{"id":3629,"date":"2010-09-21T14:42:15","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T06:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/index.php\/2010\/09\/forget-about-solidarity-with-pas\/"},"modified":"2010-09-21T14:42:15","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T06:42:15","slug":"forget-about-solidarity-with-pas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/forget-about-solidarity-with-pas\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget about solidarity with PAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content_wrapper\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/isu-babi.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/images\/stories\/berita33\/isu-babi.gif\" style=\"float: right;\" \/>Former information minister Tan Sri Zainuddin Maidin said solidarity  between Umno and PAS will not ensure the strength of the nation, instead  the three principal partners of the Barisan Nasional (BN), viz Umno,  the MCA and MIC, must firmly and boldly restore their inherent strength  through a new approach that will guarantee a bright future for the  country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Umno should just forget the Malay unity through Pas which was based  on racial and dogmatic religious lines and instead work together with  its original partners in the BN to reject their respective racial  sentiments,&#8221; Zainuddin said in an exclusive interview with  umno-online.com.<\/p>\n<p>Zainuddin, who is better known as Zam, said Umno, the MCA, the MIC  and the other component parties should continue with the constructive  engagement while sensitive issues should not be discussed openly because  they would not restore party strength.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the other hand, they will widen the feeling of dissatisfaction  when a demand cannot be met by the government immediately or if there is  an obstacle,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The former minister said the BN should also reflect the separation of  identity from the groups who were out to look for strength through  racial and religious sentiments which were outside the social formula  and values which were built by the Alliance since the pre-independence  days.<\/p>\n<p>He said Umno and the BN must be bold and firm in balancing their  realistic wishes and not get carried away and be obsessed by the new  democratisation to the extent that the threat from the real enemy was  forgotten.-Bernama<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former information minister Tan Sri Zainuddin Maidin said solidarity between Umno and PAS will not ensure the strength of the nation, instead the three principal partners of the Barisan Nasional (BN), viz Umno, the MCA and MIC, must firmly and boldly restore their inherent strength through a new approach that will guarantee a bright future [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"better_featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}