Last week, Jan. 19 -- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) today denied that its campus grounds is being used to spread radical Islamic propaganda or that its top officials are linked to Muslim group Ikram as alleged in a regional news publication.

The public university decried the article titled "Islamic Assault on Malaysia's Higher Education" published by Asia Sentinel on January 15 as false, defamatory and unethical.

"The university would like to stress that the UTM management has never made the university as a platform to spread propaganda and negative indoctrination," it said in a media statement.

UTM also denied the article's claims that its current vice-chancellor (VC) and deputy vice-chancellor (DVC) were appointed by former edu...