The country welcomes you if you are here to visit our natural attractions.
Please don’t come if you are here to participate or join any festivals or events where it is held in the heart of Kuala Lumpur, be it in Bukit Bintang or in Dataran Merdeka where the event you are attending could potentially lead you and other participants to perform and undertake or promote unnatural activities.
Malaysia doesn’t welcome you if you are here solely for any of the above.
Please take your dollars, renminbi, euro, pounds, yens home.
Not that this country doesn’t need your monies but only if you are visiting our natural and historical sites.
Malaysia, however, will welcome you if you wish to come and do surfing in the flooded waters during the yearly floods in the East Coast states, a unique experience and attraction not available anywhere else in the world except in Malaysia.
Why Malaysia doesn’t welcome you?
Just look at the recent Rain Rave Water Festival in Kuala Lumpur.
It stirred up so much hatred amongst Malaysians of various ethinicity and religion.
The comments published in the social media and mainstream media are so toxic that an ordinary Malaysian viewing from the outside would have thought that we are staying in Gaza.
But then we realise that this is Malaysia.
Not Gaza.
A country widely recognized as a peaceful, multicultural, and stable nation.
In fact, as of March 2026, Malaysia climbed to 13th place in the 2025 Global Peace Index (GPI), ranking as the second most peaceful country in ASEAN.
A country where more than 75% of the population treat and respect each other with kindness like the Malay mechanic waived his RM145 repair fee after sensing the Chinese man he helped — later identified as a single father from Tawau, Sabah — was struggling to make ends meet.
And that was not a staged event but a true case and believe it or not, it is seldom reported but it happens fairly frequently.
Many and majority of Malaysians are like the Malay mechanic and the single father from Tawau.
Eking out an honest living everyday.
But because of that event, Malaysians turned against each other.
Screaming and shouting at each other and calling others stupid.
To the many and majority of Malaysians, the last 2 weeks was like coming home everyday and seeing the parents arguing non stop.
And to the many and majority of Malaysians, witnessing those chronic conflicts may result in us suffering from high stress levels, leading to behavioral issues, poor sleep, withdrawal, or taking on the blame for the conflict.
I don’t want that and I am sure many and majority of Malaysians also do not wish to be stressed out and have poor sleep, withdrawal and behavioural issues arising from the resultant conflicts.
We can’t stop the government from organising and hosting such events.
They never listen to the ordinary Malaysians anyway.
But if you, the tourists skipped it, our government might cease and not organise any such events anymore in the future.
Thank you all in advance.
Your decision, for sure, will ensure that Malaysians will not quarrel or calling each other stupid again.
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