GE 13 : Single-Minded PAS is the Greatest Threat to Malaysia’s Racial Harmony

In the years leading up to GE13, clever PAS started to sell us a fairy tale about its multi-racial appeal. It sought to show it is not racist because - look! - the head of the PAS Supporters Congress is a Chinese gentleman named Hu Pang Chow.
His job has been to convince non-Muslims and therefore non-Malays that they have nothing to fear under PAS rule; such as explaining away the role of Islamic officials in Kelantan, whose actions forever seem to target Chinese shopkeepers and even a Chinese teenager giving his girlfriend a piggyback.
Of course, it's all a PR stunt and Pang Chow is just ethnic window dressing, a fact confirmed on nomination day by the seat he was given to contest at GE13. Ayer Hitam is an MCA stronghold retained with a 14,000 vote margin at GE12. PAS have plonked their token Chinese man there because they don't care if he wins or loses.
Pang Chow is just one example of how clever PAS can be. It pretends it is unsophisticated in the ways of political spin but actually, when it comes to masking its bigoted core, it is as shrewd as they come. The Islamist party has very successfully used Pang Chow as part of its multi-racial mythology just as it manages to downplay hard evidence of the threat it poses to non-Malays.
Summonses against Chinese hairdressers in Kelantan? That's a local issue, says PAS HQ. It has nothing to do with us. The party has also long claimed hudud will only ever be applied to Muslims, but has never explained how its proposed two tier-tiered justice system would fit with a constitution that maintains all men are equal under the law.
The truth is that non-Muslims have everything to fear from PAS, the party which is the biggest single threat to racial harmony in Malaysia because of how it is set to impose its will on other races. Those Chinese girls walking through our shopping malls in skimpy shorts better cover up!
Vulnerable Indians know this; hence they are set to return to BN at GE13, where hudud is not an option. Deep down, many Chinese DAP voters know this too, but they fall for the comforting story that PAS can somehow be contained by 72-year-old Karpal Singh, shaking his finger in the direction of the Islamists.
But not everyone is that trusting. Johor DAP deputy chairman Norman Fernandez Sunday broke ranks to warn "non-Muslims must realise that PAS will do what it has set out to do if it gains power".
"The question for non-Muslims is whether non-Muslims are prepared to risk it all with PAS," he added, thus exploding the Pakatan myth that PAS is somehow controllable.
There are other truths about PAS, which non-Muslim voters must not forget. One is that since it is contesting 73 federal seats to DAP's 50 and is the biggest party in the coalition, it could well be the kingmaker in a Pakatan government. Secondly, we all know it still harbours dreams about "PM Hadi"; and third, there are many within the party who would gladly wreck the coalition for the sake of its religious agenda. Their public response to the "Allah" issue proved this.
PAS is the greatest threat to racial harmony because it wants its religious agenda to dominate the entire nation. Deep down, even the most ardent Pakatan Rakyat supporters should begin to realise this before they make the biggest mistake of their voting lives.