The majority of Muslims in Indonesia and Malaysia are in favor of making strict Islamic rules the official law of these multi-religious countries, polling from the Pew Research Center showed in a sign of the rising influence of religious conservatism. Some 86 percent of Malaysians said they are in favor of making Shariah regulations, which
The majority of Muslims in Indonesia and Malaysia are in favor of making strict Islamic rules the official law of these multi-religious countries, polling from the Pew Research Center showed in a sign of the rising influence of religious conservatism.
With Indonesia, nearly two out of three people surveyed were in favor of implementing Islamic regulations over the current secular laws. This, in turn, is influencing policymaking in Malaysia and Indonesia, where incomes and economic growth were checked by the pandemic and a global slowdown. a few days ago found that most of the Malaysian Muslims polled were in favor of religious leaders entering politics, while close to half of the respondents surveyed in Indonesia embrace this.
Last November, Parti Islam Se-Malaysia won most seats of any single party in the national vote and was supporting a conservative candidate to defeat Anwar Ibrahim in the race to become the next prime minister. criminal code that punishes people who have sex outside marriage in the most significant example of conservatives’ power in influencing state policies.
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