don't really know how the comment by "human book" relates to my previous post... but it definitely is useful information. useful, but not entirely accurate though. esitmated figures aren't very good justification. as a responsible Singaporean and member of the Southeast Asian community, it would be imprudent to comment on the internal politics and policies of a neighbour. All i can say, however, is that should such discimination actually exist, is it really all that unexpected? can an individual really expect to receive racial and religious equality in a country that is founded fundamentals of Islamic belief, and not secularism?
This is not a judgement biased against an Islamic country, but a generalised statement referring to all "religious" states. Racial and religious equality/autonomy cannot happen unless the political and judicial actors abide by a constitution steeped in secularism and unbiased in its treatment of the citizens, regardless of color or faith. and how many states can actually lay claim to that? after all, most nations we see today were founded on religious fundamentals. The first citizens of modern USA were a migrant group of Protestants, while the nations of Euope decended from kingdoms where church and state were symbian entities. Other examples abound. I do not think we will ever witness a state where there will be COMPLETE EQUALITY, but we can certainly work towards the closest approximation of it. And that involves people standing up and fighting for their rights, fighitng for INCREASED TOLERANCE.