Bringing home the message of integration

I REFER to the letter by Arof Ishak titled “Integration, not history, welds Malaysia” (The Star, Oct 17). I fully agree with him that objectivity and factuality are crucial to the discipline of history and that “history cannot be an instrument of the government to achieve political aims”.

So does Tan Sri Mohd Sheriff Mohd Kassim through his letter, “Welding 1Malaysia via history” (The Star, Oct 10). He states that our history textbooks “should be written in a factual manner without dressing them up to suit certain political aims”.