BLOGGER SAYS THE OPPOSITION ATTACKED HIM WHEN HE THREATENED TO “EXPOSE ANWAR IBRAHIM FOR THE FRAUD THAT HE IS”

Caricature published by blogger Din Merican

“So tell me, what is the issue here? Others can whack you, but you must just take it and not hit back? What is wrong with these Opposition people?” Raja Petra asks. 

(Malaysian Digest) – In a no-holds barred interview with the New Straits Times yesterday, Raja Petra Kamarudin revealed how Anwar’s political allies came after him when he revealed “the truth behind the real face of the opposition”.

The blogger who is popularly known as RPK said it was Anwar who declared war on him after his outspoken criticism threatened to “expose Anwar Ibrahim for the fraud that he is”.

“They are supposed to be the upholders of the truth and yet I can prove that they lie at every twist and turn. I strip them naked and I expose these lies.

“The opposition claims to be a saint. The opposition claims to be god-sent. The opposition claims to be fighting for a noble and virtuous cause. Hence the opposition has to be subjected to a higher moral standard since it is claiming the moral high ground. And since the opposition claims to be far better and far superior than the government then it has to pass that higher acid test.

“Unfortunately they do not and when I prove they do not they get very angry with me because I have just proven that the opposition are mere frauds and snake oil merchants. And the truth hurts so they hate me for getting hurt. And when they cannot counter what I say because what I say is true, they resort to slander and character assassination, the only thing they know how to do best,” he declared, reminding the opposition that it was Anwar who declared war first.

RPK also spoke up to being labelled a ‘pro-Najib turncoat traitor’ and explained his own journey of self discovery in coming to the conclusion that the opposition are mere frauds.

“…if you want to discover the truth then you must first lay down all the facts and sieve through them to separate the wheat from the chaff. You apply logic, which you learn in your philosophy class, to analyse and evaluate information and subject it to an acid test.

“Twisted logic and fallacies can never survive that test and will disintegrate as you pursue the truth. And when you apply these high standards to analyse what the opposition says and does they fail the test miserably,” he shared about his motives to be so vocal about his criticism against the opposition.

“It never occurred to them that we are supporting the government because we want to make sure that the Chinese DAP-led opposition would not grab power and set up a Chinese DAP-dominated government with Malays from Amanah and PKR as their proxies and puppets,” RPK defended his stance and declares he has no problem being labelled a ‘nationalist’ as well.

He pointed out that he was merely speaking up about the obvious which the opposition did not want to acknowledge.

“One of the key issues in my disagreement with Anwar was his agree to disagree policy and his refusal to resolve many disagreements in the opposition, the Hudud issue being one of them. I said that if he does not address this issue then one day soon Pakatan Rakyat would disintegrate.

“And for that he attacked me. And now have I not been proven right? Has Pakatan Rakyat not disintegrated?” RPK highlighted.

His in-depth self reflection in the interview also touched on many sensitive episodes in Malaysia including the behind-the-scenes plotting which took place after Tun M engineered Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi’s resignation and the attempts to smear Najib’s reputation to prevent him from assuming the prime ministership leading to the damning Statutory Declaration (SD) he had signed in June 2008 relating to hearsay alleging the prime minister’s wife presence at the Altantuya murder crime scene. He now owns up to his earlier misconception by acknowledging that photographic evidence places her at a Tabung Haji event at the time of the murder.

RPK left Malaysia in February 2009 and has been living in Manchester ever since in self-imposed exile where he set up “the family kopitiam” and continues to run his Malaysia Today website.