Pas Plays Dirty Game By Linking Non Malays To Zionist Oppressors Never Ending Ploy To Sow Hatred

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TRUE to form, PAS is trying to whip up Malay sentiments with its ploy to link the conflict in Palestine with the situation in Malaysia.
Pengkalan Chepa MP Datuk Dr Ahmad Marzuk Shaary (main image) is pouring fuel into the fire with his contentious remarks that what is happening in Palestine could also reach our shore.
In a recent speech in his Kelantan constituency, he reportedly told Muslims “to learn from Palestine’s history”, pointing out that “signs of the same thing happening could now be seen in Malaysia”.
How on earth did he arrive at this comparison? Where is the similarity between two very different regions with completely different history and background?

The PAS MP has the answer and it all boils down to Malays losing their power and land if they become “complacent”.
As usual with the Islamist party, Marzuk zeroed in on the non-Malays for allegedly depriving the Malay-Muslims of their rights and, thereby, thus posing a grave threat to their dominant position and interests.
‘Taken out of context’
So, where did the Palestinian equation come into play? Based on his twisted logic, the Malays are just like the Palestinians who lost their land to predatory outsiders.
In other words, he is indirectly painting all non-Malays and non-Muslims with the same brush: they all are behaving like the Zionist oppressors of Israel.

But Marzuk was quick to come up to his own defence when he told Parliament that what he said in Pengkalan Chepa was apparently taken out of context.
He was not talking about war, about religion, about hatred. No! No! Essentially, he was merely telling his people that they must take a leaf from Palestine’s history and be vigilant at all times.
If they “remain asleep”, then they might lose their land, rights and privileges to the non-Muslims and non-Bumiputera.
Fanning the flame further, up jumped fellow PAS leader Datuk Awang Hashim, the two-term Pendang MP, to defend Marzuk.
Oh, no, Marzuk was merely sending a “friendly reminder so that we do not become like the Zionists”.
PAS Pendang MP Datuk Awang HashimThen Awang caused more furore when he remarked that “selling land, buying land, in the end it will end with genocide”.
In other words, he is issuing a dire warning: just like the Palestinians, the dominant ethnic race here will also suffer the same fate if they are not careful.
Let’s us all set the record straight. In Malaysia, the Bumiputera community is not oppressed like the Palestinians.
Their land and political power remain intact. There is no suffering, no hardship, no famine.
DAP accused of power grab
The Malays are not selling their land, the non-Malays are not buying or seizing their land, and all have been living in peace and harmony.
But PAS sees things in a different light. It likes to portray its political struggle as a fight-to-the-death to defend race and religion against the other ethnic groups.
Going by its dark logic, there are already signs that the Palestinian scenario might shift to Malaysia and PAS must be ready to confront the enemies from within.
What are the signs? Look around you, Marzuk tells the Malays. See all those major malls, big companies, strategic lands? They are all now controlled by the non-Muslims and non-Bumiputera who are “increasingly dominating the economic sector”.

Invariably, Marzuk took an indirect potshot at the DAP when he said the non-Malays have reached Putrajaya – “drafting laws, writing acts and slowly re-drawing the political power map of this nation”.
Perhaps, he is implying that the DAP is the chief culprit because it now enjoys political power at the expense of the Malays. By extension, he is probably pinning the Zionist label on the DAP.
Since there are no bombs falling all over place, one can only conclude that what Marzuk is actually trying to say is that there is economic warfare going on in Malaysia with the Malays losing out.
To the Central PAS working committee member, the battle on the economic front is as bad as the battle on the military front.
No matter how much spin PAS puts on its narrative, one thing is clear: the non-Malays and Malays are doing business as usual without trading blows at each other.
Malaysia is not Palestine. The non-Malays are not Zionists and they are not driving out the Muslims from their homeland which they had historically claimed as Tanah Melayu.
There are enough constitutional safeguards for all races to co-exist and work as Malaysian citizens and not as adversaries fighting without cause. 
Phlip Rodrigues is a retired journalist.
The views expressed are solely of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of  MMKtT.
- Focus Malaysia.

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