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Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (Malay: Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia, Jawi: جابتن كماجوان اسلام مليسيا ) or popularly known as JAKIM (جاكيم ), is a federal government agency in Malaysia that administers Islamic affairs in Malaysia. [1]
Despite the hijab, or tudung being non-mandatory in Malaysia, some government buildings enforce within their premises a dresscode which bans women, Muslim and non-Muslim, from entering while wearing "revealing clothes". [60] [64] In 2014, the feminist Muslim organization Sisters in Islam was named in a fatwa by the Selangor Islamic Religious ...
KIMMA was formed on 24 October 1976 to represent the interests of the minority Indian Muslim community in Malaysia, having split off from the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC). [2] The majority of KIMMA members are Indian Muslim. KIMMA was deregistered in 1978 and 1998 before it was successfully re-registered. [3]
The Government continues to monitor the activities of the Shi'a minority. In April 2000, the state of Perlis passed a sharia law subjecting Islamic "deviants" and apostates to 1 year of "rehabilitation" (under the Constitution, religion, including sharia law, is a state matter). Leaders of the opposition Islamic party, PAS, have stated the ...
Malaysia is a multi-ethnic country, with a predominantly Muslim population. Racial discrimination is embodied within the social and economic policies of the Malaysian government, favouring the Malays and in principle, the natives of Sabah and Sarawak.
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The Minority Rights Action Party or Malay: Parti Tindakan Hak Minoriti, abbreviated MIRA, is a political party in Malaysia. The party was an active party and was formed in 2017 by a group of human rights activist led by Kannan Ramasamy and educationist Late Francis Rhajahh. It was approved registration by the Registrar of Society in November 2018.
The impact of Ketuanan Melayu was always stronger in West Malaysia than in East Malaysia, where the proportion of Muslims is lower and the population has been more integrated. However, as Ketuanan Melayu has become more prominent, and has taken on religious connotations in addition to its ethnic ones, tensions in East Malaysia have grown.