Mujahid Yusof Rawa has got the benign air and rotund looks of a man come to play conjuring tricks at a children’s party.

Over the last few weeks, the amiable PAS MP for Parit Buntar and point man on matters to do with national unity has parlayed that winsome facade to ground-breaking effect.

Mujahid, 46, has been to four Catholic churches in the northwest of the Peninsula to explain his party’s position on the ‘Allah’ issue.

In the process, he appears to be gaining for them a new understanding from Christians hitherto cool towards PAS for reason of its theocratic bent...