Zain, the confused kid


Poor Zain! He’s so confused. Read all about it at The Malaysian Insider.

Zain, the confused kid
By Zan Azlee

AUG 6 — Six-year-old Zain Azri was going to school for the first time. He was like any normal and chatty kid, making friends easily and loved running around for no reason. Now, Zain comes from a pretty liberal Muslim family and is of mixed parentage. His father is Malay and his mother, Chinese. If you grow up as a Muslim in Malaysia and go to public school, then most definitely you would have had to take Islamic studies. Zain had to. On the first day of class in Standard One, at a certain time period, Zain was led by an Ustazah, along with other Muslim students to a different class. [Click here to read the rest of the article]

2 responses to “Zain, the confused kid

  1. When we begin to blur the line between race/culture & religion, that is the starting point of misunderstanding. And as history has proven to us time & time again, what we do not understand, we begin to fear. What we fear, we slowly turn to hate. And what we hate, we will inevitably attempt to destroy.

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