This is the state of the trio of parties that harbours hopes to take over the government by 2013.
- One is a Chinese-based party that Malays fret about. It wants to sell beers wherever it could, never mind if this discomfited many Muslims.
- Another is an Islamic party that the 40 per cent non-Muslims worry about. It wants to stop beer sales and given a chance would push its narrow interpretation of Islam down people's throats. Then again, another group within this party doesn't really care about these issues and is willing to give up some of its Islamic rights in order to come to power. Or so it seems.
- The third party, it seems, is the worst of the lot. It has a great talking-head loved by the foreign media. Someone who is seen by many in the 40 per cent group of saving the country from Umno (not a bad proposal).
But his party was cobbled from liberal Malays, liberal Chinese and Indians, hard-headed NGO types and disgruntled Umno-ians.
So now one has jumped over the cuckoo's nest, in Kedah. He joined the duo in Perak who jumped last March.
And one from the Chinese party who jumped at the same time.
And there are rumours of more defections - three to five - in coming days.
There are suspicions of money having changed hands.
How to run a country like that?
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bro,
takkan la semuanya pasal duit. Ada benda nak meletup dlm pkr ni, maybe, just maybe, they have been briefed about the evidence in the upcoming trial. No malay pkr reps would tahan kalau the boss is a ...
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Bro, masuk surga ke neraka bro, kalau cakap cakap macham ini?
Takut termasuk dalam list ke surga tetapi dihantar ke dalam neraka.
Muahhh muah muah.
Hi Remy - I'm not sure how fair it is to say Anwar is loved by the foreign media any more.
In the space of a month or so now, The Economist and the NYT have given him none too kind write-ups.
As a member of said foreign media, I think there is in fact a plurality of views about Anwar.
Ben
"It wants to stop beer sales and given a chance would push its narrow interpretation of Islam down people's throats."
Narrow interpretation of Islam...? Beer is forbidden in Islam. Period.
Ben B,
fair enough. there is a mixed of views of anwar when u consider recent economist and nyt articles.
i guess i was speaking in general, that the foreign media still loves him. this is simply because - if nothing else - he is more easily available to us.
he answers or returns phone calls, and so do most other top opposition politicians.
i could call almost all the top leaders of pkr, pas, dap easily.
the cabinet ministers, because they are busy et al, are not so easily available to the foreign media (to the local mainstream media, possibly yes).
though to be fair to cabinet ministers some of them do call back if you send sms. datuk nazri aziz, for one. and kj.
perhaps the cabinet ministers should be more readily available to foreign media to explain the malaysian side of things. like syed hamid albar when he was foreign minister.
Alizul,
tx for the correction. i phrased the sentence wrongly.
i should have put a comma after 'beer sales'. pas wants to stop beer sales, fine. good.
but it also wants to push narrow-minded islam down my throat.
beautiful women cannot work as they entice men, snoop squads to peep on romancing couples, and hassan ali said tonight: mosque officials can catch muslims who drink, sell or store liquor.
i often wonder why my fellow religionists when they get into power, sex and booze are the first things that they think of.
why not help the poor feed and house themselves, finding jobs and training lowly educated workers, helping poor estranged wives and their kids get fairly divorced, and helping the ISA families. ie doing Justice.
(during mat taib's time, the snoop squad was disbanded because its members caught these sinful couples and guys, and then asked for money. corruption again).
why must amar makruf nahi mungkar mean snoop squads. and banning things?
amar makruf (doing good) doesn't mean doing good for the poor and jobless?
nahi mungkar (stopping sinful things) doesn't mean helping education of ex-convicts and their families so that they won't return to vice?
i better stop. cos when it comes to religion a group of you out there think only they know what is good for islam.
saya wartawan biasa dari negeri tak beragama, tak macam negeri beragama tak ada corruption and abuse of power, like msia.
but Alizul, tx much for the comments. apols i gila tambah benda-benda mengarut! syiok sendiri.
Anon,
errr, tak yah lah masuk bab tu dulu.
ctangang,
errr, nanti i tanya nik aziz. dia pakar siapa masuk, siapa tak masuk.
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