Pembela has to come off its high horse, restrategise and leave its perceived xenophobia. Its recent forum which was poorly attended despite huge publicity should sound a warning bell for its continued relevance. Pembela has to reclaim the higher moral ground. It cannot rely and hang on to the shrills and thrills of the bigoted and jingoistic Perkasa's inflammatory bandwagon. Perkasa's modus operandi of blowing up hot air, severe alarmism and extreme hollers achieves nothing for the community. Perkasa's agenda seems only to be scaring Malays and Muslims into becoming a besieged community ever paranoid distrusting everyone except its ever scheming and corrupted leaders. Perkasa makes it its only goal of not wanting Malays to change.
Pembela cannot be associated with lies and deception just because it believes it is fighting for a good cause. Pembela must side with justice and uphold truthfulness. If not, the Muslims it represents, the people's hope and our trust is put in bad light.
Pembela has just cause and genuine concern which Muslims cherish and support. However, it must not betray this faith by being a pliant political accomplice of an ailing and desperate ruling regime. Pembela has to remain upright, honest and true to its noble spirit without fear or favour.
Pembela should not have defended Utusan's inexcusable diatribes and irresponsible racist spins especially the latest mischievous attempt at Christian baiting. Pembela should be above such low journalistic morals and it must spurn gutter politics. Such despicable newspaper reports and followed by upsetting shoddy reactions only afford Christians a higher moral ground, gives them stronger resolve and unfortunately shows up as further evidence of their perceived persecution.
Utusan's persistent lies and slander must come to an end. Pembela should not tie its fate to such misguided purveyors of doom, mischief and disorder.
I (hope everybody too) am really dissapointed with Pembela. Somehow, the fuelled and heated up environment got the better of them. While on one aspect, the effort to put a reminder that the sensitivity of muslims in Malaysia and what is enshrined in the constitution must be respected, the approach and public relations campaign of pembela is deplorable. The tone of pembela in pointing out its case is nothing different from what is being screamed out by cheap politician who wants to win votes from Malays by fear mongering threats to islam. Pembela , with its resources from muslim NGOs should stand as the an islamic think-thank in islamic jurisprudence, spearheading intellectual thoughts that will win the hearts and minds of both muslims and non-muslims alike, not trying to spread unfounded fear and threats, for only God knows what the reason is. For Islam did not prosper through divisive and exclusiveness , but through tolerance, understanding and compassion.
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