The Chinese just saw what the Malays had been trying to tell them all along
The Third Force
So many things in the lead up to the Kuala Kangsar and Sungai Besar by-elections have been unprecedented, that so much so, the word itself has lost meaning. One can immediately see how Pakatan Harapan politicians have lost every shred of dignity and every ounce of worth they may have had trying to convince voters that UMNO was the devil and PAS was its advocate.
For instance, yesterday, de facto opposition leader Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohammad joined the ongoing mudslinging between supporters of the ruling coalition and the opposition by drumming the same old battle cry. According to the former premier, Dato’ Seri Najib Tun Razak was bad news for UMNO and that the latter’s wife, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, was his bad luck charm. The fact that Mahathir appeared out of nowhere to trump up support for Parti Amanah Negara (PAN) was by no means a random occurrence.
In fact, it was what one might call a panic response – Mahathir was ushered in hurriedly to take the heat off PAN president, Mat Sabu (Mohamad Sabu), who many have just discovered had all along been a staunch proponent of Hudud and a Bill that PAS president Dato’ Seri Haji Abdul Hadi Awang had tabled for postponement in Parliament a little over two weeks ago.
The revelation caught the Chinese by surprise, as all this while, Mat Sabu refused to state his stand on the Bill when he was approached by reporters. But for the past two days, Malaysia Today has been bringing you hard evidence that points to Mat Sabu’s unmistakable love affair with Hudud and the said Bill, which you can read all about by clicking on the following links:
http://www.malaysia-today.net/mat-sabu-supports-hudud-and-hadis-syariah-amendment-bill/
http://www.malaysia-today.net/the-fool-who-thinks-the-chinese-are-fools/
The exposes triggered alarm among many of Mat Sabu’s henchmen, who I have just been told are red all over their faces and necks as one would be after going hard on the liquor bottle. I was also told that Lim Kit Siang may have come to terms with the inevitable – that Amanah will suffer at the hands of the Chinese electorate in Kuala Kangsar and Sungai Besar for lying to them about Mat Sabu’s love affair with Hudud.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noysDaK7q3U
Worse, the Chinese are beginning to sense – and correctly, it seems – that the move by DAP to annul its working relationship with PAS last year was political chicanery at its best and had nothing to do with Hudud. Or else, how would one account for the fact that Kit Siang has remained tight-lipped on the emergence of a video that clearly depicts Mat Sabu as supporting Hadi’s call for the constitutional jurisdiction of the Syariah Court to be expanded?
For the past two weeks or so, Kit Siang has been hammering into the Chinese electorate the idea that Hadi’s Bill of amendments would open the door for UMNO and PAS to put into effect the full scope of the Islamic penal code. He was implying that the Bill would pave the way for Malaysia to be turned into an Islamic state, and that everything the Bill stood for only served to infringe on the Federal law and the secularity of the nation.
But if he truly believes that, and given that the DAP has all along been opposed to Hudud, shouldn’t he be stomping his feet to the ground in rage and demanding that Mat Sabu choose between Pakatan Harapan and Hudud?
Take it from me – the Chinese are not stupid. They know that this is never going to happen, because they are beginning to see that not only is PAN being funded wholesale by DAP, Kit Siang is the Islamist party’s de facto president. They now realise that the PAS-DAP split had nothing to do with Hudud, and that DAP simply saw PAS to be a threat when its president, Hadi Awang, developed a mind of his own and refused to go against the wishes of the Selangor Palace two years ago.
Back then, Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim and Rafizi Ramli devised a long range manoeuvre to undermine Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim’s leadership of the state of Selangor. Anwar’s ultimate mission was to sully Khalid’s name before sweeping him out of office together with the rest of the trash. Kit Siang was with Anwar all the way in the conspiracy. As a matter of fact, it was Kit Siang who had planned sabotage for Khalid’s electoral campaign in Port Kelang during the 13th general election.
The conspiracy to oust Khalid was democratic thievery in every sense of the word, and that made Hadi very uncomfortable. The PAS president could not understand why Khalid needed to be removed. He was dead against the idea of effecting a leadership change in Selangor based solely on hearsay, conjecture and circumstantial evidence, and knew that much of the accusations hurled against Khalid were fabricated by Anwar, Rafizi Ramli and Saifuddin Nasution.
Anyway, things took a turn for worse when the ruler decreed against Datin Seri Wan Azizah’s candidacy for the post of Selangor Menteri Besar (MB). By then, Anwar got wind of a secret pact between Mahathir and Azmin Ali, the terms of which required Azmin to inveigle a pass towards leadership of Selangor by convincing a third party who was close to the Palace that he was best suited for the top job.
A desperate Anwar turned to Hadi and more or less begged the PAS president to support Wan Azizah’s candidature for the post of MB. But Hadi gave Anwar the cold shoulder and, instead, chose to satisfy the ruler’s decree by pitching more than two names for the top job. That led to Azmin’s inauguration as Selangor’s fifteenth MB and split PKR irrevocably into two distinct camps – the pro Azmin camp and the pro Wan Azizah camp.
Every time Kit Siang reminisces about the incident, it sends a chill down his old and fragile spine. To him, if Hadi could do it then, he sure as hell could do it again. So imagine what would happen if DAP were to win the majority seats in a given state as it once did in Perak, and is forced to nominate a PAS candidate for the post of MB. Would Hadi place the wishes of the ruler before the opposition alliance again, and would he allow the new PAS MB to be DAP’s stooge? Kit Siang knows the answer to those questions, and the answers scare the bejeezus out of him.
And that was when the senior Lim dropped Hadi from the equation and decided that he needed someone stupid, someone he could twist around his little finger, to run an Islamist outfit which DAP would fund and control. Every instinct told him that perfect candidate for the job was Mat Sabu, who even during Langkah Kajang, was fawning around Kit Siang like a puppy on a leash.
And that is how Mat Sabu and PAN came into the picture. Hudud or no Hudud, the duo – Mat Sabu and Kit Siang – is conspiring to conceal from voters the hard truth – that DAP and Amanah are two sides to the same coin. But that coin is now losing some currency, as the Chinese are beginning to realise that Kit Siang had been lying to them all this while.
