COMMENT | What if Kelantan people reject Federal Constitution?

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”

- Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

COMMENT | PKR MP Hassan Abdul Karim in an attempt to justify PAS’ syariah law implementation in Kelantan describes this as nothing more than the democratic will of the Kelantan people and should be respected.

By this rationale, the people of Kelantan could theoretically reject the Federal Constitution if they voted for leaders who expressed this idea.

Indeed, they could vote for leaders who wish to expel all non-Muslims from Kelantan and this could be construed as the will of the people.

They could vote for leaders who wish to televise executions, chopping off limbs and public floggings, with nary a concern for...