"cornholio" wrote in message
...

A democracy that treats some people more equally than others:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumiputra

isn't much of a democracy.

Article 160 of the Malaysian constitution states:

Article 160 defines a Malay as being one who "professes the religion
of Islam, habitually speaks the Malay language, conforms to Malay
customs and is the child of at least one parent who was born within
the Federation of Malaysia before independence of Malaya on the 31st
of August 1957."

It's an islamofascist state that persecutes people of other faiths.
Just because they call it a democracy and/or
republic doesn't mean it is.

=============

That is interesting because it has been previously very multi-cultural, and
quite probably still is.

There have been other states that either do or have referred to themselves
as a democracy. To mention a few - East Germany, North Korea, China
(People's Republic), etc.

Iain