The PAS Secretary-General, Takiyuddin Hassan, should apologise and withdraw his reference two days ago of the Constitutional provision that any Malaysian can be a Prime Minister as “poisonous propaganda” and he should be referred to the Parliamentary Committee of Privileges whether he had violated his oath as a Member of Parliament to “preserve, protect and defend” the Constitution.
As if his unconstitutional act was not enough, he added oil to the fire when he described the proposal of the DAP Federal Territories Chairman Tan Kok
Wai to restore local government elections starting with the Federal Territory as
“toxic narratives”.
On top of that, Takiyuddin has the cheek to claim that it represents a “more sane, moderate and reasonable political agenda and culture” in a plural Malaysia.
When Takiyuddin says that the issue of non-Malays being able to become prime minister is “poisonous propaganda” which has the potential to create an atmosphere of disharmony, is he suggesting that the Constitution and the Rukun Negara are divisive and inflammatory documents?
Instead of asking the Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim to “control and stop DAP’s toxic narratives”, will Takiyudden set out to make PAS more moderate and less extremist?
Will PAS shed its extremism and become a moderate Islamist party in keeping with the Malaysian Constitution and Malaysia as a multi-ethnic, multi-religious, multi-cultural and multi-civilisation country?