"Don’t ever take the infidelic West as an example, because the best of them will still end up in hell, since their kindness is without any faith to Allah and the end times."

– PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang

COMMENT | If Perikatan Nasional cannot get through the front door to the throne of Putrajaya, they will use the back door. However, this piece is not about the latter, it is about the former.

PN for whatever reason has proven to be very adroit at using Western (and Chinese) tech media and Western progressive democratic values (free speech and assembly for example) to reap the rewards of decades of religious indoctrination by the state.

What we are dealing with here is a strategy to use Western democratic values to subvert this country into a theocratic paradise.

When Muhyiddin Yassin, the former prime minister and Abdul Hadi Awang frontman, says this for instance "There are also those who express open support for other parties including Pakatan Harapan and BN. This is their right in a democratic country”, what he is doing is using those “infidelic” Western values to promote religious and racial extremism into the Malaysian body politic.

That PAS rep who was allegedly banned from...