advise to Karpal:
"So you can walk on water? You are no better than a twig floating on a puddle.
You can fly through the air? You are no better than this gnat buzzing around my head.
Master your own heart then maybe you can be somebody."
Arabic wisdom from 500BC
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Saturday, September 24, 2011
Karpal wants emergency top-level meet
GEORGE TOWN: DAP has called on Pakatan Rakyat to hold an emergency top leadership meeting to once and for all trash out the controversial PAS’ Islamic state agenda.
Declaring that DAP would always oppose the establishment of an Islamic state, its national chairman Karpal Singh called on the Pakatan secretariat to immediately arrange for the meeting.
He said any delay to address the contentious matter would severely erode public confidence, especially among non-Muslims, on Pakatan.
He acknowledged that the controversial issue was of fundamental importance to Pakatan’s chances of capturing the federal government.
“Public perception and confidence on Pakatan would be badly affected. Pakatan must quickly address and resolve such an important fundamental issue of governance. An emergency meeting must be held immediately to publicly clarify Pakatan’s stand on the issue.
“The controversy must end once and for all,” he told reporters during his Bukit Gelugor parliamentary constituency visit here today.
The Islamic state issue cropped out this week when Kelantan Menteri Besar and PAS adviser Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat declared the PAS state government’s intention to implement hudud laws in the east-coast state.
He also said that PAS had not abandoned its goal to set up an Islamic state.
Karpal, a lawyer by profession, said the Islamic state could never be implemented in any part of Malaysia because the Federal Constitution did not allow it.
He said state constitutions and laws could never contravene provisions under the Federal Constitution, which advocated a secular state.
He insisted that those who drafted the Federal Constitution in 1957 ensured that the country remained secular to safeguard the interests and rights of a multiracial society.
He recalled that a five-man Supreme Court bench led bythen Lord President Mohamed Salleh Abas, declared that the country was a secular state in a landmark decision on a case in 1988.
He said former prime ministers Tunku Abdul Rahman and Hussein Onn also declared the country as secular.
Even though another former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad claimed that Malaysia was an Islamic state, Karpal stressed that it was more of a “political than legal statement.”
‘No such thing as personal view’
As if adding spice to the controversy, PKR supremo and Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim expressed support for Nik Aziz. But the Permatang Pauh parliamentarian was quick to clarify that it was his personal stand.
As if adding spice to the controversy, PKR supremo and Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim expressed support for Nik Aziz. But the Permatang Pauh parliamentarian was quick to clarify that it was his personal stand.
However, Karpal felt otherwise. “There is no such thing as a personal view when one is in a top political position,” he said.
“When you are a top leader, your views would be construed and perceived as the official party stand,” he added.
The DAP stalwart admitted that “Pakatan had now been hit out of the blue” by an unwarranted political statement from the PAS spiritual adviser.
He hoped that Nik Aziz’s statement did not reflect the stand of the PAS leadership and called on its president Abdul Hadi Awang to clarify the matter.
Karpal recalled that only three months ago, the PAS 57th Muktamar (general assembly) passed a resolution declaring that the party had dropped its Islamic state agenda.
“We thought the agenda was dead and buried then. The public was overjoyed with it. But now this … out of the blue. I don’t understand why Nik Aziz gave such a statement … its mind boggling.
“Perhaps the old man was trying to grab attention,” he said.
He also chided Nik Aziz’s suggestion that DAP could kiss goodbye to Pakatan if it did not agree with PAS’ Islamic agenda.
“It was definitely an unprovoked statement,” said Karpal.
steadyaku47 comment:
steadyaku47 comment:
I support Karpal Singh and DAP whose stand has been consistent. Prior 2008, PAS had talk of a welfare state and it was on this basis that the people, not only the non-Muslims, voted for PAS. They cannot turn back now and say we still want hudud and islamic state. In any case it is totally unfair to Sabah and Sarawak who would never consent to joining the Federation had they had any inkling of this happening so don't impose it on them. It is not enough to say that it only applies to Muslims for we cannot have 1 country 2 systems.
ReplyDeleteI can't blame the DAP/MIC/GERAKAN and other non Islamic political parties for fearing an Islamic state, more propaganda has been spin from day one then ever!
ReplyDeleteIf only the real HUDUD laws were understood by even UMNO and the others!
As in any law system - one is innocent till proven guilty unless it is UMNO's - ISA!
So why are we fearing something that does not exists, just like a child is afraid of the dark becos he heard just too many ghosts stories & watch too many ghosts movies !
We cant be chopping peoples hands all over town - not what UMNO is saying and portraying correctly, they make others fear it!
UMNO fellas are scared shit becos they stole so much and cheated so much and they are the ones who are going to lose both arms and legs as well!
That is the real FEAR they have all these while! And Some may even lose their tongues because they are compulsive liars - MAMAK KUTTY style liars!
So Karpal S and Lim K.S should sit down with TGNA and seek a clear picture and understand why he made this stand!
"THE REAL REASON - IT IS TO GET RID OF UMNO & ITS BAND OF ROBBERS /THIEVES/RAPISTS FOR GOOD!"