Islam Hadhari as a State Policy in Responding to Religious Violence and Terrorism
Islam Hadhari (Civilisational Islam) that emerged after the landslide victory of Barisan Nasional in 2004 has become a very popular in Malaysia. It is noticed that Islam Hadhari is a newly promoted concept that could be applied as the state policy to govern Malaysia in the modern era. It is also...
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| Language: | English |
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Institut Islam Hadhari Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2010
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1460/1/1.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1460/ http://www.ukm.my/jhadhari |
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| Summary: | Islam Hadhari (Civilisational Islam) that emerged after the landslide victory of Barisan
Nasional in 2004 has become a very popular in Malaysia. It is noticed that Islam Hadhari is a
newly promoted concept that could be applied as the state policy to govern Malaysia in the
modern era. It is also a continuous approach of Penerapan Nilai-nilai Islam (Inculcating Islamic
Values) that was firstly introduced by Tun Mahathir Mohamad in 1980s. As far as the government
of ruling party is concerned, Islam Hadhari is the concept that promotes Islam in a most
subtle approach for the contemporary Malaysia. Since it had been immediately promoted after
the September 11 2001, the concept could also be considered as the best policy in responding to
religious violence in all over the world. As a nation that used to experience difficulties in
establishing peace and harmony among the multi-racial society, the concept is believed to be the
modern way in applying Islamic policy within the Malaysian society. The paper would firstly
discuss about the need of Malaysia for the policies in preserving peace and harmony. Secondly it
would study the concept of Islam Hadhari as understood by the government particularly in the
light of responding to the religious violence. A brief evaluation of the effectiveness of the policy
would be finally discussed in the paper |
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