COMMENT One of my colleagues used to paint the rocket green to show solidarity and eagerness to work with PAS. But now he is so upset with PAS that he looks as if he is going to spit on anyone he comes across who even mentions the name of PAS.

I could tell he feels betrayed, awfully betrayed by PAS for his relentless effort to help PAS to get away from its extremist Islamic image among the non-Malays in a noble attempt to see more democratic changes in the country.

Many of us tried all we could, not only to help PAS get out of its usual role in the Malay Muslim-dominated East Coast states to other parts of the country, especially the more multicultural West Coast states of the peninsula...