PAS, re-educate your electorate!

comments     Salbiah Ahmad     Published     Updated

COMMENT It is too much to ask PAS information chief Mahfuz Omar to have clear talking points on why Umno or any of us out here should be persuaded to support its hudud plan, instead of name calling ?

Hanipa Maidin's plea that support for hudud in Kelantan would be better served if Norway had hudud may give a hint that Pas is probably at its wit's end. There are no new arguments to be brought forth from Pas and Umno’s hudud-implementation sympathisers.  

This is not surprising. It boils down to what Azhar Ibrahim repeatedly emphasises in his book (Contemporary Islamic Discourse in the Malay-Indonesian World, 2014. SIRD), that there is poor development of intellectual scholarship in the Malay literature of religious traditionalism and the revivalism of the 70s...

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