Malaysians relieved that Kota Kinabalu Move to topple the Hajiji government has failed — a salutary reminder of the fragility of the Anwar unity government, and the overriding need for political stability for the next five year for Malaysia to start anew to become a first-rate world-class plural nation

Malaysians are relieved that Kota Kinabalu Move topple the Hajiji government has failed — although it is a salutary reminder of the fragility of the Anwar unity government, and the overriding need for political stability for the next five year for Malaysia to start anew to become a first-rate world-class plural nation.

The Kota Kinabalu Move has acted as a vaccine to strengthen the resolve of Malaysians that they have enough of plots and counter-plots in Malaysian politics, that what Malaysia needs is political stability for the next five years for Malaysia to undo the wrongs and abuses of the last six decades of Malaysian nation-building which had reduced Malaysia to a second-rate mediocre country.

We have deviated from the original nation-building principles of the nation’s founding fathers who stressed the paramount importance of unity of diversity in Malaysia’s multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-religious, and multi-cultural society, where we promote ourselves as “Instant Asia”, to be “a beacon of light in difficult and distracted world”.

It is most significant that neither Bersatu nor PAS, the two main parties in Perikatan Nasional, has ever acknowledged the national decline of Malaysia after six decades of nation-building, where we have not only lost out economically to Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, and Vietnam, but are losing out to Indonesia, Thailand, and even Cambodia

We have spent two-thirds of our first Centennial falling from a first-rate world-class plural nation to become a second-rate mediocre country, and we do not want to spend the last third of our first Centennial in 2057 to become a divided, failed, and kleptocratic state.

This is the greatest challenge before Malaysia, to rebuild Malaysia as a world-class plural nation again.

For this work to begin and succeed, we need political stability for the Anwar government to right the wrongs of the past and end the abuses of power which has brought Malaysia down from a right-rate world-class nation to a second-class mediocre country.

But we need unity in diversity of the plural Malaysian people to rebuild Malaysia as a world-class nation and not the toxic politics of lies, fear, hate, race, and religion to polarise the diverse Malaysian people.

May be this is the “unity” which the Anwar government must construct first to rebuild Malaysia to be a world-class plural nation.

The first thing that must be done is to end the toxic politics of lies, fear, hate, race, and religion and make it a criminal offence to tell lies and falsehoods relating to race and religion.

Will the PAS President, Hadi Awang, apologise for wild and baseless allegations against the DAP, accusing the DAP of anti-Malay, anti-Islam, communist, and promoting Islamophobia?

It is more than a month since I challenged anyone to cite an instance of the DAP being anti-Malay, anti-Islam, communist or promoting Islamophobia but there were no takers. Instead, there was a long eerie silence which does not befit honest, upright, and righteous accusers of wrongdoing by others.

If I had made serious allegations against others, and I have been challenged to substantiate my allegations, I would have jumped at the opportunity to prove my case.

But in this case, there was only eerie silence.

Maybe, Hadi has forgotten that in 2010, Pakatan Rakyat had issued a policy document tying the three components parties of the coalition, PKR, DAP, and PAS to the policy objectives of a transparent democracy; a good, clean, and honest government; a high-performance, sustainable, and equitable economy; social justice and human development; an equitable Federal-State relationship, and a just foreign policy that, among others, bind the three parties to “defend the Federal Constitution, Islam the religion of the Federation while other religions can be practised peacefully anywhere in the country and protecting the special position of the Malays and the indigenous peoples anywhere including Sabah and Sarawak, and the legitimate interest of other races in accordance with Article 153”.

Could it be that Hadi has forgotten what he said at the Teluk Intan by-election where he said the PAS was grateful to DAP when in 1977, the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition tried to oust the party from ruling Kelantan during the 1977 Kelantan Emergency?

Will Hadi agree that these acts of amnesia do not justify the toxic politics of lies, fear, hate, race, and religion which Hadi had been practising recently, for they can only end up polarising and destroying plural Malaysia?

I will therefore ask Hadi two questions: