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Learn Mandarin, Tamil to boost non-Malay support, PAS Youth chief tells members

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Afnan Hamimi Taib Azamudden says efforts to improve non-Malay understanding of PAS’s cause must include effective communications.

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PAS Youth chief Afnan Hamimi Taib Azamudden said members should not be put off by the perception that non-Malay communities are automatically supporters of PH, particularly DAP.

TEMERLOH:
PAS Youth chief Afnan Hamimi Taib Azamudden has urged the wing’s members to engage with non-Malays and convey to them the party’s efforts to increase their support.

Afnan said more non-Malays are now openly criticising DAP, including on social media platforms like TikTok, and the party should take advantage of this.

He said PAS Youth members should not be put off by the perception that non-Malay communities are automatically supporters of Pakatan Harapan, particularly DAP.

As such, he said, the party’s national unity bureau has been tasked with drawing in non-Malay support.

Afnan, who is also the Alor Setar MP, said efforts to improve non-Malay understanding of PAS’s cause must include effective communications.

“If learning Mandarin is necessary, then learn it. If speaking Tamil is required, then do so.

“Our non-Muslim friends are not beyond reach … they will be open to us if we provide the right picture and accurate explanations,” he told the PAS Youth assembly at the Al-Makmur Complex in Kerdau here today.

Yesterday, PAS deputy president Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man called for a paradigm shift in PAS Youth, saying it should focus on wooing the support of the non-Malays so the party can helm the federal government.

Speaking at the 70th PAS muktamar, Tuan Ibrahim said the party must admit the weakness that it has to overcome, namely the lack of support in non-Malay areas, the southern parts of the peninsula, as well as Sabah and Sarawak.

Separately, Afnan warned that the wing would take to the streets in efforts to gain support in unseating the ruling coalition if the people continued to be silenced.

He said such demonstrations were previously done by government leaders when they were in the opposition, including Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, who protested when he was dissatisfied with past governments.

“If you continue to act like ‘fat cats’ turning a deaf ear, we are ready to take to the streets, just as you did before,” he said.

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