Screenshot of CNN news report of Malaysian authorities seizing bible from churches in the country.

Is Najib 1Malaysia idealism a new form of religious fundamentalism? According to CNN over the past several months more than 20,000 bibles have been seized by Najib’s government.

The seizures have fed fears among minority groups, which see signs of encroaching Islamic fundamentalism in the predominantly Muslim but multi-racial country.

“There is a growing sense of Islamic assertion, yes,” said the Rev. Hermen Shastri, general-secretary of the Council of Churches of Malaysia. “There is some concern.”

The Bibles were written in the country’s official language, Malay — in which the word for God is “Allah,” as it is in Arabic.