Poker v Chess: Kit Siang & Hadi
Published June 9, 2015 Kit Siang: - Hadi, superb! You were playing us like a violin, weren't you? We never expected the old 'scarf and dagger.' Hadi: - I take issue with that, Kit! Must I remind you we are Muslims? With Karpal in the equation, we could not come clean earlier, but I trust you remember our founder, who said, "If Malaysia is truly Islamic, PAS is irrelevant." Kit Siang: - In hindsight, Hadi, that was the 'reddest' flag we missed. Perhaps, we were blurred by your lies and double-speak, but we took comfort in Karpal's bluster, "Over my dead body." While alive, those four words gave refuge to the secular ground. A fitting epitaph of the man would be, "As long as he lives, Malaysia will not be Islamic." Hadi: - An appropriate inscription for 'the Lion' indeed, despite your coy takes on the 'Hitler' epitaph of Tomas Masaryk. But granted, we feared Karpal. Something about him mimicked his warrio...