{"id":410,"date":"2007-07-18T07:45:07","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T23:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/07\/18\/najib-says-we-have-never-been-a-secular-state\/"},"modified":"2007-07-18T07:45:07","modified_gmt":"2007-07-17T23:45:07","slug":"najib-says-we-have-never-been-a-secular-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/07\/18\/najib-says-we-have-never-been-a-secular-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Najib says we have never been a secular state"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>BN and PAS differ on Islamic state<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2007\/7\/18\/nation\/18330625&amp;sec=nation\">source<\/a><\/div>\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR: While the Federal and PAS governments claim that Malaysia and Kelantan are Islamic states, their versions differ.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said Malaysia is an Islamic state that adheres to the fundamentals of Islam, and having a Constitution which states Islam as the official religion.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>Asked about the difference between the Islamic state led by the Federal Government and the one led by PAS, Najib said: &#8220;PAS has their version and we have our own interpretation. We have never been a secular state,&#8221; he said.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>Najib said that being an Islamic state did not mean that the rights of non-Muslims were not respected.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It does not mean that we don&#8217;t protect the rights of non-Muslims,&#8221; he told reporters after officiating the &#8220;The Role of Islamic States in a Globalised World&#8221; seminar.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>Najib also launched a book <i>The Ijazah of Abdullah Fahim<\/i> by Mesut Idris and Syed Ali Tawfik Al-Attas.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>Abdullah Fahim was the grandfather of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BN and PAS differ on Islamic state source KUALA LUMPUR: While the Federal and PAS governments claim that Malaysia and Kelantan are Islamic states, their versions differ.&nbsp; Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said Malaysia is an Islamic state that adheres to the fundamentals of Islam, and having a Constitution which states Islam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[131,24,122,225,302],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-bn","tag-mic","tag-najib-tun-razak","tag-politicians","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}