Kuala Selangor parliamentarian Dzulkefly Ahmad has decried the “perverse logic” of de facto law minister Nazri Aziz in justifying the government’s inaction against Perkasa chief Ibrahim Ali.
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“It’s a weird argument. The situation he is describing is Hell let loose. He is opening the floodgates to chaos. We are talking about the complete breakdown of the rule of law, utter lawlessness,” Dzulkefly (left) told Malaysiakini.
Last Saturday, Ibrahim had called for a ‘crusade’ against ‘ungrateful Christians’ if they pursued a purported plot to make Christianity the official religion of the federation and install a Christian premier.
However, despite a public outcry against the Pasir Mas MP, Nazri had said that no action can be taken against Ibrahim over his intimidation of violence against the Christians as such remarks are now a norm in Malaysia.
PAS leader Dzulkefly cited the popular axiom that two wrongs don’t make a right as a comparison to Nazri’s statement.
“It’s a premise for allowing one wrong to beget a wrong. It seems, according to Nazri, many wrongs make a right. He’s opening the door to overzealousness and open bigotry,” posited Dzulkefly.
Is it okay if a lot of people are doing it?
Nazri’s cavalier attitude towards Ibrahim’s actions seems to depict a government, and his own authority as a law minister, as helpless against mob rule.
“Is it okay if a lot of people are doing it?” he asked.
Dzulkefly also questioned Ibrahim’s use of the word ‘jihad’, which brings up all the deeply emotive sentiments of religious war.
“Did the Christians pastors really declare war against Islam? Jihad is only used to further the word of God. But what is Ibrahim’s fight for?”
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What really happened during that May 6 meeting of pastors in Penang, said Dzulkefly, remains unclear as Utusan Malaysia was the only newspaper to have reported on the event.
Even that report, which Ibrahim based his declaration on, was based on two unsubstantiated blog postings.
“It’s just conjecture and in this confusion, this fellow came and used this emotive religious concept. Does he think that we are fools to be so easily led (by the likes of him)?” sniped Dzulkefly.
Ibrahim is ‘manufacturing consensus’
Klang MP Charles Santiago agreed with the PAS parliamentarian’s assessment of Nazri’s remarks about Ibrahim as utter “nonsense”.
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The DAP parliamentarian argued that the minister was talking about two different things altogether. Whatever sentiments are out there, none have been as bad as Ibrahim’s, said Santiago.
“No one else is talking about crusades. It’s Ibrahim (who) is setting up the stage for Muslims to go against the Christians.”
Santiago (right) warned that if Ibrahim were to go unpunished, the effects of his statement would be far-reaching, including and not limited to:
- driving foreign investors away and the loss of foreign investment.
- threatening harmony
- destroying the 1Malaysia concept
- driving a wedge between urban and rural Malays
What Ibrahim is doing, Santiago alleged further, is quietly manufacturing a consensus to secure support from the rural Malays.
“His trend of speeches is to incite communities against each other. This is Umno creating a siege mentality that the Malays are under threat,” he alleged.
Santiago blamed the government for not disciplining the errant independent parliamentarian and whatever else that may follow as a result of it. –
30 ஆண்டுகாலமாக வாழ்ந்து வரும் தாமான் கேம் அடுக்குமாடி குடியிருப்பாளர்களின் நிலைமை மிக மோசமாக உள்ளது என்ற புகார் பெற்ற பின்பு கடந்த புதன்கிழமை அங்கு வாழும் மக்களையும் அவ்விடத்தையும் காண சென்ற ஜ.செ.க நாடாளுமன்ற உறுப்பினர் சார்ல்ஸ் சந்தியாகோ பெரும் அதிர்ச்சியடைந்ததாக கூறினார்.
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