Belling the Madani cat By Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy

Malaysiakini : “If Malaysia is serious about upholding harmony, then enforcement must be consistent, not contingent on political alignment or ideological convenience. The deafening silence is not neutral. It is read as protection.”

– Former Klang MP Charles Santiago

COMMENT | Political analysts Wong Chin Huat and James Chin are two capable hands when it comes to Malaysia watching. However, the former’s latest piece is sticking in my craw for some reason.

Perhaps it is the description of Madani as a centrist coalition when it is not. Or maybe it is because of the description of the opposition, meaning Perikatan Nasional or whatever it consists of, as playing up racial and religious issues because it is bankrupt of issues, which it is, as the destabilising force of political stability of Madani.

Here is the thing: Madani is not a centrist; it is a right-wing coalition made up of a few centrists leaning political operatives who offer no real opposition to hegemonic policies predicated on race and religion.

Just Common Sense : "not a theocratic state where you can impose Islamic laws on everybody, including non-Muslims" But islamic laws are already imposed on non-muslims including blasphemy laws while muslims are allowed to freely denigrate other religions. 

Anwar in the end is just another islamist and islamists have only one objective which is to impose islam on everyone. He is very buddy-buddy with the iran clerics but kept quiet when they were killing peaceful protestors because to criticise them would make islam look bad.

Outlier : Voting BN is better than voting PH. At least you know what you are getting…a racist party supported by two NM compliant lackeys. 

There’s honesty in this at least Many voted for PH on the promises of reform, clean governance and religious and racial moderation. We got none of these. 

It is clear now that what we voted for was a rebadged BN, but with all the dishonesty, deceit, lies, back pedalling, an UMNO + PAS religious imposition, all camouflaged and marketed as a better option than the previous lot

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