“ The oppressors do not favour promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders .” - Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

It is never a good sign here in Malaysia or anywhere else in the world, when rival Islamist parties agree with each other . PAS and Amanah finding common ground against Umno is like two siblings agreeing that their parents have been unfair to them.

PAS vice-president Iskandar Abdul Samad in a statement that was revealing of the Umno strategy but at the same time an unintentional condemnation of Islam, questioned the efficacy of the use of dubious funds in the eradication of Muslim poverty, here in Malaysia.