Is it time to deliver a reality check to PAS?
The People's Parliament
Whilst in Taiping in the run-up to the Bukit Gantang by-elections, I had a chance to chat with one of the progressive elected reps from PAS.
In the course of that chat, I put to this YB the following poser :
What would it take for us to see the day when Malik Imtiaz, Azmi Sharom and I call a press conference and, at that pc, announce that the 3 of us are submitting our applications to join PAS?
The response I received was positive but disclosure of the same will give away the identity of the YB concerned, so I shall not say anymore of that conversation.
That poser now seems all the more relevant in the light of the call that emerged from the just concluded PAS muktamar for the Majlis Fatwa to investigate Sisters in Islam and, if found appropriate, to ban this NGO and to rehabilitate its members.
It was comforting to read the clarification by YB Khalid Samad, as reported in Malaysiakini yesterday, that “he had made the mistake of overlooking the resolution from his division to ban Sisters in Islam”.
In a press conference called to explain what Khalid has called a mistake on his part, he explained that the SIS resolution, which emanated from the women’s wing of the PAS Shah Alam division that he heads, Khalid explained that what was intended by his division was to move a resolution calling for discussions and debates with SIS on religious issues and it was not the intention to ask for SIS to be banned or its members to be arrested for rehabilitation.
Personally, I accept Khalid’s explanation.
