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Saturday, September 20, 2014

Salvaging Islam from quacks like Abdul Hadi Awang the Islamic scholar is anything but plain 'Stupid'

 a Pakatan component party leader Hadi Awang who had betrayed Pakatan right and left and secretly met with the Selangor sultan without the knowledge of DAP and PKR leaders, now has the guts to demand DAP and PKR not to betray Pakatan?What Hadi said is in my opinion akin to killing somebody and then demanding the deceased's next-of-kin not to charge him in court. If this is the mentality that Hadi has, then what future is there for PAS to be a partner in Pakatan and the road to Putrajaya? Hadi, this unity  non-Muslims/Malays (and moderate ones) are going to punish PAS. If they by default vote for BN, Pakatan Rakyat is royally screwed in Selangor. All thanks to PAS.In the end, if true that Hadi is not interested in working with Umno, then the singular motive is to become PM. He cannot have Wan Azizah become MB because then the political convention is forever altered to allow for a woman leader.After GE14, DAP and PKR will want Wan Azizah to be PM and Hadi will never become one. So this is all about him becoming PM. It's just as good as betraying Pakatan because no voter expects Hadi to become PM.government notion and the MB imbroglio was started by that PAS think-tank chief Mohd Zuhdi Marzuki. It was not denied that you did consider this option
.Addressing PAS members at the general assembly today, Hadi says he was only following the party's principles in doing things differently than its Pakatan Rakyat partners in handling the Selangor MB issue. - The Malaysian Insider pic by Nazir Sufari, September 20, 2014.
Soo Jin Hou: I used my own money to fly back from Hong Kong to vote for a PAS candidate.  After this betrayal, you are on your own, PAS.Once bitten twice shy, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.
Sabotage of PKR's candidate in the Kota Damansara seat in 2013, resulting in a win for Umno-BN. Pakatan held that seat in 2008.

2) The unity government was mooted in 2008 where he and his cohorts were in favour of that arrangement but backed down due to lack of support.

3) The recent admission of recruiting a PKR leader (PKR deputy leader Azmin Ali) to jump ship by offering the MB’s post to him, a clear sign of betrayal to its partners in PR.

4) His uncooperative stand with regards to the Selangor MB crisis.

5) The nomination of party members for the MB’s post though outwardly saying that PAS is not keen for the post. Hypocritical indeed.

6) Losing Terengganu and Kedah to BN under his presidency.

Are we naive to believe your speech? Nay.

After creating so much havoc in Selangor and acting like a good Umno lackey in strongly opposing the appointment of PKR president Wan Azizah Wan Ismail as the Selangor MB, even though she has the majority support, PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang now says he will not form a unity government with Umno.
 another trick by Hadi to avoid a no-confidence vote against him at the PAS muktamar in Johor. The only cause of the current MB fiasco and its further prolongation is Hadi and PAS.
But his actions and his very unreasonable strong opposition to Wan Azizah’s appointment speaks much louder than his current words of not uniting with Umno. Indeed, the current crisis in Selangor with regards to the MB’s post could have been settled had PAS supported Wan Azizah for the post in a united stand with PKR and DAP.When you discovered your favourite boy (PKR deputy leader Azmin Ali) in Pakatan was not playing ball with you, you went berserk. Hadi, you are a PAS leader, you know Khalid Ibrahim is now an Independent, yet you and your ulama colleagues still wants him to be MB.
 
You even have the cheek to tell us in Selangor that you will prop up his weaknesses. You mean you have that much influence over Khalid?

 
The problem is PAS is playing two sides. Hadi, you are the one who betrayed Pakatan, not the other way around. With your flip-flop decisions, you even betrayed your own colleagues in the party’s central working committee (CWC) that decided to support Wan Azizah as MB.
 
You ignored the majority voice of your own CWC members. PAS should ask him to leave and retire if PAS wants to move forward and obtain support from non-Muslims. But the way it is going, even the Muslims are beginning to be doubtful about PAS.

 
Hadi’s actions have clearly revealed that if he continues to stay in Pakatan Rakyat, he will be an Umno Trojan horse and a great liability to Pakatan.
PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang said he could not just stand by and follow the conduct of its partners in Pakatan Rakyat during the Selangor Menteri Besar crisis.
He said instead, the party had its own principles and beliefs that determined how it dealt with the Selangor Sultan that differed from PKR and DAP.
Although he did not explicitly refer to it, Hadi is believed to be talking about how he sent more than one name to the Selangor Sultan intead of one name as done by PKR and DAP.
 Hadi's words, no to unity govt, is not worth the spit of our disgust. There is no way one can believe Hadi who has been doubletalking, making u-turns, employing roundabout logic and arguments and finally even gostan on his earlier assurance that PAS is not eyeing the MB post when he submitted PAS names to the sultan. Hadi is a lying mongrel dressed in white. Even religion can't unify them so what's next... Hadi will become like DAP's Lee Lam Thye, a BN tool for deception. What a mess to demolish a long serving party who have claimed the most non malay support in the last GE13..This is another trick by Hadi to avoid a no-confidence vote against him at the PAS muktamar in Johor. The only cause of the current MB fiasco and its further prolongation is Hadi and PAS.


PAS's powerful Muslim scholars wing wants the party to accept the Selangor menteri besar's post if that is the choice of the state ruler, a move which shows that the party's rifts over the issue are likely to get worse.

The moderates in PAS did not stage a walk out during the presidential speech.  This shows who is doing the right thing.

It is a shame for those 70 PAS Youth members to show disrespect for the deputy president. What is so wrong about Mohamad Sabu? The fact he dares to speak out what he thinks is wrong, goes to show his courageous side, which a party like PAS desperately needs.

Mohd Sabu may be right or wrong in his stand. Instead of blindly supporting Hadi who could very well be wrong, these youth members should listen to what their deputy president got to say and if they don't agree, question him. Why walk out?

Is that what Hadi refers to as Islamic principles?
Take a bow, Hanipa Maidin, Mohd Sany Abdullah, Wan Kharizal Wan Khazim and their ilk.

These men refused to be cowed into silence or beaten into submission by the boos, walkouts and thuggish behaviour by a segment of delegates at the PAS muktamar this week.

They urged their party men to think carefully before accepting the position of menteri besar of Selangor, pointing out that it would betrayal of trust of their Pakatan Rakyat (PR) allies, not to mention setting in motion the demise of the coalition.


The most erudite of the lot was Hanipa, the party's legal chief and perhaps the one individual who should be an example for Malaysians in this period of bullying and intimidation.

It would have been much easier and rewarding for him to have stuck to the party line offered by Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang and the hardliners. But no, he did not choose the easy way out.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that he has stood up to the hardliners in meetings as the crisis over the Selangor MB's position escalated.

All the while pointing out that the MB's position in Selangor is PKR's. And, therefore, Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim's replacement must come from the party.

Hanipa has also stated on a number of occasions the undisputed fact of Malaysian politics: that the MB must enjoy the majority support of the state assembly.

He is on solid ground here because the Federal Court in the Perak power grab laid down the rule.

At the PAS muktamar, Hanipa was booed roundly by supporters of the so-called ulama class when he made three points about the party accepting the MB's position.

One, the MB's position in Selangor belongs to PKR.

Two, a PAS MB would not enjoy the support of PKR and DAP and would lead a fragile state government.

"If we accept, we cannot run from the accusations that we have broken our promise," he said.

Third, accepting the MB's position would lead to the break-up of PR.

Throughout his speech, he was heckled. But he did not lose his calm, pointing out that he was just stating the facts.

In the final analysis, Hanipa, Sany and the others who urged PAS to act justly and reject the MB's position did not appear to have done enough to prick the conscience of the party's growing band of ambitious zealots.

But what is really admirable is that they tried. They did not go with the flow. They did not succumb the threats and intimidation. They did not choose to stay silent on the sidelines.

They spoke up.

A damn good example for Malaysians.

The men of expediency and convenience

But there is a section in PAS that believe otherwise. That political expediency must win over anything else, even a pledge or vow with your allies.

Some of these men inhabit the powerful Muslim scholars’ wing of PAS, they who lead the Islamist party's spiritual path.

They would want you to believe the notion that without them, PAS would be blind just as without the professionals, the party would limp along.

Their foresight and piety, however, masks something else. It masks their political ambition to rule over Malaysians in the only way they see fit.

That they are the guides to a better and more spiritual path.

That no one else will do, especially if it is a woman.

Today, one of them, PAS Dewan Ulama acting deputy chief Datuk Mahfodz Mohamed said the party should accept whoever the Selangor palace has chosen to avoid angering the state ruler.

"If the menteri besar is from PKR we should accept. If the menteri besar is from PAS we should also accept.

"We already have one enemy, Umno. We should not add another enemy from the palace," he said at the muktamar today.

Expediency. Convenience. All that over political bonds and friendship forged in two elections.

To hell with pacts made and agreements signed. Do anything, even repudiate all that, rather than anger the palace. The people who voted do not matter.

Because the voters are just sheep. And the ulama are the shepherds or guides who decide and cannot be questioned.

The thing is, these scholars have no business dictating their demands to the rest and sundry. PAS is in a partnership with two other parties and all three need to have mutual respect.

Just as it is wrong for Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and his ilk to decide the “Kajang move” unilaterally without consulting his allies, it is also wrong for PAS scholars to go their own way without taking their allies' interests into consideration.

Malaysians want politicians of character and integrity, not those with just naked lust for power and are willing to do anything to get that power.

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