Opposition solidarity for democracy and human rights? (Chinese Malaysian's ' There must be opposition solidarity

', Jan 7). What about opposition solidarity for theocracy against non-Muslims and even Muslims' rights?

It was precisely DAP's collaboration with PAS in the past that alienated its traditional supporters.

In the aftermath of Sept 11, the DAP effected the breakaway from a collaboration that was untenable. Keadilan instead prevaricated, dodged and sidelined the issue of PAS' Islamic state by camouflaging under other issues of human rights abuse, cronyism, blah, blah, blah.

Keadilan and PRM, therefore, reach for support of Malaysians opposed to Barisan Nasional whilst their patron PAS takes care of the very religious to cover as wide as possible the continuum of Malaysian political support.

There can only be but one consequence of serial opposition victories in by-elections the advancement of the cause of eventually installing the Islamic state.

To do so one must garner support of even those against this agenda under the cover of human rights and democracy, which to different people means different things, and to PAS in particular, it means theocracy under guidance and indirect rule of clergy.

We are talking of a party which called for jihad and organised demonstrations in front of the US Embassy, and whose secretary-general was reported by Sunday Star (Jan 6) to still insist, even today, after the pronouncement of death sentence, that Al-Ma'unah killings in Grik and Sauk were a staged drama by the government!

I suppose that, to PAS, the Singapore authorities' recent arrest of 15 suspected terrorists with ties to KL's "invention" of Kumpulan Mujahidin Malaysia could well be a sequel in complicity to this drama.

Now for DAP to support Barisan Alternatif (that recruits DAP crossovers) so that it could help PAS to instal the Islamic state that constitutes the very reason for DAP's breakaway? Does the writer think DAP stupid or its leader Lim Kit Siang a political naivet?

It is unprincipled for DAP to support an opposition coalition that is sympathetic to the very agenda reason of its breakaway in the Indera Kayangan by-election. If the DAP were to support, why break away in the first instance?

The writer's suggestion is insidious and undermines DAP's credibility and consistency of stand, and it does not even take DAP's members and supporters, amongst whom I do not even count myself one, to see through it.