No guarantee PAS won’t marginalise non-Malays, says Santiago

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PETALING JAYA: Former Klang MP Charles Santiago has scoffed at PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang’s claim that non-Malays have no reason to fear the party ahead of the Aug 12 state elections.

Santiago said if PAS had not created fear among non-Malays, it would not need to come up with such statements in the first place.

“How do you explain compounding a Chinese woman for wearing shorts in public?” he said in a statement today, referring to an incident in June where a business owner was fined by the Kota Bharu Municipal Council for violating by-laws on “indecent clothing”.

He also said PAS enforced its ideas on “haram” onto non-Muslims, citing the lack of cinemas in Kelantan and gender-segregated ones in Terengganu.

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