TAKE MONEY FROM ‘ULTRA KIASU’ BECAUSE THEIR WEALTH WAS YOURS FIRST, RIDHUAN TEE TELLS MALAYS

(Malay Mail Online) – Controversial Muslim convert Ridhuan Tee Abdullah urged Malay Muslims to accept the DAP’s offer to build a mosque in Kelantan without question, claiming the money for its construction was originally theirs to use as well.

In his weekly column in Malay daily Sinar Harian, Tee linked the DAP’s offer to build a mosque in Kelantan to an agenda by the “ultra kiasu” ethnic Chinese to mask their wealth gained from the economic leg-up given by the government.

Though he did not name any individuals, it is believed that Tee was referring to Malaysian sugar tycoon Tan Sri Robert Kuok and the Lim family whose company runs the Genting Highlands Resort that houses Malaysia’s first and only legal casino.

“To Muslims who are to receive such aid, do not ask the source of the funds to be donated, or if it is halal or haram? It’s not as if we don’t know.

“What is important, take the money of the ultra-kiasu first, because their money is from the people’s money too. The ultra-kiasu will not become rich if the Muslims did not help their economy,” he said.

The controversial write has a penchant for calling DAP and the Chinese the “ultra kiasu”, which means cannot lose in the Hokkien dialect.

He further alleged that the mosque offer to be part of the “ultra kiasu” agenda to win over Muslims who have been “neglected” by the ruling Barisan Nasional.

“After this it is not impossible that the ultra-kiasu will sponsor Muslims to perform the Haj, to show that they are in tune with the plight of Muslims who are neglected under BN,” he said.

Tee, a Chinese Muslim convert, stressed that the wealth of the Chinese was due to the generosity of Malaysia’s Muslims, who agreed to grant sugar Approved Permits, logging concessions and even an entire hill for gambling.

He also weighed in on the breakdown of the Pakatan Rakyat opposition pact, congratulating PAS’ courage to stop allowing itself to be “bullied”.

He acknowledged that it is important for Malay-Muslim parties like PAS and arch-rivals Umno to compromise with the non-Malays, but stressed that they must look at the “type of non-Muslims” they intend to make allies.

“If they continue to be enemies of Islam like the ultra kiasu, should that friendship continue?” Ridhuan said.

The lecturer at the Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin’s Research Institute for Islamic Products and Civilisation also questioned the position of PAS’ so-called professional faction against severing ties with DAP, arguing that the ulama or cleric class would have surely sought Allah’s guidance in coming to the decision.

“Who else should be heard if not the ulama who have been celebrated by PAS all this while?

“Are the professionals in PAS so great, that their analysis of strategic issues surpasses that of the ulama who sure would have sought guidance from Allah?” Tee said.

He claimed that DAP have become so arrogant since taking power in Penang, that he is sure that PAS leaders like Datuk Fadzil Noor and Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat would not agree to working with them if they were still alive.

“It is clear that they cannot be proselytised… imagine if they succeed in winning Putrajaya after this,” he said.