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This article has earlier appeared in Beritadaily.com on 25/11/2016 Of late, leaders from the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition, particularly from Umno, and many Umno-linked NGOs have shifted their anti-Chinese chorus to that of George Soros. Sounds like Umno and its sponsored NGOs were deliberately making Soros a scapegoat for their political misadventure and to cover up various scandals linked to their leaders, in particular the 1MDB controversy and RM2.6 billion in the Umno president’s personal account. Well, Umno has just made Soros a well-known figure in Malaysia today by claiming his involvement in an “attempt to overthrow the BN government”. Every Malaysian would be interested to know if Soros has been laying a plan to become “Prime Minister of Malaysia”. It is all about foreign funding and the Jews when Umno and its associates are trying their best to discredit and bring down all the opposition parties and civil society groups. The momentum gained by opposition groups ha...

Baru-baru ini Presiden PAS Haji Hadi Awang telah menyuarakan pendapatnya mengenai pilihanraya kerajaan tempatan dan mengapa PAS enggan menyokong saranan PKR, DAP, PSM, PRM, Bersih 2.0 dan masyarakat pada keseluruhannya agar PAS turut menyokong usul tersebut. Alasan pemimpin PAS itu adalah, pilihanraya kerajaan tempatan akan menyebabkan Peristiwa 13 Mei itu tercetus semula. Sebabnya adalah, pilihanraya kerajaan tempatan ini akan menyebabkan masyarakat Melayu dipencilkan sama sekali kerana diperingkat perbandaran dan bandaraya hanya terdiri daripada masyarakat bukan Melayu. Apakah pemimpin PAS itu telah lupa bahawa politik jijiklah yang menyebabkan masyarakat berbilang kaum di negara kita ini berpecahbelah. Kalaulah sesuatu pilihanraya adalah penyebab berpecahnya perpaduan kaum ataupun sesuatu kaum dianaktirikan, maka boleh dikatakan, pilihanraya parlimen dan dewan undangan negeri turut mempunyai elemen-elemen sedemikian, kerana pembahagian kerusi-kerusi parlimen dan dewan undanga...