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Posted: 04 Jun 2011 01:38 AM PDT

How do you detect signs of panic? It's simple, really. As an example read PERKASA's and UMNO's kneejerk response to the Islamic Party of Malaysia's party elections on Friday. These are what you can call signs of panic. And guess why they are panicking? If I have to tell you then you don't deserve to live.

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Raja Petra Kamarudin

Ibrahim Ali calls new PAS leadership 'Anwar's voice'

(The Malaysian Insider) - Perkasa chief Datuk Ibrahim Ali mocked the new PAS leadership as merely Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's voice, saying today the internal elections have not changed the Islamist party's outlook.

Ibrahim said Anwar's influence will still remain in the party if PAS spiritual leader Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat and president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang continue to be at the helm.

"Anwar's voice in PAS is determined by Datuk Nik Aziz and Hadi who has become a stooge… the others are not relevant… True, there are the Erdogans, ulamas and others but all do not have any influence except for Datuk Nik Aziz and Hadi the stooge," he said in a statement.

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Perkasa secretary-general says Mat Sabu has no academic qualifications

(The Malaysian Insider) - Perkasa secretary-general Syed Hassan Syed Ali criticised Mohamad Sabu's credibility, saying the newly-elected deputy was not fit for the office.

"Mat Sabu only studied in ITM and did not even finish, he is not even a religious studies graduate from the Middle East. It is an embarrassment to the ulama faction in PAS because Mat Sabu has no academic qualifications while the Erdogans are disappointed because Mat Sabu does not support Anwar," said Syed Hassan through a text message.

He added that Mat Sabu had once called the opposition leader as Anwar al-Juburi or Anwar the anus, referring to the latter's sodomy trials.

Syed Hassan believed the new leadership will make it hard for Umno to have unity talks with PAS.

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DAP, PKR have influenced PAS to change principles: Mukhriz

(Bernama) - DAP and the Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) have succeeded in influencing PAS to the extent that the party's objective of setting up an Islamic state, which was the party's struggles all this time, has been changed to a welfare state.

Deputy chairman of the Kedah Umno Liaison Body Datuk Mukhriz Tun Dr Mahathir said PAS was also seen as lacking a fixed stand when it changed the principle of struggling for an Islamic state to a welfare state because it wanted to realise the aspirations of the DAP and PKR in championing the cause of the multi-racial society in Malaysia.

"Congratulations to the DAP and PKR for succeeding to influence PAS to the extent that only those aligned to them (no ulama) were elected as PAS vice-presidents and even the deputy president."

"The influence of the DAP and PKR in PAS is very substantial. This does not reflect that PAS is free from the influence of those who are actually against Islam," he told reporters.

What the PAS party elections means to me

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 07:41 PM PDT

This is how I interpret yesterday's Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS) party elections. Of course, it is still too early to bring out the wine, halal or otherwise -- as they say, we should not count our chickens before they hatch. However, from the number of eggs (and I counted at least a dozen), we can sort of already tell.

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Raja Petra Kamarudin

1. PAS will move more towards the centre from presently the right.

2. DAP will reciprocate by also moving more towards the centre from presently the left.

3. PKR, which is presently in the 'centre' and used to play the very crucial 'middleman' role to balance the leftist and rightist parties (DAP and PAS respectively), will see its relevance much reduced.

4. DAP and PAS will build up a better working relationship through the new 'liberal' leaders.

5. Pakatan Rakyat would be less dependent on PKR and if anything were to happen to Anwar Ibrahim or PKR the opposition coalition would not suffer too much with PAS poised to take over the role of PKR as the 'liberal Malay-based party'.

6. PAS, like DAP (and as DAP would wish), will focus less on theological issues as its party's thrust and will instead concentrate on universal issues and the economic and social welfare of Malaysians (which was what the New Economic Policy or NEP was actually all about in the first place).

7. PAS will field non-Muslims in the coming general election while DAP will field Malay candidates as part of its 'moving towards the centre' exercise.

8. PAS will see a better balance between the perceived 'ulamak' and 'secular' leaders from what used to be a purely ulamak leadership.

9. Mat Sabu, the new number two in the party, who is seen as more 'modern thinking', will complement the number one, who is seen as more 'old school'.

10. The non-Muslims will become more comfortable with the new PAS leadership line-up -- many who are seen as less 'extreme', 'orthodox' or 'fundamental'.

11. It will be more difficult for Ummo to continue talking about 'Malay unity' and to entice PAS to work with Umno for the sake of the 'Malay cause' seeing that PAS will now be perceived as the 'new and better Umno'.

12. PAS will be able to replace Umno as a 'Malay party' seeing that PAS is becoming more 'Malay' while at the same time retaining its 'Islamic' identity -- something which Umno would have a problem duplicating.

13. Liberal Malays who hang on to Umno and/or PKR as their hope for the future would begin to see PAS as a viable alternative.

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