PAS, without any provocation looked like it was going to implode because of the Nik Aziz vs Haji Hadi crisis. Conventional wisdom says that the crisis was manufactured by the Erdogans within the party in their effort to rid of the powerful conservatives.
While that was going on Shah Alam state assemblyman, Khalid Samad made an unprompted blog entry talking about the pledge of allegiance that PAS election candidates had to make before they are chose. The pledge or Bay'ah states that their marriage would automatically dissolve without chance for reconciliation (cerai talak tiga) if they jump ship.
People more knowledgeable than than I have said that the pledge may be unislamic, others say that the pledge makes light of the slow and difficult progress that the women's rights movements have made in the last decades of the last millennium.
Even PKR parliamentarian, Zulkifli Nordin expressed regret that PAS had to stoop so low, what about old-fashioned trust?
Khalid became so angry with Zulkifli that they nearly traded blows in Parliament's lobby.
Before that had a chance to settle down, another issue exploded in PAS's face, this time it the barbs are stinging theie spiritual leader personally. Nik Aziz's decision to appoint his SIL to the top office of Menteri Besar Incorporated is returning like a boomerang and clipped his head head roundly.
Ariffahmi, is an engineer and his detractors say not a very good one at that and he is certainly under-qualified to head the state's most important corporation.
Just as the story is simmering among pro-BN bloggers, PAS pulled the issue onto the front burner and cranked up the flame.
Ariffahmi signed a letter sacking blogger Sheih Kickdefella aka Syed Azidi, accusing him to be the whistleblower who reported wrongdoings within PMBK to the Malaysian Anti Corruption Agency.
Sheih even swore before Nik Aziz that he was not the one who made the reports but the old man would have nothing of it.
Fifith issue is petty personal but it will damage Nik Aziz's reputation. The PAS spiritual leader told reporters that people were stealing his slippers because they considered them blessed. Hmm, this is self-praise at its most embarrassing level.
It is one thing for his friends, or PAS members to say it but for him to jump to such conclusion just because his slippers went missing at the mosque a few times is sheer arrogance.
I mean people lose slippers all the time, especially if they wear nice ones. I lost more than 10 pairs of slippers at mosques in my lifetime, I simply account it to simple thievery. Or maybe my slippers were blessed too.
or maybe one has to lose 20 pairs befone one can consider one's slippers blessed. or maybe one has to lose at least three pairs a month/week before one can jump to such conclusions.
It is one thing for his followeres to worship Nik Aziz but when Nik Aziz starts to worship Nik Aziz then one has to feel sorry for him. such stories rarely ever end well.
OK I gotta run, next posting will be about how PKR is disintegrating all on its own.
The point that I want to make here is this.
BN's opponents are crumbling on their own, without much effort from the boys in blue. Opportunity is knocking on their door, it is their chance to regain the confidence of the people.
I hope they do not make pig's breakfast out of this opportunity. God knows they are quite capable of it. Especially if a certain SIL starts to blab.
Man Plans but God also plans and God is a better planner.
1 comments:
Luckily Sheikh had not been asked to take that bai'ah vow before he took that appointment.
When I was in my early twenties, I used to believe in Nik Aziz. I remember very well when they propagated that one will go to hell if and when one votes for the non moslems during elections.
I can laugh now at PAS cunning and manipulative method of drawing the naive and not so religiously-educated electorates.
Mala
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