Hopeless: Only now PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang wants to go to Syria when the war there is about to be over?

Why didn’t they make the offer last year? He was holding that same position in the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), right?

AJ: Did Hadi know that the tyrant has almost won the Syrian civil war after killing hundreds of thousands?

Syrian president Bashar al-Assad murdered his people in collusion with the Russians and rogue Middle East countries. What’s Hadi going to say about this?

Proarte: Indeed, PAS should have sent Hadi as ‘peacemaker’ and ‘negotiator’ between Assad and the motley rebels at the beginning of the war. Hadi is six years too late.

What effective role can he have now when Assad has won and Aleppo has been reduced to rubble?

When Muslims in the Middle East rise up against tyranny, their Muslim leaders terrorise them, murder them and reduce their homes to rubble. They are made refugees and run to Christian countries for help and safety.

No Muslim country wants to help them, why?

From Penang: When a person emphasises “punishment” rather than “education”, can he be a peace negotiator?

Kamikasi: Hadi was unable to even take care of Kedah and Terengganu. Maybe it’s because he thinks the Syrians are dumb like he is.

Malaysia4All: Yes, please send Hadi to Aleppo as soon as possible. Our only condition is that he doesn’t come back.

Kawak: PAS consistently rejects cruel leaders, said PAS Youth deputy chief Muhammad Khalil Abdul Hadi.

Why then is Hadi Awang befriending and supporting a corrupt and suppressive regime at home?

Oscar Kilo: I’m sure Hadi can get the Syrian government forces and rebels to make peace with each other – just like he did with PAS and Umno.

‘Why is PAS now cool, after hot air at Rohingya rally?’

Mushiro: The Rohingya solidarity rally attended by PM Najib Razak and PAS was just a play to the gallery – the Muslim gallery.

It is expected that Umno will forget about the Rohingya after the rally, but for PAS to follow suit is hypocrisy and a deliberate misuse of Islam.

PAS has come to a new low in selling religion and selling its soul for its political survival.

Mosquitobrain: Amanah Youth deputy chief Faiz Fadzil, you’ve taken Najib’s words too seriously. A ruling government taking to the streets and acting like they are the opposition; do you believe them?

Najib simply does not know proper protocol. Look, after the hoo-hah, they are dead quiet now. What a cheap act.

Alunan Ombak: It’s best all parties involved in the Rohingya solidarity rally handle the Rohingya problem through diplomatic means.

The heads of both countries can always contact each other like how Indonesia handles the problem with Myanmar. There is no need to score points by holding a rally against another friendly country in Asean.

Hplooi: Based on the latest report, the Rohingya have started an insurgency. You can rest assured that Islamic State (IS) and IS-like ideologues will latch on to this insurgency.

This is another self-fulfilling prophecy of civilisational clash promoted principally by religious groups with exceptionalist mindset.

Another suppurating wound imported from the fundamentalists of the Middle East and now virulent in South and Southeast Asia.

Eagle: Could someone please check for Rohingya and other refugees hiding in our jungles and constantly being hounded? Why are we not protecting them?

Drngsc: Using people’s misery for their own political benefit? Isn’t there a sin mentioned somewhere in the Quran, where these politicians can be punished by the Almighty?

Anakraja: These PAS leaders are insincere. Just look at the case of the PAS member who had helped in the election petition in the court. Now that poor guy has to pay legal fees of RM50,000 to the court.

The Analyser: Silly, useless Amanah. All they can do is be spiteful about PAS. It’s no wonder the Chinese love them, despite their clear affiliations with the PAS message of an Islamic state.

Hplooi: So while some (particularly the apologists of the corrupt regime) may paint Amanah (and all things opposition) as spiteful and or “useless”, they, perhaps (wilfully) neglect to mention that the Umno-BN hegemony is vindictive, vengeful and evil.

So by logic of said apologist, whatever dissenters (opposition and civil society) do are useless and it is better to support the known evil. In other words, damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

So understand this, apologists who sometimes pretend to support humanist values but who keep on running down the opposition and civil society for no good reason and without adequate logic, you may have a hand in nurturing an exceptionalist Salafist regime.

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