Faced with the grassroots popularity of this movement, by 1982 the government of then Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed decided to co-opt Anwar Ibrahim into his United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the dominant party within the country’s ruling coalition. The strategy worked well, and helped defuse Islamic opposition to the wrenching changes that accompanied the country’s rapid economic modernization.
由于这场运动在百姓中开展得轰轰烈烈，到了1982年，当时的马来西亚首相马哈蒂尔· 穆罕默德决定邀请安瓦尔·伊伯拉罕加入自己的马来民族统一机构(UMNO，简称巫统)，该政党在国家执政联盟中占据了统治地位。这一策略获得了成功，缓解了伊斯兰教徒对伴随国家快速经济现代化而出现的痛苦变革的激烈反抗。