High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Malaysia is a multiracial country with Islam being the largest practiced religion, comprising approximately 61.4% Muslim adherents, or around 17 million people, as of 2010. Islam is declared as the "religion of the federation". Though there has been much debate on whether Malaysia is a secular state or an Islamic state. However, the secular credentials of the country did not undergo proper maintenance under the ruling National Front party as a result of decades of political competition with the theocratic Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party.