Remembering Nik Aziz as nation drowns in polemics of race and religion

The late Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat would not have approved of PAS' alliance with Umno as he was a far-sighted Islamic leader keenly aware of Malaysia’s multi-cultural composition, according to those who knew him.

He would also have been horrified at the proliferation of racist and anti-religious remarks that are now commonplace in the Malaysian cybersphere, said former Malaysian Consultative Council of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism and Taoism president A Vaithilingam.

“When I watched PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang announce on television that the late Tok Guru (as Nik Aziz was fondly known) would have approved of the Umno-PAS charter, I laughed and said out loud 'what rubbish'...