{"id":9627,"date":"2026-06-02T15:18:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T14:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=9627"},"modified":"2026-06-02T15:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T14:42:12","slug":"malaysian-fringe-movements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2026\/06\/02\/malaysian-fringe-movements\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian \u2018fringe movements\u2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Mohd Faizal Musa, a senior visiting fellow at the ISEAS \u2013 Yusof Ishak Institute, said religious authorities were still too dependent on scholars trained narrowly in scripture, rather than in sociology, psychology and digital communication.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-bluesky-social wp-block-embed-bluesky-social\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mncrtyjits2f\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreieejljsnbcxb7koqab47nxafa4pxcypale42acjeoxrjn6uvx43yq\"><p lang=\"en\">Digital thread in this report on \u2018fringe movements\u2018 in #Malaysia<\/p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5?ref_src=embed\">Gary R. Bunt (@garyrbunt.bsky.social)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3mncrtyjits2f?ref_src=embed\">2026-06-02T14:16:10.164Z<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mohd Faizal Musa, a senior visiting fellow at the ISEAS \u2013 Yusof Ishak Institute, said religious authorities were still too dependent on scholars trained narrowly in scripture, rather than in sociology, psychology and digital communication.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[305,213,53],"tags":[56,54],"class_list":["post-9627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malaysia","category-malaysia-internet","category-religious-authority","tag-malaysia","tag-religious-authority"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9628,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9627\/revisions\/9628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}