DAP has accused the police of inaction as racist remarks and provocative statements were hurled outside the Low Yat Plaza in Kuala Lumpur last night, which saw 5 people injured when groups clashed over alleged theft of a handphone. DAP acting chairman Tan Kok Wai said it was unacceptable that people were allowed to make…
Free yourselves from confines of racism, DAP’s Dyana tells youths after Low Yat melee
KUALA LUMPUR, July 13 — Malaysian youths should reject all provocations to spark racial disputes and should not resort to thuggish behaviour to settle disputes, DAP’s Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud said today. The DAP leader condemned the violence on the weekend at Low Yat Plaza and described it is an example of the prevalence and…
Bantuan mangsa banjir Kelantan DAP berjaya walau hubungan dengan PAS putus
Perpecahan Pakatan Rakyat (PR) tidak menghalang Gabungan Impian Kelantan yang digerakkan DAP dengan kerjasama badan bukan kerajaan (NGO) mesra PAS menyiapkan rumah bagi mangsa banjir di Kampung Pasir Tumboh, Gua Musang menjelang Ramadan baru-baru ini. Walaupun secara rasminya DAP sudah tidak mempunyai hubungan dengan PAS selepas muktamar bulan lalu yang menyaksikan semua pemimpin progresif tersingkir,…
Are PAS progressives for hudud? Yes, but only after Malaysia returns to a ‘vibrant democracy’
KUALA LUMPUR, July 12 ― Gerakan Harapan Baru (GHB), the precursor for a new party by PAS’s progressive faction, has defended the right to push for hudud law in the country, but says it will not be its main priority for the time being as the main focus should be on rebuilding a “vibrant democracy”…
New Islamist party has higher purpose than hudud, says Mujahid
The new political party being mulled by a group of “purged” progressive PAS leaders will take the position that Islam is bigger than just the Islamic penal code or hudud. Former PAS central committee member Datuk Dr Mujahid Yusof Rawa said Islam instructed its believers to preserve the greater peace, instead of bulldozing laws. “This…
PAS Shura Council officially cuts ties with DAP
PAS’s powerful elder Muslim scholars council, the Shura, has declared that the Islamist party must end ties with DAP, more than a month after PAS adopted a resolution to cut relations with its former Pakatan Rakyat ally. The Shura Council ruled however that ties with PKR would continue in the spirit of tahaluf siasi (political…
The good, the bad and the ugly in politics
When Zairil Khir Johari decided to get active in politics in 2010, he surprised many people by choosing to join DAP, given that his late father, Mohamad Khir Johari, was a prominent Umno veteran. He explained then that he was prompted by a deep disappointment with Umno’s 50-year rule. He said he felt that Umno…
Malam ini saya berbuka puasa dengan rakan-rakan Progresif di PAS dan PKR lagi. Kali ini saya menjadi hos dan belanja mereka makan di Shah Alam Convention Centre (SACC). Malam ini rakan-rakan PAS yang hadir termasuk Dr Dzulkifli dan isterinya Azlin, YB Dr Siti Mariah Mahmud, Ahli Majlis Izham, YB Dr Hatta Ramli. Rakan PKR termasuk Dato Saifudin Nasution, YB Rafizi Ramli, YB Johari Abdul dan YB Sim Tze Tzin. DAP pula dihadiri oleh YB Lim Kit Siang dan setiausahanya Cik YC Foo, YB Anthony Loke, YB Liew Chin Tong dan saya. Walaupun Pakatan Rakyat telah henti kewujudannya berikutan dengan usul Muktamar PAS yang putus hubungan dengan DAP, tetapi persahabatan di antara rakan-rakan Progresif di PAS bersama dengan PKR dan kami di DAP tidak dijejaskan. Kami masih bincang isu politik bersama apabila kami bertemu. Pemimpin Progresif di PAS ini adalah pemimpin yang cerdik, berwawasan dan berintegriti. Mereka adalah harapan bagi bangsa dan negara.
The PAS annual muktamar last month sounded the death knell to former PAS president Datuk Fadzil Noor’s vision of the Islamist party, said his son Faiz Fadzil. He said PAS – once an inclusive party which managed to win the support and respect of Muslims and non-Muslims alike – was now beyond redemption and has…