Majlis Ugama Islam Sabah
The Majlis Ugama Islam Sabah (MUIS) was an organization controlled by the BERJAYA government in the Malaysian state of Sabah , which operated the Islamization of the population of Sabah from 1977 to 1984 .
history
The success of the unofficial Islamization organization United Sabah Islamic Association (USIA) in the mid-1970s forced politicians to pay more attention than before to the social needs of the growing number of Muslims in Sabah. The USIA had already suggested the formation of an Islamic Council, but it was the newly elected BERJAYA government that institutionalized the Majlis Ugama Islam Sabah (MUIS) by law on February 16, 1977 .
After BERJAYA proposed to the Malaysian government to take over the administration of Sabaha's Islamic affairs, MUIS was dissolved in 1984.
Bulk conversions
Financed with government funds, the MUIS was able to considerably expand Islamization activities in Sabah. Conversion ceremonies were now extensively covered by the media. With the phenomenon of mass conversions that began in the early 1980s, the government always sent high-ranking politicians as "witnesses" to underline the importance of converting to Islam. A mass conversion of 900 Murut in Keningau on July 5, 1980 was attended by the Minister of State Suffian Koroh and the Malaysian President Mahatir Mohamad. On April 16, 1983, 2,000 Rungus were converted to Islam in Kota Marudu in the presence of Tuan Yang Terutama Adnan Robert and the ambassadors of Iraq and Kuwait.
literature
- Regina Lim: Federal-state relations in Sabah, Malaysia: the Berjaya administration 1976-85 , Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2008, ISBN 978-981-230-811-5
Individual evidence
Remarks
- ↑ Sabah's budget in 1978 totaled MYR 420,000 to support religious projects in rural areas. Of this, MYR 350,000 went to MUIS; the remaining MYR 70,000 went to the Christian communities in Kota Kinabalu and Keningau .