INTERVIEW Defeated PAS leader Mahfuz Omar believes it is time the party opens up its doors to non-Muslims and allow them to obtain a full membership. With voting rights.

“For me, PAS should open its membership to non-Muslims and allow them to become full members," he said in an interview with Malaysiakini on Tuesday.

Mahfuz said this was only appropriate and especially so if the party was confident that the Islamic principle it upholds could not be undermined regardless which religion party members belonged to.