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Key is need to be malay so can have walkover and deny TCB to contest again. So follow father and mother is what they say count depending on situation. Whether in community follow this or that is irrelevant.

It is NOT what they say.  This is what the entire Malay community say, and you should respect that.  Do not impose your Chinese tradition on another culture.

Halimah could have chosen to be Indian or Malay.  She chose the latter, became a Muslin, speaks Malay not Tamil, eats Malay food, wears Malay costumes. There is nothing about her which is even remotely Indian unless you doctor a photo of her wearing a sari.