Chandra Muzaffar Muslim Quotations

This would be against the grain with the way Islam is practiced in this region. I think Malaysian Muslims, like Indonesian Muslims and elsewhere in Southeast Asia, are not comfortable with this sort of very rigid, dogmatic approach to religion.

A lot of Muslims feel hemmed in. They feel that they've been pushed against the wall ... and they responded to it by supporting parties that waved the Islamic flag,

Unlike the other Muslim countries caught in the eye of the storm, Malaysia is free of the hegemonic consequences of big powers that are experienced by Afghanistan and Iraq for example.