Kedah Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor recently urged the federal government to grant temporary Malaysian citizenship to Rohingya refugees. Speaking to reporters, he argued that Malaysia should not be “stingy” in extending such rights, insisting it would allow the Rohingya access to healthcare, education, and legal protection until they can return to Myanmar. He framed the idea as an act of compassion that supposedly no other country — not Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, nor Thailand — could match.
“I think it is not wrong for us to grant temporary citizenship until they can return to their home country,” they said. “With these citizenship rights, they can use health and education services through the law, and receive protection for themselves and their families.”
“I am sure that Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Thailand, and other countries that are also receiving the influx of Rohingya refugees cannot replicate this measure of granting citizenship rights, if it is implemented in Malaysia,” they said.
“With gentleness and generosity of heart, I am confident that Malaysia can implement it.”
Malaysia’s total fertility rate has fallen below the 2.1 replacement level. The Malay rate itself is now hovering just under replacement, while the Chinese and Indian rates are catastrophically low (below 0.8).
In contrast, the Rohingya fertility rate remains stubbornly high at 3.8–5 children per woman.
Granting any form of citizenship — even “temporary” — to over 200,000 individuals with such reproductive patterns would trigger irreversible demographic shifts within a single generation. Sanusi, who never misses an opportunity to warn that “Melayu terancam” is curiously silent when the threat comes in the form of state-sanctioned population transfer.
Fifth- and sixth-generation Malaysian Chinese and Indians — citizens by birth, protected under Article 14 of the Federal Constitution, major taxpayers, and the backbone of countless industries — are still routinely told by certain political camps to “balik China” or “balik India.”
The irony is insane:
- 5th- and 6th-generation Malaysian Chinese & Indians – born here, pay taxes, built the economy, roads, hospitals, schools – still get told “balik China, balik India” by Sanusi’s supporters.
- Rohingya – zero contribution, bring crime, gangs, filth, begging, social problems – Sanusi rolls out the red carpet and wants to give them citizenship.
Yet Sanusi is prepared to fast-track citizenship for a community that has, in many urban areas, become associated with organised begging, pickpocketing rings, drug peddling, and squatting. The double standard is breathtaking.
Malaysian public hospitals are turning away citizens for lack of beds. Government schools in many states operate double sessions because classrooms are overflowing. Subsidies are being slashed and new taxes introduced just to keep the budget afloat. Adding hundreds of thousands of new dependents to an already collapsing welfare system is not compassion — it is cruelty to the citizens who elected the government in the first place.
Large segments of the Rohingya community in Malaysia treat the UNHCR refugee card as a get-out-of-jail-free pass. Police operations repeatedly uncover Rohingya involvement in vice syndicates, extortion rackets, and violent turf wars, particularly in Kuala Lumpur and Penang.
Tourists in Bukit Bintang and Jalan Alor already mistake Rohingya beggars and touts for locals, damaging Malaysia’s reputation. Citizenship would not civilise this behaviour; it would legitimise it.
Fifty-seven member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation have refused to offer the Rohingya permanent resettlement. Even wealthy Gulf monarchies keep them at arm’s length.
Myanmar itself stripped them of citizenship in 1982 and has no intention of taking them back. Malaysia risks becoming the world’s default dumping ground for a stateless population that no one else wants — all because one state leader wants to look virtuous on the evening news.
If Datuk Seri Sanusi is genuinely convinced that Kedah can absorb and integrate the Rohingya better than the rest of Malaysia, let him prove it.
Relocate every Rohingya currently in Selangor, Penang, Johor, and Kuala Lumpur to Kedah. Fund their healthcare, education, housing, and job programmes exclusively with the Kedah state budget. No federal funds, no burden on other states. Give him three years. The entire country will be watching.
Until he accepts that challenge, his calls for “temporary citizenship” should be seen for what they are: reckless political posturing dressed up as humanitarianism.
Malaysia has shown generosity to refugees for decades, but generosity must have limits. Citizenship is not a charity handout; it is the highest privilege a nation can bestow. To offer it lightly — especially to a community that has demonstrated an inability or unwillingness to respect our laws — is not kindness.
It is national suicide wearing a smile.
Sanusi wants to be the Rohingya superhero? Fine. Take ALL of them to Kedah!
Dear Menteri Besar of Kedah, If you love the Rohingya THAT much, announce it today:
From Ketuanan Melayu to Ketuanan Rohingya – Courtesy of Sanusi
Sanusi and his crowd scream day and night that “Ketuanan Melayu terancam” and that Malays will vanish if another mamak stall is opened by a non-Malay.
You didn’t just open the door; you rolled out the red carpet for Ketuanan Melayu to be peacefully, democratically, and permanently replaced by Ketuanan Rohingya.
All while using the same PAS flag and shouting “Allahu Akbar”.
“All 200,000+ Rohingya in Malaysia – pack your bags and move to Kedah. Only Kedah. We’ll make you Kedah citizens under the Sanusi Greater Kedah Kingdom.”
Perfect solution, right?
Right now in Bukit Bintang, Jalan Alor, KLCC – Rohingya beggars, drug dealers, pickpockets, gangsters everywhere. Tourists think they’re Malaysians. Our international image is in the toilet because of them.
But Sanusi says “no problem, just give citizenship”.
Cool. We have a better idea:
Round up every single Rohingya in the country and bus them straight to Kedah. Let Sanusi take care of them.
- Free hospital? Kedah hospitals got space.
- Free education? Kedah schools are world-class, right?
- Jobs? Plenty of paddy fields and rubber estates in Greater Kedah.
- Fund everything with Kedah taxpayer money only. Not one sen from Selangor, Penang, or KL.
The Fast-Track to a Rohingya Menteri Besar
With a fertility rate of 3.8–5+ children per woman and “temporary” citizenship that everyone knows will quietly become permanent, give it just 15–20 years:
- Sungai Petani, Gurun, Alor Setar, Pendang, and the whole “Greater Kedah” will have Rohingya-majority constituencies.
- Voter rolls will be packed with brand-new citizens who vote as a solid bloc.
- The next PAS state assemblymen, state EXCO, and yes, the next PAS Menteri Besar of Kedah can very legitimately be Rohingya.
- A few election cycles later, the next PAS President himself could be Rohingya, speaking fluent Kedah Malay with a Rakhine accent while lecturing the rest of us about “ketuanan Melayu”.
Sanusi keeps shouting that Malays are “terancam” and going extinct. Well, congratulations: he just handed PAS’s future leadership to the one community that is still having 5 kids each while everyone else is at 0.8–1.8.
So yes, Datuk Seri, please go ahead. Grant the citizenship. Send all 200,000+ to Kedah. We’ll sit back with popcorn and watch the first Rohingya Menteri Besar of Kedah hoist the PAS flag in 2045.
57 Muslim countries refuse to give them permanent residency. Even Myanmar doesn’t want them back and doesn’t recognise them as citizens. But Sanusi thinks Malaysia should be the world’s refugee dumpster.
Our hospitals are collapsing. Schools are overcrowded. Subsidies cut. Taxes going up. Yet Sanusi wants to play hero and make everything worse.
Fine. We agree with his idea – on one condition:
All Rohingya go to Kedah. 100% funded by Kedah’s budget. Sanusi handles everything himself.
Give him 3 months. If he succeeds, we’ll clap. If he fails (and he will), maybe he’ll finally shut up about “Malaysian kindness”.
Deal?
So please, go ahead. Send every single Rohingya to Kedah.
Let history record that the man who ended Ketuanan Melayu forever wasn’t a Chinese tycoon or an Indian lawyer; it was a PAS Menteri Besar trying to win cheap applause for being “berhati mulia”.
Source : FMT
