Article: Pas' general election gimmick

M.R.
New Straits Times
11-24-2003
Pas' general election gimmick
Byline: M.R.
Edition: Main/Lifestyle; 2*
Section: Letters
Type: Letter

ONE can expect Pas to behave like a party magician who pulls out a rabbit from his bag of tricks. This time around, it's the 53-page Dokumen Negara Islam.

Pas' pedlars tout it as a magic pill to solve our political, social, and economic woes - here on earth and the hereafter. What does the document promise that our nation's founding fathers forgot and subsequent leaders overlooked?
Very little, I think. There are, of course, mega doses of cliched rhetoric, but little of real substance. Insofar as national governance is concerned, the Barisan Nasional model has ...

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