 Dec 1: PAS leaders have reacted to UMNO deputy president Muhyiddin Yassin’s venom against Pakatan Rakyat during the UMNO general assembly, saying he had only further exposed UMNO's lack of knowledge about Islam.
“He is only shaming himself and is showing to the world his real mentality as the deputy prime minister. A person of his rank should not have spoken like that. As the future prime minister, his speech should be about national development plan and not hatred against PR,” said PAS vice president Salahuddin Ayub.
Opening the UMNO general assembly on Tuesday, Muhyiddin lashed out at DAP, PKR and PAS, and accused DAP of trying to form a republic in Malaysia. He also said PAS had abandoned Islam while PKR was beeing too liberal.
 “Regardless, we say thank you for mentioning PAS in his speech which means that they acknowledge PAS's stature in national politics,” quipped Salahuddin, the Kubang Kerian member of parliament.
Shah Alam MP Khalid Samad said Muhyiddin’s remarks showed a skewed understanding of Islam by equatting Malay to Islam.
“UMNO does not understand Islam and assumes that Malay is Islam and Islam is Malay. So when people condemn UMNO, they take it as attacking Islam.
"To them, anything against their Malay interest is against Islam, because they have been led to believe that UMNO is struggling for Islam because its struggling is about Malay race,” he explained. |
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