"Chandra Muzaffar" is a Malaysian Muslim political scientist, and an Islamic reformist and activist. He has written on civilisational dialogue, human rights, Malaysian politics and Foreign relations of Malaysia/international relations.

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What we actually want to do is let the foreigners think for us. This is what we see in the rich Middle East countries where foreigners are actually doing all the thinking and they are the ones running the show.

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Unlike the other Muslim countries caught in the eye of the storm, Malaysia is free of the hegemonic consequences of big powers that are experienced by Afghanistan and Iraq for example.

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I feel sorry for Anwar, but I feel even sorrier for the country. I feel sad for the system of justice for this country, what it has come to.

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The findings are not at all surprising. This is partly because ethnic boundaries are real in our society and almost every sphere of public life is linked to ethnicity in one way or another.

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The nation wants him to act. We cannot sweep these things under the carpet. These issues are complex and they seem to be the consequence of a certain mindset prevalent within the religious bureaucracy.

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Malaysians are not idiots or imbeciles.

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But equating Islam and Muslims with violence and terror is not new. It has been going on for a long time.

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This would be against the grain with the way Islam is practiced in this region. I think Malaysian Muslims, like Indonesian Muslims and elsewhere in Southeast Asia, are not comfortable with this sort of very rigid, dogmatic approach to religion.

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It's back to square one. I don't think the situation is getting better.

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