Umno finds reprieve in Mat Sabus Bukit Kepong remarks



By Shannon Teoh
September 01, 2011
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 1 Whether or not Mohamad Sabus understand of a Bukit Kepong tragedy is accurate, it has non-stop a doorway for Barisan Nasional (BN) to go upon a offensive after months of scrambling to control a fallout from acceleration as well as a July 9 Bersih rally.
Despite Malays overhanging behind to a ruling coalition since Election 2008, Umno sees a recently-elected PAS deputy president as a battering impel which could yet break a reason upon a infancy race.
Mohamad is pronounced to be unfortunate which PASs tip care has unsuccessful to behind him. File pic
But a nonconformist politicians argumentative remarks have allowed Umno to plant seeds of doubt among a Malay electorate, for whom communism remains a bogeyman generally in a farming heartland.
Its not an issue you can float upon for long, it is usually a reprieve. But even yet Mat Sabu is a battering impel for PR to benefit Malay votes, he is a lax cannon as well as you can discredit him every time he says something like this, pronounced Umnos Pulai MP Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamad.
His Umno colleagues have joined countless alternative Malaysians upon amicable media such as Twitter to condemn Mohamad, who is popularly well known as Mat Sabu, who pronounced which a conflict upon a Bukit Kepong military station, which killed 25, was by leisure fighters.
This Mat Sabu impression is god-sent to BN. In a spirit of Merdeka, you will defend his right to show his stupidity, posted Kota Belud MP Datuk Abdul Rahman Dahlan.
Umno Youth arch Khairy Jamaluddin additionally goaded a sovereign opposition, enlivening a leaders as well as supporters to go upon fortifying Mat Sabu. There have been so many articles as well as statements ancillary Sabu who pronounced which a military were British lac! keys.
The Malaysian Insiderunderstands which Mohamad is unfortunate which PAS! s tip le adership has unsuccessful to behind him up over a allegations made by UmnosUtusan Malaysialast weekend, withdrawal PR colleagues such as DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng to come to his defence.
But PAS strategist Dzulkefly Ahmad toldThe Malaysian Insiderthat PR needs to bring domestic sermon behind to process counts which has seen a Najib administration department upon a backfoot due to open annoy over jot down levels of acceleration as well as general defamation of a clampdown upon a Bersih convene for electoral reforms.
The message should have been which even yet Tunku Abdul Rahman eventually spoken independence, even Islamic leaders as well as those labelled as revolutionary all fought a imperialists as well as should be recognised for it. But it is going to be ascending for us, a Kuala Selangor MP said.
Political researcher Khoo Kay Peng additionally pronounced which Pakatan dropped a ball.
By talking about Bukit Kepong, which is an ethnocentric issue, they have been personification BNs game as well as BN has latched upon to it as well as justly so. We dont need this kind of sermon entrance up to a general election, he said.
Bukit Bendera MP Liew Chin Tong additionally concurred which PR had ceded home advantage by failing to keep domestic talking points upon democratisation as well as a economy.
Those have been our home turfs where a entire coalition is in agreement though now you have been personification to Umnos strength, a DAP strategist said.
Although Mohamad has denied referring to communism in a ceramah covered byUtusan Malaysiaand threatened to sue a Malay daily, it has not stopped alternative Umno leaders such as vice-president Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein as well as even former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad from accusing a PAS man for trying to correct history.

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