Former education minister replies to Dr Mahathir Mohamad's claim about religious elements in learning khat. FMTNews Khat MaszleeMalik
Former education minister Maszlee Malik said plans to introduce khat were approved in 2015.
Maszlee was responding to a claim about religious elements associated with Jawi. Lessons about Jawi, which Maszlee described as “our heritage” are to be introduced to Year 4 pupils in vernacular schools. He said that khat had a lot of religious elements and he had wondered why Maszlee had wanted Chinese students to learn Jawi.
Mahathir went on to say that during his first stint as prime minister of a Barisan Nasional government, MCA had never opposed Jawi because the administration then never ruled for the subject to be taught at vernacular schools.
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