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COMMENT Malaysia will suffer a political sepsis that could spell the end of the progressive nation the world knows and we all love if the proposed hudud bill becomes law.

Islam has no business in the governance of a plural society, a concept not lost on former trade minister, Rafidah Aziz, who earlier this week echoed the same concern of mixing religion and race with politics. Such concern is shared by many other Muslims, including the much publicised G25, a group of eminent Malays, with intelligent and religious Malaysians, who oppose the hudud bill.

If the hudud bill becomes law, it will divide the nation and open the floodgates for more controversial laws and conflicts not only between Muslims and non-Muslims, but between Muslims and Muslims. Islamising the Federal Constitution is a betrayal of the founding principles of the nation which clearly separate religion from the state.

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