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“PAS cannot differentiate between charity and corruption?”

PAS president Tan Sri Abdul Hadi Awang purports to be not just an authority on Islam but an expert on distinguishing the difference between charity and corruption.

For PAS, what constitutes corruption is deemed to be charity.

In short, giving funds to influence the outcome of elections is charity to PAS. If this is done by others, then it is corruption.

Distribution of funds to party cadres and possibly supporters during the recent elections were defended by Hadi as welfare gifts to the poor and needy.

There is a vast difference between gifts to the poor and the needy and funds to elicit votes. Charity is an inescapable part of most all political parties, whether religious or not.

PAS cannot claim that it merely engaged in handing out charity, either in the form of cash or gifts. What PAS did before the recent general elections was unjustified. Its leaders handed out funds to their cadres and supporters in the name of charity to influence the outcome of the elections.

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