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.
In 2026, NMCC enters its next phase as both a Conference and a national Tour — three regional conversations across Malaysia leading into one flagship gathering in Kuala Lumpur. This is no longer a one-day event. It is a year-long movement of honest conversation.
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.
Who Profits from Our Fear?
When Hardship Becomes Ethnic
Can Malaysia Become One Civic Nation?
Bridging Two Worlds, Healing One Nation · Kuala Lumpur
Scholars, community voices and bridge-builders who can hold an honest national conversation. First wave below — more to be announced.
Beloved worldwide for his warmth and relatable wisdom, he opens the conference with a message at the heart of the theme — that mercy, patience and belonging are how a divided people begin to heal.
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?
Notify me when registration opensInequality, 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.
Notify me when registration opensReverts, 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.
Notify me when registration opensThe day moves from diagnosis — how we got here — to reckoning: what we do about it.
How online outrage is built and amplified — and what narrative discipline could look like in a country this connected.
The political incentives that keep insecurity profitable — and what it takes to stop rewarding fear as a strategy.
When poverty gets a race, and wealth gets a stereotype. Two forms of collective judgment — both keeping us from seeing each other clearly.
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.
A single day, carefully paced — from the opening du'a to the closing call to action. Times are indicative and may shift slightly on the day.
Doors open. Collect your badge, grab a drink and settle in.
A short welcome and opening prayer to begin the day together.
The opening address on identity, belonging and the road ahead.
An honest conversation about the fault lines in our communities.
Refreshments and a chance to connect with others in the room.
Choose a track: faith foundations, family, or community building.
Lunch is served, with space and time set aside for prayer.
First-hand journeys of those who found their way to Islam.
How new Muslims can help bridge divides and heal the nation.
Afternoon refreshments and prayer.
Where we go from here — a closing charge for everyone in the room.
End of programme. Safe travels home.
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.
Tell us a little about yourself and we'll be in touch with the details. The room is built for an honest national conversation — we'd like you in it.
Anyone. The conference is built around the revert experience but the conversation is for all Malaysians.
Click Request Invitation, answer a few short questions, and we'll 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.
