Academic Tajuddin Rasdi believes public anger from non-Muslims over Muslim preachers Zamri Vinoth and Firdaus Wong is misdirected, and should be “recontextualised, not towards the Attorney-General’s Chambers, but other parties instead”.

“I have heard these two personalities speak, and it is difficult to charge them with 3R (race, religion, and royalty) when what they say stems from simplistic and uncontextualized religious interpretations of the Quran and Hadith,” he told Malaysiakini.

The professor of architecture explained that a key issue lies in how clerics are...