COMMENT | The people of Sarawak may not have heard the saying, "Be careful who you vote for because there is always a catch. Casting your vote is the only good part. From then on, it is downhill all the way."

Although PAS is hugely unpopular within Sarawak, because of its diehard conservative stance on national issues, do the Sarawakians realise that it is not necessary for PAS to win, to change Sarawak from being harmonious and tolerant, to a country that is divisive and intolerant?

What PAS cannot outwardly achieve, Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob and his army of civil servants and teachers will carry out by stealth.

In early November, a Sarawakian mother related her child's experience in a national school in Kuala Lumpur. The family lived in Semenanjung whilst the husband was on a work assignment.

Like most mothers, she would take an interest in her child's lessons. However, three things about the primary school education made her vow to return to Sarawak as soon as her husband's contract was over.

One day, her son proudly showed his drawing of their family tree. When she asked him who the woman in a tudung represented, he said, "You, Mother!"

The Malay Sarawakian mother, who prides herself on being open-minded and is more comfortable in shorts, skirts, and short sleeves...