The Unity Talk Between PAS & UMNO

The so-called Unity Talk between UMNO and PAS should start with Barisan Nasional (BN) and Pakatan Rakyat (PR) disbanded first.

It's pointless to talk about Malay Unity and Islam by dragging in the other irrelevant bodies such as MCA, DAP, MIC, or the likes, which have entirely different agendas, view points, and priorities of their own. The major talking points between the two groups would mostly centered on Islam and Malay race while economy and education matters are secondary.

UMNO and PAS are both different in ideology although their members are mainly Muslim bumiputra. They are fighting for the leadership to represent the 'Malay' and the Muslim Bumiputras in the country.

UMNO is more inclined towards western and modern lifestyles while PAS is more towards the 'Islamic' humble lifestyle. One can say they are simply different characters although they look the same like a 'twin'. The only thing that they share is likely the religion but not their lifestyles.

The philosophical difference is the barrier between the two groups. Other than these two major points, religion & lifestyle; what are the common interests that would hold them together?

How are they going to share the resources of a government in order to support their individual different ruling policies?

Isn't it more volatile than the present Pas, PKR, and DAP 'coalition'? PAS should understand that they can't rule the country alone, in fact, they need others badly to get the majority to form a viable government.

PAS did beautifully in the last general election because they teamed up with PKR and DAP. It's an undeniable reality. Malay votes, previously held mostly by UMNO, were now split between UMNO, PKR, and PAS since the last election.

Do you think UMNO can snatch back the votes from PKR (or PAS) by forming a so-called Unity Government with PAS? Is PAS dumb enough to let this to happen? Does one believe that UMNO will let PAS influencing their members by the formation of Unity government? The alliance of UMNO plus PAS might turn out to be a disaster for both of them. They simply can not trust each other in the first place.

One of the major obstacles of achieving 1Malaysia is the so-called 'unfair privileges’ or 'unfair advantages' walls accorded to certain quarter which is initially meant to give a 'lift' to the 'under-privileged' group.

PM Najib should be brave and bold enough to 'tear down the wall' if he wants to see 1Malaysia succeeds. In fact, he doesn’t need PAS to achieve it. It’s all up to UMNO whether they want to turn the tide or not by accepting the fact that people wants equality more than the so-called ‘UMNO-PAS’ Unity Talk!