PUTRAJAYA: State muftis have proposed that the word “religion” in the recently-established Committee to Promote Inter-Religious Understanding and Harmony be dropped to avoid confusion.
Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom said the muftis felt the word could confuse the public especially when the National Fatwa Council had, in 2005, issued a decree that an inter-faith council should not be established.
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