The Malaysian Insider (June 3rd) reports that Nik Zawawi (above) a leader from the ulama wing of the Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS) said that newly converted Chinese Christians are to be blamed for the anti-hudud movement in society which is preventing PAS from implementing its Islamist agenda. (see full report below).
Chinese + Christian – what better way to appeal to both racists and extremists in Malaysia. Nik Zawawi needs to find a convenient scapegoat for the deep unpopularity of the party’s Islamic agenda and their failure to make much headway in multicultural Malaysia so he resurrects the twin bogeys of Chinese and Christians and merges them into a single super-bogeyman.
The truth is that the party’s Islamic agenda is opposed by a wide cross-section of Malaysians who strongly believe that Islamic law has no place in a multicultural, secular democracy like Malaysia. Malaysians of all ethnic stripes including Malays have spoken out…
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Naufal Muzir 