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'Malaysia needs a new narrative of Islam'
Malaysia's Minister for Islamic affairs Mujahid Yusof Rawa has said his government is proposing 鈥渁 new narrative" of "compassionate Islam鈥�.
Malaysia has one of Asia鈥檚 most vibrant economies and is also a multi-ethnic, multi-religious federation - but the majority ethnic Muslim Malays dominate the country politically.
The minister told Hardtalk's Zeinab Badawi: "We are now proposing or advocating Islam as a very progressive religion and role that it can play and we have come with a new narrative of Islam in Malaysia with a new government of what we call 'the compassionate Islam'."
The aim was to "trigger the national unity," he said.
