COMMENT | Sanusi’s extraordinary, dangerous land-grabbing gambit

COMMENT | What will happen when the Philippines does a ‘Sanusi’ and tells Putrajaya that Sabah belongs to them, Brunei demands the return of huge areas of Sarawak and Sabah, and Thailand then lays claim to the northern states of Perlis, Kedah and Kelantan, and we inform Singapore to prepare to be absorbed back into Malaysia?

When will the madness started by Kedah Menteri Besar Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor stop? Where did he get his idea from?

The MB talks about rectifying the ‘distortion of history’. How far back in time is Sanusi prepared to dig? Will he accept that in the sixth century, Kedah was steeped in Buddhist and Hindu culture? Artefacts from the Bujang Valley confirm this, but ironically, Sanusi was happily demolishing temples and cancelling the Thaipusam holiday.

Last weekend, at Lima’23 in Langkawi, Sanusi donned the uniform of admiral of the Malaysian navy. Didn’t the former defence minister Mohamad Sabu ban politicians from wearing military uniforms and receiving honorary awards?...