Amid the controversy surrounding the proposed guidelines for Muslims participating in events at non-Muslim places of worship, an academic with expertise in Islamic affairs has given Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Islamic Affairs) Na’im Mokhtar the thumbs down.

Abu Hafiz Salleh Hudin, who is based at International Islamic University’s Malaysia’s (IIUM) Department of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, also noted that this is not the first time the minister has caused controversy...