PAS Perlu Kekal Momentum Bukan Melayu - Mohd Hanipa Maidin

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Excerpts: Read here for more interview with Mohd Hanipa Maidin by Irwan Muhammad Zain in Harakah

Ahli Jawatankuasa PAS Pusat, Mohd Hanipa Maidin yakin untuk PAS terus menang, PAS perlu mengekalkan momentum bagaimana orang bukan Islam boleh percaya kepada PAS dan dasar PAS.

Beliau berkata dalam satu temubual dengan wartawan Harakah, Irwan Muhammad Zain. Mohd Hanipa Maidin memegang jawatan Pengerusi Lajnah Perundangan dan Hak Asasi Manusia PAS Pusat.

Mohd Hanipa Maidin berkata dalam temubual tersebut:

"Saya rasa sebenarnya BN selama ini memang tak pernah pedulikan tentang orang Melayu. Sekarang mereka cuba untuk tarik sokongan bukan Melayu yang condong kepada Pakatan Rakyat. Pada saya, dasar "One Malaysia" ini cuma 'lipstick', hanya hiasan semata-mata untuk menarik sokongan terutama bukan Melayu terhadap BN.

( Untuk PAS memperolehi kemenangan yang lebih besar dalam pilihan raya umum), bagi saya, kalau boleh, kita (PAS) terus mengekalkan momentum bagaimana orang bukan Islam boleh percaya kepada PAS dan dasar PAS.

Kenyataan-kenyataan pemimpin PAS dan tindakan-tindakan pemimpin PAS itu sendiri perlu dilihat atau diyakini oleh rakyat untuk melihat PAS layak untuk mengantikan Umno dan juga BN.

Pada saya momentum yang ada sekarang ini bukan sahaja perlu dikekalkan tetapi kita juga perlu pertingkatkan usaha untuk menarik lebih banyak sokongan masyarakat bukan Islam disamping tidak meminggirkan sokongan masyarakat Islam atau pun orang Melayu terhadap PAS.

Kita lihat sekarang ini pemimpin Umno masih lagi menggunakan isu perkauman dimana kalau kita lihat isu terbaru iaitu isu menukar status agama anak-anak itu.

Kalau kita tidak menangani dengan baik ada kemungkinan kita akan hilang sokongan bukan Islam.

Jadi PAS perlu bijak menangani masalah yang cuba ditimbulkan oleh Umno atau isu yang sengaja direka oleh Umno dan BN ini supaya kita tidak terperangkap dan hilang sokongan tak kira pengundi bukan Melayu dan juga Melayu."

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Why It is Essential to "Con a Stupid Chinaman"

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"Hakim Joe"

Read here also related article, "How to con a stupid Chinaman" by Raja Petra Kamarudin

EXCERPTS: Read here for more in Malaysia-Today

The Chinese forms a minor segment of the legal residents of Malaysia, approximately 25.4% according to the statistical department.. Look at the Indians (7.5%) in contrast and one will understand why this race of Malaysian is accorded a different approach.

Not that many, but numbers adequately significant to elicit attention from the government and the opposition alike

There are other salient factors that make the Chinese vote so important in Malaysia. 25.4% really isn’t much but it is definitely the “deciding” aspect that makes it so.

• The 65.8% Bumiputeras consist of 50.6% Malays and 15.2% indigenous residents.
  
  
• The Malay votes are now split and the latter is basically pro-BN. Let’s assume 40% of the Malay votes and a third of the indigenous votes are pro-Opposition. That comes to about 20.2% and 5.1% respectively and makes it about 25.3% pro-Opposition and about 40.5% pro-BN (ballpark figure).
  
  
• Now we analyse the 7.5% Indian vote. Let us again assume a fifty-fifty share. The approximate figures are now about 29.1% pro-Opposition and 44.3% pro-BN.

As anyone will tell you, the Chinese vote suddenly assumes a significant role in the determination of the government, especially knowing the fact that these Cina Apeks are notoriously pro-Opposition.

BN needs another 6% out of the available 25.4% to form a simple majority government and it is really a simple job considering the fact that there exist such associations like MCA and Gerakan – hence the con job.

As with BN requiring the pivotal Chinese votes, the Opposition needs the commanding Bumiputera votes – a circle within a circle.

(In the) Federal Elections 2008, BN only garnered about 51% of popular vote when winning 63% of the total seats. If this is the case, it means that BN only obtained about 7% of the available 25.4% Chinese and Indian votes.

1. Fact Number One: BN only obtained 49.8% of the popular vote in West Malaysia. Pakatan actually got 50.2% but still only have 80 out of the 165 West Malaysian parliamentary seats (gerrymandering at its optimum effectiveness).
   
   
2. Fact Number Two: BN got 55 parliamentary seats from East Malaysia – about a quarter of the total available parliamentary seats.

That was the “big” picture.

It still does not effectively explain why the "CON JOB " was needed.

Here’s why.

The 222 parliamentary seats can be effectively segregated into:

1. Group A where the voters are predominantly Malays (about 70 seats);
   
   
2. Group B where the voters are almost equally race distributed (about 44 seats);
   
   
3. Group D (East Malaysia) – 57 seats.

In 2008, BN won:

• 45 seats from Group A (64%),
  
  
• 25 seats from Group B (57%),
  
  
• 15 seats from Group C (29%) and
  
  
• 55 seats from Group D (96%)
  
  making it a total of 140 seats.

With NEP still enforced, BN can expect a similar result from Group A and Group D (in the next General Election)

Group B and Group C are an entirely different can of worms. There are 95 seats available here or almost 43% of the total available parliamentary seats.

The Non-Bumiputera votes are extremely important here especially when the Malay votes are split.

Continue to lose the Indians and Chinese votes and this block of seats might end up in Pakatan’s hands.

With the Chinese populace three times the populace of Indians, their support are deemed more important.

MIC could still be relied to deliver quite a few parliamentary seats. But MCA and Gerakan are “up shit creek without a paddle”.

Now we know how essential it is to “con a stupid Chinaman”.