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Koleksi Tamadun Pahang
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| Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen. We in Malaysia warmly welcome this gathering of outstanding thinkers from the Southeast Asian region and from around the world. We are pleased at the serious attention devoted here at IAIS and University Malaya’s Law Faculty to the important relation between religious values and public policy. Harmoniously relating religion with the legal and court system and with proper functions of the state is necessary in order to craft the path leading to social harmony and national fulfilment. To the co-sponsoring universities - Brigham Young University in the United States, Universita degli Studi of Milan, Italy, and Amity University in India - and to all the distinguished international scholars, we wish you well in your deliberations. Your combined efforts and insights will enrich our resources with thoughtful purpose, as they should throughout Southeast Asia.
Today we are facing many new and challenging situations, even while confronting deep underlying issues we have tended to shy away from in the past. Partly these issues stem from the burden of history, and in part they arise out of narrow interpretations of religion, and from the limitations of outdated conceptions or conduct of policies which require rethinking in light of contemporary realities. These challenges demand wise and creative responses from society leaders and government authorities. I draw attention at this juncture to four of the most problematic challenges now facing our region. |
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