YOURSAY ‘They have now been treated by Umno the same way they treated PKR.’
Tempers flare in the House over hudud and rulers
Ferdtan: What comes around goes around. This is the best news we ever have. We told you so. The two parties - PAS and Umno - deserved each other.
PAS played out its partners, PKR and DAP, by not going through its joint-Pakatan committee with regard to the agreed convention to discuss any private member’s bills to be tabled in Parliament.
In fact PAS trusted more of its political enemy, Umno, than its allies. They truly believed Umno would support them all the way so much so that PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang did not hesitate to table the private member’s bill under his name instead of using one of his PAS Mps.
Pokok Sena MP Mahfuz Omar, (thank God, you had failed in the previous attempt in winning the party vice-presidential contest) what do you expect from Umno?
You asked why the government did not stick to what was agreed upon in the joint PAS/Umno technical committee. Ask that same question to your president (or the party) on what he/party did to his friends in Pakatan?
Many agreed terms/conventions had been blatantly ignored/broken by your president. As to PAS central committee member Kamaruddin Jaafar, the Tumpat MP, he said the PAS state government had "acted in good faith" after trusting the federal government's promises.
Don’t make us laugh. How much of the ‘good faith’ that PAS has to deserve another’s? Especially Umno, the master political trickster.
Commentable: It’s funny to see Mahfuz bursting out that "this was already agreed to in the committee".
But the reality is this: Didn't PAS been forewarned time and again that they shouldn't go to bed with the known rascal, Umno?
Odysseus: PAS, may I introduce to you Umno? The political party that played you out in the 70s. If you have forgotten, I guess this is when you have to re-learn the lesson from the past.
FellowMalaysian: It looks like PAS has been played out by the federal government once again after throwing their full trust and putting their hope on the cabinet's approval regarding the hudud bill.
The big question is why the federal government turned its back on PAS after agreeing to bring the matter to the rulers' conference at the joint hudud committee meeting with PAS?
We may never know the true reason behind this turn-around, but there's now little chance of the hudud bill being put to vote by the cabinet.
PAS' eagerness in pushing through the bill and naivety in working in subterfuge with the federal government has caused them a major embarrassment which may well cost them dearly in the next general election.
But will PAS ever learn from their unfortunate and humiliating encounters with Umno-BN?
Anonymous_3e86: Indeed, will PAS come to their senses now? Will PAS now realise that they have been truly duped by Umno? I guess they are just too dumb and blind to see the truth staring right in front of them.
Anonymous #20513663: Anonymous_3e86, I don't think all in PAS will “come to their senses”.
There are a lot of people in PAS who have been behaving extremely irrationally, which is to say in a way that benefits neither their own political careers, their party nor their coalition.
And which is not even 'strategically' consistent with a real desire to see some form of hudud implemented. And certainly not consistent with a real desire to see justice done in Malaysia through our laws.
I believe that the only plausible explanation for the actions of these people is that they have been 'paid off' to create a ‘sandiwara’. There is no other rational explanation for their behaviour that I can see.
Mahfuz, to his credit, seems sincerely indignant. Perhaps he has learned a lesson and will come to his senses.
Ex-PJ: PAS is never a viable political party. Given the chance to rule in one of the states for two decades, all they demonstrate is incompetency and incoherence. You are in public service, not in a circus, PAS.
How can they even run a country? Unfortunately, there are no easy solutions as people vote by race and we know one is incompetent while the other corrupt.
Wg321: With one masterstroke, PM Najib Razak has paralysed PAS. Non-Muslims will never vote for PAS again in future elections even if PAS asks for forgiveness from Allah.
Who said Najib is stupid?
TC Chan: I am confused. Why is there such a joint committee when the position of the federal government is that hudud will cannot be implemented unless there is an amendment to the constitution?
Why is there a need to refer the issue to the Conference of Rulers? What if the rulers say ‘yes’ but Parliament says ‘no’?
Anonymous_3e86: PAS shouldn't complain. They have now been treated by Umno the same way they treated PKR. PAS certainly deserves this.
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