Friday, August 13, 2010

Kadazan - Why it is so repulsive to some?

Dusun hillmen coming down to the coast to trad...Image via Wikipedia
There have been a lot of debates and controversies with regard to the origin of the term "Kadazan", which was decided as an umbrella term to refer to the various ethnic tribes broadly classified by their colonial masters as "Dusun", who then formed about 55% of the population of North Borneo (Sabah), before becoming independent for only 14 days when, together with Sarawak, Singapore and Malaya, it formed the new Nation of Malaysia based on the aspirations, hopes and vision of a better to-marrow for its people, especially the indigenous Christians, which were reduced to the TWENTY POINTS but through the political machinations of the dominant Muslim components parties in the Barisan National, almost all of what had been the core and sacred foundations of the new Nation had been eroded away through multiple amendments of both the Federal and State Constitution after Singapore was kicked out of the Federation on 9th August, 1965.
What had followed was a blatant disregard for the rights and privileges of People of Sabah especially those who are non-Muslim natives, or those who remained convicted in the faith of their choice, and their main target was to convert them to Islam which taught that all non-Muslims are non-human, Jews and Christians are pigs and monkeys, so the term "Kadazan" which mean "human" was so repulsive to the tenet of their Islamic faith that upon conversion to Islam, the new converts were encouraged to isolate and separate themselves from their 'pagan' brothers. Examples of these are the cases of the Tambanuo and Orang Sungei, the Idaan and Bagahak.

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