YOURSAY | Are political games being played with hudud, as the by-elections draw near?

Wee Ka Siong: I too will quit if Hudud Bill passed

Onyourtoes: Suddenly ministers from MIC and MCA want to quit the cabinet over the Hudud Bill. Please, no need to play wayang kulit. Can you explain to us how the Hudud Bill jumped the queue?

Who orchestrated it, surely not the PAS president? So who? Can you fellows from MCA and MIC get that fellow to resign first? I know this is all about by-elections in Sungai Besar and Kuala Kangsar. If you think this is going to gather non-Muslim votes, you can forget about it.

Lawful consensus? MCA deputy deputy president Wee Ka Siong, please do not cheat yourself. When did Umno get the consensus to implement Umno policy? MCA doesn't dare complain because of the many lucrative minister posts.

Abu Iman: Don't just threaten to quit, just do it. Otherwise it's meaningless. MCA, MIC and Gerakan play insignificant roles in the cabinet, except to collect their monthly wages and allowances.

Shanandoah: There are so many other reasons for MCA president Liow Tiong Lai and Gerakan president Mah Siew Keong to quit the cabinet. Wee and MIC president S Subramaniam must also resign their cabinet posts. All these fellows don't represent Malaysians. Whether they quit or don't quit makes no difference.

How did they allow syariah to get in without reference to the federal constitution? Sabah and Sarawak had never heard of syariah when they joined the federation. Sarawak leaders Joseph Pairin and Joseph Kurup have just woken up. They are talking about leaving Malaysia now.

Ib: What's the point of quitting? Leaders should quit only if they have done wrong. If their coalition partners have broken promises, they should be leading the party out of BN. Be a leader not a loser.

K. Lim: Does this mean MCA is ready to quit the cabinet and give way to PAS to implement hudud? And its seats will be replaced by PAS?

Anonymous_40f4: Premier Najib Razak and Hadi are playing politics with hudud. MCA, Gerakan and MIC have been informed, so they offer to resign because hudud will never be implemented. They assume the rakyat are fools to believe their threats.

Bystander: This is just another sandiwara (show) to distract from the 1MDB fiasco and at the same time to make MCA, MIC, Gerakan and other BN component parties to sound and look credible. They should resign en-bloc if they really were sincere, and not wait until the Bill is passed.

Justice: Quitting your BN minister's post now means nothing because MCA and Gerakan leaders had always been together, supporting Umno to remain in power, so that you all will be rewarded with ministerial posts by Umno. You are only faking a threat of quitting, in the hope that Chinese voters in particular, will be fooled in GE18.

Kawak: Hello, MCA, MIC and Gerakan, why you guys want quit your ministerial posts only? If you all have a little integrity left, please get non-Muslim MPs in Sabah and Sarawak to quit BN. Then, it is meaningful. Otherwise this is just another wayang kulit.

Drngsc: This tabling of hudud by PAS teaches us many lessons. Firstly, when PAS first tabled the Private Members Bill, none of you took it seriously. None of you asked the relevant questions at the cabinet level.

Secondly, when this bill, which was bottom of the list, was fast-tracked above government matters on Thursday, the prime minister or the deputy prime minister did not even have the courtesy to inform you all, the non-Umno ministers.

They just did it. So it teaches us that you all are irrelevant. You all should resign because they do not respect you at all. Thirdly, Umno is very certain that none of you will resign. It's just play-acting only.

Cks: MCA, Gerakan, MIC, etc just don't get it. They think they can become champions of the people by just threatening to quit their cabinet positions. If you can take your party out of BN, then the rakyat will begin to believe you. Otherwise it is just sandiwara.

Appum: This is a mistaken move by PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang and Minister Azalina Othman Said playing the PAS/Umno game at the wrong time, what with the coming by-elections.

Hadi has cowardly retracted the Bill by a postponement but great damage has been done to PAS and Umno as far as the non-supporters of hudud are concerned, encumbering all Malaysians who see hudud as nothing but a drastic form of punishment to force compliance to the religion.

All Malays in Malaysia are Muslims, but not all see Islam as an extreme religion as Hadi sees it and who thinks that all Malays follow his ways and thoughts.

Umno is not really into hudud, but it is playing with hudud with PAS in order to clean its sinful image, as portrayed by the 1MDB scandals.

Hudud and PAS is being used by Umno as a detergent to wash its dirty linen exposed by The Wall Street Journal and Sarawak Report, and the investigations by six foreign countries on 1MDB and money laundering. At least this time, the other component parties are not sleeping.

Anonymous Hotplate: In fact, all non-Muslim MPs, including those from Sabah and Sarawak must resign too, if they have self-dignity and respect their own religion.

It would be much better if all these non-Muslim MPs and those Muslim MPs who oppose hudud, join the opposition to pass a vote of no confidence in Najib, for him to step down. It will solve all the problems faced by the rakyat and the nation.

SusahKes: It's a shame that it was Leonardo DiCaprio who won the Oscar for best actor this year. Now, why do I say that? Well, just notice that, in all of these "threaten to resign" dramas, did any of the MCA thespians mentioned even once about the role of Umno, or the tacit approval that Najib lent to Hadi?

What does that tell us then? Now, I'm just waiting for the punchline from MCA - and that is to blame DAP. In the meantime, please do consider a standing ovation for MCA; we have natural born talents here, who'd make the legendary Marlon Brando feel like he was a novice.

Sherlock: Every sane person in our country knows hudud is dead and buried. Only pathetic MCA, MIC, and Gerakan find it gallant to pounce on this created window of opportunity.

Anonymous_1377321471: Quitting will have no impact. MCA has plenty of ready replacements if you vacate your post.

Dalvik: Wee - how about quitting the cabinet because your boss Najib lied in the written reply to Parliament that Good Star Limited belong to PetroSaudi?

Basically: Wee, how about threatening to quit BN if the Bill is read in the next sitting? that will carry more weight. Can't do it, right?

The Analyser: Here we have another round of play-acting as these guys read their scripted lines pretending that they are being so self-righteous. They are pretending that it will be them forcing Umno into rejecting hudud, when its perfectly clear that Umno will never introduce a law that has Islam telling them what to do.

This has all to do with people's perceptions and their attitudes to the forthcoming by-elections. If these hypocrites really meant what they say they would stay and fight. Resigning never achieved anything.

If anyone ever seriously thought Umno would introduce hudud, don't you think they would have done so by now, bearing in mind all their other draconian and repressive legislation they have brought in? Hudud is yet another scare tactic introduced into an election campaign based on fear and garbage.

Headhunter: Now it's left for Sarawak and Sabah leaders to show that they too have "telur". This is a golden opportunity to show that they are really partners in BN and are not afraid to speak up when it matters and not be just doormats for Umno to wipe their dirty feet.

GE14NOW!: Don't just quit the position - get out of BN altogether and kill Umno off.

FellowMalaysian: No one felt any tremors with Wee's announcement to quit his cabinet post, least of all, the Umno leaders Wee's threat was directed at. At end of the day, others can replace him as the deputy education minister with the flick of a thumb.

Patriot1: How about MCA quitting BN if hudud is passed?

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