PETALING JAYA: The Education Ministry's directive for school canteens to remain open during Ramadan is controversial and "excessive", says the PAS ulama council. The Islamist party expressed reservations over the Education Ministry's decision, saying it could ignite public discord. Ulama council chief Datuk Ahmad Yahaya said closing school canteens during Ramadan was a societal norm to respect...
PETALING JAYA: Malaysians have chided PAS for calling the Education Ministry's directive - to keep school canteens open during Ramadan - 'excessive'. The Star readers expressed their views on Facebook, saying that Malaysians should learn to respect each other. Nakanathan Kandasamy wrote, "Be tolerant to other religious people, they are not fasting." Meanwhile, reader Chew Yew Bin said...
PETALING JAYA: PAS secretary-general Datuk Seri Takiyuddin Hassan (pic) has urged Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to curb the “poisonous narrative” peddled by DAP. This narrative has brought DAP's true intentions into question, Takiyuddin added in reference to recent statements by party veterans Tan Sri Lim Kit Siang and Tan Kok Wai. Lim had said last...
KUALA LUMPUR: PAS is resorting to malicious and baseless claims that the unity government is "munafik" (hypocritical) because it cannot attack the administration's policies and achievements, says PKR Youth deputy chief Muhammad Kamil Abdul Munim. Furthermore, its claim of economic sanctions against PAS-led states was easily disproved with facts, he added. He said such desperate tactics only...
PETALING JAYA: In its recent annual assembly, PAS said it wants to convince non-Muslims that the Islamist party can take care of their interests, but a decision on an iconic market and food court in Terengganu challenges that narrative. Residents of Kampung Cina, a historic enclave in Kuala Terengganu, the capital of PAS-ruled Terengganu, were upset...
KUALA LUMPUR: Polygamy is not the teaching of PAS but is permitted in Islam, says Datuk Seri Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man (pic). The PAS deputy president said it was disrespectful and rude for Bayan Baru MP Sim Tze Tzin to upload a posting on social media alluding that polygamy was a teaching of PAS. "He (Sim) has...
PETALING JAYA: PAS wishes all Hindus a Happy Deepavali and a safe celebration, says PAS secretary-general Datuk Seri Takiyuddin Hassan. In a statement on Saturday (Nov 11) Takiyuddin said that the wishes also go out to Sikhs and Jain followers as they too celebrate Deepavali. "Deepavali is a manifestation of our multi-religious and multi-cultural society, with its...
IPOH: Three Wanita PAS members from Sungai Petani, Kedah were tragically killed while trying to assist another driver on the North-South Expressway near Tanjung Malim. Muallim OCPD Supt Hasni Mohd Nasir said the deceased were identified as Sungai Petani PAS special young women's unit chief Fatihah Nabila Bukri, 23; its Muslimah chief Taibah Sulaiman, 61; and...
SHAH ALAM: The 69th PAS muktamar (general assembly) began with a rally in support of Palestine, with the party's big names involved. The rally, near the IDCC Convention Centre here on Friday (Oct 20), saw the call of Takbir followed by prayers with party president Tan Sri Abdul Hadi Awang in attendance. The march for peace in...
SHAH ALAM: Outgoing PAS Youth Chief Ahmad Fadhli Shaari said that his biggest regret when leaving the post was that PAS has yet to make major inroads among the non-Malays and non-Muslims. The Pasir Mas MP said this at the PAS Youth Wing annual general assembly on Thursday (Oct 19) during his farewell speech. "I am not...
