Prof Solehah Yaacob: Stop Claiming Iban Hero Rentap as Malay – History Isn’t Yours to Rewrite

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Prof Solehah Yaacob: Stop Claiming Iban Hero Rentap as Malay – History Isn’t Yours to Rewrite

Enough with your delusional, evidence-free garbage.
Stop spewing this pathetic nonsense and dragging Malaysia's reputation through the mud with your clownish historical fanfiction.

Your latest pathetic stunt?

Boldly declaring that the legendary Iban warrior Rentap—the fierce “Raja Darat,” the Earth-tremor who terrified James Brooke and coined the immortal “Agi Idup, Agi Ngelaban” (“Still alive, still fighting”)—was somehow a Malay.

Rentap (Libau anak Ningkan, c. 1800–1863) was Iban, born and bred in Sarawak, a Dayak hero who bled for his people's land and autonomy against colonial invaders.

And let's be brutally honest: this isn't just ignorance—it's the classic symptom of a deep, festering inferiority complex.

When you feel your own civilization lacks depth, grandeur, or ancient glory compared to others, you don't build it up with real evidence.

Instead, you invent it. You steal it. You claim everything on earth belongs to you or started from you.

Romans learned shipbuilding from Malays?

Ancient Malays could fly and taught kung fu to the Chinese?

Srivijaya as some grand Islamic empire that somehow retroactively owns everything?

Now Rentap too?

It's pathetic.

No matter how crushing that inferiority complex is—no matter how desperately you need to feel superior—you do not get to fabricate your own civilization, rewrite imaginary histories, and start claiming icons, heroes, and achievements that never belonged to you in the first place.

You're an Arab language specialist, not a historian, not an anthropologist, not an expert on indigenous Borneo cultures.

Your field is grammar and linguistics—stick to conjugating verbs instead of colonizing Iban heritage.

Every time you open your mouth on history, actual scholars shred your nonsense: no primary sources, no peer-reviewed proof, just wild hypotheses that collapse under basic scrutiny. Historians call it pseudohistory.
This isn't innocent overreach—it's malicious erasure.

You're part of Malaysia's long, shameful tradition of bulldozing indigenous histories to force everything into a narrow Malay-Islamic supremacist fantasy.

This is part of Malaysia's toxic pattern: erasing indigenous stories, bulldozing Dayak/Iban identity, and forcing everything into a narrow Malay-Islamic supremacist fantasy to prop up fragile egos.

Stop it. Stop manipulating facts. Stop the cultural appropriation.

Stop colonizing Iban heritage.

Stop turning Sarawak's icons into props for your inferiority-complex-driven agenda.

Rentap fought against empires like the one your revisionism tries to glorify—he doesn't belong to you or your narrative.

Your absurd, baseless proclamations make Malaysia look like a laughingstock on the world stage.

You deliver fantasy, headlines, and embarrassment.
You have no right to claim what isn't yours.

Hands off Iban history. Hands off Rentap.

If your own heritage feels so empty that you need to hijack everyone else's to feel relevant, that's your problem—not theirs.

Fix your inferiority complex by facing reality, not by inventing fairy tales that make Malaysia look intellectually bankrupt.