Moo the Evil of PN

Not only that, his mistake will redound to the advantage of Pakatan Harapan in its efforts to woo a reluctant Gabongan Parti Sarawak (GPS), the strongest in the state. GPS, likeliest winner of the most parliamentary seats up for grabs in Sarawak, is disinclined to support the Anwar Ibrahim-led Harapan.

Opinion surveys predict that Harapan will garner the highest number of seats but will be without a simple majority.  That will require Harapan to woo GPS, expected to win anything from 18 to 24 seats out of a total of 31 in Sarawak, to join it in forming a federal government.

Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB), largest component of GPS, is loath to affiliate with Harapan in a federal government that includes DAP. This is because of what DAP chairperson Lim Guan Eng said in 2019, when he was Harapan’s finance minister, in the course of a warning about the imminence of bankruptcy for Sarawak under GPS’s stewardship.

That comment has stuck in GPS’s craw, particularly PBB’s.  Other components of GPS are not as reluctant as PBB to link up with Harapan in a federal government should the latter emerge with the highest number of seats on the peninsula.

This is because of their uneasiness at cohabitation with PAS in the Perikatan Nasional-led government that assumed federal reins after the Sheraton Move deposed the Harapan government in late February 2020. Poll surveys claim that PN will benefit from the eclipse of BN that is predicted as likely to happen in GE15.

Muhyiddin’s gaffe in Pagoh on Thursday will exacerbate the unease of the Christian sympathising components of GPS and make them more amenable to Harapan’s overtures.

No apology

The Council of Christian Churches in Sarawak, which draws strong support from these parties, was quick to denounce Muhyiddin’s allusion to an alleged Jewish-Christian plot to Christianise Malay Muslims.

This denunciation dovetailed nicely with the condemnation their counterpart council on the peninsula issued in the immediate wake of Muhyiddin’s remarks in Pagoh on Thursday.

A day later Muhyiddin strove to extricate himself from the controversy by saying that his references to the alleged Jewish-Christian plot to Christianise Malay Muslims took only one and a half minutes of a 55-minute speech.

Proarte : Hear! Hear! I posted this yesterday: Muhyiddin's and Hadi Awang's imaginary Jewish and Christian plots to " Christianise " Malays and to control Malaysia is fake news and is a sign of their desperation.

They must sense that the mood on the ground is moving away from them and favouring Pakatan Harapan. Muhyiddin claims that Malays have become Christian and are attending Churches in Kuala Lumpur and Petaling Jaya.

The Constitution guarantees freedom of worship so if Malays want to become Christians, that is their Constitutional right. However, it is likely that the "Malays" attending churches in Malaysia are Indonesian or East Malaysian Christians whom Muhyiddin has mistakenly identified to be Malays.

Muhyiddin must surely know that Apostasy is highly unlikely because Malays go through State persecution if they openly change their faith because they are forced to go through counselling in "rehabilitation centres" to persuade them to return to Islam.

There have been documented accounts of incarceration against their will, psychological torture and brainwashing. In short, a Malay is denied his or her constitutional right to freedom of worship and this something that a "Reformist" PH government must address in future as it is a fundamental human right.

PN is shooting itself in the foot because their anti-Christian message will not sit well with East Malaysians who have an enviable reputation of a peaceful and happy co-existence between the races of various faiths. In Sarawak, the majority are Christian.

How is Muhyiddin going to form a pact with GPS when he is so obviously anti-Christian even to the extent of spreading fake new? PN is very unlikely to garner 112 seats to form a simple majority and hence needs to form a pact with other parties. GPS will face a revolt from its members if it forms a pact with PN because its leader Muhyiddin is overtly anti-Christian and shamelessly incites religious hatred between Muslims and Christians.

GPS would not want to risk peace and harmony in Sarawak by collaborating with an obviously racist and bigoted coalition. PH needs more than a simple majority to be able to make itself more attractive for GPS to join it to form a stable and strong government for mutual benefit.

East Malaysians want a fair deal which they have been denied for over 60 years despite being Bumiputera. BN has been a disaster for them, based on its track record of leaving the citizens of resource rich Sabah and Sarawak amongst the poorest in Malaysia.

PH with Anwar leading it, has a reputation for not being corrupt and this would be welcomed by East Malaysians who themselves have been blighted with obscenely corrupt politicians for decades. Let us all go out to vote to bring about desperately needed change to the way we are governed. We deserve better.

PH and Muda need our support to win on its own at least a simple majority of 112 seats so that it would be in a position to attract East Malaysian parties like GPS and GRS and Warisan to form a strong people orientated government with a more than 2/3 majority in Parliament. HIDUP MALAYSIA!