Chua Soi Lek appeared to suggest today that MCA’s anti-hudud campaign has been successful, saying that there is greater awareness and fear among the Chinese community today over the possibility of the Islamic law being being implemented should Pakatan Rakyat (PR) wrest federal power.
The MCA president (picture) said Chinese voters were now better aware that the issue is not just for “play-play” but would likely turn into reality should the federal opposition pact take Putrajaya in the coming polls.
“I would say that a lot of Chinese are better aware of the possible implementation of hudud. They are also aware that the DAP has been lying when it said that hudud will not affect the non-Muslims.
“More Chinese are now aware. That, I am very sure,” he told a press conference at Wisma MCA here after chairing a special briefing with party delegates ahead of tomorrow’s annual general meeting (AGM).
Dr Chua was responding to a question on how far he felt MCA’s anti-hudud campaign has reached the Chinese community.
MCA has repeatedly used the hudud issue in its bid to drive a wedge between PAS and DAP, two parties in the PR federal opposition pact.
PAS has expressed its support for the implementation of hudud law, but DAP has said it can only be done in an “Islamic state”, pointing
out that the Federal Constitution states that Malaysia is a secular country.
BN has often pointed to the differing views of PAS and DAP on hudud as proof that PR is not united.
The hudud issue again took centre stage today at the MCA Youth and Wanita AGMs, with Youth delegates even resolving to offer their full cooperation to ensure that Malaysia remains a secular state.
“We know that his affects everybody… affects the whole social fabric, the political, investment climate of the country,” Chua said.
He revealed that during two recent closed-door meetings with Chinese community leaders, the issue was the “hottest” topic raised to him.
“The hottest questions asked – Whether there is likelihood that it will be implemented, and what is its impact on the non-Muslims.
“So I think more people are aware… it is not what we call a play-play issue… it could become reality if PR wins, with PAS said to be the dominant leader of the pact,” he said.
Hudud has remained a sensitive touch point in Southeast Asia’s third-largest economy, which has a 60 per cent Muslim population, with political parties continuing to spar over the subject in the run-up to the 13th general election.
The idea of an Islamic criminal code has been used to either scare away the minority Chinese voters, or shore up support among the majority Malay-Muslim community.
The Malay community is seen today as split three-ways among the ruling BN’s mainstay and the country’s biggest Malay party, Umno, the opposition’s Islamist PAS, and PKR, which is seen as an urban liberal party.
MCA had previously warned that Muslim MPs would unite to amend the Constitution in favour of hudud and the Islamic state if PR takes over, but DAP’s Lim Kit Siang had dismissed it as a “lie” to stop the Chinese community from voting for the opposition.
Lim had said that there were only 130 Muslim MPs in the country, while 148 MPs are needed to make up the two-thirds majority for a constitutional amendment.
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MCA says if Pakatan wins, we will live under Islamic Hudud Law.
UMNO says if Pakatan wins, we will become Christians
MIC will then says if Pakatan wins, we will all carry kavadis.
The last thing I heard from mainstream media was that a vote for PAS or DAP was a vote for a Christian State Malaysia.
If it is Hudud, I bet the first to have their hands cut are your Malay conspirators in UMNO.
Hudud is for muslim only. Don't you have any other solid facts to use in your campaign against Pr. ??? You are just like a broken record repeating the same thing like a parrot does..
With just release Audit report out suddenly CSL and MCA's comes out barking with so much of crap talks.
No need to divert our attention, can you dare to comment something on Musa's RM40m?
I don't know what is the issue with hudud. The people that should fear would be the BN folks like CSL where they will chop off his you know what for doing we all know what he is doing. Hands of those BN thieves will be chopped off I hope. Only way to solve our corruption problem! So who is really fearing?