Critical Thoughts

When I read this news, I breathed a real huge sigh of relief. I was already prepared for the worst should the decision go the other way and PAS, for some strange and bizarre reason, decides to form a pact with the United Melaun National Organisation, or in short U.M.N.O. In fact, I was already contemplating leaving the party should my worst fears be realised and PAS abandons its principles and work with this assabiyyah/secularist/rasuah party.

Pas has rejected any coalition government with Umno or the Barisan Nasional at both state or federal level, party president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang said today, ending the controversial unity talks with its ideological nemesis that have rocked both the ruling and opposition coalitions.

“The issue of Umno’s offer to Pas therefore does not arise,” Abdul Hadi said after a rare joint meeting between Pas’s central working committee and its highest decision-making body, the Majlis Syura Ulamak (religious scholars consultative council).

Kudos goes to the party leadership for their wise decision on the matter. The time for us is nigh and we are closing on Putrajaya. I can feel it.

It goes without question that as a life member of PAS, I oppose any idea or suggestion for a muzakarah (roundtable agreement) with the secularists of UMNO. I do not think that there will be any benefit into initiating such moves, as past experiences have shown. Also, these secularists sure have a bad track record when it comes to “cooperating” with Muslims who struggle for the cause of Islam. Take the Palestinian experience for example. Remember the so-called Hamas-Fatah “unity government”? Turns out that those secularists in Fatah have an axe to grind and nearly succeeded in their coup to oust Hamas from government in Gaza. Fortunately the Hamas leadership are not stupid donkeys which Fatah thought them to be.

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I feel at peace whenever I see this….

I wish I was there but I couldn’t make it that night because I was in Johor. Speaking of which, I found this interesting online newspaper/webzine called The Malaysian Insider. Its free from the vicious polemics associated with Malaysia Today, does not have a pro-government bias like NST or The Star and best of all, you do not have to pay to read the full news unlike Malaysiakini. Its going to be my source of news apart from Harakah Daily from now on.

Well, the person in question is no doubt someone who has an intense hatred for Islam and that is not new. However I felt that I should reply to some of the statements he has made about PAS and Islam in general. Here are the replies that I have made in the comments section of his blog post in question.

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I just found out that the current ADUN representative for the Maharani seat in Johor is actually a relative! Or to be accurate, a cousin of my father. Apparently this is his third attempt at gaining the seat for PAS (he had lost on his two previous attempts). No relatives who work as a los angeles probate lawyer, though.

And to think that I never did realised that. I never did think that it would be possible for any member of my family (traditionally aligned with UMNO and thus, Barisan Nasional) to be aligned with PAS, if at all. With the exception of my late grandfather, an uncle and yours truly, no one I know in my extended family had any ties with the premier Islamic party in the country.

Guess PAS and I are more related than I had originally thought.