RPK hits back at Kua of Suaram
Controversial blogger says the Suaram adviser and Opposition parties use people as tools.
(FMT) – Controversial blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin has hit back at Kua Kia Soong after the Suara Rakyat Malaysia (Suaram) adviser questioned his consistency and morality.
In a post on his Malaysia Today website, the Manchester-based blogger accused Kua and the Opposition parties of insincerity and hypocrisy.
Kua, in commenting on Raja Petra’s recent interview with the New Straits Times, had raised questions about the blogger’s consistency in his reform ideas and his Malay nationalist aspirations.
In response, Raja Petra said both Kua and the Opposition had a tendency to make use of people as tools to hit out at the government, citing himself and the late P I Bala. He claimed that these “tools” would be left in the lurch when they were no longer useful.
He said he worked for the Free Anwar Campaign for four years without a salary, except for the first month, and Kua should therefore not question his loyalty to Anwar Ibrahim. The jailed former Opposition leader was indebted to him and not the other way around, he added.
Raja Petra also said he assisted Bala and his family when they were living in exile in India.
“Ask Bala’s widow how much money the family received in those years they were in India and after their financier dumped them,” he wrote. “Where was PKR and Pakatan Rakyat at that time? How much money did they come out with? Zero! Zilch! Nothing!”
He said Kua and “people of his ilk” were hypocritical in condemning the removal of former Attorney-General Abdul Gani Patail, reminding them that they used to be critical of him. He added that the same kind of hypocrisy was also evident in the current attitude of the Opposition towards former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.
On the issue of being a Malay nationalist, Raja Petra said Malay nationalism was not exclusive to Umno and that Kua’s problem was that he viewed everything through the lens of political parties, in which the world was divided into just two. “The two halves are Umno and anti-Umno. And Muslims are either backward, which means they are in PAS, or liberal, which means they hate PAS.”
He added that the Chinese had a lot to learn about politics and about the Malay-Muslim psyche.
RPK also said Kua had no standing to “moralise” with him. He said Suaram lied in a French court that it had locus standi in the Scorpene submarine case.
