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COMMENT | Hadi will get away with defying Terengganu sultan
COMMENT | This is PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang’s game plan. It really does not matter if Perikatan Nasional is on board or not because Bersatu and whoever else in the coalition are irrelevant.
This is about Hadi’s vision for a theocratic state. Now when most people think of a theocratic state, they think of the supremacy of religion.
True but a theocratic state is also one where ethnic divisions and inter-religious schisms are used by the religious party in power to sustain hegemony.
Now what Hadi and PAS are doing is slowly whittling away at the last R of the three Rs (race, religion and royalty)...
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