Islam is so ingrained in Malay life that Islamic rituals are practised as Malay culture. It reveals “the masculine principle.” It initiates the gift of love and life. These are to be the seat and abode of the love enjoined. You are His reflection, His likeness. Malays are officially defined as Muslims by virtue Article 160 in the Federal Constitution. Consequently, apostate Malays would have to forfeit all their constitutional privileges, including their Bumiputra status, which entitles them to affirmative action in university admissions and discounts on purchases of vehicles or real estate. Every word and action is noted and timed, with words broken down into phonemes. A significant number of words in the Malay vocabulary can trace their origins to Arabic which is the common language of Islamic prayer and rituals. Mosques are an ordinary scene throughout the country and azan (call to prayer) from minarets are heard five times a day. Government bodies and banking institutions are closed for two hours every Friday so Muslim workers can conduct Friday prayer in mosques. Parallel to the civil courts, there are Sharia courts which conduct legal matters related to Muslim family sphere.

There have been many instances of attacks on the Christian faith and they all point to political agendas by Malay-Muslim political parties. Now that you are equipped with this wisdom, next time this happens to you you will be able to discredit your opponent’s lazy attempt at an argument by stating that Google is nothing more than a confirmation bias generator and if necessary you can even demonstrate it by pulling out your phone, typing in the topic of your debate, showing the person that it does have results which support their claim then scrolling down to show them results that support your claim. Terrorists have no religion but if they are imposing that they are doing it in the name of Allah then that is not acceptable in Islam or any other religion. Prominent Malaysian female examples are Rafidah Aziz, International Trade and Industry Minister and Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali, wife of then Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad. Islam in Malaysia is thus closely associated with the Malay people, something some have criticised, for example saying that Malaysian Islam is “still clothed in communal garb; that Muslims in Malaysia have yet to understand what the universal spirit of Islam means in reality”.

Accusations of prosleytization have been used regularly by various Muslim politicians against Christians in order to court support from the Malays. As defined by the Constitution of Malaysia, Malays must be Muslim, regardless of their ethnic heritage; otherwise, legally, they are not Malay. Muslim and Malays are interchangeable in many daily contexts. Due to decades of Saudi funding, Shia Islam is openly and freely demonised and Shia Muslims are oppressed in the country, their prayers and gatherings are broken up, and the state secret service allegedly engages in Shia forced disappearances. For example, in 2019 Malaysian police raided multiple private functions commemorating the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali at the battle of Karbala, arresting scores of foreign and local Shia Muslims. At certain Malaysian institutions such as the International Islamic University, wearing of the tudung is mandatory; however, for non-Muslim students this usually amounts to a loosely worn piece of cloth draped over the back of the head. Muslim women generally wear the tudung (hijab or headscarf) over their heads. As of 2013, most Muslim Malaysian women wear the tudung, a type of hijab. A tertiary textbook for Malaysian studies following the government-approved syllabus states: “This explains the fact that when a non-Malay embraces Islam, he is said to masuk Melayu (“become a Malay”). That person is automatically assumed to be fluent in the Malay language and to be living like a Malay as a result of his close association with the Malays”.

Hari Raya Aidilfitri (Eid ul-Fitr) is an important festival celebrated by Malaysian Muslims. It is most unlucky that the terms ‘fundamentalism’ and ‘fundamentalist’ as implemented in American Christianity have developed wide coinage not only between non-Muslims but also between Muslims. Have you ever tricked a good friend for their own good? Zheng He, a 14th and 15th century Chinese explorer, is credited to have settled Chinese Muslim communities in Palembang and along the shores of Java, the Malay Peninsula, and the Philippines. This Chinese Muslim community was led by Yan Ying Yu, who urged his followers to assimilate and take local names. Muslims who believe Mirza Ghulam Ahmad to be the fulfilment of the Islamic prophecies concerning the return of Jesus, the Ahmadiyya, are also present. Anti-Shi’ism reaches such an extent that the mainstream media often present Iran in a bad light while often glorying Saudi Arabia. The Eastern Orthodox Church is also present in Brazil. The same body has ruled against ghosts and other supernatural beings. And teach his son to do the same. The guard of the son was entrusted to the father, in this case, Izwan and the guard of the daughter to the mother, S Deepa.