Excerpts of the address by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Magdalen College, University of Oxford yesterday.
I SPEAK before you in many capacities. I speak first and foremost as a Muslim. I am the son of a religion teacher, himself the son of an alim. When I was young, I would attend the English school near my village in the morning. In the evenings I was taught religion in my grandfathers madrassa which still stands today. I try to walk the path of Islam as faithfully and devoutly as I can.