KJ John | What is truthfulness?
When newly appointed and party-approved Menteri Besar Azmin Ali tweeted, within one month of his appointment, that “the Bibles belong to the Christians”, it told me that he can and will deal with truth matters and set new directions for state governance. I therefore pasted his promise in all my public media postings and was confident that he would deliver on what he said.
Now that he has, and even surprised me with the official media show; with all parties putting on their best efforts forward for media performance, I must admit that it nevertheless still raised more questions than answers for my critical and sceptical mind. The targets of my new focus therefore, in this column, are the ‘so-called religious advisers to the sultan’.
One of my best friends, a Tuan Haji, always says, “Take what politicians say with a pinch of salt for what they say is only good on the date of issue.” Therefore, it took some courage for me to overlook the ‘real history of the conscious ignorance of the rule of law by the religious elite in Selangor’ because ‘their rule is law’, and they do not understand the principle of the rule of law dictates that we all are ruled under the same set of laws.
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