As condolences pour in over the death of Bukit Gelugor MP Karpal Singh, some appear to be seeing the veteran opposition leader's sudden departure as something to celebrate.
Most controversial were comments from former Kulim Bandar Baharu MP Zulkifli Noordin, who praised God for Karpal's death, which he said would help advance hudud in Malaysia.
“At a time when the PAS Kelantan government wants to implement hudud with the help of Umno, Allah made Karpal die because he was its foremost opponent!
“May the struggle to implement hudud in Kelantan succeed. Thank God for the unity between PAS and Umno, and with Karpal no longer around, I believe the path is becoming clearer!” he tweeted.
His sentiments seem to be echoed by some internet users who have been circulating pictures alleged to be of Karpal's bleeding body from the accident early this morning.
The pictures were included in a collage including a 1990 Utusan Malaysia clipping with the headline: 'To form an Islamic country, over my dead body first'.
Also part of the collage circulating on Whatsapp is a verse from the Quran which reads, “And never will the Jews or the Christians approve of you until you follow their religion.”
Netizens blast Zulkifli
His tweet earned him Youth and Sports Minister and Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin's ire, who tweeted back, “Shut up. Really, shut up.”
Zulkifli, a syariah lawyer, in a later tweet also lauded Karpal for his contribution to the legal fraternity, but this did little to ebb the onslaught by netizens and politicians alike against his earlier tweet.
MIC central working committee member S Vell Paari (left) also lambasted Zulkifli likening him to the devil.
“Karpal Singh is the sign of political righteousness. You are a sign of political satanism (sic),” he tweeted in reply.
Meanwhile another tweet from an account with the handle @putera_umno, a youth movement aligned to Umno once headed by now Tabung Haji chairperson Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim, also riled many netizens over an apparently insensitive remark on Karpal's passing.
“You are so Islamic. Did you know that even my mother asked for the phone number of Karpal's widow to express her condolences?
“You have no class. If people do the same to my father, I will blame you. I have told him about your behaviour,” Marina Mahathir, daughter of former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad said.
Marina also tweeted a hadith (actions and sayings of Prophet Muhammad) that described the prophet once paying respects to a Jewish man.
However it is unclear what the user @putera_umno had initially tweeted to earn Marina's wrath, as the Twitter account has been suspended.
Communications and Multimedia Minister Shabery Cheek also censured those spreading pictures of Karpal from the accident.
“Spreading pictures of the dead especially in a terrible state is something unethical.
"I hope the maintream media does not to the same. We should all empathise with his surviving family,” he wrote on Facebook.
Karpal, 74, and his aide Michael Cornelius Selvam Vellu, 39, were killed in a road accident this morning near Kampar at about 1.10am.
The former DAP chairperson's sudden departure has shocked the nation, and elicated a flood of eulogies from both sides of the political divide.
Most controversial were comments from former Kulim Bandar Baharu MP Zulkifli Noordin, who praised God for Karpal's death, which he said would help advance hudud in Malaysia.
“At a time when the PAS Kelantan government wants to implement hudud with the help of Umno, Allah made Karpal die because he was its foremost opponent!“May the struggle to implement hudud in Kelantan succeed. Thank God for the unity between PAS and Umno, and with Karpal no longer around, I believe the path is becoming clearer!” he tweeted.
His sentiments seem to be echoed by some internet users who have been circulating pictures alleged to be of Karpal's bleeding body from the accident early this morning.
The pictures were included in a collage including a 1990 Utusan Malaysia clipping with the headline: 'To form an Islamic country, over my dead body first'.
Also part of the collage circulating on Whatsapp is a verse from the Quran which reads, “And never will the Jews or the Christians approve of you until you follow their religion.”
Netizens blast Zulkifli
His tweet earned him Youth and Sports Minister and Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin's ire, who tweeted back, “Shut up. Really, shut up.”
Zulkifli, a syariah lawyer, in a later tweet also lauded Karpal for his contribution to the legal fraternity, but this did little to ebb the onslaught by netizens and politicians alike against his earlier tweet.
MIC central working committee member S Vell Paari (left) also lambasted Zulkifli likening him to the devil.“Karpal Singh is the sign of political righteousness. You are a sign of political satanism (sic),” he tweeted in reply.
Meanwhile another tweet from an account with the handle @putera_umno, a youth movement aligned to Umno once headed by now Tabung Haji chairperson Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim, also riled many netizens over an apparently insensitive remark on Karpal's passing.
“You are so Islamic. Did you know that even my mother asked for the phone number of Karpal's widow to express her condolences?
“You have no class. If people do the same to my father, I will blame you. I have told him about your behaviour,” Marina Mahathir, daughter of former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad said.
Marina also tweeted a hadith (actions and sayings of Prophet Muhammad) that described the prophet once paying respects to a Jewish man.
However it is unclear what the user @putera_umno had initially tweeted to earn Marina's wrath, as the Twitter account has been suspended.Communications and Multimedia Minister Shabery Cheek also censured those spreading pictures of Karpal from the accident.
“Spreading pictures of the dead especially in a terrible state is something unethical.
"I hope the maintream media does not to the same. We should all empathise with his surviving family,” he wrote on Facebook.
Karpal, 74, and his aide Michael Cornelius Selvam Vellu, 39, were killed in a road accident this morning near Kampar at about 1.10am.
The former DAP chairperson's sudden departure has shocked the nation, and elicated a flood of eulogies from both sides of the political divide.
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