DAP using Mahathir to organise pro-ICERD rally
“Muslims who plan to support Mahathir’s pro-human rights rally this Saturday will end up supporting ICERD. They need to understand, that the western concept of human rights isn’t recognised by the Islamic Syariat. Attend the rally, and you’ll end up supporting the right for non-Malays to enjoy the exact same privileges the Malays do. Worse, the western concept of human rights involves the need for one to accept homosexuality as a way of life and sodomy as an act condoned by law. Basically, if you’re Muslim and attending Mahathir’s rally, the DAP will call you a hypocrite for objecting ICERD and pressure the Prime Minister to ratify the damn thing.”
Raggie Jessy Rithaudeen
Everyone who is anyone knows that Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad isn’t in control of government. Scheduled to speak at a pro-human rights rally this Saturday, the Prime Minister of Malaysia is expected to address a crowd of ‘moderates’ the same day several Muslim groups are planning to hold the much anticipated anti-ICERD rally. Dubbed by organisers as “a rally to thank government for listening,” the anti-ICERD protest was triggered by the DAP following attempts by its leaders to pressure Mahathir into giving formal consent to the international “anti-race discrimination” convention. I can assure you that the pressure is still on, though the DAP has devised a very clever strategy to trick Muslims into saying, “we agree that ICERD be ratified with immediate effect.”
Yes, it is the DAP that’s calling the shots.
To understand how, let’s take a look at what happened on the 21st of November 2018. On that day, some 57 or so Muslim-led NGOs came together to officially announce the establishment of a third force coalition (Gagasan Tiga, or G3). News of the announcement did not go down too well with Lim Kit Siang and several people in the DAP’s pro-evangelist faction. I am told, the bulk of these people snapped the minute they heard G3 tell a press conference that it would “destroy” the DAP to protect the rights of Muslims. Lim Guan Eng was the first to deny claims that the DAP triggered the ICERD polemic to “shame Malay-Muslims” and to “mock the Monarchical Institution.” He quickly threatened to sue both me and Dato’ Azwanddin Hamzah by accusing us of rallying support ahead of the Saturday rally.
But the lawsuits never came.
The event, however, is still on. Sources have indicated that the rally is set to see the gathering of some 500,000 or so Malaysians, mainly of Islamic faith, in what could well turn out to be the largest ever gathering in the country’s history. G3 has repeatedly maintained that the rally should serve as testimony that Malaysian Muslims are willing to unite against the enemies of Islam. I keep reminding the Malays that if its war the DAP wants, its war the DAP gets.
But that is not to say we’re going to provoke Muslims this Saturday.
On contraire, G3 has assured the Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM) that its presence is in show of support, and to demonstrate, that when Islam is attacked, we’re there. It is this that bothers the DAP most. When Lim Guan Eng’s attempt to brand G3 an extremist concern failed, his DAP quietly ‘backed’ both National Unity and Social Wellbeing Minister P. Waytha Moorthy and Selangor exco V. Ganabatirau as the duo spoke ill of the police and Muslims. Had the duo triggered another May 13, G3 would immediately have been blamed.
