MCA opposes Islam; what about DAP?
(The Star) – MCA Youth has challenged the DAP to state its stand on the hudud issue instead of misleading the public by remaining silent.
As the PAS leadership is clearly not backing down on its plan to implement hudud if Pakatan Rakyat takes over Putrajaya in the coming general election, DAP leaders must state their stand, said its chief Datuk Dr Wee Ka Siong.
“We feel Pakatan Rakyat should be honest about what they are going to do and the implications of their actions to the community,” he told a press conference after the wing’s 23rd central committee meeting here yesterday.
Dr Wee was commenting on a recent interview published in a Chinese daily which quoted PAS deputy president Mohamad Sabu as saying that the party would propose constitutional amendments in Parliament to implement the Islamic law if it formed the Federal Government.
He later denied making the statement to Sin Chew Daily.
Following that, several PAS senior leaders had stated that hudud remained on the party’s agenda.
They said that it was no longer a question of whether hudud should be implemented but how it was to be enforced.
PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang said on Thursday that the party would not give up its struggle to uphold Islamic laws, adding that the Malacca sultanate centuries ago had imposed syariah laws on Muslims and customary laws on non-Muslims.
He also said the DAP had no authority to compel PAS to forgo its hudud agenda.
Dr Wee said PAS had never lied about its intention to implement hudud and questioned why the DAP had remained quiet.
“We don’t want the Chinese community to be misled on this issue,” he said.
On another matter, Dr Wee thanked the Cabinet and the Higher Education Ministry for offering some 600 STPM and Matriculation high-achiever scholarships for further studies in local private universities.
“The Government wants to retain these talents so they can contribute to the development of the country,” he said.
He added that the youth wing would be holding its general assembly on Sept 20.
