September 3, 2011
Netto cautions Mat Sabu: Do not right away waste Pakatan Rakyats gains with folksy imprudence.
Terence Netto@www.malaysiakini.com
Sep 3, 11
5:08pm
PAS Deputy President Mohamed Sabu likes, with great reason, to think himself a statesman of a typical Malaysian a undoubted Mat Public, if you like.
His popularity derives from this ordinariness as well as his confidence in a adequacy to encounter a hurdles which accumulate to his purpose as aspirant for a layer of inhabitant governance. The moniker, Mat Sabu by which he is popularly called promotes this picture of him as a statesman of a common man.
But ordinariness does not meant he is paltry which could divert a attention a single in to thinking which Sabu is a merely a statesman of likeable personality as well as limited range. His bombastic skills, for which he is rarely regarded by his throng of supporters transcending racial lines, have been suited for a stump, though his calm is great to be forgotten though not his smoothness which is valued for a comic touches as well as a timing of a barbs.
However, Sabu is not usually an interesting speaker. He has a capability to douse himself in a incident which he wants to get a feel of, a better to come up with a clarity of what functions as well as what does not.
His choosing in Jun as PAS Deputy President, beating a some-more intelligent incumbent Nasharuddin Mat Isa as well as a some-more religiously credentialed Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man, must have bolstered Sabus confidence which his listening-post where he takes soundings from not usually a PAS true though also a inhabitant citizens is flattering sensitive.
Otherwise he could not possibly ha! ve finis hed a No 2 position in his celebration after three years of underemployme! nt, inha biting a forest which is a lot of antithesis luminaries who catastrophic to get inaugurated in a ubiquitous choosing of Mar 2008 as well as were catastrophic in their own partys polls afterward (Sabu did not get inaugurated in his first try during a emissary presidency in celebration elections in Jun 2009).
History furnishes many examples of leaders who have inhabited which romantic widen called a political forest usually to lapse with a bang. It would be a widen to report Sabus successful try during a emissary presidency final Jun as a stirring quip from a forest solely to say which defeat would have relegated him to a certainty of contesting a difficult-to-win chair in a fast coming 13th ubiquitous choosing during which failure would have ensured his oblivion.
In a event, Sabus feat was ballast thrown to a great swimmer held in unusually stormy waters. That is substantially why he has used a couple of months since his choosing to a No 2 post in a countrys greatest Islamic celebration as a platform to vent radical views, assured these opinions would reverberate in between perspective makers as well as in places to which Sabu, as a peoples politico, is connected into.
Frank though impolitic remarks
Sabus style does resemble which of late Abdurrahman Wahid, a renouned Indonesian leader of a Nadhlatul Ulama (NU), who became boss in 1999 by default as well as anticipating himself in which unaccustomed position, could not curb his instinct for solid speaking.
The upshot: Gus Dur, as Abdurrahman was popularly called, finished many straightforward though impolitic remarks, causing unnecessary offense in several quarters such which leaders of other parties who did not jus! t dislik e Gus Dur, ganged up in Parliament to sale him in 2001 when a corruption scandal, to which Abdurrahman was not directly! tied, b roke out on his watch.
Abdurrahman was sunk usually dual years after getting in to harness, finished in by his gusto for impolitic fairness than by any suggestion of incompetence.
This was a empathize since a presidency which had begun with refreshing dollops of truth-telling came unstuck by an additional of it, underscoring a doctrine of Shakespearean tragedy: we have been great to be felled by a exaggeration of a virtues than by a weaknesses.
Mohamad Sabu is without disbelief a exhale of fresh air in Malaysian politics though he has to reconcile himself to a conduciveness of a moment upon which effective care is dependent: hes got to gait his purposes to events which predispose a open to await them.
Questions such as who really speeded a British to accede to autonomy to Malaya, similar to who triggered a May 13, 1969 race riots, have been issues which have been glimmering in a distance. These issues await a gainful eventuality or dual before they can detonate along a interface in between dire stream concerns as well as a spawning drift of a past.
Getting way forward of a detonators places a positions gained with most persperate by a antithesis coalition Sabu helps lead during unjustified risk. The ISA-detained Sabu did compensate in persperate for a vantages obtained; he should not right away waste a gains with folksy imprudence.
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