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Are Malays who reject PAS considered ‘kafir’, Mahathir asks

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The Pakatan Harapan leader reiterates his claim that PAS is the cause of the split among the Malays.

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PETALING JAYA: Dr Mahathir Mohamad today challenged PAS to state openly whether those who opposed the Islamist party should be termed as “kafir” (infidels), an issue which once sparked a bitter and long running feud between Umno and PAS.

“Don’t try to run from this kafir issue. State clearly and firmly whether it’s true that people who don’t join PAS are considered kafirs,” the Pakatan Harapan (PH) chairman wrote in his blog today.

He also put several questions to PAS deputy president Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man, who he described as the “only rational PAS leader”.

“Does Tuan Ibrahim believe that those who do not join PAS are unIslamic? Were Malays kafir before PAS came into existence?” asked Mahathir.

He also wanted Tuan Ibrahim to state whether he accepted the concept of “Amanat Hadi”, as stated by PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang in a speech, in which he said that anyone who died opposing the Umno administration would be considered a martyr.

“If the administration formed by Umno previously was kafir, are its officers, including the muftis and people led and guided by them, kafir?” Mahatir asked.

Last week Tuan Ibrahim responded to an accusation by Mahathir that PAS was trying to secure victory for Barisan Nasional (BN) by refusing to join PH by saying that the former prime minister should look in the mirror and ponder how he damaged Malaysian democracy during his 22 years in power.

“Now just two years in the opposition, Tun is feeling the pain of being the opposition,” Tuan Ibrahim said in a letter which listed the various actions taken by the former PM to restrict the opposition’s freedom.

Mahathir however, said it did not bother him whether he was called a villain, robber or dictator.

“I don’t hope for my political enemies to call me nice names. If they did that, they will find it difficult to fight me.

“But what saddens and angers me is when PAS labels me and all Malays who don’t support them as kafirs. This kind of action is forbidden in Islam. And people who are labelled kafir become angry and disappointed at the accusation of being unIslamic,” he said.

In his blog, Mahathir also repeated his claim that PAS was responsible for the division among Malaysian Muslims, whom he said used to be united once upon a time.

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