“In 2008, he, Lim and I signed a document (upholding) Islam as the national religion. Lim signed it, Hadi signed it and I signed it,”

– Anwar Ibrahim (2022)

COMMENT | The great tragedy of Malaysia is the DAP is nothing as how Abdul Hadi Awang describes.

Far from being a moderating or civilising force for religious extremism in this country (which is what secularism is), the DAP has colluded with and enabled various Malay power brokers in an attempt to sustain power in state and federal legislatures.

At that time, the current prime minister questioned why Hadi was going about carrying on with this “fitnah” (slander) against the DAP.

The answer is simple, especially when you consider a supremacist reading of religious texts...