Extremist or Moderate Malaysia? When the Malaysian Home Minister, Zahid Hamidi spoke up in defending Ustad Zamihan Md Zin, a hardline Islamist cleric, many felt a de javu! Najib Razak, the Prime Minister of Malaysia put forth a visionary policy called "1Malaysia" intending to move away from racial identification. However, his then deputy Muhyiddin Yasin publicly opposed this policy and even declared in public that he is Malay first before Malaysian! Events later of course proved that he was planning to betray Najib. Now, Najib wants to move his moderate policy in Malaysia and Zahid is defending an extremist cleric? So, what is Zahid's game? Zamihan is also the president of ASWAJA, which is the Society of Ahlul Sunnah Wal Jamaah. In short he is the president of a society of Sunnis. All Malaysians and the majority of the Muslims in the world are Sunnis with the other minority being Shias. Since all Malaysians are already Sunnis, wha...