Essay On Islam In Malaysia

Having over twenty-seven million population as per 2010 census, in Malaysia 62 percent of the population practice Islam, 19.8 percent practice Buddhism, 9.2 percent Christianity. The remainder practice other regions such as Hinduism, traditional Chinese, Animism, Sikhism, Fork region and other belief systems. Islam is the dominant region in Malaysia and also the official religion, with most of the Muslim holiday being national holidays, for instance, the end of Hajj and the end of Ramadan. Most people in Malaysia believe that Islam was introduced in the country by the Indian traders around the 12th century (Corfield, 1991). The state government in the country support the Moderate version of Sunni Islam called Islam Hadhari. This version of Sunni Islam was introduced by the Malaysia former Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad. With the Islam being the official religion, the non-Muslim

The government regulate places of worship for non-Muslim religions through policies such as: When building a non-Muslim place of worship with areas occupied with a multi-racial community require the consent of resident within the hundred meter radius before the building is built in that area. New non-Muslim place of worship cannot be built in commercial areas especially in a big city (Sinha, 2005). The policies also stipulate that when building a non-Muslim place of worship the height of the building should be lower than that of the mosque in that locality. The government also controls the distance between a Muslim house and the non-Muslim place of worship, where the distance should be more than fifty meters wide. Furthermore, the government restricts the selling of state and local government-owned land to the non-Muslim region to build places of worship (Means, 1978). They even frustrate non-Muslim religion in an acquisition of permits to build a place of