" In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life."

- Ayaan Hirsi Ali (The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam)

COMMENT I find it extremely funny that PAS finds the time and opportunity to pray for the demise of Umno and BN but has to hold numerous "councils" before they can decide to take action against those errant local council "saboteurs" that DAP secretary-general and Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng seems to think are jeopardising the fragile "secular" alternative alliance.

I mean surely PAS could spare a prayer for God's wrath against those within their ranks who would use Islam for nefarious Umno purposes. I always get a kick out of PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang's ( right ) justification that the Umno demise prayer was in keeping with Islamic principles that allowed such a prayer to be recited when one felt "oppressed". Does anyone else see the irony in this?

Moreover, this whole ‘saboteur' theory is a fair enough assumption in this period of political war. What is disturbing is that nobody in the alliance has come out strongly for the alternative theory, which is that there are people in PAS who reject this ‘separate but equal' masquerade of secularism and really subscribe to the ‘hudud for all' belief...