Anwar Wakilkan KARPAL Belasah Hadi/PAS

DAP chairman Karpal Singh has called on PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang to publicly make the party’s stand on the by-law on gender segregation issue, and not to leave the matter to the Kelantan exco.

Karpal, who is Bukit Gelugor Member of Parliament, said the silence by the  Kelantan exco to review the by-law on gender segregation that forbids  non-Muslim women to cut hair of non-Muslim men, and vice versa in salons in Kota Baru did not speak well of a responsible government.

“PAS leaders should realise that silence is not the way out and it only  aggravates the position. The by-law should be outlawed without further  ado,” he said in a statement here Tuesday.

• justification certainly evoked fear on the part of non-Muslims that  attempts were being made to apply Islamic law to them, which would  ultimately mean the introduction of hudud to non-Muslims.He said the vehement public justification by Takiyuddin of the by-law was  obviously the cause of the silence on the part of the Kelantan state  exco to review it.
• “However, that the objective cannot, and must not, mean sacrificing  principle at the altar of political expediency. The DAP is committed to  opposition to any attempts to extend Islamic law to non-Muslims, whether directly or indirectly,” he added.

Sementara isu KHALWAT bermain di dada akhbar, Anwar berasa sangat tidak comfortable. Tidak selesa sebab apa yang dilakukan PAS di Kelantan (atas nama mendapat kembali undi Melayu) akan merosakkan peluang PKR untuk MAXIMIZE undi Cina/India di kawasan URBAN.

Anwar berulangkali tegaskan, faham Islam yang KONSERVATIF, yang bertaraf ULAMA’ TEROMPAH ini tidak akan membantu PR menang lebih banyak kerusi. Kelantan perlu faham, tindakan seperti ini akan menyebabkan undi PKR/DAP di Sabah dan Sarawak bermasalah. Ini pun PAS tak boleh faham.

Anwar pernah tegaskan dalam mesyuarat strategik PR – 70 kerusi (95% urban) memerlukan undi Cina/India yang tinggi. Kalau PAS buat kerja bodoh seperti ini, nampaknya makin samar jalan nak ke Putrajaya.