SEPT 23 It is a no-brainer because Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad dredged up a issue of PAS's pursuit of hudud law in Kelantan.
In sports parlance, this has been a "go to" issue for Barisan Nasional (BN) given it mislaid control of a state in 1990, whipping up hatred as well as fear among non-Muslims towards a Islamist celebration as well as creating stress about a green tide as well as a chopping off hands.
In a 1999 elections, he used it to save his supervision after a Malay opinion deserted Umno following a sacking of Anwar Ibrahim a year earlier. Then, a non-Muslims, worried about Malaysia descending in to a hands of "religious extremists" as well as concerned which Umno's bad standing could let PAS in through a backdoor, voted in large numbers for BN.
And making PAS a extremists by misrepresenting what hudud is has been Dr Mahathir's prime tactic, aided by a mainstream media.
So with a Chinese not enamoured by a Najib administration department as well as Umno, or quite impressed with a sameness of a MCA leadership, Dr Mahathir went to his prime topic: PAS as well as hudud.
This move would embrace blanket coverage in a Chinese press as well as is directed during scaring a Chinese back in to supporting a BN.
The shortcoming of this strategy these days is which a growing number of Malaysians, generally civic folk, believe which Umno is some-more in advance as well as extreme than PAS. With a relapse of a system, a crime as well as decaying institutions, just what is there to wail about a present system?
The idea of tarring PAS as an extremist celebration worked when BN had a corner of a airwaves. It no longer does.
Now a significant number of non-Muslims know which people like Datuk Nik Aziz Nik Mat, Dr Dzulkelfy Ahmad, Khalid Samad, Datuk Seri Nizar Jamaluddin, Mohamad Sabu as well as others are not a ogres embellished by a mainstream! media.< /p>
They are in accord with people, Malaysians like you as well as me. In fact, in a last 24 months their politicians have stood up for Christians as well as alternative non-Muslims some-more than any Umno leader.
So demonising them as extremists might not be as successful as in times past. But be assured which a likes of a mainstream media will not be daunted.
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