DAP will neither alter Islam nor advocate for secular state By Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy

Malaysiakini : “Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.”

- Lysander Spooner

COMMENT | Umno secretary-general Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki claimed that DAP would never be able to ”amend the Federal Constitution involving the position of Islam and the Malays even if it has 148 seats in Parliament”.

Hold it right there, if DAP had 148 seats, this would mean that a large swath of the population who voted for the party must have wanted a constitutional amendment if it had campaigned on it, right?

Asyraf has sung this tune before about DAP not being a threat to Islam and the Malays.

In 2023, Asyraf pointed out that the RM1.9 billion allocated for Islamic affairs under Budget 2024 proved that the allegation was just slander.

DAP would never advocate for a secular state because this would mean it keeps its campaign promise and serves the people who voted for it.

Indeed, so inept has DAP been when it comes to maintaining the secular line, and so eager has the party been to please their Malay/Muslim partners that it has bent over backwards for the Islamic state in waiting.

More importantly, while non-Malays condemn such appeasement strategies online, they still remain a fixed deposit for DAP. Umno, its Youth chief Dr Akmal Saleh and a host of other ketuanan (supremist) types understand this.

At one time or another, Malay uber alles political operatives have hooked up with DAP - former premier Muhyiddin Yassin has sung DAP praises, and so has his fellow former PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad. Even PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang has made nice with DAP.

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