KUALA LUMPUR, October 9 PAS risks losing the await of as well as triggering an exodus from the non-Muslim wing if the Islamist celebration does not yield upon the hudud issue, says PAS Supporters Congress (PSC) chairman Hu Pang Chaw.
He pronounced most members were unhappy about PAS's skeleton to introduce hudud law in Kelantan as well as warned this could cause non-Muslims to desert the association en masse, deleterious the party's chances during the polls.
"We have to confess in politics anything can happen," Kelantan-born Hu told The Malaysian Insider.
The stream strap began the fortnight ago when former prime apportion Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad dared PAS spiritual leader Datuk Nik Aziz Nik Mat (pic) to order the Islamic law in Kelantan. record pic
Hu pronounced this was generally loyal of PAS's Chinese supporters, who were prepared to abandon the celebration if they felt they were not getting returns upon their "investment".
"When they think this celebration ... can no longer be considered the most appropriate party, they will walk away. PAS has to bear this in mind," he said.
PAS should accept that Malaysia is the multiracial country as well as abandon the try to levy hudud upon non-Muslims as this would explode upon the party, Hu added.
He pronounced PAS should strew the "phobia" of non-Muslims as well as welcome this relatively new vote confederation instead of holding upon to outmoded ways of thinking by championing quite Malay causes, he added.
"My sincere advice to PAS leaders is, if they unequivocally wish to take over Putrajaya, they contingency get used to this approach of life," he said.
The PSC, formerly well known as the PAS Support! ers Club , was shaped in 2004 to assistance build non-Muslim await for PAS, only the week before the celebration suffered the subjection in the 11th ubiquitous election.
It was elevated to the non-voting wing of PAS in May last year to assistance recruit non-Muslim celebration members, especially in Kedah, Perak as well as Selangor.
The 20,000-strong PSC has been credited with bridging the opening in between PAS as well as non-Muslims, as well as softening the Islamist party's hardline picture between the Chinese as well as Indians.
The stream strap over hudud began dual weeks ago when former prime apportion Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad dared Datuk Nik Aziz Nik Mat to order the Islamic law in Kelantan right away that the Umno maestro was no longer in power.
Dr Mahathir had previously created to the Kelantan mentri besar in 1993 to surprise him that the state did not have the right to introduce hudud, that prescribes stoning, defeat as well as amputation as low mark for rapist offences.
Nik Aziz, who is also PAS spiritual leader, however, discharged the idea as laughable as well as instead challenged Prime Minister Datuk Najib Razak to repel any objections Putrajaya still had over Kelantan's skeleton to implement hudud.
PAS has drawn slam from Barisan Nasional (BN) as well as Pakatan Rakyat (PR) allies over the skeleton to implement hudud, with the DAP central cabinet threatening to quit if Kelantan goes ahead as planned.
PAS, that has assured that any key of hudud will be finished slowly as well as in phases, pronounced yesterday it would kick off the series of talks in Kelantan to explain hudud law to Muslims as well as non-Muslims alike.
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