It is clearly out of Fear. Fear that Gerakan and MCA will recover. Fear that the rakyat will in the future rally behind them. Fear that DAP's political success will be eroded in the next election. Fear that eventually, DAP will be the one that is irrelevant.
He knows that at all cost Gerakan & MCA must not recover, he will do whatever he can to destroy Gerakan & MCA.
Definitely, for Gerakan, we have learned our lesson, that is unfortunately for him.
March 8 2008, is the turning point, not for Pakatan Jahat, but for Barisan Nasional. The coming months and years will be a period of renewal and to find new strength. Eventually, we will prevail.
April 13th, 2008, Lim Kit Siang's blog
Islamic state - MCA/Gerakan should stop hypocrisy and double standards
In the past few days, MCA and Gerakan leaders have suddenly found their voice and become quite articulate, as if to prove to Malaysians that after the March 8 “political tsunamii” they have learnt their lesson and are breaking away from their past culture of silence and subservience in the Barisan Nasional.
But this is not really the case, as they continue as captive as before March 8 to Umno political hegemony.
MCA and Gerakan leaders, including the MCA President, Datuk Ong Ka Ting, seems to be competing among themselves to lash out at the DAP for misleading the Chinese in Malaysia in the last general election over PAS’ Islamic state agenda.
MCA and Gerakan leaders should stop applying double standards on the Islamic State issue. When on Sept. 29, 2001, the then Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamad declared that Malaysia was an Islamic state, unilaterally, arbitrarily and unconstitutionally abrogating the cardinal nation-building principle in the Constitution and Merdeka “social contract” that Malaysia is a multi-religious and secular state with Islam as the official religion but not an Islamic State, there was not only no objection from MCA and Gerakan leaders – they gave immediate public support.
Similarly last year, when the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Deputy Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak trampled on the Malaysian Constitution and the 1957 “social contract” and declared Malaysia as an Islamic state, there was not a whimper of opposition or protest from Ong Ka Ting and the other MCA, Gerakan and Barisan Nasional Cabinet Ministers and leaders.
It is the height of irresponsibility and hypocrisy for MCA and Gerakan leaders to demand that the DAP must come out openly about our stand on Malaysia as an Islamic state, when it is the MCA and Gerakan which should stop its hypocritical, opportunistic and unprincipled stand on the Islamic state.
DAP’s stand of Malaysia as a secular state and opposition to Malaysia becoming an Islamic state, violating the secular basis and commitment of the 1957 Merdeka Constitution and “social contract”, is so crystal clear and unmistakable that only the most ignorant or unprincipled can question it...
2 comments:
KL, well said but I think LKS has a point here. UMNO has also been harping on Malaysia being an Islamic State, though unlike PAS, UMNO's version has never been made clear its width and depth. Until and unless Gerakan & other UMNO BN's component parties can really settle this issue once and for all with UMNO, they will continue to lack the required moral authority to attack DAP on this score.
Yes, that clearly have to be done.
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