KUALA LUMPUR, May 4 Utusan Malaysia heaped pressure today on PAS for its refusal to leave DAPs side for the sake of Malay unity, warning the party that its fight for Islam was lost in Pakatan Rakyat (PR).
The Umno-owned daily dedicated much of its editorial content today to the issue and even front-paged a statement by Perlis Mufti Dr Juanda Jaya, accusing those against the merger proposal as traitors of Islam.
The merger (between Umno and PAS) is in fact compulsory, particularly for the strength of Islam and Malaysia in general. All parties should make efforts in that direction, the scholar was quoted as saying.