Hadi Awang - more Malay than Muslim?

I wasn’t at all surprised when I read Malaysiakini news article Hadi non-committal on Anwar's PM bid, because Pak Haji would have stabbed Pakatan in the back long ago if not for Pak Haji Nik Aziz.

Despite Hadi Awang's avowed Islamic affiliation he’s basically another of those ketuanan Melayu person, where being Malay would be far more important than being Muslim.

He was the head of the faction that wanted to do a secret deal with UMNO to seize power in Perak and Selangor, probably with some incentives of PAS MPs joining the federal cabinet - forming a Pan-Melayu alliance despite what PAS had said of UMNO during the years and especially in the pre-election campaign.

Following exposure of his hanky panky footsie rubba rubba with UMNO under the Pakatan table, he was asked whether he had threatened to pull PAS out of Pakatan. Though he denied that, note how he qualified his answer that PAS wants to be part of a Pakatan government which is rooted by Malay-Muslims.

Then using the BN as a reference, as if the BN has been/is an exemplary model, where its leader has always been a Malay (I use the term ‘Malay’ only because ‘Malay-Muslim’ would be tautological as there is no such person as a non-Muslim Malay in Malaysia), Hadi Awang said:

"This is accepted by all parties, including Barisan Nasional component parties, which accepts a Malay as their leader. If there is a change (in the federal government) this would be accepted by all parties including the DAP and other Pakatan members. The core has to be Malay-Muslims."

Not just Muslims, but Malay-Muslims. No, not even an Indian or Chinese Muslim.

Therefore in his narrow provincial parochial perception of Islam, it’s not just a mere Muslim that’s worthy of leading his aspired Islamic nation (perhaps unless that person is the superior Arab, where Hadi Awang would then probably cringe before and fawn upon).

That person must be from the Malay race!

So what does that make him?

A Muslim or a race-conscious person who would not accept a Muslim as the nation's leader unless that Muslim is also a Malay?

But when asked whether he would accept Anwar Ibrahim, who is both a Malay and a Muslim, as the PM of a Pakatan government, Hadi Awang remained silent ..... implying ‘NO’!

No doubt the Hadi bloke himself wants to be the PM.

Well, given his true colours showing through his words and actions, would he then be considered as a Muslim tulin (pure, genuine) enough to head PAS, as he would when the elderly Pak Haji Nik Aziz retires?

Or is he no more than an ordinary ambitious (perhaps even power crazy) Malay politician?

Islam has been the great equalizer of social classes, where centuries ago, many Indian converted to Islam because as Muslims, they became equal within society without suffering the stupid sickening stigma of such an inhuman concept as lower social caste?

Now, what did I say about those who had insulted Islam?