YOURSAY | DAP is now what Gerakan or MCA was in the past.

COMMENT | DAP will neither alter Islam nor advocate for secular state

Tambi2Aneh: As a disappointed voter, I believe Umno Youth is right, not much due to religion or the Federal Constitution.

DAP today is so complacent due to the positions and perks they obtained after entering Putrajaya. These are the traitors and betrayals from our own kind, who we will never forget.

Why rock the boat when they are comfortable with their perks, as long as they remain silent, and bend to their master for one or two terms?

Their pensions are guaranteed, do they care for the rest? Yes, perhaps after they establish their own networks for external cronies, they will leave peacefully and enjoy the rest of their lives.

MS: Which is worse, the sickening appeasement of the DAP or the cunning betrayal of PKR?

Both have resoundingly proved that the country is a victim of unscrupulous politicians across the spectrum and a reflection of their crookedness. They will continue on their path of decline in every measurable aspect.

And if “Malaysia is all of us”, it only means that it is being inexorably turned into spineless, self-serving politicians, bigoted, intolerant and supremacist, facilitated by a mindless populace.

There is no saving the place. The die is cast.

Ismail Sabri: Yes, I am very sure. DAP is now “owned” by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim. Anwar is also reforming Umno, so he can be the puppet master.

He is the puppet master via his deputy, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, who is part of Anwar’s strategy to become Malaysia’s Hun Sen.

By then, Anwar will rule Malaysia in an authoritarian way, and nobody will be able to stop him. He will be like Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil El-Sisi and Jordan’s King Abdullah II.

Yes, DAP abandoned its fight ever since DAP tasted power and became intoxicated with power. DAP is now what Gerakan was or what MCA was in the past.

You can say label them as Gerakan 2.0 or MCA 2.0, multi-racial parties, yet Chinese-dominated.

This is why former Penang deputy chief minister P Ramasamy left DAP to form his own multi-racial yet Indian-dominated party, United for the Rights of Malaysians Party (Urimai).

Politics is about power, which will be used to dominate the economy of a society.

Heartbreaker: If left unchecked, DAP will become the PAP (Singapore ruling party, People’s Action Party) of Malaysia. That is what their mission is all about.

The Malays in Madani must not rest on their laurels, they must always be alert.

Don’t allow this “gunting dalam lipatan”(hidden enemy) to snip away the Malays’ trust and respect towards the royal institutions.

Like in Singapore, the Malays’ ignorance has taken away even the little power they had enjoyed before. Malays in Malaysia must not make the same mistake.

The Illusion of Choice: Author S Thayaparan is incorrect. Malaysia is not a secular state. But it is also not an Islamic theocratic state.

Malaysia is somewhere in between, a hybrid. It has attributes of both secularism and Islamism.

Thayaparan refuses to acknowledge the fact that Islamism is an integral part of Malaysia, politically, socially, even economically.

Islamism is a fact of life in Malaysia. Good or bad, it is the reality. Islamism will not go away. It is a core element of this country.

Denying it is pointless. Raging against it is pointless. Getting angry at DAP supremo Li Kit Siang for acknowledging it is pointless.

Do I wish we were 100 percent secular like Singapore? Yes.

But that is not the reality in Malaysia, and it will not be for many lifetimes. Secularists like Thayarapan are living in a pipe dream, in La La Land.

To borrow a term he likes to use, he is drinking his own secularism Kool-Aid, getting high on his own supply.

GreenFalcon2292: I suggest you do not fall hook, line and sinker for what these people (for example, Umno secretary-general Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki ) say. If you absolutely must, then try reversing what they actually say, and you will be nearer to the truth.

A Malay-only coalition is the most likely outcome post the 16th general election. Squeezing non-Malays into a corner is the most likely ensuing result, and this would continue for a good decade or two.

The 80/20 demographics may open a few eyes, but when the arithmetic does not work; the kitty (coffers) will not be able to make the necessary allocations.

It would be too late by then, of course, as the best and brightest would have fled in the millions. Does no one understand this among the majority group?

Sure, one or two must speak, statistically speaking, but most do not dare open their mouths, for mayhem will break loose.

Those who know this have already made arrangements for their kids and grandkids, one may safely assume. Neat, no?

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