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Monday, March 22, 2004

Moderate Islam Comes Out on Top in Malaysian Polls

Reuters

Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was headed for a landslide election win on Sunday as unofficial results showed his brand of moderate Islam had vanquished the Islamist opposition...Abdullah pitted his own moderate, progressive views on Islam against the dogma of PAS -- a party which wants to turn the country into a conservative Islamic state even though 40 percent of the 25 million people are non-Muslims...
The margin of victory means that the moderate party attracted not only the non-Muslims of Malaysia, but also a sizable fraction of the Islamic population, suggesting radical Islam in southeast Asia may not have a strong base even among Muslims.
Posted by: Zayphar / 3/22/2004 10:11:00 AM


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