The Islamist party, Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS), took power in the states of Kelantan and Trengganu and strongly threatened UMNO in other northern states. The personal conflict between Mahathir and Anwar thus led to an apparent rupture between Malaysia’s Islamist political forces and the modernizers of UMNO.
伊斯兰党派泛伊斯兰教党（PAS）掌握了吉兰丹和丁加奴州的权力，对马来民族统一机构在北部其它各州的力量也形成了有力的挑战。马哈蒂尔和安瓦尔之间的个人冲突就这样演变成了马来西亚伊斯兰派政治力量与马来民族统一机构改革者之间显而易见的裂痕。