Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. Bernama file photo
PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia has to also win the ideological warfare to address the threat of terrorism instead of only with the use of military and police assets and through arrests, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said today.
The Prime Minister said the recent terrorist attacks in Kabul, Manchester (United Kingdom), Marawi (the Philippines), Jakarta and London were serious and most saddening.
“Alhamdulillah (Praise be to God), our country has been spared these attacks so far. However, the threat of terrorism must be addressed, but not just with the use of military and police assets and arrests,” he said at the monthly assembly of the Prime Minister’s Department at Dataran Perdana Putra here..
Najib said it was important to win the ideological warfare against the threat of terrorism but more than that it was vital “to understand what Islam really is, what it demands of us”.
Defence Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein attended the assembly for the first time following his appointment as Minister with Special Functions in the Prime Minister’s Department in April. – Bernama