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also don't think a constitution needs to say "Thou shalt not make laws violating the constitution"; that should be taken as read. That said, what I think is not too important here, what matters is that the scholarly consensus is that
Malaysian constitution is considered to have firmly established a secular structure, and to have done so through deliberate intent. The constitution's particular restrictions on Islam are to ensure the religion is strictly codified, in order to preserve the power of the Sultans. I'm not sure why you say I "refuse to recognize that both elements are rooted in the constitution", given I commented on this previously, and when that dichotomy is laid out in the article text under discussion: "The constitution grants freedom of religion and makes Malaysia an officially secular state, while establishing Islam as the "religion of the Federation"". That text explicitly highlights that constitution does both of these things. The rest of the section devotes some space to the actual government practice, defining identity through religion and controlling the practice of the Islamic faith. I w ill add one of the additional sources above at a later point.
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Islamic state. Neither is completely true as Malaysia has elements of both: You seem to acknowledge this fact, however, you refuse to recognize that both elements are rooted in the constitution. The paper you give here at least does do a reasonable job of laying that out that dichotomy. I did not look deeper into where that pdf is coming from other than seeing that it is somehow funded by the EU. If you think that constitutes a reliable source on par with a respectable journal, please add it as a source and we are done, even though I still think the wording could be better. If you want, I will try to do it, but I am not sure how to do it while avoiding link rot.
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Article 3(1) of the Federal Constitution." These are explicit legal and scholarly interpretations, and quite well established. Political parties and governments have their views, but these are not equivalent. We don't write, "According to X the US is a secular state, but according to Y it was founded as a Christian nation", despite 300 years of arguments about the topic. The removal of the constitutional origin of secularity removes key information for understanding the topic of Religion in Malaysia, which has been heavily impacted by this tension between secular theory and religious practice.
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Christianity to be the official religion. Still secular? Establish religious based courts. Still secular? List religion on government ID cards. Still secular? Subject some people to enforcement of religious laws based on said card. Still secular? Don't allow people to change religion unless said religious court agrees. Still secular? All is backed by the government, and we are not even getting to establishing other government groups which support a specific religion. Taking it to an extreme, one of the heads of the religion per the constitution gets to pick the president from among the members of the house and is not bound to do it based on election results. Huh? If you're still saying secular at this point, I'm not sure what you would need to have to call it not secular.
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Malaysia an officially secular state... " in the cited source unless I am missing it. Please show me where that exists. Furthermore, that article is an opinion. So, if you can find that wording, the sentence should start with, "According to the ..." I fail to see why expecting a reliable source for the claim is controversial.
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With regards to the US first amendment, again, you seem to not address the part where it says "shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..." There is no equivalent in the
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Malaysian constitution on the other hand explicitly gives jurisdiction of certain matters to the syariah courts. This is besides the point. I
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in indonesia, the literal translation of "national emblem" is "lambang negara". but in malaysia, the literal translation of "coat of arms" is "jata negara" why there are difference in translation between bahasa indonesia, and bahasa malaysia? i dont know if "jata negara" means either "coat of arms"
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My main point which I began with and haven't abandoned is that the source cited was a poor quality source which did not address the text in question. I know you probably don't agree with that, but it is very clear to me for the reasons already given. If any of them are valid, a better source is
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the constitutional establishment of a secular state. In addition to the source already in the article, an additional source was provided two comments above, and a specific quote from it was provided in the previous comment. Here are even more sources:
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