Monday November 9, 2009
Khalid hits back at PAS delegates on promotion of Islam
PETALING JAYA: Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim has denied criticisms by some PAS delegates that the Pakatan Rakyat coalition is not doing enough to promote Islam.
He said Muslims had a collective responsibility to be proactive and that he was doing his part to promote Islam in the state.
"Forget the voices in the dark. They should be ignored"- KHALID SAMAD Khalid was responding to the PAS delegates attending a special seminar on Saturday.
They had voiced concern that the PKR-PAS-DAP coalition might not augur well for the propagation of Islam.
This comes in the wake of several controversies involving Selangor PAS chief and exco member Datuk Dr Hasan Ali and the state government in recent times.
Besides protesting the sale of beer in Muslim majority areas and locking horns with his DAP counterpart Ronnie Liu, Dr Hasan had also created a furore by accusing Selangor’s Select Committee for Competency, Accountability and Transparency (Selcat) of bullying civil servants at its inquiry.
This earned him the ire of Speaker Teng Chang Khim, also from the DAP.
Khalid told the PAS delegates to “walk the talk.”
“If you want to be a leader, people have to accept you as a leader,” he said.
“It is not merely about you wanting others to say that you are a leader.”
In an immediate reaction, Shah Alam MP Khalid Samad said the opinions voiced by some party members in the seminar did not represent the view of the majority.
“There are always the sceptics as PAS is a broad-based organisation,” he said.
“However, the resolution passed reflected the majority support for the Pakatan coalition.”
Khalid Samad said these sceptics sometimes made “silly” statements, and they were the ones who were the least authorised and knowledgeable.
“They are completely in the dark,” he said. “Forget the voices in the dark. They should be ignored,” he said.
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