COMMENT | Adam and Eve must surely be ecstatic today, for they have company now in the Garden of Eden.

At least, they know they were not the only ones who had disobeyed God and ate the forbidden fruit. There must also be relief and vindication for them as they are not alone in succumbing to temptation.

Why the ‘original sin’ subject today?

DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang was the first to use the biblical term in recent days.

On Oct 3, Lim penned: While the Covid-19 pandemic is a once-in-a-century global catastrophe, the original sin of Malaysia’s Covid-19 catastrophe was the Sheraton Move toppling the Pakatan Harapan government in February this year, sparking the second and third waves which have caused 136 unnecessary deaths.

DAP’s Seputeh MP Teresa Kok followed up by insisting that the recent Sabah state election was first triggered by Musa Aman because he tried to topple the Warisan Plus government by forming a “backdoor government”...