Pakatan Rakyat have urged the authorities to lay criminal charges against distributors of malicious flyers, which claimed that DAP was out to challenge Islam as the official religion.

NONE At a press conference today, Sekinchan state assemblyperson Ng Suee Lim (left) showed the offending flyers, allegedly obtained from an event organised at Meru, Selangor by Jati, an NGO led by former Selangor PAS commissioner Hasan Ali.

The flyer addresses Muslim Malays, and asks, “Are you willing to let your children become Christianised by DAP?”

It then lists a series of events which supposedly will take place if DAP comes to power, including Christianity becoming the official religion, English becoming the official language and Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng relocating his office to Singapore to have weekly meetings with former Singapore prime minister Lee Kuan Yew.

“The police should enforce the law and ensure that it is clearly stated on each flyer who is the publisher of the material, and not allow us to be defamed anonymously,” said Ng.

Ng was speaking at press conference demanding that the police stop political violence against opposition politicians.

Other Pakatan leaders present included Meru assemblyperson Abdul Rani Osman, who is also the Selangor PAS chief.

Rani said the fears regarding DAP were utterly irrational because the party does not have numbers required to initiate the changes stated in the flyer.

“Pakatan operates as a coalition, and no one party will be able to change the rules of the nation to that extent.

“If DAP is to supposedly take over, they will need more than 111 members of parliament, but they are only contesting for less than fifty seats,” he said.

Hasan cries sabotage

Contacted later this evening, Hasan denied involvement over the flyers row, stressing that he has not authorised the publication or distribution of any such material.

“If this really happened, it is another attempt to sabotage Jati by certain parties,” he insisted.

He also asserted that Jati was established to fight for Islam, Malay rights and Malay rulers but has never looked down on other religions or caused disturbances.

Hasan was sacked from PAS on January 8, before leading Jati to campaign for Pakatan to be kept out of power in order to protect the Islamic faith.

He had repeatedly claimed that there were proselytisation attempts by clandestine Christian groups, which is an offence in Malaysia.

Thus far, his allegations have yet to lead to any prosecutions.