Hard to trust Hadi after repeated betrayals
YOURSAY ‘There is no guarantee that he will not stab DAP-PKR in the back.’
Ex-MB wants DAP to make first move on peace plan
Jiminy Qrikert: There is a silver lining to what PAS did to PKR and DAP. It has forced several truths about the Pakatan coalition out in the open for all to witness. Foremost is the glaring inability of PKR to provide a viable leadership to Pakatan.
PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim managed to stitch Pakatan together with tenuous wheeling and dealing that was probably based on promising different things to PAS and DAP with the hope he is able to muzzle them until he became PM.
With the PMship now a very distant maybe, PAS acts up, fast and furious. Next, PAS was and is never ever going to abandon its ambitions of establishing an Islamic state. And DAP cannot possibly keep a lid on PAS ambitions, so non-Malays must never ever vote PAS again.
Third, the rakyat is split between die-hard ‘ketuanan Melayus’ across Umno, PAS and PKR and Malaysians of all races who reject ‘ketuanan Melayu’. The ‘ketuanan Melayus’ are losing ground and are now being forced to cross party lines, hence the idea of unity government. Soon PKR Malays will cross the line as well.
Former Selangor MB Muhammad Muhammad Taib is exhibiting his solid Umno pedigree. His suggestion is typical of Umno Malay supremacists.
First, they trigger clashes with non-Malays to impose their demands. Then, they proceed to blame the other party for the problems they caused.
When the non-Malays react to defend themselves against these lies and unreasonable accusations, the Malay supremacists turn the clash into a racial issue and threaten to resort to elbows and knees.
Finally, they demand the non-Malays apologise in order to avoid further increase in tensions even though they are the ones who initiated the whole thing.
PAS is behaving exactly like Umno. Rational-thinking Malays can see this and work it out for themselves that it is the Malay supremacists who are bullying the non-Malays.
It does not take much to convince these Malays that DAP is the party that truly stands for all Malaysians, regardless of race or religion.
SusahKes: I think DAP's call for non-cooperation with PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang was the right one. It was Hadi who refused to cooperate with Pakatan, with his non-appearance at meetings, and then overwriting decisions made by his central committee.
It was Hadi that muddied the water further on the Selangor MB issue. And it was Hadi who broke ranks with Pakatan on the common policy framework by pushing for hudud unilaterally.
There is no more trustworthiness in this man; a lot more is at stake here than mere non-cooperation by DAP.
Hadi has single-handedly brought down Pakatan with his attitude and actions. He could no longer solicit for our trust. And the best way to deal with such characters is to isolate them politically.
Myop101: Indeed, Hadi should apologise first for not bothering to turn up for Pakatan meetings and constantly overruling his party decisions to suit his whim and fancy.
He should also stick to Pakatan’s common policy framework. As for hudud, he should apologise to the public that he rushed this because the current and near foreseeable future is not suitable to implement hudud as yet in light of the Islamic welfare state has not been set up to accommodate such laws.
Then, and only then, perhaps DAP can consider retracting their decision.
Wg321: The ‘common policy framework’ can be considered the constitution of Pakatan, where initially all agreed to comply just before the 13th GE. Hudud is not part of that common policy framework.
It took some time to build up the trust to make it work. Today Hadi and his ulama in PAS had destroyed that trust by going all out to introduce hudud laws with the help of Umno.
If Hadi insists that the hudud laws are more important than the common policy framework, he must be brave enough to take the initiative to leave Pakatan.
Hadi has become a double-headed snake. Even he were to change his mind now, there is no guarantee that he will not stab DAP and PKR in the back later.
Fairplayer: The ex-MB of Selangor has got his values in a knot! Hadi played the traitor and the treacherous snake by refusing to attend meetings, causing cracks and faults in the Pakatan leadership, deliberately bullying both DAP and PKR, and DAP was right in severing ties with a non-performing Pakatan leader who deliberately went out of his way to defy Pakatan’s common policy framework, and yet, this ex-MB wants DAP to make the first move to make peace with that rotten bully-cum-spoilt brat named Hadi, to further condone and endorse Hadi's despicable disrespect for fellow Pakatan leaders. This is outrightly unprincipled.
Proarte: The real issue is why did DAP collaborate with PAS knowing full well its 'core aspiration' was to set up an Islamic state in Malaysia and to implement hudud.
Now that PAS has severed ties with DAP, this has given the DAP the opportunity, though long time coming, the chance to prove to an increasingly jaded electorate that DAP is a party which has not completely lost sight of its 'permanent principles'.
DAP, we hope will uphold the constitution and work with political parties who believe in the secular nature of our constitution, as ruled in a landmark judgment by the former lord president and PAS member, Salleh Abas.
Working again with PAS for short-term political gain will prove that DAP is a self-serving opportunistic party which has no long-term vision for a better Malaysia based on religious and racial equality.
Pakatan on the precipice of collapse
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