Is it really about 'bangsa dan agama'?

Icerd rally at Dataran Merdeka on Saturday.

Icerd turned into an issue because it is politically expedient to do so? 

YESTERDAY, the national focus was on the rally against the ratification of the Inter-national Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (Icerd) in Kuala Lumpur. But perhaps we are missing the forest for the trees.