‘Malay first’ Muhyiddin is hoist with his own petard

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From Terence NettoIt is irony of a rather delicious kind that Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin – famed for his “I’m Malay first” avowal in 2010 — is being touted to have committed treason against the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.The English word “treason” does not quite convey the potency of the Malay cognate “derhaka”, as a description of acts done in defiance of the role and dignity of the ruler. In the Malay cosmos, somebody who has committed “derhaka” against the ruler is guilty of an act that very nearly borders on sacrilege, an offence quite distinct from the betrayal that constitutes treasonous conduct in the English-speaking world.Muhyiddin was not expansive about what he meant in the early years of his deputy premiership (April 2009 to July 2015) when he insisted he was “Malay first” and Malaysian after that.His insistence was seen as an attempt to enter a caveat to the moves …