COMMENT | PAS solely defines Malaysia's Islamic narrative

“The Islamic struggle is not 100 percent owned by PAS. It is one as taught by the Prophet, for all Muslims.”

- Kelantan Amanah legal bureau director Hisham Fauzi

COMMENT | The reason Amanah is not taken seriously by religiously inclined voters in this country who support PAS or PAS adjacent is because according to PAS, Amanah is a creation of DAP.

That is the propaganda out there and Amanah has never been able to debunk it. This is not to say that Amanah has not done its job in presenting a kinder face of Islam in this coalition.

Amanah political operatives enjoy a mutually beneficial relationship with the non-Malay Pakatan Harapan base and superficially project a narrative that there is another form of Islam in this country.

Harapan’s former religious czar Mujahid Yusof Rawa is a perfect example of how Amanah has attempted to have it both ways, before elections as a moderate force and after elections as the enforcer of Islamic doctrine for the Harapan state.

The religious dissonance this has caused was described by...