PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang PAS unleashed a vicious cycle of extremism

Amendments to the Syariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act (Act 355) is not a way to implement hudud, and neither will it affect non-Muslims, PAS stressed today.

"Stop listening to claims that Act 355 is a backdoor to the implementation of hudud in Malaysia.

"At least three articles of the Federal Constitution need to be amended to implement hudud, this would surely be difficult," PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang told the Dewan Rakyat today...

We must uphold the Federal Constitution. Whatever we do. The Federal Constitution must be supreme

 PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang has denied PKR vicecan provide-president Rafizi Ramli's claim that an individual close to the Islamist party had received 1MDB funds.

In dismissing the allegation, PAS secretary-general Takiyuddin Hassan told the Pandan lawmaker to file a report with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) if he has evidence.

"He (Rafizi) has to ask the person who received the funds, PAS has not received any such funds.maybe Abdul Hadi Awang bank account  PAS secretary-general Takiyuddin Hassan said he can provide his  bank account numbers   

Malaysia’s politics of fear: Both right-wing and ‘secular’ parties have unleashed a vicious cycle of extremism 

Anger management:

Looks like Paandi Kutty not to table the bill has been caught by the very same trap that he had laid! When the Opposition wanted to discuss the DoJ suit on the 1MDB assets, the learned Speaker quickly disallowed it on the grounds that any discussion would be sub judice. So now he has to follow the precedent that he himself set for Parliament. On the other hand, everything could be part of a huge scam. Being the son of a former prime minister or deputy hardly ensures that the son cannot be a con artist. We have at least 2 such characters walking around right now.

History has its own serendipities. On 6th December 1948, exactly 44 years before the demolition of the Babri Masjid, the Constituent Assembly, which drafted our Constitution, was in the throes of a heated discussion on the question of secularism and the new Republic. While there was unanimity that India would not be a theocratic state, and that secularism did not imply contempt or marginalisation of religion, Loknath Mishra, a member of the Constituent Assembly from Orissa (who later, in the 1990s, became Governor of Assam) warned that a “secular state is a slippery phrase, a device to bypass the ancient culture of the land … justice demands that the ancient faith and culture of the land should be given a fair deal if not restored to its legitimate place after a thousand years of suppression”.

In their infinite wisdom, the founding fathers of our Constitution allayed Mishra’s fears, and resolved that India would be a country where all faiths would be respected, while the state itself would be secular. This ideological clarity was based on pragmatic grounds. Hindus and Muslims, and other minorities, don’t live in separately demarcated geographical areas. Nor are the minorities, especially Muslims, in insignificant numbers. They constitute over 14% of the population and live cheek by jowl with other religious communities across the country.

Even the much smaller Christian community, not more than 2% of the population, is cumulatively more than the entire population of Hungary and Greece put together. Co-existence, and respect for each other’s faith, is therefore an imperative and not an option for India.

But this ideology-based pragmatism is being tested today, not because the ideology or the pragmatism has become irrelevant, but because electoral calculations have created cynical expediencies on all sides of the political spectrum. Some political parties that reflexively genuflect before the altar of secularism have blatantly used Muslims as a vote bank in order to win elections, but done very little to address the real needs of the community. And parties like BJP have assiduously worked to consolidate a Hindu vote in opposition to the Muslims, while privileging divisiveness over governance.
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