AUGUST 7 — The electoral growth of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) is read by most as reflecting the growing popularity of Islamism or religious conservatism. It might...
AUGUST 7 — The electoral growth of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party is read by most as reflecting the growing popularity of Islamism or religious conservatism.PAS is now the largest single party in Malaysia’s parliament with 20 per cent of its seats and presents a growing threat to Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s Pakatan Harapan coalition.
Since the 1980s, Umno has found the need to compete with PAS on Islamisation. In 1982, Anwar, then a firebrand Islamist, was co-opted by then prime minister Mahathir to embark on Umno’s own Islamisation project. In simple language, Hadi offered a radical vision of anti-colonialism: true independence means restoration of the pre-colonial past when Islam and Muslims reigned. Hence, the post-colonial Malaysian state cannot be truly independent if it preserves the infidel colonialist’s political structure.
Living in bitter memories of the Crusades and wars involving Islamic empires and others, Muslim nationalists often view non-Muslims as a threat to the faith and the congregation. In that sense, colonisation is subjugation of Muslims by infidels or vice-versa. While Indians and Chinese stepped foot on the Malay-Indonesian archipelagos some 2,000 years ago, their influx into the Malaysian peninsula started only in the 19th century with colonialism.
This ‘special status’ was later extended to cover Sabah and Sarawak indigenous people when the Borneo states merged with Malaya to form Malaysia in 1963. After the Sino-Malay post-election riots in 1969, more pro-Malay/native measures were introduced.
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