BERSEH in Holy Cities-PAS will be responsible

Mokhtar said PAS will be responsible- but will that be enough?

A source told The Mole that PAS will hold resposibility for organising BERSEH demonstration in Makkah and Madinah. However like little boys, the party fall short of taking full reponsibility and still put the blame on   UMNO- led Malaysian government in  persuading Saudi government on the crackdown. Call this immaturity in politics, but after series of blaming game, Malaysians, especially the non partisan that made up 30 percent of the undecided in the recent popularity poll , will finally be able to make up their mind on which party to vote this coming general election.

KUALA LUMPUR: A Pas leader who was present during the launch of the Bersih 3.0 campaign in Mecca and Medina last month said Pas will take responsibility and will co-operate fully with the Saudi Arabian authorities.

Pahang Pas Ulama chief Mokhtar Senik told The Mole party representatives will meet both Saudi Arabian and Malaysian authorities to explain the gathering if they are requested to do so.


Mokhtar said: “Of course we will be responsible for it. We will give full co-operation with the authorities to clear the air over the issue.”

He was commenting on a news report stating the Saudi Arabian government is tracking down those responsible for organising the Bersih gathering on April 28 in Mecca and Medinah, considered by Muslims as their holy cities.


 Utusan Malaysia recently reported the Saudi Arabian intelligence agency was also tracking down two opposition leaders for being the masterminds behind the gathering at D’Saji Restaurant, Hotel As-Safwah near Masjid Al Haram. (Al-Haram Mosque)

Terengganu Advisor and Co-ordinator for Mecca and Medina Abu Backer Sidek reportedly told the Malay daily that diplomatic ties between Malaysia and Saudi Arabia might be affected and stringent procedures would be imposed on Malaysians who want to perform the Umrah and Haj to prevent similar incidents from happening again.


Mokthar said he was not in Mecca solely for the campaign but had been coincidentally invited by the group of Bersih 3.0 supporters which included some Malaysian students.

(Anakbukitgantang comments- is this another wishy washy attempt  to take off personal responsiblity from you Mr. Mokhtar and dump the blame totally on your dear party ? How can everything came out unplanned ?)
Together with Pas Youth Chief Nasruddin Hassan Tantawi, Mokhtar said they did not plan to go to Mecca to launch the rally there, saying: “Why should we (launch the campaign) when the main Bersih rally was already planned in Kuala Lumpur?”


 Recently Bernama reported Defence Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi had said that organisers of the gathering would be held responsible should Saudi Arabia prohibit Malaysians from performing the Haj and Umrah for any length of time.

“Saudi Arabia is most sensitive about demonstrations or illegal gatherings held there,” Zahid was quoted as saying.(Anakbukitgantang comments- Saudi has taken seriously many attemts to destabilise the Kingdom by Islamic separatist, so this BERSEH issue is not localised!)
Mokhtar however believed the Saudi government was acting under the urgings of the Malaysian Government as a way to punish those who had attended the gathering.

(Anakbukitgantang comments-is this  another blaming game PAS?)

“I do not believe the Saudi government will act unless the Malaysian government has urged them to do so,” he added.

A blog post at Penembak Tepat had stated the launch of the movement in Masjid Al Haram and Masjid Al Nabawi was insulting as Bersih is led by Datuk Ambiga Sreevanasan, an advocate of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in Malaysia.

 The Mole had previously reported criticisms against the initiative to launch the campaign in the holy cities by Islamic scholar Ismail Mina Ahmad who said it was unwise and uncouth to do so as the movement’s agenda is inclined to serve a diabolical political agenda.

BERSEH aftermath :Rest In Peace (R.I.P) Pakatan

A letter from Lim Chee Wei, a Malaysian of Chinese descend ,  regarding BERSEH 3.0-   which I  took  from Dato Rocky Bru's blog. This verifies my gut feeling,  spelled out clearly,  in my previous article  that BERSEH 3.0  will be a fiasco and finally proves to The Rakyat which side  is the real instigator for chaos and which side wants peace.

Chaos and the Beginning of the END

Lim Chee Wei

29 April 2012

An obituary is something that is not easy to right. One never knows what to say as consoling those that have lost a loved one is nearly always an exercise in futility. The violence and chaos rained down by thousands of bused in Opposition members led by Keadilan’s Deputy President Azmin Ali yesterday was the final nail in the coffin of the political life his mentor, Anwar Ibrahim.

I am not a fortuneteller but the writing is clearly on the wall. This is the beginning of the end of the political career of Anwar Ibrahim which has spanned more than 40 years. What should have been the natural support base of Pakatan Rakyat marching in KL on Saturday now, more than ever, has begun to count the toll of damage Anwar has done to the argument that all rallies are peaceful.

The advent of a full democracy in Malaysia is not dependent on Ambiga’s unreasonable demands for the resignation of the entire Election Commission or the implementation of all reforms demanded before the next GE. Full democracy in Malaysia is dependent on the setting up of a sustainable and viable two-party system. People seeing Anwar lose control and sending his storm troopers in to destroy everything in their way has led many peacefully marching to believe that for democracy to face the BN, Anwar has got to go. 

The sheer desperation and willingness to cause the BN political damage at any costs, even causing damage and injury, shows that Anwar knows this GE is his LAST chance. It is the final salvo of one of the most divisive figures in Malaysia’s political history. Anwar will be 65 this year and waiting for the 14^th election will see him just a shade under 70. This is his time, after GE13, it will be the time of the true leaders of Pakatan. Younger leaders who don’t want their families to dominate their parties, who are not singularly driven by a desire for power to take revenge on Tun Mahathir etc. and leaders who don’t have the baggage that a former Deputy President of UMNO will always surely have.

It is sad to see an otherwise intelligent man blind to the fact that he will never be Prime Minister. The destructiveness he unleashed on Kuala Lumpur this weekend is the final act of desperation of a man hoping in vain that he has still got one final act to play. What he does not realize is that his audience has left and moved on to something, or someone, that far more closely resembles an ideal of leadership with which they want to spend time and watch.

Datuk Ambiga herself conceded that the Police acted after the political segments of the rally intimidated and attacked the Police. In her own attempt to salvage what has become an irreparable situation of chaos and violence, she naively asks the Government to think about why some people would act so extremely. The motives of men smashing cars lies not in a desire for electoral reform. Rather, they were doing so because Anwar told them to do so. He told them to do so because he knew that if they rained chaos on the streets, the Police would be forced to act. Only then would his friends in the foreign media be able to dedicate many minutes of coverage to chaos in yet another Muslim majority country.

Datuk Ambiga has to take some of the responsibility despite her attempts to ask the crowd to disperse before the trouble started. She herself repeatedly requested PAS and Keadilan to bulk up her numbers in the event that ordinary non-partisan Malaysians did not show up. It is as clear as day that Bersih has been entirely taken over by the Opposition. This could have been avoided if Datuk Ambiga never started on that slippery slope of sharing the Bersih stage with Anwar in particular.

I am Chinese and the first trait of my people is pragmatism which is why we felt that there needed to be a much stronger Opposition in 2008 given the wanton corruption and abuses of the BN then. Pakatan would do well not to take my pragmatism for granted for this way of thinking does not know political loyalties. Chaos and desperation are not pragmatic. For the first time since 2008, Anwar does not seem like a pragmatic choice for Prime Minister.

Democratic progress is NOT upturned cars on the streets and vigilante rowdies running riot in our cities. Democratic progress is the setting up of a true two party system. Pakatan needs a real leader who believes in the ideals of democracy and has NEVER practiced otherwise. With this, I hereby write the beginning of the end of Anwar Ibrahim’s political career on 28 April 2012.

p.s. The foreign media were among the most frustrated by the outcome of Bersih 3, I think. They wanted to see violence against the people. They wanted Tahrih Square and Tianeman. They were hoping for police brutality (read here, Aljazeera's reporter reading from a prepared script) They did not expect images and footages like these:

And if AljazeeraAljazeera's reporter is so dumb we have to spell it out to him: