After five days of talk, debates and resolutions in Ipoh at the annual muktamar, Parti Islam SeMalaysia seems to be divided into three groups.
Sure, they approved a motion to work closely with the Pakatan Rakyat coalition, but that is just one story.
Here is how they are divided now.
1) 'Anwarisma' or Erdogan faction - Work with Pakatan and Anwar Ibrahim.
The name Erdogan comes from Recep Tayyip Erdogan, often dubbed the 'mildly Islamic' Turkish Prime Minister by the western media. Anwar is seen by some as behaving like a 'liberal' Muslim versus the more conservative type of PAS Muslim. And he did run into the Turkish ambassador's house when in trouble.
Those seen in this work-with-Anwar group include spiritual leader Nik Aziz Nik Mat (because he really hates Umno), VP Husam Musa, sec-gen Kamaruddin Jaafar, central committee members Hatta Ramli and Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad, Youth chief Salahuddin Ayub and VP Ahmad Awang.
2) Terengganu faction - Those leaders who promoted and still promote sliding a little closer to Umno. Not to merge with it, but perhaps to work together for the sake of maintaining the Malay-Muslim dominance in Malaysia.
Or at least to send a message to Pakatan, Anwar and people like Karpal Singh that they should not take Islamic-Muslim concerns too lightly.
Called the Terengganu faction because it is led by leaders from the state including president Abdul Hadi Awang, strategist Mustafa Ali and conservative ulama Harun Taib. Also in this group are deputy president Nasharuddin Mat Isa and deputy spiritual leader Haron Din.
They will talk about endless muzakarah (discussions) and mubaqalah (face-to-face basic meetings), rather than stopping any contact with Umno.
3) PAS Tulen, or Pure Pas, faction - Why does the biggest opposition party want to work with crap parties PKR and DAP which - before the March 8 surprise election wins - does not even have workers to hang their own flags?
Why be treated like a junior partner just because PKR now has 31 MPs, DAP 28, and PAS only 23 (including one held by Ibrahim Ali).
PAS has 175 division, 6,333 branches and more than 800,000 members - some say 1 million.
So some in this group say let's just stay on our own and become real kingmakers rather than passing the mantle of leadership to Anwar or get tricked by Umno.
There is no real leader in this group, yet. One candidate seems to be VP Mat Sabu, who hates Umno and distrust Anwar.
There seems to be many party members who are worried about the party leaning too closely to Pakatan or Umno, and get burned.
If PAS leaves Pakatan, the states of Selangor and Perak will collapse.
PAS will still have Kelantan and Kedah (and the DAP, Penang).
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4 comments:
PAS is divided into this very logical groups i smost apt.
1] Nik Aziz has the best and excellent character of a man and God gives him the strength to rule Kelantan for many years.
The Professional Doctors, Engineers, Lawyers and people like Husam, Kamaruddin, Hatta, Salahudin an dothers are exposed to neighbours like Chinese, Indians, and a few of them are educated Overseas,meaning Western countries.
2] Hadi Awang, Nasharuddin, Haron Din Mustapha [though a lwayer] , Haron Taib etc are pure bred Malays at heart.
Most of them NEVER experience living with Chinese or Indians let alone a Westerner, never been into pubs, discos.
No doubt they may have travlled to the West but largely confined to meeting Muslims.
They all pretend to be Scholars which they are NOT ... al ghazali and others will cry in their graves.
3] the rest of the PAS are exactly what they are pious looking Malays who wants to remain INSULAR and ISOLATED from the reality of modern world.
They think the Chinese and Indians do not exist. Clearly, Blind deaf and dumb.
I just love the Prophet Muhammad a Universal Man .. Insanul kamil .. he is at ease with just anybody.
Mind you durign his youth he travelled and traded with the Romanan, Byzantine Syria etc ...
I wouldn't be surprised the Hindus and Chinese traders were around in Damsyik ... Silk Route and Indian Spices and perhaps "Malay" camphor
Your list of the Erdogan are wrong. Not Nik Aziz, Salahuddin, etc. You left out Mahfuz, Lolo, Siti Mariah, etc
on taman melewar's comments:
thanks much bro/sis (maaf, tak tahu identity sebenar). any bit to add to the issue is appreciated.
i put nik aziz's name there, not so much that he is 'liberal' or 'mildly islamic' like turkish muslim leaders, but that he is seen as being (for lack of better term) "a key leader" of this group.
that was why i put in brackets his real reason for being listed in this group - because he really hates umno (and who can blame him?)
notice also that at the ipoh muktamar on sunday (last day), without being part of the event's agenda, nik aziz was suddenly thrust to speak (again) on the topic of not being too close to umno.
on salahuddin, i believe he is part of the erdogans because he is a top leader who spoke (on wednesday at opening of youth's meeting) that pas should work closer with pakatan.
i hope i didn't impugn that nik aziz and salahuddin are 'liberals' in the mould that some see anwar.
the rest of the names that taman melewar put are correct.
the erdogan list is too long.
that was why, in the end, pas leans towards pakatan more than muqabalah.
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by being agst muqabalah ... hate this term .... consultation wud be my preference, doesn't make one an erdogan.
some are pro consltation but are not keen with idea of unity with umno and still prefer to keep themselves within pakatan.
before anyone talked publicly abt anwar's soiree to the unnatural, it was mat sabu. he made the term al juburi.
you bet mat sabu is not for anwar. and he is not for any cooperation with umno.
mahfuz is more anti umno than an erdogan.
so it is political powerplay and not abt so much of spirituality here.
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