Malaysia’s Islamic Party Seeks Political Primacy
With opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim jailed for five years on sodomy charges, the leadership of the coalition he founded, which has upended Malaysian politics over the past seven years, is in increasing danger of falling into the hands of the fundamentalist Parti Islam se-Malaysia.
PAS, as the rural-based party is known, is moving aggressively to assume …
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