Gods angry with Pakatan for urinating against each other?

Malaysia Today - POLITICAL QUAKE IN PAKATAN by Joceline Tan, The Star

beginning of its end?

Joceline Tan is a delightful writer (top honcho journalist too) at The Star; I love to read her articles. and though the above is another of her good articles, we mustn't forget she's not only a Star journalist but also a bigwig in the MCA-controlled media organization.

Thus we must carefully identify her pro MCA-BN write-up (and anti PR or anti DAP bits) from some delightful gems of truth within. As we are only too well aware, the best arguments, especially political arguments, are those with truths intermingled with political party propaganda.

I draw upon the most interesting piece of her article, nicely summarised by RPK as a teaser to the post, as follows:

DAP leaders only like to work with liberal-minded Malays who share the DAP way of thinking. The joke is that DAP only likes Malays who think and behave like the Chinese.

It's true that some of the new generation or younger DAP leaders lack the streetwise (or kampung-wise) inclusive social know-how, etiquette and old-world charm of earlier DAP leaders who could comfortably and without offence deal, negotiate or parley with Malays.

Mind, it's not that the Chinese Malaysians are strangely different from Malays in social etiquette and mores where its society's elite and scholars also talk, discuss and converse in polite, refined, subtle and diplomatic manners - incidentally the Indon Javanese are far more renowned than our Malays for their art of berbicara dengan halus dan sopan santun.

It's just that today's younger or new generation Chinese Malaysian leaders, with many educated overseas in the UK, Australia, NZ, Canada and the USA, thus with mucho exposure to Western style democracy, processes and systems, believe in their own minds that our fairly conservative society, of which 60% are Malays, would be tolerant and accepting of Western-style highly robust form of political debate or debating through the media, to mainly score brownie points with their respective constituencies.

Yes, many new generation DAP leaders tend to view the Malaysian political sphere through MAINLY Western-indoctrinated eyes which consider robust political debates as a norm. But alas, they are sadly mistaken because that's not so in the Malay world.

Once on Australian TV, I saw the late Bapak Ali Alatas, Indonesia's very erudite (former) foreign minister and probably that nation's most outstanding one, telling or confessing to an Aussie TV interviewer in his very polished English that the Indon manner of political debates was not as 'robust' as the Australian version.

I suspected Bapak Ali had perhaps a motive in his 'confession' as he must have wanted the Aussies media to realize and understand that they just couldn't loudly insist on the Indon president or Indon ministers to bloody well answer their queries, especially if those queries were posed in very abrupt aggressive demanding loud tones, with which some Aussie media personalities (eg. the late Richard Carlton) would do so with their own politicians. Our people, especially the more elder Malays are not dissimilar from the Indons.

As I have often blogged on, the new generation DAP leaders have been far too aggressive for Malay taste, verging on or even earning the notoriety of being biadap to elders.

I refer to an earlier (07 Feb 2015) post Has DAP been biadap to Hadi Awang?

Then I had written (extracts) ..... to be fair to Pak Haji Hadi, I feel Lim Guan Eng and Anthony Loke have not been very diplomatic towards the proud old man - see The Star Online (wakakaka) Guan Eng: No Hadi, no meeting and Anthony Loke: DAP to stop attending Pakatan Council if Hadi doesn’t show.

Mateys, you can't f**king communicate with a (supposedly) Pakatan ally through the bloody media - that's the f* worst thing to do, more so when relationships are already on the brink or in urgent need of serious salvaging.

Just recall how mad you guys were when PKR used to unilaterally announce seat-sharing allocations to the media, much to your WTF's when you read that in the news, wakakaka!

And without any doubt, the reality is the current relationship between PAS and DAP has long been shot to shreds, starting with the stupid Kajang rancid satay right up to the hudud bill, when PAS' objection to local council elections had not only been to ensure some of its members get a free ride on the local council meal ticket but I suspect, also in retaliation to DAP's objection to its hudud bill.

While DAP has been right on both counts, namely, its unswerving objection to hudud implementation and its promise to restore local council elections, it could do better than to publicly threaten Pak Haji Hadi who is a very very proud old man with a HUGE chip on his shoulder.

Now, for want of face, the disgruntled old man is now more UNlikely to attend the meeting.

I have to say that DAP does have this f*-up talent in antagonizing senior Malay personalities like (previously) Tunku Aziz and (now) Pak Haji Hadi Awang.

If the aim is to get rid of PAS for good, then that's fine. But OTOH, if the aim is to seriously conduct a Pakatan leadership meeting so as to hang on to the coalition as a viable opponent to BN, then Lim GE and Anthony Loke have f* up kau kau. It's the sort of attitude that Tunku Aziz has termed 'biadap'.

Also do read another of my much earlier (16 May 2012) post DAP's comedy (or tragedy) of errors with Tunku Aziz in which I wrote: Tunku [Aziz] is not unlike Dr Rama where both want respect due to their elderly and senior status, though of course their problems with the DAP leadership were caused by different issues. If you recall, Dr Rama had also threatened to resign rather than apologize for whatever he was accused of, seeing in the whole affair as a lack of respect for him.

Thus the DAP's (mainly Lim GE's) unnecessary public humiliation of Pak Haji Hadi Awang prior to the PAS Muktamar has been exactly that, a case in point on misplaced Western-styled robust politicking.

Another had been the recent by far too ferocious threat a la Bush's "either you are with us or against us" against Azmin by Tony Pua in demanding that Azmin chose between PAS or DAP.

Why should or would Azmin? And Azmin has been right in describing Tony Pua's threat as 'childish'.

Of course we know both the DAP's and PAS' 'siapa jaguh kampung' cock (wakakaka) fights have been more to demonstrate to their own respective constituencies their 'credentials' and ability to represent the voters.

I have to say that DAP has been the bigger culprit in this if we recall in the halcyon days of PR just immediately after their 2008 election victories and new-found pally-buddying, a few of those DAP leaders especially in Ipoh went around sprouting off Quranic verses as if they were all kau kau circumcised Muslims (of course to the delight and with the approval of Allahyarham Pak Haji Nik Aziz) and Lim GE referring to some golden era of this or that caliphate as a great model for governance, so much so that the late Pak Haji was wont to believe the only DAP obstacle to PAS' intention to implement Islamic legislation and Islamic governance was the late Bhai.

Those DAP 'heroes' went too far in their new found friendship with PAS and thus new found 'embrace' of Islam and, though not to the extent of supporting syariah laws in general or the hudud penal code of punishment in particular, did somehow earn themselves distinguishing Islamic-friendly 'credits' which subsequently, when things went sour with PAS after the latter brought out the (to them) hudud gremlin from beneath the ulama's kopeks, they went to great excruciating pains to markedly dispossess themselves of, wakakaka, chiefly by shouting their not-for-hudud identities here and there, most of which were hurled at Pak Haji Hadi for effect.

Though Pak Haji, mind you, was no angel himself, wakakaka, in that process they made Pak Haji lose mucho face and into a political enemy.

But the harm was done, and it's hardly surprising the PAS Muktamar voted out the pro-DAP Erdogens from their party leadership appointments (all thanks to the DAP public humiliation of Pak Haji Hadi Awang) and declared their party's breakup with DAP as a political ally.

Quite frankly, I do not see the PASMA option or substitution will be a viable option as by now the Chinese voters will still see the 'sword of Islam' in them.

And I believe the Chinese, me being one too wakakaka, would and will prefer to deal with UMNO's corruption rather than PAS or PASMA's Islamic theocracy and legislation. For them, corruption is easier to get rid of (or to accommodate) than to live under Islamic laws and punishments.

Anyway, I congratulate DAP on their new star catch, and hope Pak Samad Said will help teach the new generation DAP leaders some Malay berhalus etiquette and mores.