COMMENT Abdul Hadi Awang, the leader of PAS and the so-called ‘fearless Islamic firebrand’ is, after all, a plain racist.

He is opposed to the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) not because of its dire economic and financial implications that will impinge on the sovereignty of Malaysia, but rather because he thinks that the TPPA will only benefit the Chinese business community in Malaysia.

He also believes that DAP is supporting the TPPA because it favours the Chinese Malaysian community, and that Malays will lose out in the game of economic competition.

Hadi - by saying that DAP favours the TPPA - has betrayed his own ignorance of the vast financial implications of its implementation in Malaysia.

DAP had made it known on several occasions that it opposes the TPPA and there are no two ways about it.