By Remy Majangkim
KOTA KINABALU: A recent viral video from the Kedah State Assembly, which is led by the PAS Government, shows a member of the legislature mocking Sabahans by comparing our campaign to our love for Gardenia Bread.
Sabahans’ love for Gardenia bread goes beyond religion and ethnicity. It is common to bring this bread home from KLIA as a gift for family and friends.
For a member of the legislature to compare Sabahan politics to our love of Gardenia bread is both insulting and insensitive.
Parti Islam Se-Malaysia announces that they will be fielding eight (8) candidates in the coming Sabah State Election.
The rise of PAS in Sabah began with the appointment of Datuk Aliaakbar Gulasan as an appointed member of the Sabah State legislature back in 2020.
Sabahans had pleaded with Datuk Jeffery Kitingan to intervene and reject his appointment, but it fell on deaf ears.
A few months after his appointment, he made remarks for a segregation of trolleys to avoid contamination of pork in a supermarket in Keningau.
This has raised an eyebrow among the community in Keningau and Sabahans. He was then quickly “dressed down” internally by the GRS government and has been silent since. Until now.
PAS Vice President Datuk Mohd Amar Abdullah is confident PAS will be accepted in Sabah. Back in September, a PAS delegate declared that Datuk Aliaakbar Gulasan was the Chief Minister’s choice for Perikatan Nasional (PN).
Recently, it was announced that he will be contesting in Karambunai.
My wife is a voter for Karambunaj and had met him during a get-together programme with GRS in their fishing village. She described him as weird and something amiss.
PAS ideology has no fertile ground in the land that has a multi-racial culture, religion, and language. Let us be clear: we have no ill intentions toward the people of Kedah, Kelantan, and Trengganu; we love your northern hospitality and food, but not your political preference.
We know throughout our history that such narrow-mindedness could only lead to fragmentation within the community.
In Sabah, saying, “Your religion is yours, and mine is mine; let’s live together in harmony.”
PAS should not and will not set foot in Sabah, as the word from the wise is “PAS, akin to a bad genie, once out, proves difficult to put back in.”
