The reason Khalid is attacking the Sultan (UPDATED with Chinese Translation)
Anyway, thus far this week there were two out-of-court settlements involving Nurul Izzah Anwar. I hope Nurul’s enemies will not exploit this and accuse her of corruption because, to PKR, out-of-court settlements are evidence of corruption. You cannot settle out of court unless you are crooked.
THE CORRIDORS OF POWER
Raja Petra Kamarudin
Shah Alam MP Khalid Samad took another swipe at His Highness the Sultan of Selangor today. Two days ago, the Selangor PAS youth leader said that the reason PAS went against PKR and DAP by proposing two names for the new Selangor MB was because this is what HRH wanted.
DAP and PKR want just one name. The Sultan wants two names, said the PAS youth leader. Hence PAS proposed two names because the Sultan told PAS President Abdul Hadi Awang to do this.
Today, PAS denied this and said that when Hadi had an audience with HRH, Azmin’s name was never even discussed. So it appears like this was just a smear campaign against HRH.
Some leaders in PAS probably want to drive a wedge between their party and HRH the Sultan. PKR suspects that HRH will not accept a letter from Pakatan Rakyat because there is no such legal entity called Pakatan Rakyat.
Instead, HRH may ask for three letters, one each from PKR, DAP and PAS. And while DAP’s and PKR’s letters will state one name, PAS’ letter would most likely state two names.
Hence if they can get HRH pissed with PAS then HRH might just ignore the letter from PAS.
It is actually quite a good strategy in the event they are worried that PAS will not follow the one-name ‘consensus’ and instead propose two names. The more pissed HRH is with PAS the more likely HRH will not consider the two names from PAS.
Anyway, whether they manage to get HRH pissed with PAS is one thing. The damage done to PAS would be even worse. The internal problems in PAS would just accelerate to the extent that the party might break up — as it has a number of times in the past when Berjasa, Hamim, etc., were formed, not counting those leaders who left PAS to join Umno since the 1980s due to internal conflicts
Every decade or so PAS goes through an internal squabble. Old leaders are purged from the party and Young Turks take over. And every time this happens the party becomes less Islamic and more Secular and Machiavellian.
I suppose eventually we may see PAS as just another carbon copy of Umno as PAS becomes more like Umno and Umno becomes most Islamic. Then, one day, PAS and Umno might just merge and the non-Malays would be left out of mainstream Malaysian politics.
Anyway, thus far this week there were two out-of-court settlements involving Nurul Izzah Anwar. I hope Nurul’s enemies will not exploit this and accuse her of corruption because, to PKR, out-of-court settlements are evidence of corruption. You cannot settle out of court unless you are crooked.
In the meantime, I am sure you are waiting with bated breath for HRH the Sultan’s return on Saturday. Then we will know whether HRH has been intimidated by all the Sultan-bashing in the social media or whether he will put his foot down and tell Anwar to shove it where the sun does not shine.
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不管这么说，这个星期目前为止有两案庭外和解牵涉到努鲁伊莎（Nurul Izzah）。我希望努鲁伊莎的政敌不会对此借题发挥因为对公正党而言，庭外和解是贪污的一种证据。你不能庭外和解除非你是欺诈的。
原者：Raja Petra Kamarudin
Translated by: Ngew Kok Yew
今天，莎亚兰（Shah Alam）国会议员卡立萨抹（Khalid Samad）再给雪兰莪苏丹殿下一个重击。两天前，这位回教党青年团长指出回教党之所以违背行动党和公正党的意愿，提出了两名雪兰莪州务大臣的人选是因为这是陛下想要的。
行动党和公正党只要一个人选。回教党青年团长说，苏丹要的是两名。因此，回教党提议了两名人选因为苏丹令回教党主席哈迪阿旺（Hadi Awang）那么做。
今天，回教党否认了有关说法，同时也指出当哈迪阿旺晋见苏丹殿下时，不曾讨论起阿兹敏（Azmin Ali）。整件事件看起来像是诋毁苏丹名声的行动。
一些回教党的成员可能是想挑拨该党与苏丹殿下的关系。公正党疑心殿下将不会接受来自民联的信件因为更本没有一个合法注册的个体叫“民联”。
反而，殿下可能要求三封信，行动党、回教党和公正党各自一封。行动党和公正党会在自己的信件上提议一名人选，而回教党多数会提议两名人选。
如此，假设他们能够使殿下和回教党关系决裂，那么苏丹就可能直接不顾回教党的信件。
他们担心回教党不会跟着一名人选的“协议”，反倒是提出两名人选，而这对他们来说则是一个非常好的策略。只要殿下越不满于回教党，殿下就会越加可能性地不考虑回教党的两名人选。
无论如何，他们究竟能否让殿下不满于回教党是个别的一件事。对回教党造成的伤害会是更大的。回教党的内部问题会急速升级甚至是导致党的分裂——这已发生过非常多次像是泛马来西亚回教阵线（Berjasa）和HAMIM等的成立，不包括那些至1980年内部纠纷便脱党加入巫统的领袖。
大约每个年代回教党都会经历一个内部争论。长老级的领袖会被清除于党外，而由年轻的改革派接替。每一次类似事件的发生都会导致该党减少伊斯兰性质，变得更加世俗和更具阴谋性。
随着回教党变得更像巫统而巫统变得更具伊斯兰性，我认为我们最后可能看见回教党变成巫统的复制。那么，有天，回教党和巫统可能就结合在一起而非穆斯林将会被排除于马来西亚的主流政治。
不管这么说，这个星期目前为止有两案庭外和解牵涉到努鲁伊莎（Nurul Izzah）。我希望努鲁伊莎的政敌不会对此借题发挥因为对公正党而言，庭外和解是贪污的一种证据。你不能庭外和解除非你是欺诈的。
同时，我相信你们一定是在憋住呼吸等待苏丹殿下于星期六的驾到。我们届时将会知道到底殿下有没有被社群媒体上批评苏丹的言论吓着，或是殿下决定告知安华（Anwar Ibrahim）发他的春秋大梦？
