PAS’ biggest hurdle to hudud is Umno, not DAP, says Hadi’s son

(Malay Mail Online) – The DAP is not PAS’ biggest hurdle to roll out hudud in Kelantan compared to Umno and Barisan Nasional (BN), PAS Youth deputy chief Muhammad Khalil Abdul Hadi has said.

Khalil, the son of PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang, said that the onus is now on the ruling coalition at the federal level whether to allow Kelantan to implement hudud, Malay daily Sinar Harian reported today.

“We are worried against Umno blocking the Shariah Criminal Code (II) 1993 enactment although it was passed 20 years ago,” Khalil was quoted saying.

“This is what we really fear, compared to DAP not wanting hudud to be implemented in Kelantan although it only involves Muslims.”

He said that if Umno was really fighting for Islam as they claimed, then the party would have carried out this responsibility long ago and implemented hudud as the ruling party at the federal level.

Last week, the Kelantan state assembly approved the Shariah Criminal Code (II) (1993) 2015 Enactment with 31 votes from PAS lawmakers supported by 12 from Umno.

In return, DAP on Tuesday pilloried PAS president Hadi for his party’s hudud push, saying it will no longer work with him even as it vowed to remain in the PR pact.

The DAP’s central executive committee accused Hadi of cooperating with Umno on hudud, in violation of the pact’s common consensus and Common Policy Framework.

Aside from the current hudud controversy, DAP further accused Hadi of betraying PR during last year’s Selangor mentri besar crisis, when the PAS leader unilaterally nominated candidates other than PKR president Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail.

It also accused Hadi of failing to honour his own pledge made in February that PAS’ amendments to Kelantan’s Shariah Criminal Code Enactment II 1993 will be made available for discussions by the PR leadership.