COMMENT | The limiting factor of one's own limit to capacity is probably the best justification to unravel the baffling thought trying to understand the cyber reference of why Perkasa secretary-general Syed Hassan Syed Ali had taken up in his defiance against Tourism Minister Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz.

This attempt to retaliate against the tourism minister is pure dry dark humour by using our blog post that was made almost seven years ago in support of an organisation, which claimed to have over 200,000 members.

We don't even know where to start!

The fact is that, don't Syed Hassan have a more current reference, to support his and/or Perkasa's case against Nazri?

Let us go on the points raised by Syed Hassan.

Perkasa is a right wing organisation. Their patron Dr Mahathir Mohamad was a former Umno president for over six years and Umno Baru president for over 16 years.

Umno is a nationalist organisation formed by the Malays, for the Malays.

Umno's mortal political nemesis is the DAP. Even Mahathir, at various times, called the DAP and their leaders, such as Lim Kit Siang, "Chinese Chauvinists, extremists and racists".

He did this on the platform of Umno.

Perkasa president Ibrahim Ali refused to participate alongside Mahathir for the illegal street demonstration.

Ibrahim said he is "a leader of his own right" and refused to be a "lackey" (Gurkha) for someone like Mahathir, although he admitted that the statesman did a lot for the nation.

Mahathir would later proclaim that he is ashamed of Ibrahim for refusing to join Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia.

Bersatu would forge a relationship with DAP. Mahathir shocked the world by fostering a political partnership with arch nemesis Lim and DAP.

It is a known fact that Syed Hassan idolises Mahathir. Syed Hassan should be criticising Mahathir for sleeping with the enemy.

Then again, Syed Hassan whacked Nazri for speaking in English. These video clips also clearly show that Ibrahim was also comfortable in elaborating in English, when necessary.

It is not professional to regard Syed Hassan as a hypocrite. However, Mahathir has proven that he has a compulsion to mislead and indulge in hypocrisy.

It is a matter of principle for Syed Hassan, an advocate of the struggle for the Malays and an office bearer of a right wing organisation since its inception in June 2008, to publicly disown and attack Mahathir for the relationship with the "Chinese Chauvinist, racist and extremist DAP".

Then again, there is a possibility that with Syed Hassan's limited formal education, unlike his boss Ibrahim, inhibited his ability to put forth a solid argument against British-trained lawyer Nazri.

Like it or not, Tourism Minister Nazri is still on the side of the right, as an Umno supreme council member and a member of the nationalist party that had continuously been the mainstay of Malaysian politics since 1955.

Syed Hassan should be proud of his achievements in Perkasa and galvanise his right wing organisation for the betterment of the Malays, instead caught in the paradox of his own personal dilemma.

This article first appeared on bigdogdotcom.wordpress.com. It has been edited for clarity and brevity.

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