A few of us drove into the heart of Permatang Pasir yesterday night, listening to what the two charismatic leaders, also the newly acknowledged by UMNO as "Malay's traitor" Anwar Ibrahim
and the "stooge of DAP", Hadi Awang going to tell to their voters.
UMNO had decided their strategy, using race appeal instead of 1Malaysia as promoted earlier by the new PM to hopefully able to regain their supports as sole defender of Malay rights.
They make use of main stream media to amplify the issues such as beer sales in Selangor, pork, etc. and those statements in related to "insulting" Islam. They even felt that PAS is so liberal nowadays in terms of fighting for Islam. In short, we could conclude that they temporarily ignore the significance of other races in their campaign.
Last night, we were the 3~5% non-Muslim's audience attended. Mat Sabu, Khalid, Anwar and Hadi Awang were consistence in their speeches as before. They understand that they may lost certain supports especially among the Malay electorate but I respect them for their firm stands and believes as before.
"Muslim taking arak, dilarang. Non-Muslim taking arak, dibenarkan." Anwar said. "We must respect the rights of non-Muslim friends."
My opinion, this "self-regulation" policy is the best way at the moment to settle the issue. After all, i never feel that the alcohol and pork are a big and difficult issues to solve in this modern and mutual-understandings days.
UMNO had made the choice, so do Pakatan Rakyat.
Now, what is the choice of the voters?
Monday, August 17, 2009
What is the choice of voters?
A few of us drove into the heart of Permatang Pasir yesterday night, listening to what the two charismatic leaders, also the newly acknowledged by UMNO as "Malay's traitor" Anwar Ibrahim
and the "stooge of DAP", Hadi Awang going to tell to their voters.
UMNO had decided their strategy, using race appeal instead of 1Malaysia as promoted earlier by the new PM to hopefully able to regain their supports as sole defender of Malay rights.
They make use of main stream media to amplify the issues such as beer sales in Selangor, pork, etc. and those statements in related to "insulting" Islam. They even felt that PAS is so liberal nowadays in terms of fighting for Islam. In short, we could conclude that they temporarily ignore the significance of other races in their campaign.
Last night, we were the 3~5% non-Muslim's audience attended. Mat Sabu, Khalid, Anwar and Hadi Awang were consistence in their speeches as before. They understand that they may lost certain supports especially among the Malay electorate but I respect them for their firm stands and believes as before.
"Muslim taking arak, dilarang. Non-Muslim taking arak, dibenarkan." Anwar said. "We must respect the rights of non-Muslim friends."
My opinion, this "self-regulation" policy is the best way at the moment to settle the issue. After all, i never feel that the alcohol and pork are a big and difficult issues to solve in this modern and mutual-understandings days.
UMNO had made the choice, so do Pakatan Rakyat.
Now, what is the choice of the voters?
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Hey Khian Beng, tentatively I have aa appointment to meet Haris Ibrahim at Summit Hotel when he gets to PG before 25 August. Interested to meet him too?
We are planning to discuss the PG chapter of SABM movement.
How do I get in touch with you on mobile? Perhaps you could send me an email at romerzpg at gmail dot com and I will give you my mobile contact and we will take it from there if you wish.
Congratulation, my friend. Your blod have hit 10000 times traffic. Well done and continue to good work.
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