NMCC 2026 · Conference & Tour
Bridging Two Worlds,Healing One Nation.
A nationwide conversation about who we are, what divides us, and how new Muslims can help heal Malaysia.
A nationwide conversation about who we are, what divides us, and how new Muslims can help heal Malaysia.
The New Muslims Community Conference began in 2025 with one simple belief — reverts are not a footnote in Malaysia's story. We are part of how this country heals. That first gathering proved something we already felt. Our voices, when held together, carry weight.
Three regional conversations across Malaysia, each tackling a different fracture in our national life.
One gathering in Kuala Lumpur that brings everything we have heard along the way home.
No longer a one-day event — a year-long movement of honest conversation.
In August 2025, the first NMCC gathered at the Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur under the theme "From Fracture to Future: Reverts Uniting Malaysia." The room was full. The voices were honest. The conversation didn't end when the doors closed — it became this.
If you weren't with us last year, take a moment to see what we built together. NMCC 2026 begins where that room left off.
See NMCC 2025
Malaysia lives with a quiet paradox. In daily life we work and trade and pray side by side. In public, we feel further apart than we have ever been. Politics divides us for votes. Algorithms teach us to fear our neighbours. Hardship is being reframed as ethnic blame. The country is bleeding in places we have not had the courage to name.
Reverts know what it is to stand between worlds. We carry the language of more than one community. We have been welcomed and misunderstood in the same breath. That makes us something Malaysia urgently needs: bridge-builders. NMCC 2026 takes that lived experience and lifts it onto a national stage.
Those who live between worlds may sometimes be the people most able to help a nation remain one.
NMCC 2026 unfolds in stages. The Tour series opens the conversation — three regional events, each tackling a different fracture in Malaysia's national life. The flagship Conference in Kuala Lumpur gathers everything we have heard along the way and turns it into direction.
Scholars, community voices and bridge-builders who can hold an honest national conversation. First wave below — more to be announced.
Race, elections, and the politics of insecurity. We begin by asking the question almost no one asks out loud: who actually benefits when Malaysians become afraid of each other?
Inequality, boycott culture, and the weaponisation of pain. Economic frustration is real. But the moment we let hardship be narrated through race, every community becomes more insecure, and the nation becomes easier to divide.
The flagship gathering in Kuala Lumpur, where the three regional conversations come home. We move from naming what divides us to deciding what to do about it — and discover how reverts, who already live between two worlds, can help heal one nation.
Reverts, institutions and the work of belonging. A functioning state is not the same as a shared nation. Reverts already live between worlds, and may be among the people best placed to model what comes next.
The day moves from diagnosis — how we got here — to reckoning: what we do about it.
A mechanism session: how online outrage is built, amplified and sustained. Why selected incidents are framed for maximum emotional impact, why digital discourse feels harsher than real life, and how communities get trapped in reaction cycles — closing on the narrative discipline and digital responsibility a country this connected will need. This is the tool.
The macro political anchor. How insecurity is framed, how public language marks communities as threatened, how parliamentary discourse sets the emotional climate, and how symbolic issues escalate into repeatable identity crises — until it is clear that fear has become a structured political instrument, and that the fear is artificial.
In this country poverty has a face, and that face has a race: hardship gets picked up by rhetoric, turned into resentment, then into criminal suspicion, until one person's wrongdoing becomes a whole community's burden. The race read as wealthy carries the opposite stereotype — that money buys silence and justice bends. Both are collective judgment. Fixing it takes fairer systems and more honest public reasoning.
Nobody passed a law, but look at which estates, which floors Malaysians choose, and a pattern appears. We are sorting ourselves — politely, without admitting it — and raising a generation that never shares a street, a field or a lift across race or faith. What residential self-segregation is costing us, and what reverts, often the only Muslim on their road, can teach us about building belonging in the place where unity is won or lost: the street where we live.
Some of us were born into this faith. Some of us chose it — and in choosing it, had to leave something behind. This session is for all of us, but it begins with our brothers and sisters who came to Islam from another world. Not what is your story, but what do you need from us, so you can do what only you can do? This is where everything we have discussed lands — not as a summary, but as a reckoning. We leave this room not just informed, but responsible. For each other. For this country.
Tour 2 — "When Hardship Becomes Ethnic" · 1 August 2026 (Saturday) · Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Seri Iskandar · 2–6 PM · Smart Casual. Times are indicative and may shift on the day.
Reverts speak two languages of belonging at once. That is the voice this country is missing.
Here, your journey is not exhibit material. It is the catalyst.
This is where people who can actually move the needle in Malaysia sit together and decide what to do next.
Reverts and their spouses.
Community builders — the quiet ones mending wounds.
Policymakers and media voices — those ready to listen and amplify.
Scholars and thought leaders.
Anyone curious about a more honest Malaysia.
Request your invitation to our flagship conference. Prefer a personal follow-up? Tell us a little about yourself, and we'll be in touch. This forum is designed for an honest national conversation — and we'd love for you to be part of it.
Anyone. The conference is built around the revert experience but the conversation is for all Malaysians.
Registration is open. Click Register, pick your ticket and pay online — your QR ticket is issued the moment payment is confirmed. Prefer a personal follow-up first? Use the Request Invitation form and we will be in touch.
The Tour is three regional conversations leading up to the main conference. Each opens a different question about Malaysia's national life.
No. The Conference works on its own. The Tour is for anyone who wants the full arc.
Both. Sessions are primarily in English, with key moments in Bahasa Malaysia.
Full-day access to all panels, lunch, refreshments and materials.
Yes. Especially you. Panel 4 is, in many ways, for you.
Still have a question? Email us at conference@newmuslims.co
This is what NMCC 2026 is for. Three honest conversations across the country, and one gathering in Kuala Lumpur where we sit with what we have heard and decide what to do next. The conference asks something of each of us: to show up, to listen, and to take some part of the work home. If you have lived between two worlds, the room is incomplete without you. If you haven't, you will leave understanding this country better than when you walked in.
Reserve a seat. Stand at the bridge with us.
