Dato Sebastian shocked with Hadi’s statement

suppadmin | December 26, 2017

Secretary-General of Sarawak United Peoples ‘ Party (SUPP) expressed shocked and was disturbed by PAS President Abdul Hadi Awang’s opinion piece published by the party’s mouthpiece Harakah daily on Dec 22 in which he said non-Muslims under an Islamic administration could still become cabinet members but with limited powers.

Ting, who is also Piasau State Assemblyman said Malaysia System of government is closely modelled on that of Westminster parliamentary system, a legacy of British colonial rule. All this while, the Federal Constitution provides a fair and just system that allows all Cabinet Parliamentary members to make collective policies. We, in SUPP believe in this a system that has been working extremely well.

Hadi, said Ting, had claimed that in politics, Islam makes it compulsory that its main leadership in charge of policies and concepts must be from among Muslims, and accepts non-Muslims to execute their expertise and play a management role, not in matters of policies and concepts.

“This is indeed strange coming from the PAS president as we are living in the 21st century and not 11th century. We are a secular country living in harmony in a multi-racial and multi-religion country. We have always separated religion from politics. This is the beauty and strength of our multi-racial country. We should never allow it otherwise. We must maintain such closeness and understanding from each other to continue to live with respect for each other,” Ting stressed.

Hadi’s hardline stand has invited rebuke from many others from both political divide leaders.