FACT CHECK | PAS and Parti Bumiputera Perkasa Malaysia (Putra), led by veteran politician Ibrahim Ali, have criticised United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over claims that he described Islam as an enemy.

Hegseth was alleged to have made statements such as “whether Sunni or Shia, our enemy is Islam” and “we are not at war with a country, we are at war with a belief system”.

However, a Malaysiakini fact-check found that the remarks were inaccurately quoted and...