Ikram vice-president Zaid Kamaruddin and Cambridge’s Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics director Jonathan Chaplin came together to speak at a forum exploring how religions can work together to build a more harmonious Malaysia.

While Zaid pointed out that Islam is enshrined as the official religion of the federation in the constitution, he said that Islam also has the strictest regulations in Malaysia.

“Even though people say Islam has special privilege because they say Islam is the religion of the federation, but then again if you come to think of it, Islam or Muslims are the most regulated in the country, compared to other religions,” he said to a crowd of about 40 people at the forum held in Kuala Lumpur last night...