Fundamentalist Islam Comes to Urban Malaysia
A power structure with only itself to blame starts to confront a Green Wave
By: Murray Hunter
If Malaysia, long thought of as a moderate, modern, multi ethnic state of 33.5 million people, becomes the first Southeast to fall under the thrall of an Arabist Islamic party that wants to implement sixth-century Shariah law, it won’t be so much a victory for religious fundamentalism as it is disillusion and cynicis…
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