Perkasa defended Datuk Ibrahim Ali today as a man of integrity who has earned both the trust and confidence of professionals as well as politicians.
Syed Hassan Syed Ali, the group’s secretary-general, also launched a broadside against Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim for calling Ibrahim the worst example of Malaysian politics.
“Even when Ibrahim Ali (picture) was in Semangat 46... the government then could not find one fault against him because Ibrahim is well known to be a man of integrity, he would not do what is not right and he would cause trouble for those in the wrong even though they were his close friends,” Syed Hassan said in a statement today.
He charged that it was Anwar who should have admitted that he was the “worst politician”, pointing out that in all the years of Ibrahim’s political career he had never been slapped with charges in court like Anwar.
Syed Hassan said that unlike Ibrahim, Anwar was always abandoned by his friends as soon as they “found out who he really was.”
“Malay professionals are always approaching Ibrahim Ali, even in Perkasa’s supreme council there is no shortage of professionals. Many people know Ibrahim Ali, and those in Perkasa and also outside Perkasa support him,” he added.
“The worst crime Ibrahim Ali has been accused of is jumping ship from one party to another, how bad is that? How many times has he jumped? People know who is the worse politician, those who sell their own race and Islam for politics and who have been accused of zina and being a sodomist,” said the Perkasa leader.
Anwar had accused Ibrahim of trying to pit Muslims and Christians against one another by the latter’s call to wage a holy war against Christians. Ibrahim’s actions, according to the PKR de facto leader, were at the behest of Umno.
