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It does not matter PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang has filed an application to strike out a suit to stop him from tabling a private member’s bill on hudud in the Dewan Rakyat on grounds that such a move is unconstitutional. It also does not matter if 13 of 15 Selangor PAS assemblypersons in the state have remained loyal to the party and the Pakatan Rakyat state government as reported.

I have been thinking, as a political party, PAS, in its present form, actually serves no purpose for the country.

The party has always stood on moral high ground. But does anyone know the stand taken by PAS on any of the following issues? Does anyone know of the actual work done by them?  Think hard, if you have a solid one, please share with the rest.  

What has PAS done to uncover the numerous scandals and malfeasance in the country? Zip. What has PAS done on the great flood that inundated Kelantan last year? Zip again. What pertinent issues has PAS raised on the Goods and Services Tax (GST), fuel prices, and monopolies? Nothing.

What insight has PAS provided on national debt, obscene wastages, opulent living, jet-setting, and lack of accountability on every front, from Mara’s property purchases overseas to altercations perpetrated by incendiary NGOs? Zero.

Have we heard of one view from them on how to engage with and cope with modernity, environment and globalisation other than hawking their own dogmas in total oblivion of reality? And now, have we heard of one view from PAS on how to deal with our sinking ringgit, depressing commodity prices and workers being laid off?

So how do we count on them to govern this country? Seriously, do they know anything at all?

Let me see what they do know. Yes, they are good in cracking jokes and giving rhetorical speeches. They are good in elbowing and kneeing people they dislike. They may even claw at you if they get annoyed.

They like to remind PAS MPs and assemblypersons intending to leave the party that they must return their parliamentary and state seats to the party. They said this is in violation of oaths taken earlier by the candidates. I wish it is that simple, but who really is in violation? Is it PAS progressive candidates failing to honour their words or is it the party failing to uphold its principles, undertakings and commitments?

And this is even better: PAS now said MPs and assemblypersons leaving the party must also divorce their respective wives, otherwise it is a breach of oath , too.  

Doctrinaire thinking

Can we see the stranglehold of archaic doctrinaire thinking and triviality in all these? I wonder what else they have in mind. Maybe they are now spending sleepless nights thinking on how to support and reinforce the ban to sell ‘couple seats’ to unmarried couples intending to visit cinemas.

Maybe some are thinking hard on how to provide harsher punishment on an unemployed person who has stolen a tin of milk from the supermarket or a passionate young couple caught holding hands in the park. But they have zero idea on how to tackle depravity in high society or billions been siphoned off right under their nose.

These are the dangerous nincompoops. They can’t see the country robbed blind, the ringgit sinking, cost of living escalating, and many workers thrown out of work. All they could see are minor social misdemeanours that should be shown maximum abhorrence and be given with the harshest punishments. Typical of nincompoops, they can only see the symptoms, but never the root causes.

They are doggedly attached to dogmas no matter how irrelevant and detached from reality these dogmas are and have been. They are completely hypocritical and unreal when articulating policies and ideals for Malaysia. They are doing the most stupid things at the most critical juncture of our history.

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