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Festivals are held for all major religions, which are participated in by people from that religion and others in a Malaysian practise known as 'Open House'. [17] Malaysia has a reputation for being a successful multicultural country, with the only two serious occurrences of racial violence in modern history occurring in 1946 and 1969. [25]
Malaysia must continue as a secular State with Islam as the official religion". [10] National Mosque of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur. Four of Malaysia's states, Kelantan, Terengganu, Kedah, and Perlis, are governed by Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), which is a conservative Islamic political party, with a proclaimed goal of establishing an ...
History of religion in Malaysia (3 C, 1 P) I. Islam in Malaysia (8 C, 17 P) J. ... Malaysian people by religion (7 C) O. Religious organisations based in Malaysia (11 ...
Hinduism is the fourth-largest religion in Malaysia. About 1.97 million Malaysian residents (6.1% of the total population) are Hindus, according to 2020 Census of Malaysia. [2] This is up from 1.78 million (6.3% of the total population) in 2010. [3] Most Malaysian Hindus are settled in western parts of Peninsular Malaysia. There are 3 states in ...
Folk religion in Malaysia is practised either openly or covertly depending on the type of rituals performed. Some forms of belief are not recognised by the government as a religion for statistical purposes although such practices are not outlawed. There is a deep interaction between the Chinese folk religion of the large Malaysian Chinese ...
Christianity is the third-largest religion in Malaysia. In the 2020 census, 9.1% of the Malaysian population identified themselves as Christians. [1] About two-thirds of Malaysia's Christian population lives in East Malaysia, in the states of Sabah and Sarawak.
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In May 2008, Malaysian customs confiscated 3 Christian CDs with the words Allah written on them from a Christian Sarawakian lady, Jill Ireland bint Lawrence Bill. She challenged the confiscation of the CDs in court. [needs update] [91] In March 2010, the Malaysian Home Ministry seized 30,000 Malay bibles from a port in Kuching, Sarawak. [92]