Islamic Malaysia

This article gives an execellent back ground on what has been happening in Malaysia. Please give it a read.

Another messenger in the firing line

A WORD, once uttered, can seldom be withdrawn. This is true for most of us and particularly true for politicians who forget that we now live in an age of modern communications technology where every sentence, every utterance, even every burp, hiccup and indiscreet bodily emission will be recorded for posterity.

What has now become a maxim of politics was amply demonstrated recently by the remarks of the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, Najib Tun Razak, who claimed during a press conference in Kuala Lumpur that Malaysia is an ‘Islamic state’ that has ‘never been affiliated’ to a secular position and that Malaysia’s development ‘has been driven by our adherence to the fundamentals of Islam’. (Bernama, 17 July 2007) Needless to say, the deputy prime minister’s remarks were a cause of concern for many Malaysians who have been living under the assumption that the country was a constitutional democracy and not a theocratic state.