Najib's turn to subvert the Federal Constitution

Updated! After Tun Dr Mahathir unilaterally announced on Sep 29, 2001 that Malaysia is an Islamic state, MCA and Gerakan had a tough time trying to explain away the man's statement which was aimed at scoring political points against PAS. Ling Liong Sik was reduced to talking nonsense about how a rose by any other name is still a rose when trying to do damage control. Since then, we could see how the civil court has time and again washed its hands of the responsibility to uphold and protect the Federal Constitution. Yet now we have none other than Najib Razak, the DPM, making yet another pronouncement that Malaysia is an Islamic state based on some dubious reasoning. Click here for Haris Ibrahim's questioning of his pronouncement, as well as the deluge of responses from various people, including MCA Youth chief's language gymnastics to do damage control.

It's time for people to think hard that instead of falling for the trick that a vote for DAP is a vote for PAS's version of Islamic state, they have fallen deeper into BN's chicanery and machination because voting for MCA, MIC, Gerakan and the other mosquito supporting parties have come to mean voting for Umno's Islamic state. Najib has confirmed that from his unilateral pronouncement, in case you still have doubts. Of course, The Star spins Najib's words another way. You can't expect the MCA owned newspaper to create alarm among the insular English speaking Chinese Malaysians with Umno and MCA while all this while they've demonized DAP, PKR, and PAS. Regardless, come the next and subsequent general elections, do remember this - A Vote for BN is A Vote for UMNO's Islamic State!

UPDATE (18 Jul 13:49):Farish A. Noor has written on Najib's statement and question whether Malaysia is dangerously heading down the same path which has brought Pakistan to its basket-case status now.