Anwar: Hadi knew 'communist DAP' is untrue, signed the 2008 document

 

Pakatan Harapan chairperson Anwar Ibrahim claims that PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang is aware that DAP is not pro-communist. 

Speaking at Harapan’s mega tour event in Alor Gajah last night, he claimed that this was due to an agreement co-signed by Pakatan Rakyat leaders upholding Malay rights and the status of Islam as the official religion.

The agreement was signed by the leaders of the three-member Pakatan Rakyat coalition - Anwar, Hadi and then DAP leader Lim Kit Siang - in 2008, he said. 

“Why did I choose to defend DAP? Because I know the accusations are untrue, and so does he (Hadi). 

“He says there are influences within Harapan who want to change the constitution and reject Malay rulers, Islam and the Federal Constitution. 

“In 2008, he, Lim and I signed a document (upholding) Islam as the national religion. Lim signed it, Hadi signed it and I signed it,” Anwar added.

Anwar said the signed document upheld the rights of Malays, Muslims and bumiputeras, the status of Malay rulers and the Malay language to be the country’s national language. 

“He (Hadi) signed it and saw (the document). We discussed its contents, and yet he fitnah (commits slander),” the opposition leader said. 

In the 1980s, DAP teamed up with PAS as Gagasan Rakyat, and then again as Barisan Alternatif in the late 1990s. In 2008, the two parties, along with PKR, formed Pakatan Rakyat.

However, the thorny issue of religion had caused schisms between the Islamic-conservative PAS and the secular DAP in their longstanding history. 

PAS decided in its June 2015 party muktamar that its leaders cut ties with DAP, resulting in the death of Pakatan Rakyat. Pakatan Harapan was formed later that year comprising PKR, DAP and Amanah.

In a series of recent tweets, Hadi ramped up his attacks against DAP and linked the party to communists.

Hadi had said that any effort to sow the communist ideology in Malaysia, claimed to have been spearheaded by the DAP before, should be rejected.

One of the seven images revisited the controversy of bringing back the cremains of Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) leader Chin Peng, who lived in exile in Thailand after the CPM was disbanded.

It also touched on the commemoration of CPM held in Kajang in December 2019 and the publication of a controversial comic book titled “Belt and Road Initiative for Win-Winism” by former DAP member Hew Kuan Yau.

“We (PAS) don’t like DAP as it is communist. But when we were friends with DAP, it was okay. When we cooperated with Bersatu and Umno, then DAP became communists again,” Hadi quipped. 

Anwar’s response to this was: “If DAP really is communist, then arrest them. But it is such, whereby politics merely becomes an invective field.”  

Anwar also reminded the crowd of the time Hadi falsely accused him of being a Freemason member to Muslim leaders worldwide. 

He warned the crowd to evaluate their decisions correctly and not to be easily fooled by such accusations. - Mkini