I have given the PAS President, Hadi Awang ample time to substantiate the numerous allegations which he had hurled against the DAP and myself, but he has not been able to substantiate them.
Recently, he had made six wild and preposterous allegations against the DAP and myself, but he has not been able to substantiate anyone of them.
These six wild and preposterous allegations were:
- After the 15th General Election, Hadi accused the DAP of promoting Islamophobia. It is now some six months since he made the preposterous allegation, and despite my many challenges, he had not been able to furnish an iota of evidence to substantiate his wild allegation.
- During the Teluk Intan by-election in May 2014, Hadi reminded PAS members that DAP had helped PAS when the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition tried to oust the party from ruling Kelantan during the 1977 Kelantan Emergency. He said although there were so many things different between DAP and PAS, like what is halal (permissible) and haram (forbidden), alcohol, pork, and hudud, the two parties agree with each other in eradicating poverty, cruelty, and corruption, among others. Was DAP promoting Islamophobia in coming to PAS’ help in 1977?
- Hadi should know by now that the DAP was not the mastermind or had anything to do with the 2018 episode when the Pakatan Harapan government under the Prime Minister, Tun Mahathir Mohamad had tried to ratify the International Covenant of the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (ICERD). All Hadi needed to do is to ask the then Foreign Minister, Saifuddin Abdullah who is now with him in Perikatan Nasional (PN), or even Mahathir since they have become such good pals. Is Hadi going to apologise for his wild and ferocious attacks on the DAP as the “mastermind” of the attempted ratification?
- Since 2018, Hadi has not been able to cite a single a case of the 55 out of 57 Organisation of Islamic Co-operation (OIC) Muslim countries where Islam was undermined or a single case of the 36 out of 38 countries with monarchical system where the monarchical system was affected as a result of the ratification of ICERD.
- Hadi’s recent wild and preposterous allegations that that non-Muslims and non-Malays were “plunderers” who gave and received bribes and had conned the Malays and Muslims of their rights for over a half a century.
- His latest wild and preposterous allegations that the DAP had targeted Malays who were “ignorant about their faith” to amass political power and that DAP “lured” certain Malay figures to become its “puppets”.
Islam, like the great religions on the world, do not teach religious leaders to tell lies or use falsehoods and fake news.
Surely, Islam does not teach Hadi to become a Raja Petra Raja Kamaruddin, who yesterday tweeted:
“Lim Kit Siang marah dengan Anwar Ibrahim. Kit Siang kata beberapa tindakan Anwar semenjak jadi PM10 bawa mudarat kepada DAP dan Pakatan Harapan. Kit Siang kata jika PRU16 diadakan sekarang PH akan kalah teruk.”
I was shocked because I never said a thing, but lies, falsehoods and fake news seem to have become the alter ego of Raja Petra.
Does Hadi Awang want to become a second Raja Petra?
Hadi can become an honest, responsible and respected Islamic leader in Malaysia if he is prepared to admit that he was wrong to make such wild and preposterous allegations and undertook not to repeat the wild and preposterous allegations against DAP and me.
The ball is in Hadi’s court.