PAS leader says govt full of thieves

PAS leader says govt full of thieves

KOTA BARU, Malaysia (AFP): Malaysia's government is full of
thieves who fear an Islamic state because their hands would have
to be chopped off, a leader of the main opposition party said on
Monday.

Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, the revered spiritual chief of Parti
Islam SeMalaysia (PAS) and chief minister of Kelantan state, said
this was why the government was whipping up anti-PAS feeling in
the Chinese community.

He told a meeting with some 300 Chinese members of the
Democratic Action Party -- PAS's ally in an opposition coalition
-- that the community had nothing to fear from his party's aim
for an Islamic state.

Nik Abdul Aziz said Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's United
Malays National Organization "steals from the banks", citing
rising cases of bailouts for troubled companies linked to the
government.