Yoursay: Has Dr M considered why other countries don't want Zakir?

YOURSAY | ‘Why should we take someone nobody wants, but who is wanted in his own country?'

Can't have him, can't expel him – Dr M explains the Zakir Naik conundrum

SDman: Has Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad thought to himself why no other country wants the preacher Zakir Naik? If no other country wants him, it is no excuse for us to keep him.

The prime minister knows that India wants him yet refuses to send him back. Absolute nonsense. Mahathir’s answer clearly shows that the government of the day is protecting him.

What is even shocking is that non-Muslim Pakatan Harapan ministers are keeping completely silent about the matter. They were vocal during the previous regime, but now all keeping quiet to protect their ministerial position and paycheques!

Fredtan: Catch-22 predicament? Really, Mahathir? So helpless, indecisive, and scared? Is that you, Mahathir, speaking? Not a clone?

We would have thought that you were fearless (once) entering into areas no one dared to go.

Like you say, no country in the world wants him, so what obligation does Malaysia have to Zakir that you cannot let him go? Is he our Malaysian-born citizen that you need to protect?

Send him to the 100 percent Muslim country like Saudi Arabia. No? They also don't want him?

Wg321: Mahathir can send Zakir to Saudi Arabia. In 2017, King Salman Abdulaziz Al Saud already granted Zakir Saudi citizenship. So, it is not true that no countries want him as claimed by Mahathir.

Oldtimer: I don’t understand Mahathir. If other countries don’t want him, why should we keep him?

Why should we take someone nobody wants, but who is wanted by his own country?

Kee Thuan Chye: Mahathir is talking nonsense. Of course, we can send him back to India.

There's been a request for extradition by the Indian government. We should honour it.

Why should it be our business as to whether he'll get a fair trial? That's not our concern. Our greater concern is the well-being of our multiracial, multireligious nation.

Observer123: Zakir is an Indian citizen and his rightful place is in India, where he’s facing criminal charges.

Let’s not waste any more of our time, money and effort to argue about where he should go. It’s none of our business.

Mohd Isnin: It has nothing to do with justice and so forth. Mahathir is only worried about his position and his vote bank even if it means harbouring a terrorist.

This is the worst kind of leadership ever practised by any country with any bit of moral values; doing the wrong but popular thing.

Jefferson76: What has Malaysia become – the rubbish dump of the world?

We have dumping of plastic waste, dumping of toxic manufacturers like Lynas, and now toxic people.

Mahathir, you used to tell off other countries, now you accept things no one else wants and give us pathetic excuses about why we must let others poison our land. Stand up and do the right thing with each of these issues.

Mano: So what is Zakir? An inspiration, according to Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Mujahid Yusof Rawa, a minister whom I thought could think better.

We have seen so many photos of Zakir mingling with all the top brass. Even photos with Mahathir.

Mahathir – will you simply spare time to any ordinary rakyat like us? You did, to an extremist and alleged money launderer.

Jaded: The fundamental question we would like to ask is why he was given permanent resident status? On what basis was his PR granted?

Exactly who approved and granted his PR status? Why is he allowed to preach hate when he is only a PR?

Anonymous_1548751747110.29271548751096329: You have lost all legitimacy to bring back fugitive businessperson Low Taek Jho.

Let the 1MDB case be permanently buried in our courthouse because of the lack of one key witness.

Thickskin: Why protect this foreigner when the Orang Asli are not protected?

Replacing Dr M may plunge nation into instability, warns PAS

Yahoo Dey: PAS vice-president Mohd Amar Abdullah is really forgetful. Pakatan Harapan has agreed for Mahathir to be prime minister and PKR president Anwar Ibrahim to continue during his term.

This man is not in the government. Why be such a busybody? What Harapan does is none of his business.

Capo: There was already a power transition agreement in existence before the 14th general election.

Mahathir is just required to honour it and pass the eighth premiership baton to Anwar on May 10, 2020.

If he does not honour it but want to work with the opposition to create chaos in Harapan and the country in general, then Mahathir deserves to be thrown out like old worn-out shoes.

Proarte: Quite the contrary, PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang, Mahathir is a divisive character and his politics is incorrigibly divisive. 

How can a man who creates a new party for a ‘New Malaysia’ and then excludes non-Malays from holding elected office, be seen as a 'unifier'?

Anwar formed PKR which, at its very inception, was multiracial and multireligious. The putative 'New Malaysia' needs to give equal value and dignity to each citizen. It is only PKR, DAP and the other multiracial parties which can be a stabilising force in Malaysia.

Mahathir operates on the passe colonial modus operandi of 'divide and rule'. It is self-serving to the ruling Malay elite who are the self-appointed defenders of the Malays and Islam. They have done nothing of the sort and instead have impoverished the Malays, bastardised Islam and destroyed national unity.

Look at the adulation for kleptocrats who have destroyed the Malays' economic well being and children's future, who are yet lovingly called 'Bossku'. 

It was none other than Mahathir who promoted Najib Abdul Razak to the hilt politically. Najib is Mahathir's appalling legacy to Malaysia.

Mahathir has his own egotistical agenda and has to be stopped at all costs. He has done enough damage to this nation.

Dan: Hadi is aware that the only way which Harapan can be defeated is to divide it. The best way to divide it is to let Mahathir renege on his promise.

The next prime minister is Anwar, and this is signed and sealed by the four heads of Harapan component parties and endorsed by the rakyat through the 14th general election manifesto.

Nobody can unravel it unless the same parties who made the compact unravel it themselves, and that includes the rakyat. Hadi and PKR deputy president Mohamed Azmin Ali can continue shouting.

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