KOTA KINABALU: The southern Philippines-based Abu Sayyaf militant group poses a bigger threat to Sabah than the Islamic State, says Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) academic Prof Dr Kamarulzaman Askandar.
He said that IS ideology did not have a foothold in Sabah as the local populace had a high level of religious tolerance.
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