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"When Umno and PAS unite, they are accused of wishing to go to war with other races. (Our accusers are) like the Jews who did not want Muslims to be united during the Prophet's time. This is a disease we must fight. Let's join forces and send the enemy to hell." – PAS president Abdul Hadi AwangCOMMENT | DAP vice-chairperson Syahredzan Johan is one of those young leaders who could be constructive if he were not constrained by the ideological and religious first principles that define Malaysian politics. He recently asked if Perikatan Nasional or whatever coalition the opposition was attempting to cobble together, they would reject the statements of Pengkalan Chepa MP Ahmad Marzuk Shaary describing the economic success of the non-Malays to that of the Zionist regime and making the Malay polity a stand-in for Palestinians.Syahredzan is directing the question to the wrong group. He should be directing the question to Madani. Keep in mind that if PAS is saying that the non-Muslims are a threat to the Malays, much as Benjamin Netanyahu’s genocidal war is to the Palestinians, this would make Malays in DAP collaborators. Similarly, DAP backbencher RSN Rayer, who once claimed that Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim was like Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela, questioned why...
