The real agenda behind why DAP is trying to kill PAS

By MT Webmaster Last updated Jul 17, 2016

The next general election in 2018 is going to be pro-Islam versus anti-Islam. That is even worse than it being pro-Malay versus anti-Malay because religion is far more explosive than race. But then this is what DAP wants so that is what DAP is going to get. And if we are unfortunate enough see this turn into bloodshed then make sure you remember who started this very dangerous game of Russian roulette.

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Raja Petra Kamarudin

Today, Helen Ang wrote an interesting article about evangelism in the DAP titled What the ‘Take Subang for Jesus’ crowd want next. Helen said, “Make no mistake. The movers and shakers in DAP are evangelical Christians, and its top leadership comprises evangelistas.” (READ MORE HERE)

Actually, this is not something new or something that just happened (and Helen has been writing about this for some time, many times). In fact, we already knew this 26 years ago back in 1990. At that time, of course, I was already with PAS. Those who know me personally know that I was already ‘moving’ with PAS back in the 1970s when I used to live in Taman Purnama in Kuala Ibai, Terengganu.

And I am still with PAS until today so I just cannot understand all those people who keep repeating that I have changed sides. Dulu, kini dan selama-lamanya, as they would say in Umno, bersama dengan PAS. PAS President Abdul Hadi Awang can vouch for this plus can confirm that since as early as the 1980s we bought off all the land surrounding the Rusila mosque, Hadi’s HQ, so that the mosque could be expanded (see photos below).

Then, in the 1980s

And now, 30 years later

When Barisan Alternatif (BA) was formed in 1999, it made sense for PAS to work with DAP, PKN and PRM because there was no way PAS could take on Barisan Nasional all by itself. Furthermore, if PAS did not join BA, then it would have to engage in three-corner contests in every single seat. And this meant PAS would most probably get wiped out like back in 1986.

Actually, PAS did not do too badly in the 1986 election in terms of votes. No doubt in terms of seats it was an epic disaster because PAS won only one seat (the worse ever in history). However, PAS garnered 716,952 votes against DAP’s 975,544 votes, which resulted in DAP winning 24 seats.

DAP won 24 seats while PAS won only one seat. But the vote difference between DAP and PAS was only 26%. This shows you how unfair the British first-past-the-post system is. If DAP can win 24 seats with less than one million votes, that means PAS should have won 18-20 seats with more than 700,000 votes. But then PAS won just one seat.

And what is even more interesting, Umno, with 1,474,063 votes (just double of what PAS garnered), won 83 seats. Can you imagine Umno winning 83 seats and PAS with half the votes winning just one seat? And all you suckers say that the British Westminster system is the greatest invention since apple pie.

Anyway, PAS recovered in the following election in 1990 when it recaptured Kelantan (which it lost 12 years before that in 1978). Together with Semangat 46 it shared 15 seats while DAP’s seats dropped to 20. And that was why PAS managed to recapture Kelantan — because it was in alliance with Semangat 46.

After the 1995 election (where PAS and Semangat 46 retained Kelantan while DAP won just a miserable nine seats and its top leaders lost their seats) Semangat 46 closed down. So PAS was now back to being a solo party without any coalition partners — unless it joined up with DAP, PKN and PRM under Barisan Alternatif to face the 1999 general election.

For all intents and purposes it was a marriage of convenience. PAS was fully aware what DAP was opposed to anything Islam while DAP was fully aware that the aspiration of PAS is to Islamise Malaysia. PAS and DAP were the direct opposite of each other. There is absolutely no compatibility between PAS and DAP.

This was not just a case of tidur satu bantal mimpi lain-lain. This was a clash of doctrine and ideology. It was like trying to get a Muslim to agree that Jesus is the Son of God and the last Prophet to come down from Allah.

But then there was a bigger fish to fry. PAS had been around since 1951 even before Malaysia was granted Merdeka in 1957. So PAS was streetwise and it has seen the worst in 1986 and the best in 1990. And PAS knew that sometimes you needed to cooperate with your enemy to face an even greater and more powerful enemy.

When you have seen the worst and best in life then you know that in life there are no absolutes and you need to make alliances and compromises to get ahead. Marriages of convenience are just that, marriages of convenience, so you do not think about love in such marriages. But you have to always remember that when the convenience ends then the marriage ends as well.

When Semangat 46 entered into an alliance with PAS in 1990, DAP did not want to join the alliance. DAP was prepared to enter into an alliance with Semangat 46 only if it excluded PAS.

So Semangat 46 had to create two alliances — one alliance with PAS called Angkatan Perpaduan Ummah and a separate one with DAP called Gagasan Rakyat (and a third loose alliance of no name with PBS in Sabah, which was a Christian party said to be funded by the Vatican through the Philippines).

In short, Semangat 46 had to enter into three separate marriages with three different partners and all these three ‘wives’ did not like one another. One was Muslim, one was anti-Islam, and another was Christian.

No doubt in 1990 they all had the same objective — to defeat Barisan Nasional. But they still could not set aside their differences so that all could come under one coalition. And the thing that divided them and which was an obstacle to the formation of one united coalition was Islam. So the coalition could not happen and Semangat 46 had to set up three separate alliances because PAS and its Islamic agenda was not acceptable to the rest of the opposition.

But somehow in 1999 they managed to agree to try out a coalition to see what happens. But soon after that DAP left the coalition and it was due to their differences with PAS regarding Islam in Terengganu.

In 2008 they again came together to form another coalition. And this time that coalition lasted two elections. But soon after the second election in 2013 DAP kicked PAS out using all sorts of lame excuses to justify their action against PAS.

As they say, history never lies. And the history of DAP and its attitude towards PAS in that sense has been very consistent. DAP just cannot stand PAS. There were times when DAP thought PAS could be useful so they worked with PAS. But just as soon as DAP achieved its objective it turned its back on PAS.

We must understand that there is a reason why DAP hates PAS. And the reason is Islam. So if DAP hates PAS because of that party’s stand on Islam that means DAP hates Islam as well.

Now many Muslims are beginning to realise this. Over the last couple of years DAP no longer hides its contempt for PAS and Islam. And Malays are seeing this. Malays realise that DAP no longer hides its contempt but now openly says and does things to demonstrate what they think about Islam.

And that is why even Muftis and religious department officials, etc., even those in Pakatan states, are openly condemning the DAP people with labels of kafir and banning non-Muslim opposition people from using mosques and so on.

Raja Petra Kamarudin RPK