Stop Malaysia from being ‘hostage’ to extremist preachers

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Zaid presses cabinet to fight back, stop Malaysia from being ‘hostage’ to extremist preachers 

FORMER de facto law minister Datuk Zaid Ibrahim has called on the federal government to stand up against extremist preachers in the country who he claims are decapitating the economy by first ruining tourism through their hardline outlook.

He said the government needs to fight back and reclaim the country from the threshold of religious extremism.

It is understood that his message on X was triggered by the debate over why Malaysia lost out to Singapore which had lured American pop star Taylor Swift to exclusively hold her concerts there and not anywhere else in Southeast Asia.

Regarded as a voice of progress, Zaid, a corporate lawyer, had courted controversy in his political career in which he tossed himself about from exiting Umno to joining PKR and then DAP, forming the now defunct Kita, and then courting Gerakan before expressing his desire to rejoin Umno.

He wrote that many reasons have been offered on why Phuket in Thailand is the preferred tourist destination over Langkawi.

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