Hadi Awang’s politics of “laknat” destroys Malaysia

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WORDS can be weaponised. Wars, as the preamble in the United Nations Science, Education and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) affirmed, “begin in the minds of men”.

PAS president Tan Sri Abdul Hadi Awang is a veteran in the national poll election – he was the Opposition Leader from 1999 to 2004 – a role which requires him to understand that democratic contestation is all about asking the incumbent to hold free and fair elections.

This is the most basic rule of any parliamentary democracy where all sides must willingly be open to the prospect of losing one’s office once the voters have all cast their ballots and the results are tabulated.

Just as importantly, the leader of the electoral campaigns must set the finest example of not casting any aspersion at all – not even one – to denounce the opponents.

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