As I said, the silly season this year started early. Seeing that hentam-ing oppositions being the “in” thingy to do this Autumn, even opposition supporters themselves couldn’t resist jumping onto this bandwagon.

It all started when agent provocateur, Just my two sen, tried very hard to misintepret Bob’s opposition of New Economy Policy (NEP). In a cartoon, Datuk Hishamuddin with kris in his hand and bags of cash as well as shares and government contracts with him, was screaming “Jangan cuba rampas hak istimewa kami”.

So, this fler came to the defence of Umno, claiming no matter how evil NEP is, a Barisan Alternatif (BA) dominated by PIS with the so-called “Islamic Economic Policy” (IEP) of PIS will be just worse.

Just few days ago, when I posted “Remember how you trampled on human rights, Tun Mahathir?“, a response by Aliran President, P. Ramakrishnan on Toon Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir claiming the 30 NGOs that boycotted the Suhakam conference just because he was to speak there were denying him his human rights, Gary W Bush also commented that, “Is Dr Mahathir that bad? I thought Hadi Awang was worse?“…

Don’t you see that it’s the same trick ? Disguising as opposition supporters, all they do is telling us that opposition parties are worse whenever we criticize ruling coalition’s mistakes. Therefore, it’s not hard to see that their only aim is to keep bloody Umno in the throne, at the expense of our human rights, freedom and equality. So, watch out !

While PIS is horrible in insisting on cruel torture laws and murder for believers of religious freedom in the name of God through subjective interpretation of al-Quran, as well as replacing the racial supremacy in this country with religious supremacy (so your religion and its followers are inferior to theirs), I have never heard of Islamic Economic Policy (IEP) so far. In fact, you don’t even hear anything economic from PIS, perhaps the only exception is when PIS screwed up their own co-op, Kohilal, a co-op selling self-branded sabun mandi, bihun and cecair cuci pinggan.

Bob said in his reply, titled “Islamic Economic Policy ?“,

Rather than wasting our energy attacking either DAP or PKR (I address this to overenthusiastic cadres in both parties), I’d rather we spend more time strengthening each other and dealing with the immediate threat of BN and then creating a viable alternative that will capture the imagination and support of the majority Malay Muslim constituency from the grip of PAS’ ideology.

Yes, as a true multicultural party with substantial Malay Muslim membership, Keadilan as an entity promoting “New Politics” should think out of the box and differentiate itself from being just another Umno or PIS.

Currently, it is not uncommon to hear youngsters around our age complained that, “I wanted to vote for opposition, but the only opposition candidate in our area is from PIS…“. This is the reality in Malaysia, where voters’ shincere wish to topple BN turns out to make them culprits who push Malaysia into the hands of Mullahs way beyond the point of no return.

Why ? Because Reformasi is hijacked by PIS. A vote for democracy becomes a vote for theocracy. A vote for equality becomes a vote for cruelty. Replacing racial supremacy becomes embracing religious supremacy. Therefore, PIS is the very culprit why innocent reformasi is rejected. As long as PIS being Keadilan’s so-called coalition partner, you need not dream of toppling Umno.

To tackle this dilemma, Keadilan together with the others, should create a viable alternative that will capture the imagination and support of the majority Malay Muslim constituency and liberate them from the grip of PIS’ fangs and claws. When the day Malaysians can topple Umno without turning this country into another Afghanistan under Taleban comes, we can all celebrate the rebirth of Malaysia.

Salam Reformasi !