Amanah vice president Mujahid Yusof Rawa, initiator of the PAS campaign of outreach to non-Muslims and sometime head of its multiracial PAS Supporters Club, was tempted to recall the haunting lyrics of the anti-war anthem, "Where have all the flowers gone?"

Speaking to Malaysiakini on the latest bloviations of Abdul Hadi Awang, the president of Mujahid's former party, who has purportedly called for an all-Muslim cabinet to govern Malaysia, Mujahid said: “Hadi is taking the party in directions (past presidents) Fadzil Noor and Nik Aziz would fear to tread.”

The call for an all-Muslim cabinet is Hadi's most radical departure from the initiatives painstakingly launched by ex-party heavyweights Fadzil Noor and Nik Aziz Nik Mat at the time, both jointly and after Fadzil died in 2002, singlehandedly sustained by Nik Aziz, until he too died in 2015.