After reading the article, Dr M: PAS is backed by the devil’, in The
Malaysian Insider, I have only one conclusion: Either this man is senile
or we are giving him too much face.
Mahathir Mohamad has singlehandedly changed the course of this
country to bring it down the path of ruin, while others in the region
such as Indonesia and Vietnam, are forging ahead.
It is obvious, not only from Barry Wain’s book on the Malaysian
Maverick that he has wasted the nation’s wealth in many of his mega
projects.
Even now, as chairman of Petronas, Mahathir continues to raise
eyebrows amongst the rakyat. He is entitled to dispute this, but it is
an opinion which I believe many of us have formed over the years.
One of his sons has been named one of the richest men in the country.
While I wish to congratulate his son for such great achievements, I
cannot help but wonder how the sons of two former PMs have hit the list
of Malaysia’s richest men within just a few years.
It is one thing being successful, but it is another when people see
the two richest men are living in the shadows of their fathers, and to
me, it doesn’t matter if they became the richest men in the world. It
could be that their fathers had groomed them well – and I’m somewhat a
secret admirer of one of them, because I enjoy listening to his
speeches.
But what Mahathir has said of his opponents in this one instance is
truly uncalled for. I’m shocked to see a former PM descending to gutter
politics, debasing others instead of treating them as his worthy
opponents. It is one thing for a politician to criticise his opponent,
but it is another thing to say that he is backed by the devil.
By saying this, Mahathir is essentially saying that PAS, being an
Islamic party, is ‘wicked, evil and devilish’, whereas PAS’ record
through the years, going back to even 1969, has shown that they are a
more peaceable and reasonable group of people, compared to some
corrupted and arrogant Umno leaders, past and present.
Umno, before 1987, would have been a lot more credible, but after the
breakaway of Team B, Mahathir’s camp has literally ruined Umno’s
political standing in the eyes of the Malaysian public, or least, to me
as an observer.
Tell me what happened to PKR’s bus which took Opposition leader,
Anwar Ibrahim around the country? Who could have thrown the red paint
onto the bus? What kind of culture is this – a refined Malay culture
with Islamic values, which I see promulgated by PAS, or a barbaric
culture which should never have been encouraged in the first place? Why
did the present PM say nothing of such behaviour?
Tell me also, who could have thrown plastic wrapped pig’s heads into
mosques? I wonder if any China apek or Indian kutty had such courage to
do this, he would not have thought of even wrapping the pig’s head in
plastice! Let’s be honest. Who has done that? I saw a picture of a pig’s
head placed on top of the PAS flag. Who could have done that? I leave
it to your good judgement.
Umno has indeed become a four-letter word in many Malaysian urban
households. People talk about the cows and condos, about the Scorpene,
about Altantuya’s sudden death, and about all sorts of corruption cases
that you can imagine – the latest being the ICAC’s investigation into
the RM40 million political fund from overseas given to Umno Sabah. I
wonder if the fund had come from a Jewish source since the fund is not
local!
Even this may not necessarily be the fault of Umno per se, the
tendencies are there now for people to point fingers at Umno. Every form
of persecution that is done, the fingers are pointing at Umno. Why?
Don’t Umno leaders realise what they are doing is damaging their own
reputation to a great extent? Doesn’t Mahathir realise that his
statement would bring him disrepute instead of PAS?
This is the level that Umno has descended into. The former PM
accusing that PAS is backed by the devil, is, I think, almost
unthinkable – that a man of his stature should utter such words. The
late Tunku Abdul Rahman, Bapa Malaysia and a well-respected Prime
Minister for all Malaysians, would not have said such utterly despicable
words, not to mention that it would not even have crossed his mind!
I’m sure, apart from the late Tunku, none of Mahathir’s predecessors
would have said such a thing during their tenure as prime ministers of
Malaysia, more so, after their retirement. Look at Tun Abdullah Badawi,
has he even uttered a negative word against his predecessor after his
retirement, despite Dr Mahathir’s tongue lashing against him even till
today?
For goodness sake, let the old man rest in peace, and stop giving him
any publicity. I’m lashing out here because I cannot stand it anymore,
and something has to be said to put a stop to this man’s spring of
wickedness. Perhaps, death is the only power that can shut him up, and
it may be soon that this old man will be kicking the bucket. The clock
is ticking by the seconds
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