Since this is a textbook on history, then it wouldn't betray any historical sense to say that both Christianity and Islam also mention Jesus Christ or Isa al-Masih (Islam's reference to Jesus).

It is also correct to say that the main difference from historical studies' point of view is that the preserved data about Jesus in both religions come from different times and places.

The Christian sources are dated to a period less than 30 years (Mark's account and Paul's letters) after his death, written in places geographically within Jesus' location.

The Islamic sources (Qur'an) that preserve data about Jesus is dated to more than 550 years after the time of Jesus, written in places geographically far from Jesus' location (more than 1200 kilometers apart; it's about the distance between Singapore and central Thailand).

Since the textbook is about history, and since both religions talk about Jesus, I think it is important to help students to understand the main difference between Christianity and Islam from a historical studies' point of view.

In a way the unilateral announcement by Muhyiddin Yassin to make history a compulsory subject was a wake-up call. The fact that the independence agreement was signed by all the three major races has been lost and the Non-Malays are called pendatangs. Where did we go wrong? The Non-Malay component parties of Barisan are largely to be blamed for allowing such a pathetic state of affairs. I doubt very much that they would ever earn the trust of the Non-Malays and may have to hold on to the straw with UMNO's patronage

There is a story of a new priest who was visiting his new parish. He was travelling through miles and miles of bush land, marshes and dry sandy patches of waste land. It was very depressing. When he rounded a hill, he saw laid out right before his eyes a lush green valley, with a meandering stream. There were fruit bearing trees, and livestock...the priest walked and stopped and marveled at the richness of this stretch of land. Finally he came across a person bent over, weeding and clearing a patch of land. The man looked up at the priest and smiled. The priest then said, "You must be so blessed..for the bounty that God has given you..."
The man looked at the priest....he took out his old towel and slowly wiped his sun-drenched face, his bulging arms and his dirty fingers and looked the priest straight in the eye..."oh yeah? Did you see the land that you passed earlier?" the priest nodded..."well sir, that was what the Lord gave to me!"

This story about the land being kaya-raya is a lot of bunkum. The true Malay heartland on the peninsula are the Malay states of Kelantan, Trengganu, Kedah/Perlis, Narathiwat, Patani, Satun and Yala. These are the states with the minimum pendatangs. We can compare it to the states where there are a lot of pendatang...Selangor, Perak, Penang, Johor..a lot of pendatangs. See the difference???
By the end of the first world war the Chinese businessmen had been investing in rubber planting in the Federated States and Johor. There was little investment in Kedah as there was lawlessness. But immediately after the Anglo-SIamese Treaty large groups of Chinese businessmen came to kedah from Penang to grow rubber. The real spur happened after the First World War..British planters were able to raise money on the London STock Exchange...Indian laborers were recruited from India..these were the factors that made Malaya...by 1922 more than 600,000 acres of rubber were panted by no less than 300,000 Indian workers with mney raised in London...
The pendatang came, they worked on the land, they toiled.... and did the lot.The Malay rulers controlled the rivers, and fought among themselves to collect rent. There was civil war and banditry. "Fortunately" the British intervened at the behest of the rivals. The British imposed their laws and the land code, enforce law and order..while the newly installed Malay rulers sat back and reaped the profits. All the land used by the pendatangs were "useless" land, the natives had no use for them, they were not displaced and sent off to some settlements. They stayed on the most fertile lands. Meanwhile the pendatangs toiled away..and thousands and thousands of poor Indians died in the process.
These pendatangs built their houses away from the Malay dwellings, these were new areas....so the towns and cities, the railways, the bridges, the ports and the roads...sprang up...who built them, who needed them...? Did the pendatang pick up gold pieces or loose diamonds lying on the ground? Take a good look...did they seize the land from the Malays? Was it not the pendatang that developed the land? If no pendatang came perhaps we would all be like Narathiwat and Kelantan...?

the forrm4 history have never mention the history of jews and it religion ?and in world history section have never mention the history of Genghis Khan and it mongol empires ,why?

May 13 is mentioned but Maulidur Rasul 1964 Masehi is not.

The mastermind of JWW Birch's assassination is a hero but the mastermind of Sir Henry Gurney's assassination is a terrorist.

Penjajah (Kristian?) Portugis, Belanda & Inggeris are stated but penjajah who keeps on asking for bunga emas (and even invaded Langkawi) is not (no wonder some would fall for that 'Kristian Agama Rasmi?' conspiracy).

Definitely the history book mentions less about other religions, but they are simply not visible because even recently, these 'other religions' are totally quiet when MCA wants to sue Kelantan for issuing ban on gambling. Bak kata pepatah, diam tu tandanya setuju. Well, maybe Hinduism is more visible since they fight against teenage drinking in Selangor.

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/world/articl e/imf-strauss-kahn-resigns-as-managing-director/

Why cant ANWAR IBRAHIM follow suit? Isn’t this the same?

Our forefathers cleared the thick dangerous jungle,developed the country & and many died defending the virgin country yet recent illegal immigrants are conferred the so called 'bumi' status.?
Our future generations must not be poison by book such as Interlok or distortion of our history to meet certain racist agenda of Mamak Mahathir or Umnoputras.

Not only form 4 textbook, but from primary 2 there is a systematic biasness of syllabus skewing history towards Malayness especially in Kajian Tempatan, Civic whom they speak so much even the leader who is still alive. In a way they are making them to be their national idol and what ever the leader said is THE TRUTH, makinng that particular leader as Pharoh of Malaysia.

We have lost one or two generation of good and unbias teachers, headmasters included, that is why I am not surprise to hear them utter "Pendatang" to non-Malay. Non of this happen in the 60's, 70's and a part of 80's.

The Chinese and Indian Leaders perticularly MCA, MIC were too busy making money for themselves and did not include academicians in their political team or the intellectual is the least important in their agenda. As a result we see what we get because of their negligence.

Not too late. Better be late than never. I learn from a Malay motivasi program and that particular leader said: " Tolak Unsur" means push 2 times back track one step. My conclusion to his meaning is " if non-Malays are not resisting to their advancement, we will end up against the wall " . So leaders for the sack of our future generation stop their pushes and advancement, we are the stack holders of this country - Tanah Tumpah Darahku, Biar Putih Tulang Jangan Putih Mata as some only see $$ sign.

SO STAND UP and BE COUNTED. For Tomorrow starts from Today. Yesterday is a lesson though bitter but never too late to make it count for our children children.

Are they coming up with a new history that the whites in America and the Brits in Australia are the sons of the soil ? Just to justify the pirates from Indonesia and the half breeds in Umno as the Bumi.

They are losing the malay vote so this must be done.

This article comes as a timely reminder for all including myself to always discuss with your children what they learn at school.
Yesterday, my daughter came home and told me that she had learnt as part of her Std 2 Bahasa lesson about 2 heroes in Malaysian history. They had killed JWW Birch. The reason given for the killing by the teacher was that (I quote) 'JWW Birch had not respected the Malay culture'. I was shocked and speechless for awhile and took some time to ponder how to respond. In the end, I had to explain to her that no, we do not condone in any way murder for whatever reason and should instead focus on discourse and discussion to gain understanding and respect. Secondly, I told her it was against God's laws to murder anyone. And then I had to tell her, people do a lot of things in history but as it is a school lesson, we would do well to consider what we think is the key learning we should take away from their actions, and not blindly follow what they did.

It was not an easy thing to explain to a young child of 8 but ultimately I think she understood that killing another person is wrong. I am still shocked that we can be teaching our children that taking one's life is to be hero-worshipped if it was done in protecting one's 'maruah' and 'budaya'.

Please, for all parents out there, take a moment to know what our kids are being taught in school. Be careful and take steps to teach your child better. The education system does not seem to be doing its part.

"in the words of Prof. Ramlah Adam, a Perkasa council member-cum-deputy chair panellist on the government’s review board – as “investors and coolies”.

My Comment.
I would like to remind the learned ( I hope) professor that my fore fathers(Sikh's from the Punjab,India) did not come here neither as investors nor as coolies.
They were brought here as police officers/armed forces to keep the peace and contribute to the security of this country.
In fact some of my relatives fought and were even killed by the communist.
That is a true historical fact and should be highlited to do justice to thir great deeds and contributions towards this country.