I am amused by the two reports Give up hudud, Islamic state if Chinese votes are treasured and DAP may re-join BA if Pas atones for blunders.

There is neither credit in DAP's extending this olive branch nor PAS in ever accepting it! To PAS, an Islamic state is where syariah (Islamic) law based on the Quran, of which hudud (Islamic penal code) is part, is the law of the land.

How could DAP deputy chairperson Karpal Singh expect PAS to admit that the hudud enactment is a 'blunder' that should be 'atoned' by its repeal?

Does he think that PAS will ever place more importance on getting Chinese (who are regarded kafir or infidels) votes, DAP's re-joining the BA, possible electoral victory by virtue thereof than the Islamic state (and God's) laws?

Karpal has to first figure this one out — how are PAS' leaders going to atone to God in the afterlife for their sins in repudiating the Islamic state and repealing God's laws after their enactment undertaken just for the sake of political opportunism?

To PAS, whatever else that may be compromised in the interest of political expedience, it will not include fundamental precepts like the syariah law from the sacred text and the Islamic state in which Muslims embrace and submit in totality to the laws of the Quran in every aspect of their daily life.

These are principles inviolate, absolute and not negotiable. They are the reason for being which differentiates PAS from Umno, that it could no more give up than DAP in respect of its ideology of secular pluralism.

If DAP has no reason to doubt PAS leaders' religious convictions and perseverance to realise God's objectives on earth, it should not set that as a condition for DAP to return to the BA coalition.

Is it asking PAS to temporary shelf its plans to allay non-Muslim and moderate Muslims' anxiety, secure their votes to kick out the common enemy in Barisan Nasional, in order that syariah and the Islamic state could be reinstated by a PAS-led government?

If so, then DAP is colliding with other BA allies to lull under false pretences those who oppose Islamic state and laws into giving their votes to what they had opposed to in the first instance.

Either way, it smacks of opportunism and betrayal. In principle, it is not tenable for DAP to offer PAS an olive branch nor should PAS accept it.

If DAP criticised PAS for being extreme and fanatical to implement hudud in Terengganu in a pluralistic society like Malaysia, why try so hard now to change the ways of the 'fanatical extremist' which by very definition cannot be changed?

This will surely reflect the extreme desperation of DAP not wanting to be alone standing up to its principles but for political expedience, is piggy-riding on a Malay-based party that, if it were not going to be Umno but then Umno doesn't want it, then it has to be PAS or whatever it takes.