Hadi Awang has violated the Rukun Negara in his post-15GE diatribe against the DAP — in particular four of the five Rukun Negara principles
I am as surprised as anybody else at the latest diatribe against the DAP by the PAS President, Hadi Awang, accusing the “creedless and immoral DAP” of Islamophobia.
He has violated Rukun Negara in his post-15GE diatribe against the DAP — in particular four of the five Rukun Negara principles on loyalty to King and country, Supremacy of the Constitution, the Rule of Law and Courtesy and Morality.
Hadi is doubly wrong in accusing the DAP of being “creedless and immoral” and in promoting Islamophobia.
Is this the reason why Hadi refuses to accept the Rukun Negara as the nation-building principles for Malaysia?
I agree with the PKR information chief and MP for Lembah Panti, Fahmi Fadzil’s challenge to PAS to make a police report over its claims that DAP is promoting Islamophobia, if PAS has any evidence. In fact, if the allegation is true, it is Hadi’s duty to the nation to lodge a report to the police.
Hadi’s latest diatribe against the DAP raises the question as to who is the real Hadi Awang.
During the 15GE campaign, Hadi had alleged that the DAP was anti-Malay, anti-Islam and anti-Royalty, which were not only libellous and complete lies. Now, he has accused the DAP leaders as communists.
I have been a Member of Parliament for some 50 years and Parliamentary Leader of Opposition for some 30 years, and I never knew that I was a communist.
How come the super-efficient Special Branch of Malaysia did not know that I was a communist, but Hadi knew?
Does Hadi remember what he said during the Teluk Intan by-election in May 2014?
Hadi had praised Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud, the DAP candidate for the Teluk Intan by-election for making DAP her political party of choice despite being a Malay.
Abdul Hadi had hit back at detractors who had criticised PAS for choosing to partner DAP, saying PAS has more in common with DAP than with UMNO.
He said: “We feel that Dyana is brave to be a candidate, more so a DAP candidate.”
Abdul Hadi reminded PAS members that DAP had helped PAS when the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition tried to oust the Islamist party from ruling Kelantan during the 1977 Kelantan Emergency.
He said although there were so many things different between DAP and PAS, like what is halal (permissible) and haram (forbidden), alcohol, pork and hudud, the two parties agree with each other in eradicating poverty, cruelty and corruption, among others.
Let Hadi tell Malaysians what happened after the Teluk Intan by-election in 2014, where PAS leadership did a somersault and decided they have more in common with UMNO, supporting Najib Razak and his 1MDB scandal?
What has PAS under Hadi supported corruption and in particular the 1MDB financial scandal?
Which is the real Hadi Awang — at the Teluk Intan by-election in 2014 or the 15th General Election in 2022?
How could a genuine Islamic leader perform such a somersault?
Now, Hadi attacked Malay leaders in DAP, accusing them of being “stupid, liberal Malays”.
The DAP and DAP Malay leaders do not reject Islam, but they reject Hadi as a Islamic leader, just like Saudi Arabia which Hadi was not able to visit, although he was the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy to the Prime Minister in the Ismail Sabri government.
Does Hadi agree with the Rukun Negara whose preamble states that Malaysia “nurtures the ambitions” of “achieving a more perfect unity amongst the whole of her society”, “guaranteeing a liberal approach towards our traditional heritage that is rich and diverse” and “building a progressive society that will make use of science and technology”?
Does Hadi agree that we should leverage on the values and virtues of the four great civilisations — Malay/Islamic, Chinese, Indian, and Western — to make Malaysia a great world-class nation as Malaysia is at the confluence of these four great civilisations?
Would agree to the proposal I made two days ago that all political coalitions and parties agree that Malaysia should be the first nation in the world to deal with the bane of the information era — the toxic politics of lies, fear, hate, race, and religion?
Before the 14th General Election, such toxic politics alleged that I will be the Prime Minister of Malaysia if Pakatan Harapan wins the polls in the 14th General Election.
When such lies and falsehoods were proved wrong after May 9, 2018, new lies and falsehoods were manufactured to allege that I was the real power in the 22-month Pakatan Harapan government in Putrajaya and that Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, Anwar Ibrahim, Azizah Ismail, and Mohamad Sabu were merely my stooges and puppets — although at the same time, I was cast as a traitor of the “Chinese race”?
I was alleged to have received RM1 billion from Mahathir for him to join and head Pakatan Harapan and alleged to receive RM1.2 billion from Israeli sources to promote their cause.
There were other allegations of other fortunes coming my way to make me one of the richest men in Malaysia — except that these billions exist only in the realm of the toxic politics of lies, hate, fear, race, or religion of opportunistic and desperate political leaders.
I was accused of being a communist; responsible for the May 13, 1969 riots, leading the street demonstrations in Kuala Lumpur shouting anti-Malay and anti-Islam slogans, although I was never in Kuala Lumpur after the May 10, 1969 General Election; painted as quite a devil, a puaka, even jembalang; that I am anti-Malay, anti-Islam, anti-Royalty; an agent of KGB, CIA, MI6 and even Australian Intelligence.
I was even accused of wanting to split Peninsular Malaysia into two, East Coast for the Malays and the West Coast for the Chinese.
DAP had been demonised with all sorts of lies and falsehoods, but DAP National Chairman, Lim Guan Eng is the only political leader in Malaysia who had crossed ethnic lines to sacrifice his political future and position as Member of Parliament, and even went to jail, in the defence of honour and dignity of an underaged Malay girl, when he was a MP for Kota Melaka in the nineties.
No political leader, whether UMNO, MCA, MIC, PAS or any other political party, had ever made such sacrifices.
The DAP was accused of behind the abortive Pakatan Harapan government move at the end of 2018 to ratify the International Covenant on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination (ICERD) although DAP Ministers and leaders knew nothing about it. This has been proven true by recent events.
Even after the 15th General Election, even before Anwar Ibrahim has formed his Cabinet and government, DAP was accused of being “dominant” in the new Anwar Ibrahim government.
Responsible political leaders must not allow the toxic politics of lies, hate, fear, race, and religion free rein for they can destroy Malaysia or condemn Malaysia to the fate of a failed and divided state.
The toxic politics of lies, hate, fear, race, and religion must be countered by arguments, reason, facts, and the truth.
Will Hadi agree that all political coalitions and political parties rise above the toxic politics of lies, hate, fear, race, and religion — the bane of the information era — to unite to build a Better Malaysia, which is a top world-class Malaysia where Malaysians, regardless of race, religion, region or politics, are proud to be Malaysians, by agreeing that this will be top of a Common National Agenda for the next five years?