Kedah Gerakan Chairman Dr Cheah Soon Hai today said that DAP must state its stand regarding the adamant attitude Kelantan MB Nik Aziz of setting up Islamic State. Nik Aziz has blamed Tun Dr.Mahathir for its failure of implementation of hudud law in Kelantan whilst Dr Mahathir had previously written to Nik Aziz informing him that Kelantan did not have the right to implement the law. Now Nik Aziz has challenged Prime Minister Najib not to come in the way of its implementation of hudud law.

Kedah Gerakan Chairman Dr.Cheah Soon Hai said DAP should not be evasive of this issue. Anwar Ibrahim on behalf of PKR has stated clearly that he back Nik Aziz in implementating the hudud law.Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has made it clear that Malaysia is not ready for hudud law because it is a multi-racial and multi-religious country.

He said, “The Deputy Prime Minister said while hudud law was a component in Islamic teachings, a lot needed to be explained to the people so they could understand it. Our stand is that in Malaysia, we cannot implement it in the present situation. I do not think under present conditions, it is suitable for implementation.”

Dr.Cheah, who is also state assemblyman for Derga said it is blatant lies to state that the Islamic State policy will not affect the non-muslims. It is evident that Kedah Pas-led government has introduced its controversial Islamic value policy in its administration,many need to withdraw due to opposition from the non-Muslims. One notable example is the ban of entertainment outlets during the month of Ramadhan.

Dr.Cheah said,“the ban which is still not officially lifted by the Kedah Government, only exposes weaknesses in the opportunistic coalition of PAS-DAP-PKR who do not share common values and policies and it is a time bomb for Malaysian politics if they are ruling the Federal Government.”

He said, there is nothing to bond them together ideologically and this is detrimental to the future of Malaysia.