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Monday, May 2, 2011

Why get angry when a 'no' is enough?

News of Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak's olive branch to PAS washed over the country like a big calm, actually. It showed that the Malay leadership is thinking hard about how to consolidate their voice to make sure that they will always have the biggest say and control over their motherland.

Most Malays are concerned that they would lose political clout and control over the country, despite what a few people, who think they are liberal, say about it

Perkasa's growing voice is just one indication of the churning that is occurring in the collective stomachs of the Malays.

The fact that the Opposition continually questions any efforts to forge Malay unity and present a single Malay voice is a clear indication that they too know that a united Malay voice is unassailable.

While the opposition may want to pooh pooh Najib's olive branch as a feeble attempt at gaining Malay support for Umno or a weak effort to drive a wedge into Pakatan, the truth is the offer for PAS to join Barisan Nasional has caused millions of chin wags and because the consequence is far reaching, the discussions do take a more serious tone

It pays to remember that PAS was a member of Perikatan  and left it much in the manner that Ku Li broke away from Umno to form Semangat 46, after some political skirmish

I think most thinking political observers understand that Najib made the offer knowing full well that PAS would reject it as kneejerk response, the Prime Minister made the offer not in the hope that PAS would run and embrace Barisan but to restart the thinking process among the Malays.

It is not about PAS uniting with Umno or Perkasa winning over Malay votes, Najib wanted the Malays to think about what they need to do to ensure political dominance, if not survival.

For the longest time Malays voted for MCA and MIC because they knew Umno was in charge and the same happened for PAS in the 12th General Election but sadly the party failed to deliver the goods in Perak, Selangor and in Pakatan itself.

While Umno is continually badmouthed for dominating BN, much to the detriment of MCA and MIC, PAS is causing concern among their supporters who see their party playing full-time serf to DAP and PKR.

They can deny it all they want but the fact that PAS can no longer insist on Hudud and a theocratic Islamic state, which were their long-term goals pre-Pakatan, is visible and painful proof of their castration.

That the MCA insists that PAS drop their Islamic state goal is hardly surprising and should not come across as repulsive to a party that had acquiesced their own objectives for the sake of DAP for a few parliamentary and state seats

Malays, whether they like Anwar or not are also disappointed with the former DPM and his failure to rein in Pakatan to represent the majority of the population, that is the Malays.

The embarrassingly low voter turnout for PKR is another slap in the face for a leader who claims to fight for democracy; when your own party members no longer have confidence in the democratic process within their own organisation, why would others believe that Anwar would look after their interests.

The fact is, Pakatan's real strength is PAS and DAP knows this and this is why they go out of their way to belittle PAS contributions on their success, they constantly threaten PAS with withdrawal of Chinese support.

Oh yeah you can withdraw chinese support, but that would only make BN win more seats, but if PAS were to pull their support of Pakatan, Malays would be so disillusioned they would never trust DAP again, not that they should have in the first place - DAP is a family party of the Lims and Karpal and they fight for chinese political dominance and not chinese rights. the chinese already have full rights as Malaysians there are no more rights to fight for...

So why is PAS, as the backbone of Pakatan so upset when they were offered an olive branch? they can always say thank you but no thank you politely and the message would have been more hard hitting

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