It is Taboo to mention race .

One does not always take Ibrahim Ali seriously . Poor guy .The guy sparkles once in a while .I admire him for his political stunts .I suppose he did not get the nickname 'katak ' for nothing .He has been jumping around for so long in the political arena that at every jump one always think of the worse and yet he always landed on a higher ground .
                 Anyway for now he is not the subject matter for this discussion .It is about what he brought up in his Facebook recently to the effect that bringing in 45,000 Indian nationals into Malaysia is not in the best interest of the country .The reasons he gave for not wanting an influx of Indian nationals sound flimsy and petty .Fear of social problems emerging as a result of such influx are imaginary.There are bigger fears that he should talk about .
                  Let us take a closer look at the food outlet industry ,as an example.Indian food outlets or better known as the Mamak shops dominate almost every corner of Malaysian streets,no matter whether they are in big cities or the small towns or even in the smallest of the villages.The official figure of 15,000 given to the number of these outlets is a gross under estimate  if only one care to look more closely at the eating centres throughout the country .
                    The concern does not stop there .One has to look at the dishes,the workers,and the images displayed in their posters to realize that these outlets are anything but Malaysians .In spite of all these characteristics  the outlets are always crowded no matter what time of the day is .
                 In the context of the growth of the Malaysian food industry as a whole ,questions can be asked as to the positions of other ethnic food outlets .Try opening a Malay restaurant next to or nearby to a mamak shop and see what happens .It will be out of business within weeks .There is no way the Malay eating shop can compete in terms of food variety, customer service and price.The people who suffer most will be the the Malay restaurant operators because the alternative to the food served in the Malay restaurants are found in the Mamak shops .
                    I suppose the Chinese restaurants are spared of these threats unless of course the Mamak shops begin to serve roast pork or the sharks fin soup in their menu.
                 I think it is within this context that Ibrahim Ali should focus his attention when addressing the problems of the influx of Indian nationals to this country .