THROUGH the PAS President’s Mind column titled “DAP Leading PH Continues the Colonizers’ Work to Wipe Out Malay-Muslims,” the PAS President claimed that DAP is dominating PH.
The party was also accused of continuing a colonial agenda to weaken the position of Malays and Islam in this country.
As expected, the Information Chief of the Central PAS Ulama Council (DUPP), Datuk Mohd Nor Hamzah, supported his President’s statement.
Datuk Mohd Nor Hamzah argued that the PAS President’s statement was based on faith (akidah) and history, not racial sentiment.
He also claimed that political maneuvering in Malaysia cannot be separated from the long history of Malaya, which the people must understand.
He added that the PAS President’s statement aims to awaken society to the clash of faith and identity against a new doctrine of colonisation.
Before going any further, I would like to pose this question to the PAS President and those who support his statement: since when exactly has DAP been continuing the colonizers’ work to wipe out Malays/Islam?
Has it been from the very beginning, or is this only a recent development? If DAP only recently developed an agenda to continue the colonisers’ work of wiping out Malays and Islam, the PAS President is implicitly accusing the Muslim/Malay leaders within PH—specifically from Parti Amanah and PKR—of ignoring this agenda.
Consequently, they could also be accused of abetting DAP. Perhaps it would be wise for the PAS President to present evidence to support his wild accusations, as the burden of proof lies on the person making the claim.
It might also be a good idea for the PAS President to lodge a police report so that the authorities can investigate his serious claims. Who knows, the PAS President and his supporters might have truckloads of evidence to back up his claims. As the late A.R. Tompel said in the movie Do Re Mi: “Surely a religious man wouldn’t lie.”
If the PAS President’s claim is true—that DAP is continuing the colonisers’ work to wipe out Malays/Islam—it can be argued from a legal standpoint that DAP may have committed a criminal act of sabotaging the Federal Constitution, which clearly protects Islam and the special position of the Malays.
According to constitutional experts, the position of Islam and the special rights of the Malays are part of the “indigenous elements” of the Federal Constitution.
Or did the PAS President simply issue a reckless statement without checking the facts?
Furthermore, if DAP has always harbored an agenda to continue the colonisers’ work of wiping out Malays and Islam, why was PAS itself willing to be friends and form political alliances with DAP in the past?
It is rather ironic that in Perak once upon a time, even though DAP won the majority of seats to form the Perak State Government, it was this
very same DAP—accused of wanting to wipe out Malays/Islam—that agreed to accept a PAS State Assemblyman (ADUN) as the Menteri Besar of Perak back then.
And when the Perak State Government was subsequently toppled through a coup, why did PAS protest against that ouster? Logically, if it were true that DAP had an agenda to wipe out Malays and Islam, PAS should have agreed with the actions taken by Umno/BN in Perak at that time.
It has become an open secret that many statements, from both the PAS President and other PAS leaders, have previously defended DAP against various slanders and wild accusations.
It is also interesting to note that DAP—the party alleged to be continuing the colonizers’ work to wipe out Malays/Islam—once sent its prominent lawyer, the late Karpal Singh, to defend Puan Halimatun Sa’diah, who was dismissed from her job for wearing the niqab (purdah).
Many are also confused because a Malay/Muslim leader who once legally challenged the PAS Hudud Enactment in Kelantan has now been accepted as a PAS member.
It is quite strange for Datuk Mohd Nor Hamzah to claim that the PAS President’s statement was based on faith and history, rather than racial sentiment. I do not intend to debate this matter extensively, other than to say that based on the factors of faith and history, the PAS President’s statement—pardon my words—simply has no place in history.
Honestly, I am not surprised at all if other PAS leaders, including the DUPP Information Chief, support the PAS President’s statement. The strong culture of loyalty (wala’) within PAS makes it easy for its leaders, members, and supporters to blindly agree with their President’s remarks.
Ultimately, while the PAS President has every right to criticize DAP, such criticisms should be fair and just so that they can be easily respected by both friends and foes. – August 10, 2026
Mohamed Hanipa Maidin is a former deputy minister of law