UMNO's Desperate Gambit for an UnHoly Alliance with PAS to Save Itself

UPDATED !!!

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"...Objektif Umno hanyalah untuk memecahkan Pakatan Rakyat.

Cara yang paling mudah untuk memecahkan Pakatan Rakyat ialah membawa masuk PAS kedalam Barisan Nasional.

Oleh kerana PAS adalah parti Islam yang majoriti ahlinya adalah berbangsa Melayu, maka mudahlah Umno menyerapkan sentimen “kemelayuan” dalam PAS.

Ideanya mudah aja, Melayu kini lemah, PAS perlu masuk BN untuk kuatkan Melayu.

Kali ini tumpuan mereka ialah memecahbelahkan PAS dengan menyokong kumpulan Pro Muzakarah dengan Umno. Jika kumpulan tersebut menang, maka mudahlah untuk membawa masuk PAS kedalam BN sekaligus memecahkan kekuatan Pakatan Rakyat.

Apakah kesannya selepas Barisan Alternatif BERPECAH satu ketika DAHULU ( PRU 2004)?

• Pakatan pembangkang kalah teruk dalam PRU tahun 2004 dimana menyaksikan Barisan Nasional yang dipimpin oleh Abdullah Badawi menang besar.Kemenangan terbesar yang pernah mereka (UMNO/BN) perolehi dalam sejarah politik Malaysia.
  
  
• Negeri Terengganu yang dimenangi PAS pada PRU 1999 tersungkur dan
  

• Negeri Kelantan masih dipimpin oleh PAS dengan majoriti yang begitu kecil.

Lihat pula apa yang terjadi apabila pakatan pembangkang bersatu pada PRU 12.

• Lima (5) negeri jatuh ketangan pakatan pembangkang dan
  
  
• Majoriti 2/3 BN hilang. Satu kejayaan yang terbesar yang pernah diperolehi oleh pakatan pembangkang dalam sejarah politik Malaysia.

Senario PRU 2004 tidak mustahil akan berulang.

Jika Pakatan Rakyat rapuh, rakyat Malaysia TIDAK akan menyaksikan perubahan politik dinegara ini sekurang-kurangnya 50 tahun akan datang!
-Amin Iskandar

Lagi Percubaan Memecahbelahkan PAS

by

Amin Iskandar

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Semenjak Tsunami politik 8 Mac 2008, Umno/BN hanya akan melakukan satu perkara, iaitu:

• Memecahkan Pakatan Rakyat.

Ini adalah kerana, apabila Pakatan Rakyat kuat, mereka akan tersungkur daripada pemerintahan negara pada pilihanraya akan datang. Usaha yang konsisten dilakukan tanpa henti sehinggalah hari ini.

Cara yang paling mudah untuk memecahkan Pakatan Rakyat ialah:

• Membawa masuk PAS kedalam Barisan Nasional.

Ideanya (UMNO ) mudah aja:

Melayu kini lemah, PAS perlu masuk BN untuk kuatkan Melayu.

Oleh kerana PAS adalah parti Islam yang majoriti ahlinya adalah berbangsa Melayu, maka mudahlah Umno menyerapkan sentimen “kemelayuan” dalam parti PAS.

Umpan tersebut “tersangkut” apabila ada beberapa golongan dalam PAS yang “terbeli” dengan agenda “Melayu” (Melayu lemah apabila Umno kalah. Bila Umno kuat, peduli apa dengan Melayu!).

Malahan golongan yang “terbeli” dengan umpan Umno ini mempertahankan agenda “perpaduan Melayu” ini secara bermati-matian.

Entah apa motivasinya, kita pun tak tahu!

Seperti biasa, Utusan Malaysia dan TV3 memberikan sokongan kepada golongan ini secara bermati-matian juga!

• Lihatlah Utusan Malaysia pada hari ini, dimuka hadapan pun mereka berikan promosi. Klik disini.

• Dibelah dalam lebih banyak lagi. Klik disini, disini, disini, disini, disini, disini dan disini.

Persolannya sekarang;

1. Semenjak bila pula Umno mahu Malaysia diperintah oleh Ulama?
   
   
2. Semenjak bila pula Umno mahu tutup kilang arak?
   
   
3. Semenjak bila pula Umno sokong calon PAS dalam pilihanraya?

Objektif Umno/Barisan Nasional hanyalah untuk memecahkan Pakatan Rakyat.

Sama seperti apa yang mereka pernah lakukan dengan memecah belahkan Barisan Alternatif selepas PRU tahun 1999.

Dan kali ini tumpuan mereka ialah memecahbelahkan PAS dengan menyokong kumpulan Pro Muzakarah (dalam PAS) dengan Umno.

Jika kumpulan PRO MUZAKARAH menang, maka mudahlah untuk membawa masuk PAS kedalam BN sekaligus memecahkan kekuatan Pakatan Rakyat.

1. Kesannya selepas Barisan Alternatif BERPECAH satu ketika DAHULU ?
   

   • Pakatan pembangkang kalah teruk dalam PRU tahun 2004 dimana menyaksikan Barisan Nasional yang dipimpin oleh Abdullah Badawi menang besar. Kemenangan terbesar yang pernah mereka (UMNO/BN) perolehi dalam sejarah politik Malaysia.
     
     

   • Negeri Terengganu yang dimenangi PAS pada PRU 1999 TERSUNGKUR dan
     
     
   • Negeri Kelantan masih dipimpin oleh PAS dengan majoriti yang begitu KECIL.

   
   
2. Kesan Selepas PR 12 (Mac 2008)
   
   
   • Lihat pula apa yang terjadi apabila pakatan pembangkang bersatu pada PRU 12, lima negeri jatuh ketangan pakatan pembangkang dan
     
     
   • Majoriti 2/3 BN hilang. Satu kejayaan yang TERBESAR yang pernah diperolehi oleh pakatan pembangkang dalam sejarah politik Malaysia.

Senario PRU 2004 tidak mustahil akan berulang.

Tidak mustahil juga Pakatan Rakyat akan mengambil alih kerajaan pusat dengan syarat pakatan tersebut terus kukuh.

Ini turut diperkatakan oleh Tan Sri Abdullah Ahmad dalam temuramahnya dimajalah Off The Edge bulan lepas.

Jika Pakatan Rakyat rapuh, rakyat Malaysia tidak akan menyaksikan perubahan politik dinegara ini sekurang-kurangnya 50 tahun akan datang!


Related Article

Umno-PAS Together?

by

Karim Raslan

Read here for more

Here are a clutch of reasons why PAS is UNLIKELY to enter into any unity talks with Umno.

1. Public perception
   
   There was a time when Malaysians were fearful of the green tide and respectful of the ruling party. That time has long passed, and the roles have reversed.
   
   At least among non-Malays, PAS politicians are no longer ogres. While there remains residual concern over the conservative leaning of some of their politicians, Chinese, Indians and younger Malays view PAS politicians as sincere, clean and approachable. In contrast, the average Umno politician is viewed as corrupt, hypocritical and a chauvinist.
   
   Political pundits and even Umno leaders believe that if there is no seismic change in the ruling party, it will occupy the position of the Opposition after the next general elections.
   
   So why should PAS consider joining forces with a corrupting influence?
   
   
2. Remember 1978, remember 1986 and remember…
   
   There is an undeniable pattern which emerges every time Umno is caught in a squeeze: it reaches out to PAS and proposes unity talks. It happened in 1978, 1986 and 2008.
   
   PAS took the bait once and lived to regret the folly. Thirty-one years ago, PAS left the Barisan Nasional after a painful five years in the coalition. Haji Mohamed Asri and PAS – which was in control of Kelantan – were persuaded by Tun Abdul Razak join BN.
   
   Differences soon came to the fore in Kelantan and culminated in the federal government declaring a state of emergency in the east coast state. Asri was left with a divided party by the time he stepped down in 1982.
   
   Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad reached out to PAS in 1986 at the peak of the gut-wrenching Umno split, once again to talk about Malay unity. There was no sustained move to bridge the gap between the two political parties when the economy recovered in the early 1990s.
   
   Working with PAS once again entered into the Umno lexicon after Election 2008. This time, Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi met several PAS leaders in a government house in Jalan Bellamy and broached the subject of Malay unity.
   
   Datuk Abdul Hadi Awang, Datuk Mustafa Ali and Nasharuddin Mat Isa were impressed with the interest and sincerity shown by Abdullah but other PAS leaders believed that Abdullah was only interested in getting PAS to decouple from Anwar.
   
   
3. The reality of Malaysian politics
   
   Yes, Chinese may be waving PAS flags and Indian men have turned out to be the most aggressive campaigners for the Islamic party but PAS leaders should not delude themselves into thinking that Malaysians love green and white.
   
   What Malaysians have fallen in love with is the idea of PAS being able to work with DAP and PKR and the willingness of PAS politicians to look beyond narrow racial and religious interests on a raft of issues.
   
   Working outside the Pakatan Rakyat umbrella may not guarantee PAS the continued support of non-Malays.

Utusan Malaysia's Hypocrisy on Unity

How nice. The one newspaper which has done more to vaporise good feelings among Malays towards each other; to drive a wedge between Malays and the rest of the country and to foster the them-versus-us sentiment in Malaysia, is suddenly interested in promoting unity.

For the past few days, the Umno-owned Utusan Malaysia has been devoting much space to the so-called fight for power in Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) between the religious scholars and the professional class, also known as the Erdogan faction.

Sensing that this could be a two-in-one opportunity (split the influential PAS into two groups and also lay the blame on Anwar Ibrahim for trying to dominate the professional class), the broadsheet has been charitable to the views of the religious class.

• It has adopted the position taken by the likes of Nasharuddin Mat Isa, Nik Abduh Nik Aziz and others who believe that there should be an alliance between PAS and Umno for the sake of Malay unity.
  
  
• It has attempted to portray the professionals as nothing more than acolytes of Anwar, politicians who have strayed from the original struggle of the Islamic party.
  
  
• Utusan’s band of columnists has weighed in dutifully, arguing that at a time when the rights of Malays and the position of Islam are being challenged, it is important for Malays to unite.

This open invitation to PAS and, to a lesser extent, PKR, naturally entails checking one’s political ideology at the door and adopting the world view and value system of Umno.

With the PAS general assembly a month away, there will be intense focus on the different factions in PAS and manufactured groundswell for an alliance of sorts between Umno and PAS.

Manufactured because ground reports show that the rank and file in PAS are not in favour of a rapprochement with Umno and detests the fact that some of their leaders are on friendly terms with Umno ministers. They question the wisdom of their party, which is on the up and up, entering into an alliance with one that is viewed as corrupt.


COMMENTARY

From THE AISEHMAN Blog

Party Like It’s 2009

The PAS party elections are coming up.

It is going to be interesting, but at the end of the day, it doesn’t really concern me who wins.

All I want to see is that NONE of the (PAS) party leaders ever again talks about some bullshit unity government with UMNO.

For as long as UMNO is the shithole that it is today, don’t even dream about it.

Because the day PAS strikes a pakatan with such an UMNO is the day, the party (PAS) heads back to the Stone Age.

See, some people in PAS are beginning to entertain this fantasy that the non-Muslim support the party in enjoying is unshakable, permanent, divinely-ordained even.

Such hubris.

The reality is that PAS is getting the support of non-Muslims because they see the party as defending THEIR interests.

If PAS betrays this trust, they will flush it down the political longkang.

WHAT about “perpaduan umat Islam”, some of you might ask?

Here’s the deal — the interests of the Ummah are not served by joining UMNO in some sham alliance that would only provide safe harbour for the perpetuation of the party’s excesses.

The interests of both Muslims and non-Muslims — the entire nation — are served by reforming UMNO.

Given the current state of the party, the only way to make that happen is to deal it a crushing defeat.

So don’t be stupid.

By all means, lets help UMNO. After all, the party’s members and supporters are Malaysians too.

But hugs and kisses will not work. It’s too late for that.

We need to employ The Conan Principles here, namely, crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of the women — in the political sense, of course.

Bak pepatah Orang Puteh, spare the rod, spoil the politician.

FROM MALAYSIA-WAVES BLOG

The Entire Conversion Issue is to Break Pakatan Rakyat

BY

"Tulang Besi"

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I learned of a meeting organized by Zahid Hamidi with the help of Nuraina Samad and Rocky Bru in Pusat Islam along with several high ranking officials in Pusat Islam. The main issue discussed is the fact that Islam is under severe threat and Muslims need to unite under one banner by totally putting aside political difference.

The meeting was organized for several pro Islam blogger and a friend of mine attended (lets just call him Blogger X).

This blogger X was so hyped about the meeting that he bought the unity crap completely. He swallowed the bait hooked line and sinker. He was so high spirited about the whole idea that he even prayed for Tok Guru Nik Aziz to die soon because he views Tok Guru Nik Aziz as the main blocker of Islamic Unity.

He calls the DAP and Karpal Singah and Lim Kit Siang as the devil incarnate that is devoted towards permenant destruction of Islam (in so many words).

And the fact that PAS is making friends with DAP is an abomination.

He repeated the same lie that UMNO has repeated throughout the years, i.e, kafir mengkafir.

Anyways, the main issued played in the meeting is the fact that the Catholics are using the name Allah in their prayers and services. So, just this one main issue and a few others small ones, like blogger openly against Islam, he has decided to jump the Zahid Hamidi/UMNO bandwagon.

And like I said, he even prayed for Tok Guru Nik Aziz to die soon.

So, i decided to test his theory.

1. I asked him to show me one fatwa from Al Azhar banning the usage of the word Allah SWT by Christians. I am very sure there is none because the Church of Alexandria have been conducting their sermons and religous services in arabic for the last 700 years or so. And, they've been using the word Allah all the while in their rituals.
   
   
2. Also, I asked him, wasn't making mockery of Islam was done WAY before Pakatan Rakyat was formed. I mean people like Akbar Ali and Marina Mahathir and Zainah Anwar have been mocking Islam since i can remember. Why didn't UMNO make noise then?
   
   
3. Also, I asked him, why has Zahid Hamidi not make noise about liqour and gambling in Malaysia. I can still remember back in 1990 when the Sarawak state government ban gambling totally only to find the ban lifted by UMNO.

And even Guan Eng is planning to reduce number of gambling outlets in Penang.

Najib, on the other hand, awarded 10 more special draws the first month he became MOF and Terence Gomez wrote a book about complicity of UMNO, Daim, Dr. Mahathir with the gambling industry.

Noticed, when it comes to religion, people just put their brains away and use only emotion.

They think that by invoking their emotion, they have become a good servant of God.

Well, in Islam, the more one uses his reason, the better Muslim he/she is. Why? Becuase that's how the Prophet acted.

The recent Cabinet decision on conversion is actually an enticement for PAS to invoke their "dark side".

UMNO wants PAS to show their fundamentalist side to the Malaysian public and by making this decision, UMNO hopes that the ugly part of PAS will be exposed to the public.

UMNO then will come out to the Chinese saying that they are still the moderate party and the Chinese will lose out if they support PAS.

I pity my friend, Blogger X, for he has fallen into a hole he cannot climb out of. For all the flaks he has given to PAS, Tok Guru Nik Aziz, those in PAS against Malay unity, he had just been taken for a ride.

It's the UMNO he so wants to defend that has betrayed him. It's his UMNO that has become the enemy he has so much despised off.

That's why Islam doesn't advocate blind following. That's why Islam doesn't grant status of infallibality to anyone except the Prophet SAW. That's why Islam places so much emphasis on learning and argument and deduction and thinking.

When you get duped, don't come back to Islam and blame Islam. I really hope my friend, Blogger X, do not start blaming Islam for being duped by UMNO. I mean, who ask him to put his trust in a bunch of Munafiqeen like UMNO?

Tulang Besi