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Malaysia plans law to separate religion from politics
KUALA LUMPUR. Mar 3: Malaysia's government is planning a law to separate religion from politics "to ensure the well-being of the people and the country," a minister says, reports AFP.
Rais Yatlm. Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, said the opposition Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) "has mixed up religion with politics to the extent of confusing the people."
Rais, quoted by the official Bemama news agency, said that with the passing of such a law. Muslims and Malays would be reunited after being long separated by different political Ide-
ologies.
"However the government will seek feedback from the people and if the majority are in favour of such legislation then special provision for this will be made in the country's laws." he said.
No details were given of the proposed legislation.
PAS made major gains among ethnic Malay voter., in last November's elections at the expense of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's United Malays National Organisation (UMNO).
It more than tripled its parliamentary seats to 27 and took
control of the northeastern state of Terengganu.
This week the government severely restricted sales of the PAS newspaper Harakah
Ministers accuse the party of distorting the teachings of Islam to seek votes, a charge it denies.
Meanwhile. Malaysia's government came under fire today for its clampdown on an opposition newspaper and one critic said reported threats to extend the curbs to the Internet edition made nonsense of national IT policy
A US journalists' group urged Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad to end a "campaign of intimidation and harassment" against Harakah. the paper of the Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) which has made strong gains against the ruling party
The Committee to Protect Journalists, in a letter to Mahathir. called on him to restore Harakah's licence to publish twice weekly and to drop sedi-tion charge’s against its editor and publisher.
The New York-based group, in the letter released late Thursday, said the curbs on Harakah:s circulation "appears to be the latest example of your administration's efforts to curb the opposition press in Malaysia.”
The Home (interior) Ministry. which licenses all newspapers. Wednesday renewed Harakah's publication licence only for two issues a month instead of two a week previously.
Local rights group Aliran said the move smacked of "political vindictiveness" and called it a terrible blow to the freedom of the press."
It said in a statement the government had finally conceded defeat •- "that it is no match to counter opposition criticism."