‘PAS’ deceit over Selangor MB unforgivable’

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YOURSAY ‘Pakatan, bite the bullet and prepare for GE14 without PAS.’

                                                           

All lose if PAS quits Pakatan, warns PAS man

Pemerhati: Subky Latif may be a respected former PAS information chief but his latest analysis is not worthy of any respect because he has deliberately or stupidly avoided stating the main and obvious reasons that resulted in the Kajang Move and the tension in Pakatan Rakyat.

 

The Kajang move was forced upon PKR after it became clear that outgoing Selangor MB Khalid Ibrahim had become an Umno lackey after latter allegedly helped him to sort out his loan with Bank Islam.

 

It is PAS, under the leadership of Abdul Hadi Awang, which is deliberately causing tension in Pakatan by insisting on submitting two or more names to the sultan when it had earlier agreed with PKR and DAP  on submitting to only one name for the MB’s post.

 

Mushiro: Umno has never stopped blaming PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim for all their ills and now Subky has joined in too - blaming Anwar for PAS' ills.

                                   

Subky has conveniently not credited Anwar for the fact that PAS, DAP and PKR could sit together and provided a viable alternative to BN. This grouping would never happen without Anwar.

 

For Subky to admit that PAS has been sabotaged by Anwar before, shows that PAS is a weak party and has not learnt anything from being cheated again and again by Umno.

 

Yes, all will lose if PAS leaves Pakatan, but it is a chance worth taking rather than work with an unreliable and unprincipled partner. Pakatan should instead work with the more reliable and approachable progressive group in PAS.

           

Jiminy Qrikert: I used to buy Harakah . Now, after the doublespeak, U-turn, roundabout and ‘gostan’ by PAS on the Selangor MB issue despite an outright plea by DSAI (Anwar) for PAS to close ranks and support the submission of one name, Harakah is as good as the rest of the MSM (mainstream media).

 

If the head of the party can tell a blatant lie to the rakyat, what's to ensure Harakah is not twisting truths and printing lies? Subky Latif included.

 

Thinking Citizen_1403620863: Unless we have got it all wrong, there was an unspoken agreement that certain partners of the coalition is responsible for the management of certain states that Pakatan has won.

 

PAS get to administer Kelantan, Terengganu and Kedah. The other two Pakatan partners never interfered with PAS administration even when Kedah was having massive issues before the last general election.

PAS originally has three states but lost two of them, PKR and DAP has one state each. Don't you think it is reasonable to expect PAS to support its partners in these two states?

 

The party’s central committee has admitted that there was an attempt to sabotage Pakatan in Selangor by forming an unity government with BN. What make the two Pakatan partners' think that PAS will not sabotage them again?

 

Pakatan without PAS may not win Putrajaya in the next two elections. With PAS, they may win but to hand it back to BN when its leaders play them out.

 

Unmasked: PKR and DAP have to bite the bullet and prepare for GE14 without PAS. The Pakatan coalition has reached the point of no return.

 

PAS is now a liability due to their doing. Their agenda is as clear as daylight and that is to unite with Umno in order to ‘swat’ non-Muslims and non-Malays.

 

This is something non-Malays cannot accept and will not vote for PAS unless there is drastic change within the party.

 

GrooTheWanderer: Let PAS go now. They cannot manage modern Malaysia. Let them fight it out with Umno in the Malay states. Pakatan will be better off.

 

Behsaikong: Sukby opens his article by saying how important Pakatan is to all three parties and then closes by walloping the one person who made Pakatan possible.

 

Make up your mind, PAS. ‘Kamu mau atau tidak.’ Which is the only party in Pakatan that is open to working with Umno? Is it PKR or DAP?

 

FellowMalaysian: Wise words from a wise old man. The fortunes of all three component parties of Pakatan will be negatively affected if PAS leaves the coalition.

 

Each of the party may have expressed their confidence in standing alone should a breakup become inevitable, but they need each other's strength to supplement their own individual weaknesses.

 

When it comes to winning seats, the three parties will never hope to perform as well as a single coalition party and if they do split, they will likely end up squaring with each other.

 

But any possibility of seperation and going each other's way based on current scenario is remote and far-fetched.

 

The current conundrum that resulted in PAS' indecision over the choice of MB candidates could have been avoided had there not been two differing schools of thoughts within PAS' CWC (central working committee).

 

So the MB stand-off may have arisen out of PKR's own doing, but had PAS decided to go along with only Wan Azizah Wan Ismail's name as the sole candidate, the predicament would have been settled.

 

Guns 'n' Roses: My take is, PAS is now desperately clutching at straws, no matter how they may deny it.

 

I have a strange feeling that the conservative and retrogressive ulamas are struggling for political survival, fighting against the moderate, progressive and broad-minded Erdogans.

 

Without PKR's and the DAP's support, PAS will remain nothing but an Islamist party fighting for a lost cause.

 

Will many Muslims or Malays openly admit that they support PAS' extreme Islamic ideology, after having lived in a 'modern' and progressive nation for so many years?

 

Negarawan: The end cannot be used to justify the means. PAS’ sole aim is to gain federal power and implement an Islamic state.

 

The cat has been let out of the bag recently with the leakage of an internal communication among PAS supreme council members where they said they would " jentik " all non-Muslims if they take over Selangor.

 

Their Islamic fundamentalist policies such as hudud do not suit a multiracial and multireligious society. PAS has effectively lost the support of most non-Muslims, and it will be a major liability if it remains in Pakatan.

 

It is better for Pakatan to start all over again, even though this means a big risk in the next GE rather than sacrificing its principles for the sake of political expediency.

 

Abasir: Subky is blowing smoke to blur the way forward. In this craftily engineered debacle by the so-called 'reluctant politician' desperate to hang on to his position and perks, the biggest casualty will be PAS.

 

It is doomed to be an 'also ran' perpetually trading within the confines of religion and always playing second fiddle to big brother Umno.


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