Malaysian restaurants stop selling Coke

[Grant Lee]

> KUALA LUMPUR: About 1,200 Malaysian restaurants have stopped selling
> Coca-Cola to protest what they consider a symbol of Western oppression of
> Muslims, a coalition of Islamic nongovernment organisations said on
Tuesday.
>
> The boycott is meant to "send a signal that Muslims will not tolerate
> Western efforts ... to trample on the rights of Muslims in Palestine, Iraq
> and anywhere else in the world," said Ma'amor Osman, secretary general of
> the Muslim Consumers Association of Malaysia.

Clearly a windfall for the proprietors of the local Pepsi distributor and
other soft drink factories.
[http://www.manufacturing.com.my/beverage.html] The latter _may_ even be
Chinese, or other ethnic minorities who face open and institutionalised
racism in Malaysia. It seems the razor that Dr Mahathir walks, in appeasing
(1) global capital, (2) Bumiputra nationalism/national capital and (3)
slamism, is getting sharper and sharper.