Unity talks: 'PAS greedy for power'

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your say ‘This is the first impression Malaysians get on hearing about their proposed unity government. But there is another angle to it. PAS being the smallest opposition party is probably hedging their position.'

On Mustafa: Stop all talks on unity gov't

Sarajun Hoda: DAP should not over react to Ustaz Hadi's overtures towards Umno. The ‘unity government' will never happen.

Come the next elections, non-Malay voters who swung during the last election will vote out PAS never again giving chance and space.

But things can change if Hadi reaches out to the younger generation.

Is it possible PAS is getting too greedy for power? This is the first impression Malaysians get on hearing about their proposed unity government.

But there is another angle to it. On its own, PAS being the smallest opposition party in Parliament, will not be able to snatch the PM's chair from PKR.

So, probably, they are hedging their position.

Maybe a decimated Umno would offer them a small number of Parliament seats. For this, Umno must now first offer some carrots to PAS.

But then, everyone knows what havoc the ‘ulama' will do in Umno when Umno joins hands with PAS. Umno members will die, 'politically killing' one another.

Mohammad Afifi Kassim: I'm a PAS member.

For a move as big as this ‘unity government', PAS should get the views of the voters throughout the country.

It was these voters that put you, PAS, in Parliament and in the state assemblies - not the few thousand PAS members and certain leaders.

Lest in the next general election you get thrown out again.

On Khairy: Time to revive Umno-PAS talks

Kenny Gan: Khairy urged the two parties to set aside their differences and work towards finding a common ground in tackling national issues.

This is well and good but if Khairy is sincere why only PAS? Why not involve DAP and PKR as well?

He also said that a roundtable discussion would not only strengthen Malay unity but will also be beneficial to society at large.

Why Malay unity in preference to national unity?

In any case, if Khairy is pushing for Malay unity, why aren't PKR and Anwar Ibrahim - who is a major Malay leader - involved as well?

As for a unity government, PAS should not be deluded. Umno does not even share any real power with the other BN component parties, what more with PAS.

The real intention of any Umno-PAS talks seem to be to drive a wedge among the Pakatan coalition partners, nothing more.

It is amazing that some leaders in PAS are still receptive to Umno and their transparent trap.

This shows that not all leaders in PAS are above worldly temptation of a possible shortcut to political power or able to rise above base instincts of race over religion.

PAS should imagine this scenario. After Pakatan has broken up and no longer a threat to BN, would Umno still want to talk to PAS, much less share power with them?

Or will PAS be discarded like a used condom?

On Umno dying to talk to PAS

KBG: How ironic that MCA Wanita chief Chew Mei Fun is demonising PAS while at the same time MCA has remained quiet as a mouse while Umno is aggressively courting PAS to talk.

This is yet another sickening display of MCA's subservience to Umno.

Umno knows full well it can do whatever it likes with nary a squeak from its so-called BN partners who are more like window dressing than real coalition partners.

DAP and PKR have voiced their concern to PAS and asked it to explain its intention with regards to Umno as would be expected in a coalition of equals.

If PAS is as bad as Chew maintains, would not an Umno-PAS unity government be of real concern to non-Malays and should not MCA speak out for the community it purports to represent?

Non-Malay voters should think carefully.

Do you trust MCA and MIC to protect your rights against Umno-PAS or do you trust DAP and PKR to hold PAS in check?

On PKR steps away from backing PAS on SIS ban

Jay Ibrahim: I view with utter incomprehension PAS' call for the banning of Sisters-in-Islam.

Is PAS feeling threatened by a small women's group that has successfully galvanised support towards the goal of achieving increased fairness for Muslim women in Malaysia?

The success of the SIS' ‘musawah' conference held in February this year must have irked them to no end, as they wish they could have done it themselves but they not have the originality or the spunk to do it.

So what do they do? Use religion again, and yet again, to whip up a frenzy against the so-called liberal Islam, a tactic they have used with some success in the past.

Is PAS running out of bogeymen or is it just simply running out of ideas?

Do they need to deflect attention from their own failure to chart a path of inclusiveness?

Ironically, they have the temerity to harbour ambitions of forming a ruling federal government.

For PAS to even think of forming a credible government in this multiethnic country in the 21st century, they should shake off their stupor and wake up to the idea of an intellectual reawakening and a renewed ‘ijtihad'.

Stop calling for a ban on others just because you are unable and unwilling to engage in intellectual discourse with others who disagree with you.



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