Interesting discussion. I have spent lots of time in Malaysia over the past 10 years and have seen some of these changes first hand. When I first started going there the % of Muslim population was about 45%, today it is about 65%. the remainder of the population is Chinese. The most telling and yes scary way they influence change is through the tax laws. About 5 years ago they started giving tax credits to Muslim family's for each child and tax penalties for Chinese family's who had children. This is an attempt to force the population growth toward a higher % of Muslims. Not sure how many countries this type of change has been used, but it is how they did it there. They also do it through the job market by forcing business to hire a certain % of Muslims or face tax increases.

When I first started going there it was a very safe place to go with little worry about your personal safety. Today that is not the case. I now can not take taxi's, need to hire a Chinese driver. One colleague actually was removed from the taxi and left beside the highway on his way to the airport from KL, a 90km trip, when the driver discovered he was American. An Infidel as the driver called him.

So a fringe of the population causing problems, yes. But the majority of the population implementing change to further their cause, also yes. But what has been obvious over time is a slow erosion of the freedoms that all the people once had. Many of the Chinese people are now starting to leave the country.