Perkasa snubbed the National Unity Consultative Council's (NUCC) invitation to attend a dialogue session in Kuala Lumpur this morning.

Two days ago, NUCC apparently faxed the Malay supremacist group an official invitation to a session at Dewan Bahasa.

"However, we are not attending because we do not recognise the NUCC," said secretary-general Syed Hassan Syed Ali.

"We do not recognise it because some of its members are Coalition of Malaysian NGOs (Comango) activists who support lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights and other matters that are against Islam and the constitution," he said in a statement today.

He added that NUCC will not succeed in uniting Malaysians because several of its members are championing issues that are "definitely not acceptable to Muslims, Malays and the bumiputera".

Syed Hassan ( left ) said unity could only be achieved when the country's economy "is not monopolised by a certain race only" without specifying.

He noted that towards unity, there should be single stream schools only, and tougher laws against those who question the constitution, insult the "religions practised in this country" and insult the Malay rulers.

"Perkasa views that certain members of the NUCC cannot ensure these points raised are realised.

"Therefore, why should we waste our time attending the dialogue session?" he queried.

'NUCC unfair to Muslims, Islam'

Bringing out the usual suspects in Perkasa's notorious list of issues including the 'Allah' issue, Syed Hassan accused NUCC of being biassed towards non-Muslims and failed to protect Islam.

"It is clear (from the Allah issue) that from early on, NUCC acted in an unfair manner (against Muslims) and was unfair in the goals it has been tasked to achieve," he said.

Last Nov 25, Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak announced the 29-member council with a six month mandate to brainstorm new measures to foster national unity.

This was in light of the issue of the Malay-speaking Christians use of the word 'Allah' in their bibles, which became a hotbed of controversy following the Home Ministry's ban on its use by non-Muslims.

The issue escalated over the past year after the 2010 High Court ruling that the ban is unconstitutional was overturned.