Mujahid perturbed non-Muslims in his party treated as 2nd-class citizens

(FMT) – Amanah vice-president Mujahid Yusof Rawa today warned that stern action would be taken against those who sidelined the party’s non-Muslim members.

The Star reported that Mujahid, who is the minister in charge of Islamic affairs, said the non-Muslim members should not be treated as second-class citizens.

“This is a warning from me, if there are any complaints of them (non-Muslims) being sidelined, action will be taken.

“Don’t even, or ever, think that they don’t have any rights merely because they are non-Muslims. Be careful,” the English daily quoted him as saying at Amanah’s National Convention in Ipoh.

Mujahid said those who viewed Amanah’s non-Muslim members as second-class citizens were not fit to be in the party.

“I mean it from the bottom of my heart,” the Parit Buntar MP said.

Amanah had in the past said that the party’s greatest achievement was that non-Muslim members were completely equal to its Muslim members.

In 2016, the party’s secretary-general Anuar Tahir said non-Muslim members were given leadership roles equal to their Muslim counterparts be it at the divisional, state or national level.