Dihalau Keluar Masjid Kerana Baju BERSIH

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DEWAN Pemuda PAS kawasan Sepanggar, Sabah berasa kesal dengan sikap angkuh salah seorang Ahli Jawatankuasa Masjid Bandaraya, Likas, yang menghalau seorang pemuda daripada menunaikan solat di masjid itu semata-mata kerana memakai baju ‘Bersih’. 
 

Pemuda PAS Sepanggar melaporkan kejadian yang berlaku di masjid tersebut kelmarin dapat dilihat oleh seluruh ahli qariah yang turut sama bersolat di masjid tersebut.

Pemuda yang tidak mahu namanya dikenali itu, sememangnya sering bersolat di masjid tersebut telah dihalau keluar dari masjid ketika selesai bersolat Maghrib.

Selain menghalau pemuda tersebut, AJK masjid tersebut telah mengeluarkan kata-kata kesat dengan menuduh pemuda tersebut sebagai munafik.

Tidak cukup dengan kata-kata kesat, beliau turut menolak pemuda tersebut dengan kasar.

Situasi yang memalukan itu akhirnya dileraikan oleh salah seorang ahli kariah yang masuk campur.

Ahli kariah itu dengan nada yang tegas telah menegur AJK masjid tersebut kerana sikapnya yang memalukan itu.

Beliau membela pemuda tadi, dan memarahi AJK masjid tersebut kerana menghalau anak muda dari bersolat semata-mata kerana mamakai baju Bersih.

Justeru, Dewan Pemuda PAS kawasan Sepangar melihat perkara itu sepatutnya tidak berlaku.

Sehubungan itu, DPP Sepangar menggesa agar Jawatankuasa Masjid Bandaraya segera mengambil tindakan terhadap AJK masjid tersebut di atas sikapnya yang merosakan imej Masjid Bandaraya yang sememangnya terkenal di kalangan para pengunjung dan pelancong.

Mengenai himpunan aman Bersih 2.0 yang akan diadakan pada 9 Julai ini, DPP Sepangar menyeru seluruh rakyat Sabah agar berpakaian berwarna kuning dan keluar ke bandar-bandar beramai-ramai bersama keluarga.

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Pilihan raya umum ke 13, PAS lawan PKR di Sabah

"Saingan tiga penjuru antara calon BN, PKR dan PAS akan berlaku di banyak kerusi di Sabah kali ini, " kata Pesuruhjaya PAS Sabah, Mohamad Abdullah.

PETALING JAYA: Khabar buruk untuk Pakatan Rakyat PAS dan PKR  berebut kerusi di Sabah menjelang pilihan raya umum ke 13 akan datang.


Pesuruhjaya PAS Sabah, Mohamad Abdullah secara terus terang mengatakan PAS tidak gembira dengan PKR yang menurutnya ego dan tidak mahu mengalah.

Tokoh veteran PAS Sabah itu memberi amaran keras, PAS akan mencabar calon  PKR jika rundingan pembahagian kerusi antara dua parti pembangkang itu  gagal.

Menurutnya, rundiangan akan gagal  jika PKR menunjukkan sifat ego dan tidak mahu mengalah.

“Saingan tiga penjuru antara calon BN, PKR dan PAS akan berlaku di banyak kerusi di Sabah kali ini. Saya berjanji kerusi PAS akan ditandingi oleh calon PAS, bukan lagi calon dari PKR.

“PKR parti yang sombong dan bercita-cita terlalu besar, sedangkan mereka tidak ada penyokong di Sabah.

“PKR mahu bertanding semua kerusi termasuki di kerusi PAS.  Mereka tidak sedar tiada ahli hingga tiada pekerja jentera pilihan raya,” katanya ketika ditemui di muktamar PAS di Gombak minggu lalu.

Mohamad dari Tawau berkata, sikap sombong dan tidak mahu mengalah PKR berlaku semasa rundingan kerusi Parlimen Batu Sapi dalam pilihan kecil tahun lalu.

Menurutnya, wakil PAS berunding selama dua hari dua malam dengan wakil PKR tetapi gagal menemui jalan penyelesaian.

Enggan mengalah

“Wakil PKR enggan mengalah walaupun kami mengatakan Batu Sapi adalah kerusi tradisi PAS. Kami juga memberitahu mereka, PKR tiada penyokong di Batu Sapi.

“Tetapi untuk menjaga hubungan Pakatan Rakyat, PAS mengalah dan kerusi itu ditandingi calon PKR, Ansari Abdullah.
“PKR gembira kerana berjaya merampas kerusi PAS tetapi calon kami menangis.

“Apa yang berlaku selepas itu? Jentera PAS yang bertugas untuk calon PKR itu, tiada satu pun jentera PKR dan akhirnya Ansari kalah,” katanya.

Mohamad berkata, PAS akan bertanding lima kerusi Parlimen iaitu  Kinabatangan, Sandakan, Kota Belud, Putatan dan Sepanggar dan 15  kerusi dewan undangan negeri (DUN).

Katanya, rundingan dengan DAP telah selesai dan parti itu setuju dengan kerusi yang akan ditandingi oleh PAS.

Bagaimanapun, rundingan PAS dengan PKR belum diadakan kerana  wakil parti itu dari Semenanjung belum datang ke Sabah.

“Wan Azizah (Datin Seri Dr Wan Azizah Ismail) beritahu kami supaya tunggu wakil PKR dari Semenanjung untuk berbincang mengenai pembahagian kerusi antara PAS dan DAP.

“Tetapi Pilihan raya semakin hampir tetapi bayang muka pemimpin PKR dari Semenanjung pun belum nampak lagi.

Oleh Muda Mohd. Noor

Masa untuk PAS keluar dari kokongan DAP, PKR

Muda Mohd Noor

Kempen yang dibuat oleh Umno dan yang lain melabel dan menggambarkan PAS menjadi kuda tunggangan dan alat DAP sudah mula berkesan.

 

PETALING JAYA: Tidak syak lagi muktamar PAS 3 Jun depan akan menjadi platfom menilai hala tuju  bagi mengembalikan keyakinan dan sokongan pengundi Melayu menjelang pilihan raya umum ke 13.

 

Masa terbaik untuk presiden Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang memantap dan seterusnya membawa PAS sebagai parti yang setanding dengan dua lagi parti Pakatan Rakyat – PKR dan DAP.

PAS jelas tidak menonjol berbanding PKR dan DAP. Pengiktirafan PKR kepada PAS di Selangor sekadar melengkapkan Pakatan Rakyat, manakala DAP tidak memberi layanan sewajarnya kepada PAS Pulau Pinang.

Bagi penganalisa politik tempatan – Prof Datuk Dr Zainal Kling – ini masa terbaik bagi PAS untuk menjadi sebuah parti yang bebas dari kokongan PKR dan DAP.

“Pemimpin mereka perlu berusaha menjadikan PAS  kuat dan tidak terpengaruh dengan pemikiran PKR dan DAP.

“Kempen yang dibuat oleh Umno dan yang lain melabel dan menggambarkan PAS menjadi kuda tunggangan dan alat DAP sudah mula berkesan.

“PAS sudah merasakan pengundi Melayu menolak parti itu seperti yang berlaku dalam pilihan raya negeri Sarawak dan beberapa siri pilihan raya kecil sebelum itu.

“Maknanya PAS tidak boleh kekal dengan apa yang ada sekarang,” kata Ketua Kluster Sejarah, Warisan dan Sosiobudaya  Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (IPSI) di Perak.

Tetapi penganalisa itu menambah, “PAS perlu kekal ditadbir ulama, kerana jika terlepas (dari golongan tersebut), ideologi parti akan bertukar.

“DAP sudah berubah, PAS juga sudah mula keluar untuk mendapatkan masyarakat Islam, nak cuba menjadi parti nasional, tetapi belum berjaya.

“Juga berlaku pertembungan antara PAS dengan PKR dan DAP. PAS tidak menonjol sangat kerana belum berjaya menarik hubungan dengan orang bukan Islam.

“Kini  PAS perlu mencari jalan bagaimana mahu menjadi inklusif dalam Islam,” katanya.

PAS hanya menjadi relevan jika parti itu kuat. Tetapi dalam Pakatan Rakyat, PAS nombor tiga selepas DAP dan PKR.

Untuk menjadi kuat khususnya di kalangan orang Melayu tidak semestinya PAS perlu memperjuangkan negara Islam.  Orang Melayu sudah tahu PAS adalah parti berteraskan Islam.

Tetapi PAS perlu teguh dan tegas dalam perjuangan Islam. PAS perlu menerangkan bagaimana mengurus ekonomi Islam dan bagaimana Islam hendak menghadapi cabaran global.

Sokongan pengundi Melayu tidak lagi majoriti kepada PAS, sebaliknya kepada musuhnya Umno. Ini bermakna kerusi tradisi milik PAS sudah tidak selamat bagi parti itu.

Tetapi PAS tidak kehilangan penyokong tradisional, cuma yang menjadi masalah golongan pengundi muda dan pengundi atas pagar termasuk orang Melayu di kota.

Jika PAS boleh menyakinkan orang Melayu bahawa parti itu bukan sahaja cekap berpolitik tetapi juga boleh menangani isu ekonomi, pendidikan, sosial dan semuanya, PAS akan menjadi parti politik nombor satu di kalangan orang Melayu.

Dunia lebih aman tanpa Umno-BN, kata Nik Aziz

Umno tolak Islam, sedangkan kita orang Islam perlu membela agama Islam. Tetapi Umno suka apabila ada orang Islam mati dibunuh musuh Islam.

KOTA BHARU: Menteri Besar Kelantan Tuan Guru Dato’ Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat menegaskan bahawa dalam konteks Malaysia, dunia lebih aman tanpa Umno-Barisan Nasional (BN).
“Kalau tak ada Umno dan BN, dunia akan lebih aman berbanding kematian Osama (ben Laden),” kata beliau kepada pemberita dipejabatnya di sini kelmarin.

Ujar beliau, “Umno tolak Islam, sedangkan kita orang Islam perlu membela agama Islam.  Tetapi Umno suka apabila ada orang Islam mati dibunuh musuh Islam.

“Tidak timbul soal pengganas dalam hal kematian Osama. Sepatutnya kita berdoa sekiranya mengetahui ada orang Islam meninggal dunia,” kata beliau yang Mursyidul Am PAS.

Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, dalam reaksi spontan ekoran terbunuhnya Osama dilaporkan menyebut dunia akan lebih aman, selamat dan adil berikutan kematian Osama.

Kata Nik Aziz, sekiranya Osama benar-benar dibunuh seperti diumumkan oleh Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barrack Husain Obama, beliau mendoakan rahmat Allah ke atas rohnya dan keampunan Allah swt buat Osama.

“Sebesar mana pun kesalahan seorang Muslim, jika ia mati dalam agamanya Islam, keampunan terhadapnya harus dipohon oleh saudara Muslim yang lain.

“Adapun keterlibatan Osama dengan keganasan, saya serahkan kepada Allah kerana ia masih belum terbukti melainkan melalui propaganda yang dipelopori oleh Barat,” terang beliau.

Najib to Hadi: Leave DAP, join BN

The prime minister has issued an invitation to the Islamic party to cross over to his side for the sake of race, religion and nation.

KUALA TERENGGANU: Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak today invited PAS to join the Barisan Nasional (BN) in efforts to champion the agenda on race, religion and the nation.

He said the time had come for PAS to break off from the DAP which had clearly not fought for the cause of Islam.


“Why be friendly with the DAP? Can the DAP champion the cause of Islam?

“Hadi (PAS president Hadi Awang), enough of the DAP, leave the DAP, join BN,” he said in his speech before an audience of about 15,000 at a gathering with the people in the Manir state constituency, at Kampung Pulau Bahagia, near here.

Also present were Terengganu Menteri Besar Ahmad Said, Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein, Rural and Regional Development Minister Shafie Apdal, Defence Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and Youth and Sports Minister Ahmad Shabery Cheek.

Najib said the future of Malaysia was actually more secure under the leadership of the BN government and Umno.

“Umno was born in a palace and not on the street like PKR,” he said.

Najib said the people were now smart in evaluating the leadership that could actually champion the cause of the race, religion and country.

He also commented on the crisis currently faced by the PKR party leadership.

“During the Sarawak (state election) recently, even the occupants of the longhouse had asked about an Omega watch (belonging to Anwar Ibrahim).

“And yesterday, why prevent people who wanted to swear,” said Najib.

-Bernama

Haram baca Utusan Malaysia, tegas Dr Haron Din

Mana-mana media yang menghalalkan amalan fitnah, cubaan mengaibkan orang lain, menggalakkan berlakunya perpecahan umat Islam dan perpaduan kaum adalah haram untuk dibeli dan dibaca.

KUALA LUMPUR: Umat Islam di negara ini disaran tidak membeli dan membaca Akhbar Utusan Malaysia kerana media tersebut boleh dikategori sebagai “haram” dari sudut Islam, tegas ulama terkemuka tanahair, Profesor Datuk Dr Haron Din Al Hafiz.
Menurutnya, mana-mana media yang menghalalkan amalan fitnah, cubaan mengaibkan orang lain, menggalakkan berlakunya perpecahan umat Islam dan perpaduan kaum adalah haram untuk dibeli dan dibaca.

“Islam adalah agama penyatuan, agama perpaduan, agama yang saling hormat menghormati dan agama yang memberi rahmat kepada sekelian alam.

“Islam menegah amalan menyebarkan berita yang tidak baik seperti mengaibkan orang lain. Hukum Syarak menegah segala amalan yang dibawa oleh mulut atau pun media seperti ini,” jelas beliau.

Kenyataan Haron Din itu disiar dalam akhbar rasmi Parti Keadilan Rakyat, Suara Keadilan yang boleh diperolehi di pasaran mulai hari ini.

Menurut Dr Haron, Al-Quran juga menyatakan “Maka sesungguhnya orang-orang yang suka menyebarkan berita-berita yang keji (menjatuhkan maruah seseorang), maka bagi mereka itu azab siksa di dunia dan di akhirat.

Menurutnya lagi, berdasarkan hukum Fekah yang di sebut dalam kitab Fekah, Manhaji Abidin menyatakan, haram ke atas orang Islam menyebarkan berita keji ke atas orang Islam, tidak kira sama ada peritiwa itu benar atau sebaliknya.

“Kalau berita itu palsu ia adalah suatu fitnah jahat yang mengundang bala Allah yang segera. Kalaulah ia benar maka ia membuka ruang fitnah yang mengundang pelbagai keburukan, sedangkan sepatutnya ia menutup perkara tersebut.” jelas beliau.

Pakatan may falter with early Taib exit, analysts say

Clara Chooi

Taib was the crux of PR’s campaign during the Sarawak state poll.

PETALING JAYA, April 27 — Political analysts have warned that Pakatan Rakyat (PR) could lose its momentum in Sarawak should Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud resign before the next general election.

In their analysis of the just-concluded state polls, the scholars pointed out last night without the “anti-Taib” rallying cry to unite opposition supporters, Barisan Nasional (BN) may regain its lost votes — particularly from the rural communities.


As such, they said all PR parties — including DAP — needed to quickly formulate a new strategy that would bring their campaign beyond the anti-Taib sentiment and penetrate deeper into the interiors of the hornbill state where BN’s vote bank lies.

Political scientist Wong Chin Huat said DAP could not afford to rest on its laurels and expect its victories to repeat in the coming polls without working hard to keep its message alive among its supporters.

“PR will go forward but can it continue to maintain its dominance in urban Sarawak?

“Taib is now seen as a ‘rural CM’. Will he go before the federal elections? If he does, the opposition cannot campaign against him [any] longer because you cannot find a leader more hated than him.

“But can they survive without Taib?” he said during a Merdeka Center forum on the April 16 Sarawak state polls held at the Hilton Hotel here last night.

Wong pointed out that failure to perform well in Sarawak during the general election would mirror PR’s failure to wrest control of Putrajaya.

This, he said, was because by remaining in the opposition, PR parties would find it hard to prove to voters that they could do better than the ruling government.

“Like in Sarawak... can DAP do better than SUPP in government? They need to be remembered... they need to show that although they are in the opposition, they are really driving the state forward,” he said.

Wong said PR needed to offer “something” tangible to Sarawak voters to keep their support from
dissipating, stressing on an often-raised point that the political expectations of east Malaysians vastly differed from those of the peninsula voters.

“PR does not have a policy for Sarawak. Its urban centre is stuck now as there is a stagnation in development so PR needs to offer something.

“(Penang Chief Minister) Lim Guan Eng came in to speak about offering free WiFi to Sarawakians but that is a West Malaysian thing; it’s different in Sarawak,” he pointed out.

Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) Associate Professor Dr Andrew Aeria agreed, noting PR’s message to voters was to “change” but that the pact had failed to explain the alternatives.

“You tell them to change but change for what? Do not forget, BN has an economic policy in place and whether we like to admit it or not, people have benefitted.

“PR has not come up with an economic programme for Sarawak... so if you want to dislodge their programme, you need to come up with something better,” he warned.

He agreed with a comment from the audience that while many voters were unhappy with Taib’s 30-year rule, they still voted him into power as it was better to vote for “the devil they know”.

“True, it is always better to be safe than sorry and voters are very rational that way. Until and unless you can provide them with a better alternative, they would not want to risk it.

“This sentiment may not be shared by the urban communities but for those in the rural areas, losing BN is seen as very risky,” he explained.

Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) lecturer Dr Faisal Syam Hazis concurred with his fellow academicians, adding that all three PR parties needed to pool their resources and begin working the ground immediately to prepare for the general election.

He said DAP needed to move beyond its representation of the urban Chinese communities while all PR parties should share in the burden of taking on seats in BN strongholds.

“In the polls, DAP was obviously very well-equipped but the other PR parties were struggling with their campaigns.

“There is a need for PR to formulate strategies together,” he said.

Aeria agreed that the Sarawak state polls had seen a divided campaign among DAP, PKR and PAS, resulting in imbalanced victories between the parties.

On April 16, DAP emerged the biggest winners by securing 12 of the 15 state seats it had contested. PKR trailed behind, winning three of its 49 seats, while PAS failed to win a single seat.

Aeria said PKR’s biggest failure was its ill-preparedness for the polls, pointing out that the party was still arguing over its manifesto even after nomination day.

“There was also no sharing of campaign machineries. It did not happen. Every party went out on their own.

“It is true that the leaders came together — Lim Kit Siang, Guan Eng, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Datuk Nik Aziz Nik Mat — but the machinery at the lower ground level... that was another story,” he said.

Faisal agreed that PR needed to stop depending heavily on the anti-Taib vote in the coming polls, particularly to prepare for the possibility that the chief minister stepped down before it is called.

The 13th general election must be called by April 2013. During the Sarawak state polls, Taib had promised to leave in “two or three years’” time, bowing to public pressure and the growing disenchantment among even BN leaders against his lengthy leadership.

The opposition had centred most of its campaign messages on calling for Taib’s early resignation, capitalising on the numerous allegations of corruption and abuse of power made against the country’s longest-serving chief minister.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak also spent six days in Sarawak urging voters to believe Taib’s resignation plan, an unprecedented move that PR had described as a desperate attempt by the ruling pact to cling on to its fixed deposit state.

“So if Taib goes, what’s next? The challenge is for PR to penetrate the rural seats. Overcome the struggle between the opposition factions,” said Faisal

However, the analysts also agreed that with Taib’s thumping victory on April 16, it was unlikely that the chief minister would relinquish his post before the national poll.

“Why should he? Taib won in 35 out of the 35 seats that his party contested,” Aeria pointed out.

BN managed to triumph in 55 seats during the state polls, retaining its two-thirds majority in the state and safely recapturing government.

Of the 55, Taib’s PBB topped the charts by winning in all 35 state seats that it contested while PRS won eight of its nine seats, SPDP in six of its eight seats and SUPP in six of 19 seats contested.

The ruling pact’s popular vote, however, dipped considerably — from 63 per cent in 2006 to 55.5 per cent this year.

 

All is not well for Pakatan Alliance

At the party's June assembly, the sex video scandal will take centre stage, say party insiders.


KUALA LUMPUR: DAP, PKR and PAS are strange political bedfellows and this will be tested severely at PAS’ annual general assembly in June.

The Pakatan Rakyat alliance has not gone down well with certain sections of PAS members and now it has come under close scrutiny with the emergence of the sex video where the main actor is said to resemble PKR de facto chief Anwar Ibrahim.

PAS has been riven by two sections since it joined Pakatan to take on Barisan Nasional (BN) in the 2008 general election and this was very obvious during the party elections in 2009.

In that election, one faction – the “young intellectual moderates” – took on the other camp – the veteran fundamentalists – in a head-on collision where all positions, except the president’s post, were contested.

A source said: “The party elections saw Anwar’s ‘friends’ contesting, a move seen by many in the party as an attempt to take control of the party leadership.”

Then there was also the question of party deputy president Nasharuddin Md Isa meeting with Umno leaders after the general election.

That issue has been settled following party president Abdul Hadi Awang’s guarantee that the matter has been buried. Now the latest issue on the sex video is expected to take centre stage.

Nagging issues

Despite party secretary-general Mustapha Ali saying that the party would take a stand after police had completed their investigations, party members to the AGM are expected to pressure the assembly to take an open stand.

The party’s stand is vital in the wake of the upcoming general election where party members need a clear guideline on where they stand, given that the party’s relationship with DAP is always “touchy”.

The ban on gambling in PAS-held states has created a lot of “unrest” between leaders of the two parties – one with secular philosophy while the other is Islamic fundamentalism. There are also other nagging issues like the setting up of an Islamic state.

The old timers are also wary of the motives of PKR leaders in wanting the party to change “a little” to become a moderate political organisation.

The veteran fundamentalists, who are friends of Anwar but know where to “draw the line” in their relationship, are also aware that Anwar is a shrewd politician and would not want to be caught off-guard.

At this year’s AGM, Anwar’s close friend Husam Musa, who was defeated in the 2009 election against incumbent Nasharuddin, is again being nominated to contest the same post.

At the June assembly, the elections will not be a major concern but the party’s stand on the sex video and the guidelines the party will adopt in the uneasy Pakatan alliance will be primetime news.

By Zainal Epi

‘BN underestimating political current’

Syed Jamal Zahiid

PAS is of the opinion that Barisan Nasional's inability to understand Sarawakians' feeling on the importance of a succession plan will be the coalition's downfall.

KUCHING: An overconfident Barisan Nasional appears to be unaware of the growing current of change in Sarawak and they will pay the price, said PAS secretary-general Mustafa Ali today.

“BN is underestimating the rising current of revolt,” he told a press conference at the party’s headquarters here.

The lukewarm manner in dealing with the succession plan for Sarawak’s top leadership was a sign that BN was taking the anti-Taib Mahmud sentiment among the voters lightly.

Taib, the chief minister of more than 30 years, previously said he would step down after putting in a young team of successors, which could be in the mid-term after the April 16 polls.

But he gave no definite timeline as to what he claimed would be a “smooth transition plan”, triggering waves of speculation that the move was merely an election gimmick.

‘Taib’s a liability’

Compounding this further was his announcement that he would defend his Balingian seat.

“They look like they’re not serious,” Mustafa said.

However, Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak himself promised Sarawakians that Taib would step down.

His pledge confirmed speculation that Putrajaya viewed Taib as a liability to BN’s ambition to maintain the state as its “fixed deposit.”

The promise was made at the ruling coalition’s event here last night, which kicked off Najib’s six-day campaign in the runup to the election.

Mustafa echoed the opposition chorus that Najib’s presence signalled BN’s desperation.

According to the PAS leader, “Proof of this is everywhere.”

The Islamist party have fielded five candidates in Malay and Dayak majority areas and responses have been very encouraging, said Mustafa further.

“From the 2001 to the 2006 elections up until now, we can see a tremendous change in the response of the voters towards us,” he said.

According to Mustafa, two factors had contributed to this.

One was the rising anti-Taib sentiment and the second was the growing confidence towards a now united opposition.

But he warned against complacency and overconfidence on the part of his party. “I can see some of the local leaders and machinery being overconfident about our chances. I urge them not to be,” he said

Hadi on sex scandal and spider webs

Zefry Dahalan

The PAS leader slams the sex-video scandal at a fund raising dinner and tells the crowd that the nation's laws are changed to suit the powers-that-be.

SEREMBAN: PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang slammed the sex-video scandal implicating Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim at a fund raising dinner yesterday.

The Islamic party leader said that Malaysia had “spider web” laws that could be altered to suit the needs of the government.

Commenting on the screening of the video to journalists by the “Datuk T” trio, Hadi called it a drama.

“Who was the cameraman, who was the producer? There is no law here,” he said to the crowd which responded with cries of “Allahu Akbar.”

The PAS leader also took a swipe at former PKR man S Nallakarupan over the latter’s wish to meet Hadi to reveal things about Anwar.

“Who is he? He is not a leader? Which party is he representing?” asked Hadi.

Meanwhile, PKR’s Teluk Kemang MP Kamarul Baharin Abbas told the crowd that former Malacca chief minister Rahim Thamby Chik, one of the three who exposed the video, had not turned up to screen the video for several PKR MPs as promised.

“We were told that Rahim was willing to let five of us watch the video. We informed Anwar that we were going to watch it, and he told us to go ahead.

“So we submitted the names of the MPs who wanted to watch. I think Rahim did not have the guts to face us,” he said.

According to Kamarul, the five MPs were supposed to meet Rahim at the Flamingo Hotel in Kuala Lumpur at 4pm.

“We were there at 3.30pm. We were told that Rahim was caught in the traffic jam, but the Risda headquarters (Rahim is the Risda chairman) is only walking distance away from the hotel.

“We waited until 5.30pm, Rahim didn’t show up, so we left the place,” he said.

Also present at the dinner were PAS secretary-general Mustafa Ali, Negeri Sembilan PAS commissioner Zulkefly Mohamed Omar, DAP’s Rasah MP Loke Siew Fook and PKR Port Dickson state assemblyman M Ravi.