PAS uprising against Erdogan

PAS are now confronted with the rise of the new professionals or 'Erdogan' the concept of professional believers.

Lecturer Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Prof Dr Mansor Mohd Noor said, those who are still bound by Islam is built as a result of modern thinking different thoughts clergy.

"Revival of the Ummah through Prosperous Society Malaysia (Pasma) shows that their movement is no longer centered on opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim."

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"Pasma a professional believer concept as the foundation for their struggle for mainstream Islam in the development and progress of the country," he told The Straits Times yesterday.

He said, in other words Pasma not interested in fighting for an Islamic state as do PAS because it hurt.

"If they had fought for an Islamic state will only be concentrated in the northern Malay states because of the Malay voters, whereas rural voters to support UMNO."

"So they need to change the political strategy of the Islamic state towards mainstream Islam in the development against the BN," he said.

He said, what is clear now, PAS and Pasma tied with PR, but their goal remains the same to topple BN in the next general election.

Mansor said the measures taken Pasma can be deemed as a positive step for the country because it would raise the religion and civilization of the country.

"However, in other aspects Pasma approach is actually an old approach made UMNO."

"So they need to think about reforms that need to be done through this approach, beyond what has been done UMNO," he said.

'Pendatang can't intrude, but must pay taxes'

As far as taxing non-Malays is concerned, ISMA says there must be fair treatment.

 

The Malay pressure group Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia (ISMA) stresses that non-Malays that it calls "pendatang" (migrants) should pay taxes as usual, despite insisting their involvement in politics should not extend to interfering in Malay-Muslim affairs.

ISMA president Abdullah Zaik Abdul Rahman (right) said this  iwhen asked by the media if non-Muslims taxes should be lowered, since their political involvement was asked to be limited.

"According to the principles of fairness, all those pendatang races have to accept the special position of the Malays and bumiputera in the country as the sovereign race".

"The involvement of non-Muslims in politics - to the point of interfering in the affairs of the Malay race and Islam, and that denies the sole right of the Malays in determining our future - is outrageous and should be corrected," he told reporters today.

"On the issue of taxes,  it is the remuneration they pay as citizens, so they have to pay."

"They earn their income from the country, therefore they have to pay taxes," he said at a press conference this morning.