non-Muslim Malaysian attitudes towards Islam

My attention was ( accidentally ) drawn to Muslims in Malaysia, who are concerned that non-Muslims in Malaysia react to Islam in a negative fashion. Never being one to waste a useful accident, I noted the following. 

I guess there is a gradient of 

1. "don't think about or care about" to 

2. "irritated by because it takes up unwanted space in your head" to 

3. "you can't seem to get rid of these irritants" to

4. "hate"

To be precise, all of these are compatible with life as a citizen and resident of Malaysia. There are of course different degrees of public nuisance you can cause, by talking at different volumes, about your own location on that spectrum. ( There is a symmetrically positive wing of the spectrum of course, which is not relevant to this discussion about the negative wing. )

I think a lot of non-Muslim Malaysians are simply at (1.). Based on their daily interactions, or provocation by politicians, it can spiral down (2, 3, 4.) etc. 

All of this is completely [ ordinary, and boring ], to [ a rational, well-informed citizen ], who is educated about [ cultural plurality, the structure of the constitution, the fragility of mental health in the general population, and the offensive and defensive tactics applied in Malaysian realpolitik ].

The problem is that we have an education system ( sum of formal and informal factors ) which produces too few of such people who find it boring and ordinary. 

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