Amanah taking risk by adopting centrist approach - Mujahid

INTERVIEW | Former religious affairs minister (Pakatan Harapan administration) Mujahid Yusof Rawa has admitted that it can get tough handling the opposition's narrative that uses race and religion.

The same goes for Amanah, which is tasked to ward off PAS' attacks, said the Amanah vice-president.

"We don't play that game (religious sentiments). We don't lie and say that we are a 'holy party'. We are a political party and we have our weaknesses.

"We champion the 'rahmatan lil alamin' concept, which promotes universal values and love and compassion among mankind and is centrist.

"Maybe with this concept, it is difficult to handle the right and left wings. But to me, the concept we are championing, although difficult, we will take the risk for the sake of a better Malaysia," Mujahid told Malaysiakini in a recent interview.

As the minister formerly in charge of religious affairs, Mujahid has personally faced the opposition's attacks on the race and religious front.

The attacks dragged on to court long after the fall of the previous Harapan government in 2020, and so far, at least two cases have sided with Mujahid.

In May this year, the Shah Alam High Court dismissed PAS leader Ahmad Dusuki Rani's appeal against the Sessions Court decision on his defamation suit involving Mujahid, and ordered the former to...