MINISTER DRAWS FLAK FOR SPOOKING CHRISTIANS

FEARS.....Bernard Dompok's bid to stoke the fears of Sabah and Sarawakian Christians over PAS' Islamic state agenda has made him look like a fool in view of the RCI testimonies, says a local politician.

By : LUKE RINTOD

KOTA KINABALU: Are Sabah Barisan Nasional leaders’ senses so warped that they can no longer discriminate between right and wrong? It seems that way listening to Upko president Bernard Dompok’s reasoning for Umno-Barisan Nasional to continue its rule in Sabah, said State Reform Party (STAR) Deputy Chairman Daniel Jambun.

Dompok, a federal minister, had two days ago called on Christians in Sabah to reject PAS and instead continue to return “evil” Umno-led BN at the coming polls as a counterbalance against Islamic party PAS.

Lambasting Dompok’s scare tactic, Jambun said the ongoing Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) was providing substantive evidence why the Umno-BN rule must be ended.

“Didn’t Dompok hear the testimonies? Substantive evidence is now being exposed at the on-going investigation by the RCI.

“Whose names did the witnesses mention having led and [was] involved in Project IC for illegal immigrants in Sabah? Were not these leaders of BN and Umno?

“If Dompok believes that BN and Umno are different from Pakatan Rakyat or PAS, let me remind him that it was under BN rule [when Anwar Ibrahim was also deputy prime minister] that the Muslim transient population exploded out of proportion in Sabah under Umno’s dream to Islamise the whole of Sabah,” he added.

‘Inside the evil system’

Jambun pointed out that so far no leaders from PAS had been cited as being involved in the Project IC.

“I do not want to defend PAS or Pakatan as we, too, believe they tend to harbour the same twisted aspirations of Umno as far as an Islamic country is concerned. Perhaps they only differ in approach and volume or velocity,” he said.

He said that if Dompok was trying to scare Christians into voting for Umno and BN at the coming general election, he was being selective in his fear-mongering.

“Let me remind him that Umno-BN also has Perkasa as its extreme wing or affiliate that demanded our Bibles be defaced and burned.

“Is not Perkasa’s adviser Dr Mahathir Mohamad, an Umno leader and former Umno president and former prime minister, Dompok’s former boss?

“In fact, Dompok and other Christian leaders in BN, too, are two steps already inside the evil system that has trampled on the rights of Christians and other non-Muslim Malaysians who more often than not fall victim to BN’s racist policies,” he added.

He said the Umno-led regime had done too many evil deeds against Malaysians especially those in Sabah and Sarawak for the past 50 years.

Jambun, who is also chairman of UK-based Borneo’s Plight in Malaysia Foundation, said the pre-condition for agreeing to forming Malaysia in 1963, was that there should be no official religion in Sabah and Sarawak and that the practices of all religions, including Islam and Christianity, should be freely allowed and upheld to keep Malaysia from splintering.