The worst divide among the Malay community had occurred during Pakatan Harapan chairperson Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s tenure as prime minister, a senior PAS leader said today.

PAS vice-president Idris Ahmad in a statement claimed that Mahathir is now pretending to forget about his own role in dividing the Malays.

“Not only were the Malays divided, even the original Umno was broken apart.

“Three deputy prime ministers and a deputy president had lost their positions,” he said in response to Mahathir’s latest accusations against PAS.

Mahathir had in a blog post yesterday once again claimed that PAS has created a divide among the Malays and even causing family members to fight with each other.

Among others, Mahathir insisted that teachings propagated by PAS had led to a situation where there could be two imams for one prayer, Muslim bodies buried at separate sites and Muslims accusing each other of being infidels...