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AN OPEN LETTER TO PAS DEPUTY PRESIDENT NASHARUDDIN MAT ISA

Don't test PAS members on Tok Guru Nik Aziz. Don't test PAS members' patience in this regard. Don't test PAS members' loyalty to Nik Aziz.

By An angry PAS youth leader (Malacca)

Newly re-elected PAS Deputy President Ustaz Nasharuddin Mat Isa was quoted by The Malaysian Insider rubbishing the stance of PAS's spiritual leader Tok Guru Dato' Nik Aziz's position on PAS-Umno talk. http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/malaysia/28831-no2-says-tok-guru-is-not-pas. Mat Isa said Tok Guru's statement regarding his total rejection of PAS-Umno unity talk was personal and that PAS members “take the party's stance.” He added that there were many issues that could be discussed between the political parties and that he (and his ilk) have “an open attitude when it comes to holding discussions.”
Before I proceed, I would like to say this to Mat Isa: Don't test PAS members on Tok Guru Nik Aziz. Don't test PAS members' patience in this regard. Don't test PAS members' loyalty to Nik Aziz. Woe and woe unto you if you dare to do that. I can assure you that you will lose ignominiously if you continue with this kurang ajar culture in PAS.

Dear Nasa, you are overreaching yourself and you are pushing many a silent people to the limits. You would have to shoulder the consequences. Who are you to contradict Nik Aziz? Dato Dr Haron Din was quoted saying yesterday that “the difference between an Islamic and a non-Islamic party is loyalty to leadership”, now you are turning PAS into “un-Islamic” party by being kurang ajar and utterly nefarious and a disloyal figure to PAS's ultimate leadership.

You weren't born when Tok Guru Nik Aziz was fighting for PAS and its ideals. You can't lecture him on PAS and what it stands for. No one in PAS can do. He is PAS's conscience and his courage and fatigue represents the spirit of this nation. Despite his advanced age, deteriorating health and uninterrupted 20-year rule of Kelantan, he continues to wake up every morning to serve Islam, his people and nation (you do nothing). And Malaysians (Muslims and non-Muslims) can attest to one hard fact: that Nik Aziz is the conscience of this nation.
In 2008, you used his magic to win a seat in Kelantan while you couldn't dare to stand in your home state of Negri Sembilan. In 1999, you won a seat in Kedah purely on Anwar Ibrahim's expulsion from Umno which rocked the Malay community to the extreme. When you stood in Besut, Terengganu in 2004, you lost badly in a purely Malay constituency. What does that tell you? You have no influence on your own to steer PAS to greater heights neither do you have the vision to strengthen it for future challenges. All that you do is engage in shadowy work and even contradict our leaders and betray our friends who have been useful to us.
Ustaz Nasharuddin, when talking about PAS-Umno unity talk, please answer the following questions:


1. Why now?

2. Why not before the March 08 general elections?

3. What should we unite for? On what? About what? For what?

4. Is PAS a pure Islamic party that represents Malays and non-Malay Muslims or a Malay party?

5. What are the issues that we need to talk about? List them ONE by ONE. No cheap talk please!

6. Why PAS and Umno and not PAS, PKR DAP on one hand and Umno/BN on the other?

7. Why PAS and Umno and not PAS and PKR on one hand and Umno on the other?

8. Why you and not Najib Razak and Anwar Ibrahim, after all Anwar has more Malay support than you do and he is the head of Pakatan?

9. What is it that Umno lacks that need PAS support? The passage of Hudud laws in Parliament? Did Umno bring such laws to Parliament in the first place? And even if Umno were to do so, (which will never happen anyway), do we need to talk? Can't we support such amendments while we are pure PAS members in Parliament?

10. Why did we go into the elections to get PAS leaders of our own and now you are telling us that we need to follow Umno leaders? Do you know we paid many prices for being in PAS? Do you know that Umno tormented us for decades for being in PAS? Do we need to list the agony and pain we went through? Or Nik Aziz as Kelantan MB went through?

11. What is it that Umno led by Najib Razak realizes today that needs our support? Be specific. You aren't singing lullabies to children.

12. In what way do we keep the legacy of all past PAS Presidents by betraying their legacies when they left us for God's mercy?

13. Is Umno ready to improve the police, judiciary and civil service personnel that it needs our Parliamentary support?

14. And if that's the case, PKR and DAP will support such plans (which Umno will never do anyway), so when will we have PAS, PKR and DAP vs Umno “unity talk”?

15. Is it us who chose to be the enemies of Umno or Umno chose otherwise?

16. Is it us who tormented Umno people or it is us who paid heavy prices for being in PAS?

17. If the talk is about “issues concerning the nation” as you said, then why do we need constant talk about it in the media so much so that you fail in your parliamentary duties and as a PAS leader?

18. Is it PAS alone that's concerned about the nation? What about PR parties and NGOs? Are they part of the “issue driven discussions”?

19. Why are you interested in something that will divide PAS and make us lose focus while we are on threshold of achieving an imminent victory in the near future insya Allah?

20. Perak PAS Commissioner Ustaz Ahmad Awang revealed in the Muktamar that a “national PAS” leader has tried to influence him to accept an all Malay state government in Perak, who is this leader?

 

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21. Do you think Malaysia as a nation state can continue to exist if we go on that road and impose Malay leadership on a state like Perak which has more than 45% non-Malay inhabitants?

22. In your opinion, was that leader right in suggesting that idea that Ustaz Ahmad Awang rejected?

23. Non-Muslims who have shunned us for 5 decades are running to us; do we embrace them and show them the hospitality and protection Islam offers them or do we return them to the “enemy” they ran from?

24. Umno started attacking the Chinese and Indians when they deserted Umno for PAS, yet Umno won in 1999 on Chinese and Indian vote and not Malay vote, why did Umno not call for Malay unity?

25. Is it only PAS that needs to be fearful of Malays when it gets non-Malay vote? Since when did PAS Malay supporters show enmity towards non-Muslim PAS supporters? Did PAS lose Malay ground by getting Chinese and Indian support? If that's the case, why is Umno desperately trying to woo them back?

26. Do you think Umno would talk of Malay unity if it was getting the “fixed deposit” Chinese and Indian votes as usual?

27. How would Islam's image be affected by your betrayal to the non-Muslims?

28. Do you know that for Islam to be implemented in Malaysia, we need the understanding of the non-Muslim community? Did we learn from Sudan's former military President Jaafar Nimeiri who imposed Sharia while ignoring the views of the non-Muslim community? Many Islamic scholars implored him to “at least” make the non-Muslim community to understand what was being done. But Nimeiri being a military man went ahead and declared Sudan an Islamic state and crushed all the opposition. Today, we have Southern Sudan (to be a separate nation in 2011) as a result. The nation continues to bleed till today. All it took was for one man to rush and pretend that he was intelligent and “God fearing” and that he was “uniting Muslims under God's decrees”.

29. Do you appreciate that Anwar Ibrahim and Lim Kit Siang have been useful to us?

30.Do you appreciate that DAP has improved our image in the Chinese heartland so much so that Chinese villagers who would have puked at seeing PAS's flag today overwhelmingly vote for us?

31. If yes, how do we repay them? Do we betray them and ignore them or we build better bridges with them and from thereon move forward and have our direct contact with the Chinese community established?

32. Do you appreciate that PKR and DAP have been useful to us? Between Umno and PKR and DAP, which party(ies) has helped us to be where we are now? Umno fought us, fights us and continues to do so in a cruel manner, do PKR and DAP do the same?

33. Do you believe PAS alone can rule Malaysia NOW? If yes, how? If not, how do we go about it?

34. Do you believe that Anwar Ibrahim's New Economic Agenda, the Lingam Tapes, his detailed NEP misuse information, his mistreatment at the hands of Umno, the 1998 episode, his charisma, his experience, his networks, his campaign for our members in different states and his ability to convince DAP leaders to stop attacking PAS and instead concentrate on Umno has been useful to PAS and enabled us to win in a number of places we couldn't imagine? Remember, it was only Anwar and Raja Petra Kamaruddin who repeatedly said Umno will be routed prior to the elections while BN media practically lynched Anwar and asked “who is Anwar”?

35. If your answer is yes, how do we repay him? Do we betray him now or we work with him and after he leaves, we install either you, Husam or Mohd Nizar as a replacement? If not, tell us how you won your seat in Yan in Kedah in 1999.

36. If you have popular Malay support, why did you lose in Besut? Why did PAS lose Terengganu since we are “more Malay” than Umno itself? Did you learn something? Why did Nik Aziz maintain his grip on Kelantan? Any lessons?

37. We used Mohd Nizar as an experiment and it yielded results; how do we achieve a national result now? And in what way does talking to Umno make PAS's ideals realized?

38. An Islamic party has a moral duty to its Muslim and non-Muslim friends. Why are you reluctant to have a “unity talk” with either PKR or DAP or at least PKR which is a multiracial party but a Malay majority party in the grip of Malay leadership as well? Where is your honour in showing respect to comrades who struggle(d) with you?

39.What are the similarities between Umno and PAS that necessitates talk in the first place?

40. Many of our leaders are victims of ISA and other cruel Umno engineered rulings just like all PKR and DAP leaders are as well, what are the ideals we share with Umno that calls for PAS to desert like-minded PKR and DAP leaders for Umno leaders like Najib, Nazri Aziz, Kerismuddin, Bung Mukhtar Radin and Khairy?

 

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41. PAS contested non-Malay seats and won (take Dr Siti Mariah for example); PKR (Malay MPs) have contested non-Malay seats (take Zahrain Mohd Hashem of Penang-PKR) but DAP didn't contest a single seat with Malay majority. So, in what way does DAP constitute a danger to us?

42. If Malays are divided, who is to blame? And when did this division start? How and why was PKR formed? Why was PAS ejected out of BN when we joined them after we lost everything?

43. Which party closed its door on many Malays and even passed a resolution banning the return of any party member who has defected to another party? Umno! The same Umno wants Malay unity now? You buy that? And that unity is about what? After all, even a husband and a wife are not united!

44. PAS has been there for decades, were we united with Umno? If the unity talk is about issues, we supported Umno on certain issues in the past and we can do now when need be, so why talk about unity?

45. Does Umno have a heavenly decree to rule Malaysia and lead the Malays? Why NOT insist on PAS totally replacing Umno as the dominant party in Malaysia and lead Malaysia as well?

46. In what way do we achieve PAS's struggle by talking to Umno or uniting with it?

47. PKR and DAP have supported issue based discussions in the past. Anwar said he is ready to meet Najib on Perak. Anwar said he is ready to support constitutional changes that improve the judiciary and other state institutions. Lim Kit Siang repeated the same. But they didn't talk about PKR-Umno unity or Umno-DAP unity! Why us? Can't we be a constructive opposition party without ever meeting Umno face to face?

48. Why do you need to demoralize the highly charged PAS now?

49. Umno Kelantan leader Che-Alwi has called on Tok Guru Nik Aziz to resign since he couldn't get his “people” into PAS Central working committee, do you realise that it is you more than any one else who has divided PAS and is confusing the younger cadres? And do you cherish Umno leaders badmouthing PAS' most respected political figure? Yet you want to talk to Umno? So you want to reward them for humiliating Nik Aziz?

50. Khairy launched a scathing attack on Tok Guru Nik Aziz and hired Mat Rempits during last year's elections, he said Nik Aziz failed and can't provide leadership. He came up with the Pade-doh campaign that humiliated the elderly leader. Tok Guru cried and many of us did whatever we could to rally to him. The same Khairy today says we should unite. So you support Khairy instead of Nik Aziz? For you Khairy and his ilk are better than Nik Aziz? Explain yourself!

51. Why are you wasting PAS's time on irrelevant issues that will never happen rather than strengthen the party, raise its profile among the unwilling Malay supporters and further engage the non-Malays, Sarawakians and Sabahans?

52. Why are you silent? Why is Utusan your media? Why not the popular blogs, Malaysiakini, Malaysian Insider, Malaysia-Today, The Nutgraph etc?

53. Tell us what you have done for PAS and PR in regard to making policies, revising them or coming up with issues that are of concern to Malaysians.

54. Rather than wasting your time in seeking Utusan Malaysia coverage, why not spend time with PAS's soldiers in the trenches in Negri Sembilan, Johore, Pahang, Malacca and other states who are preparing for the future?

55. Umno won't give PAS the PM post, so why should we talk? Doesn't that mean you despise your own leaders?

56. You can't manage a simple victory like the one we have had now, how do you intend to manage a bigger one? You are exactly the kind of leaders martyr Sayid Qutb warned against when he wrote in his “This Religion” book that an Islamic leader who can't manage victory will betray Islam's cause.

57. Do you know for a leader to succeed, he has to be loved by his soldiers? Why are you making yourself hated in PAS and Pakatan? Why not listen to what the voters want? Are you honest with your Creator and yourself and with us?

58. What gives you the strength to contradict Tok Guru Nik Aziz? Is he your age-mate? Can you tell us one achievement he has accomplished on any front that you remotely even tried to achieve let alone achieving?

59. Many people (the intellectuals, economists, authors, NGO's and highly educated/urbanite Malays) don't understand PAS. What have you done in the past one year for them to understand us? What have you done to make PAS liked by all people so that it becomes a giant party in the future and even rule alone or with PKR?

60. Umno is for racism which is haram in Islam, selective justice, tribal hegemony, oppression, exploitation, endemic corruption, family rule, hatred, division, lies, sodomy and dirty politics, total destruction of state institutions (look at Perak), and in Umno's history, it has the least popular leader in Najib Razak today. For God's sake, what do we benefit from such a party and scandalized leadership? Do you believe we share more with Umno than with PKR and DAP?


We are waiting for answers and we demand them now. We are becoming impatient. When we voted for you (including myself who is a youth leader from Malacca), we did it because we hate to humiliate incumbent leaders and your age also mattered.

You were young and we thought a new chance had to be given to you. Removing an incumbent was more traumatizing for us as PAS members than installing a new one. That is why Datuk Husam Musa was not elected. It is not that he is not liked. He is indeed. Far more liked than you. From now on, we demand that you stop your unity talk nonsense and concentrate on PAS and PR. Otherwise tell us the truth and then we can go our separate ways. As simple as that!

 

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Nik Aziz accuses pro-unity govt Pas leaders as 'Umno puppets'

The strain in Pas toiled further after Pas spiritual leader Datuk Nik Aziz Nik Mat accused party leaders pushing for the unity government as "Umno puppets" out to break the Islamic party.

Admitting that he was "emotional and angry" over the issue, the Kelantan Menteri Besar said the unity government issue did not came out from the party but certain individuals.
"I want to stress that my stand is unchange. We are solidly behind the resolution made in the muktamar (annual general meeting) in Ipoh last year supporting Pakatan Rakyat.

"It is true that there are now two factions in Pas which are for the idea and against it. The inspiration to form a unity government came from Umno and they are obviously happy with what is happening in the party.

"I know this because I have received the information," he told reporters after meeting a group of Kafa (religious) teachers from Selangor at his official residence JKR10 here today.

When pointed out that the idea for the unity government was mooted by Pas president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang, Nik Aziz said the president was only the head of the party but the party never agreed to the decision.
"It is a personal statement. The issue was never in the agenda (of the recent muktamar) and was also not in the presidential adress but it was only brought up later (in a press conference)," he said.

Nik Aziz called on Pas members and its allies in the Pakatan to remain calm and not to worry.

"We are confident of solving the issue soon. We know how to handle it and efforts have been made to solve the problem. We have gone through many crisis before, including with former president Datuk Asri Muda and many party leaders leaving the party but we are still standing today and in fact, much stronger than before.

"Previously, we are only supported by Malays but today, it includes Chinese and Indians," he said.

On calls by DAP leaders for Pakatan to review Pas' position in the grouping following the issue, Nik Aziz said there was no need for it as the idea did not come from the party.

Nik Aziz also criticised Pas election director Datuk Mustafa Ali for asking party leaders to refrain from making statements on the issue.

"Why should we shut our mouth? We have never been stop from making statements but why suddenly this time? I think they are making the call because they have been put in a dangerous position.

"Islam has never stopped us from talking as all questions have their answers," he said.

 

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Re: Nik Aziz accuses pro-unity govt Pas leaders as 'Umno puppets'

The strain in Pas toiled further after Pas spiritual leader Datuk Nik Aziz Nik Mat accused party leaders pushing for the unity government as "Umno puppets" out to break the Islamic party.

Admitting that he was "emotional and angry" over the issue, the Kelantan Menteri Besar said the unity government issue did not came out from the party but certain individuals.
"I want to stress that my stand is unchange. We are solidly behind the resolution made in the muktamar (annual general meeting) in Ipoh last year supporting Pakatan Rakyat.

"It is true that there are now two factions in Pas which are for the idea and against it. The inspiration to form a unity government came from Umno and they are obviously happy with what is happening in the party.

"I know this because I have received the information," he told reporters after meeting a group of Kafa (religious) teachers from Selangor at his official residence JKR10 here today.

When pointed out that the idea for the unity government was mooted by Pas president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang, Nik Aziz said the president was only the head of the party but the party never agreed to the decision.
"It is a personal statement. The issue was never in the agenda (of the recent muktamar) and was also not in the presidential adress but it was only brought up later (in a press conference)," he said.

Nik Aziz called on Pas members and its allies in the Pakatan to remain calm and not to worry.

"We are confident of solving the issue soon. We know how to handle it and efforts have been made to solve the problem. We have gone through many crisis before, including with former president Datuk Asri Muda and many party leaders leaving the party but we are still standing today and in fact, much stronger than before.

"Previously, we are only supported by Malays but today, it includes Chinese and Indians," he said.

On calls by DAP leaders for Pakatan to review Pas' position in the grouping following the issue, Nik Aziz said there was no need for it as the idea did not come from the party.

Nik Aziz also criticised Pas election director Datuk Mustafa Ali for asking party leaders to refrain from making statements on the issue.

"Why should we shut our mouth? We have never been stop from making statements but why suddenly this time? I think they are making the call because they have been put in a dangerous position.

"Islam has never stopped us from talking as all questions have their answers," he said.

man of honor, integrity and compassion,Tok Guru is indeed Mahatma Gandhi of Malaysian. :oIo: :oIo: :oIo:

 

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Malaysia: PAS supporters against 'unity' talks

Written by Web Master
Wednesday, 17 June 2009

The rage against the PAS leaders supporting a unity talk with the Umno is growing while the shock and awe is slowly melting into the need to consolidate the Pakatan Rakyat.

The shock and awe created by the speech of Party Islam Se Malaysia (PAS) President Ustad Hadi Awang is now turning into a nightmare for the pro-Unity talks PAS leaders. The party's spiritual leader Nik Aziz Nik Mat lambasted the pro-Unity talks leaders with the United Malays National Organization (Umno) as 'Umno puppets' and has now urged the vice-President Nasharuddin Mat Esa to quit the party and join the Umno.
While stating that the unity talks idea was not a PAS idea and came from some 'puppets' of the Umno in the party, the Spiritual leader said the matter was never a black and white thing for the PAS. "If its true that Nasharuddin is agreeable to the unity government, then he had better join Umno. Resign from his posts as deputy (president of the PAS) and in Bachok (MP)," he said.

This is the first time that Nik Aziz, a popular figure among the opposition Pakatan Rakyat (PR) rank and a fierce opponent to the Umno and the Barisan National (BN) has spoken outright against the deputy President of the party. The PAS has had a very long standing success in Kelantan, the only state where Tun Mahathir Mohamad the former PM of Malaysia failed to defeat the PAS after the party won the state under the leadership of Nik Aziz Nik Mat in the mid-1980's.

"Kelantan remains the place where the Umno's scalp is ripped off by the PAS with Nik Aziz as chief. That should serve as the example to the gibbons who are jumping up to become 'Ministers' in an Umno alliance," said a PAS supporter living in Ampang to Wfol.tv.

"It is obvious that the Umno has been successful in wooing the PAS leaders who spoke in their favor by brandishing the 'ketuanan melayu' issue," another PAS supporter who is also a shop owner said, speaking from the phone.

A burger seller in the night near Taman Kosas, Ampang told Wfol.tv that the PAS leaders who fell into the trap were blind to understand that there will be no 'Malay unity' if they dance to the tune of the Umno by themselves.

"Divide and rule, and this is what is happening. Nik Aziz is right, the unity talks is a divisive one that is to divide the opposition and let the Umno rule. We 'rakyat' cannot accept that at all and if necessary, we must kick the pro-Umno PAS leaders out of the party," said an unemployed odd worker.

One more supporter said: "They once said Anwar is 'Boneka America' now they want the PAS to become 'Boneka Umno', this will not happen."

The rage against the PAS leaders supporting a unity talk with the Umno is growing while the shock and awe is slowly melting into the need to consolidate the Pakatan Rakyat.

"We agree that there may be talks, but not without the PR party components. The PAS cannot backstab Anwar Ibrahim who has done so much and sacrificed so much for the Opposition and for the PAS altogether. I know the Umno must have told these PAS goons that Anwar is guilty of sodomy and must not become PM, but this is not how you abandon a 'chief' who has won you so many honors and so many seats in the elections," added another disgruntled PR supporter to Wfol.tv in our first rounds in Ampang.