![]() ![]() Their mindset trapped by this legal colouring given to Islam, successive generations of Malay-Muslims have failed to see the beauty of Islam beyond the scope of rules and regulations, often interpreted in a narrowly racialist manner. Islam was given legal recognition by the Federal Constitution, serving the role of an emblem of Malay identity since independence. Despite the potential of tension between both concepts at the theoretical level - the former espousing universalist ideals while the latter reflecting a reasonable degree of ethnocentrism generally considered to be anathema in Islam, in Malaysia, long-standing protagonists of the Malay-Muslim hegemony have shaped political discourse so as to portray harmony between the two. ![]() Many studies have discussed the intricate relationship between Islam and Malayness in defining rules of the game of Malaysia’s post-independence body politic.
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