COMMENT | The reason for PAS' viral Himpit video

COMMENT | A few points about the Bersatu Youth chief’s comments that opened this piece. First, if this was a private event, why did PAS broadcast that specific event on social media? Two, why is cosplay suddenly acceptable to PAS? And three, which era of Malaysian history was PAS dramatising?

Look, the reason why non-Malays and non-Muslims are uneasy is because these are the types of viral videos that terrorist organisations put out to radicalise the younger generation and intimidate their enemies.

It has gotten so rampant that social media platforms like TikTok and YouTube routinely scrub such videos from their platforms but these organisations use other forms of social messaging apps to upload videos exactly like the kind that PAS offered up.

Various think tanks and intelligence services all over the world, including the Middle East, have warned that such videos are extremely effective in radicalising young people, especially young males.

This is why when...