PAS member Abdul Hadi Abdul Aziz, 21, believes the fracas last Saturday that broke out after Perkasa members were stopped from approaching party deputy president Mohamad Sabu was an attempt to goad them into violent retaliation.

Abdul Hadi, whose nose was bloodied after being punched by a yet-unknown assailant in the incident, believed that the aim of the Perkasa group was for matters to escalate until it got so "ugly" as to force a premature end to the ceramah.