“But there are no clocks where (the pendulum) only swings down, it also goes up. And I am confident, and I believe that Chinese voters, little by little, are returning to BN.”

- BN chairperson Ahmad Zahid Hamidi

COMMENT | Everyone from PKR’s William Leong to former MCA grand poobah, Chua Soi Lek are saying the non-Malays (specifically the Chinese community) can stop the Green Wave.

But beyond rambling about syariah law and a theocratic state, nobody wants to acknowledge that the Islamisation process that has radically altered this country post-1969 has happened during the watch of the so-called centrist coalitions of BN or Pakatan Harapan.

When Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim decided that the Islamic Development Department (Jakim) needed to play a bigger role in policy-making, for instance, non-Malay political operatives in the Madani government were silent as church mice.

Furthermore, it was Anwar, through his religious czar, who was pursuing the Federal Territories Mufti bill, which would have radically transformed the powers of the religious far right in this country.

This is something that PAS...