Strange bedfellows: Mahathir & Hadi FMTNews
It is often said that in politics there are no permanent friends or enemies. Again and again our politicians are proving this adage right.
There was a time when the DAP was Mahathir’s biggest enemy. Then they became friends in 2018 because he wanted to achieve his goal of becoming prime minister again. Tawfik said it was ironic that Mahathir was cozying up to PAS leaders when he had been “very negative” about the party’s Islamic credentials. That was putting it mildly. As recently as Sept 16 last year, the Parti Pejuang Tanah Air chairman was reported as labelling PAS “kafir” for teaming up with Umno and non-Islamic parties to be in power.
Mahathir has never agreed with PAS’s vision of an Islamic state although he himself declared Malaysia a “negara Islam or Muslim nation in 2001. If I were to simplify it, he stands for the spirit of Islam while PAS stresses the letter of Islam. He is practical and modern in a way that PAS is not. “Don’t try to scare them with Malay rule by painting them green,” he tweeted in Malay on April 28. Mahathir would do well to reflect on his actions and statements to see if he himself is guilty of scaring Malaysians, especially the Malays.
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