“A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.”

- CS Lewis, The Problem of Pain

COMMENT The affable PAS deputy president Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man declared that PAS was ready to forget “ancient history” if its opponents were ready to uphold Islamic principles. This of course is the problem with most fundamentalist Muslims or religionists of any flavour; they are always interested in ignoring, forgetting and distorting history in favour of furthering their detrimental agendas.

Of course, another interesting dimension of this rather self-serving rejoinder is that, who exactly are the “opponents” in this equation?