Hadi being hung out to dry

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COMMENT Like washing hung out to dry on a wet day, PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang is discovering that his support for Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak to continue in office has made his position within his party vulnerable, where some time before it had seemed impregnable.

 

The Chinese newspapers in the last few days have carried reports that the PM has said he is not in favour of hudud.

 

Nothing of Najib’s implied rejection of hudud has been reported in the Malay and English newspapers, a sure sign that the double game being played by Umno on the matter of enforcement of the Islamic penal code in Kelantan is deliberate rather than willy-nilly.

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