{"id":2419,"date":"2008-10-06T10:56:06","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T02:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/others\/2008\/10\/06\/pas-leader-supports-hindraf-raya-visit\/"},"modified":"2008-10-06T10:58:20","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T02:58:20","slug":"pas-leader-supports-hindraf-raya-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/10\/06\/pas-leader-supports-hindraf-raya-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"PAS leader supports HINDRAF Raya visit"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think the comment<\/a> by Pas leader Abdul Hadi Awang is to offset the religious tone made by UMNO leaders and their related NGOs. The visit by HINDRAF to Hari Raya open house<\/a> is being labeled as “insult to PM”, “insult to Islam’, “insult to Muslims”, “spoiling country’s image”, “causing anger among the Malays”, “rude”, “treachery”, “irresponsible”, and many more negative comments. Thus, this is seen as trying to incite the Malay community to go against HINDRAF. By having PAS support, this attack is somewhat nullified.<\/p>\n

The Pas chief said the action by the the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) at the prime minister’s and cabinet’s Hari Raya open house on Wednesday was part and parcel of democracy. Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang said it signalled a change in the democratic practices in the country that should be viewed positively.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think it was rude. That’s democracy. In the United States, people demonstrate in front of the White House. It’s not like they caused a commotion or started fighting,” he said after the party’s Hari Raya gathering at the Tarbiyyah headquarters yesterday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

His comments were dismissed by Information Minister Ahmed Shaberi Cheek who said<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Describing Hadi\u2019s understanding of democracy as off tangent, Ahmad Shabery said it was unbecoming of the PAS chief to liken the action by an illegal group as a normal practice in a democratic country like the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo not liken demonstrations in front of the White House with the action of Hindraf supporters who had disrupted an Aidilfitri open house. It was the time for the Prime Minister, his deputy, and ministers to meet the people.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe action had tarnished the hari raya celebration and the goodwill spirit advocated by Malaysians. We should not misuse democratic practices.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust because he is eyeing for votes from Hindraf supporters, he (Hadi) is willing to forget the sanctity of hari raya celebration,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think the comment by Pas leader Abdul Hadi Awang is to offset the religious tone made by UMNO leaders and their related NGOs. The visit by HINDRAF to Hari Raya open house is being labeled as “insult to PM”, “insult to Islam’, “insult to Muslims”, “spoiling country’s image”, “causing anger among the Malays”, “rude”, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[21,159],"class_list":["post-2419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-hindraf","tag-pas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}