Sarawak PKR chief Baru Bian urged Sarawak BN to waste no time in repudiating the statement of a deputy minister that the federal BN is committed to establishing an Islamic state in Malaysia.

Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki was reported by news portal Free Malaysia Today as saying the BN government's efforts at strengthening Islam from time to time was evidence it would not backslide from its responsibility to turn the country into an Islamic state.

Asyraf Wajdi's (photo) remarks were made at a town hall meeting held by Umno information chief Annuar Musa in Kota Bharu last Friday.

“This is the clearest statement yet on the federal government's stance on making Malaysia an Islamic state.

“It has to draw an unequivocal response of repudiation – and that, too, with alacrity – by the Sarawak BN as otherwise, the people of this state will think the state government is complicit in the federal endeavour to make Malaysia an Islamic state,” said Baru, who is Ba Ke'lalan assemblyperson...