Don’t ridicule my religion, Najib warns Kit Siang

Former prime minister says the DAP leader is suggesting that a BN victory in Sungai Kandis is like agreeing that Islam is kleptocracy.

PETALING JAYA: Former prime minister Najib Razak has questioned the daily attacks on him by Lim Kit Siang, and warned the DAP stalwart against linking Islam to kleptocracy, the term frequently used by Pakatan Harapan leaders to describe the previous administration.

“I do not understand Lim Kit Siang’s obsession towards me to the extent of issuing daily statements attacking me personally, although I am no longer the prime minister, the Umno president or the BN chairman,” Najib said in a Facebook post, referring to Lim’s statement today urging voters in the upcoming Sungai Kandis by-election in Selangor to reject Umno.

Lim, who accused Najib of “equating Islam with kleptocracy”, said the former leader’s “irresponsible, vicious and toxic politics of race, religion, fear, hate and lies” had failed in the recent general election.

“Umno lost its unchallenged position as the political party with majority support of Malay voters in the GE14 because there were sufficient Malay voters who were intelligent and sophisticated enough to see through the humbug of such propaganda, and rejected Najib’s vicious and toxic politics of race, religion, fear, hate and lies,” said Lim. “They do not want, in particular, to equate Malays and Islam with kleptocracy.”

But Najib said Lim crossed the line for suggesting that a BN victory in Sungai Kandis would amount to equating Islam with kleptocracy.

“I will not be able to stop his obsession towards me but Kit Siang should not ridicule my religion and use it as a campaign tool,” said Najib. -FMT