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Interview: Facing High Expectations; Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi, whose coalition just won a landslide vote, aims to showcase progressive Islam.(Interview)
Byline: Joe Cochrane
Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi, 64, handed the fundamentalist Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, or PAS, one of its worst-ever defeats in last week's elections by touting a modern, progressive Islam. His ruling coalition now controls 11 of the country's 12 states, and seems to have quashed the idea that radical Islam was infiltrating the politics of Southeast Asia. NEWSWEEK's Joe Cochrane and Lorien Holland spoke to Abdullah about the results and the challenges ahead at his residence outside Kuala Lumpur last week. Excerpts:
NEWSWEEK: Most analysts are saying the Malaysian people were endorsing you personally, not just the ruling coalition or your message. How does that make you feel?
ABDULLAH: It makes me feel good, but at the same there's a feeling of responsibility. The feeling that I have to deliver now. It's a sobering feeling.
Although PAS was routed in the elections, it still maintains some degree of public support. Are you concerned that certain elements within fundamentalist Islam will conclude that democracy is not for them and decide to go down a more extremist path?
At the moment, I don't believe they'd want to do that. They will stay around.
Malaysia is a modern, successful Muslim nation. Do you see your country as a role model for the Middle East?
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