'It's time for Pakatan to kick PAS out'

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YOURSAY ‘End guessing game. Just kick out PAS if hudud is its priority.’

 

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From Penang: There is no meaning in continuing this guessing game. DAP should initiate a special meeting with PKR and PAS to discuss the matter and make a bold decision on this.

 

Just leave PAS out if its priority is on hudud, which shows it is just simply a backward thinking political party.

 

Kangkung: Since PAS is so adamant about hudud despite the multi-racial and multi-religious make-up of this country, then I don't think PAS can be in Pakatan Rakyat.

 

PAS is only interested to be in Pakatan to win seats and then use these seats to project its power.

 

Fair&Just: Just kick PAS out of Pakatan as many of us will not want to vote PAS anymore, not like the previous GE where as long as it's Pakatan we would surely back its candidates. But now if it's PAS, then it can forget our votes.

 

P Dev Anand Pillai: This hudud threat is just another attempt from the forces within PAS to see if the Malays will take it on and dump Pakatan. But the Malays have already opened up their eyes and ears a long time ago; it has been six years now.

 

Further, beheading videos by the Isis (Islamic State) deviants of innocent civilians in the Middle East are there for the whole of Malaysia to see, so it will not work.

 

PAS, like Umno, will be booted out soon if they do not adhere to the tide of change that is coming from the people.

 

Don't Crucify My Freedom: PAS, do not use democracy as an excuse to further your ambition and introduce hudud law through the back door.

 

Stick to your principles to honour Pakatan’s common policy framework to which you have committed when you chose to join hands with PKR and DAP to form the opposition coalition.

 

The door is wide open, if you have changed your stance, no one is holding you back. Just leave. It will not be the end of the world and definitely, not the end of Pakatan.

 

Anak, Bangsa, Malaysia: PAS does not seem to know what democracy is. It had forgotten the pact with its allies. How stupid can PAS be, this is very shameful. After all the hard work, PAS is showing its colours all over again.

 

Ferdtan: “Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent interests”.

 

It is the same in politics. In the last two general elections, DAP and PAS though different ideologically in most aspects, joined forces in the Pakatan coalition to take on BN.

 

They are partners, a kind of symbiotic relationship, we see often in politics. There is nothing wrong in that; both benefited from the friendship. That helped Malaysians too; thus a two-party system was formed. No individual party can last long away for these two coalitions.

 

That has become a fact as independents lost their deposits in the last two elections. Hindraf by now should learn that lesson well; it chose one of the coalitions for survival.

 

Therefore PKR and DAP must not let go of the Pakatan vehicle, with or without PAS. Go ahead and fight it out; the next election though is only three years away, it is better to clear the air once and for all.

 

If the ulama factions are still in charge of PAS, it is better for PAS to leave or be forced out of Pakatan. PAS will not stand a chance alone fighting BN and Pakatan.

 

We appreciate Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim cannot take an aggressive approach at this moment to solve the PAS’ dilemma as he has the sword hanging over his neck with the final judgment from the Federal Court on his sodomy case coming.

 

Why the delay in the court judgment when the Court of Appeal took only a couple of hours to make its decision? It is to keep Anwar in check. If he, as Pakatan head, were to make a bold move which may threaten either PM Najib Razak or BN, we can predict the verdict - which is to put him away.

 

So in the meanwhile DAP has to do the dirty work to put PAS (the Hadi Awangs) in place. If I were Anwar’s lawyers, this is the time to keep pressing the court for an early judgment when Najib is still pressured by Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s faction.

 

He needs Anwar, the arch-enemy of Mahathir, to balance the shift of power.

 

Gggg: DAP and Anwar should realise by now that there is no future with PAS unless there is a change of leadership in PAS. We are getting tired of these threats and hudud issue without any solution in sight.

 

It has taken a long time for DAP and PKR to put their foot down. Enough is enough.

 

Shanafrica: If PAS is the democratic party they claim to be, let the people of Kelantan have a referendum and see if hudud is what they want. I doubt that very much.

 

Appum: The moderate Muslims are waking up and will be speaking up soon. Get a divorce from PAS and minus PAS, Pakatan can still hold together as a team. Other smaller parties with the same agenda should be invited to join Pakatan.

 

Let PAS float away on its own or better still if they join Umno. They are made for each other - they either love each other or hate each other to death.

 

Norman Fernandez: PAS is an untrustworthy partner of Pakatan. I have openly said it and still stand by it. It was the DAP leadership which downplayed the danger of PAS and it was DAP which took on the role of the apologist and sales and marketing of PAS to non-Muslims.

 

Sodom Me Sodom You: This is very tiring indeed. This debate will never end until PAS gets realistic and focuses on the task at hand. Even the dying Umno is capitalising on this unending nonsense.

 

How stupid can the opposition leaders be to risk everything that they've worked for by letting this issue simmers. So disappointing indeed.

 

Prudent: Strengthening ties with a PAS bent on hudud as per PAS Youth chief Suhaizan Kaiat's suggestion? It's like asking DAP to go to the hudud guillotine.

 

DAP should be preparing to dispense with PAS' extremist supporters since the ex-Selangor MB crisis.

 

I would say DAP now needs to distance itself from a PAS still controlled by the ulamas and wait for their party elections to see if the new leadership can change PAS so that it can be partnered with. In the meantime, go for the Malay vote, both PAS’ and Umno’s.

 

Apa Ini?: Let them vote. If the Kelantanese wish to vote for hudud, they are voting also against the coalition. It means a new beginning for all. Perhaps then, Pakatan can move forward.

 

Kathleen Ong: PAS is PAST!


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