Religion, race and national identity in Malaysian society

This paper discuses the issue of religion, ethnicity and national identity with focus specifically on the experience of Islam in a multi-ethnic and multi religious Malaysian state.The main thrust of the paper is that religion plays a very important role in the national identity of a nation and the Malaysian nation despite its multi-religious nature is no exception to this rule.The paper look f the debate about the identification of Malaysia as an Islamic state.Using historical and analytical, methods, this paper establishes that every analysis historical, politically, and socially support this view