GEORGE TOWN: Jemaah Islah Malaysia wants Jelutong MP Jeff Ooi to retract a statement he made purportedly linking the movement to religious extremists.
Its president, Jamaluddin Abdullah, said the movement would give Ooi time to retract his statement on Sunday, failing which it would consider lodging a police report against him.
It was reported that Ooi had slammed Penang PKR municipal councillor Mohd Razali Abdullah, who is a Jemaah Islah Malaysia member, and described him as a religious extremist in a local government administration.
Ooi had printed out literature from Jemaah Islah Malaysia’s portal at www.jim.org.my which stated that its mission was to turn Malaysia into a country that fully adopts Syariah laws by 2020.
“We read with disgust the statement Ooi made. He has gone too far by equating JIM to extremists whereby JIM is not related to his internal feud with Razali.
“We request that Ooi retract his statement, otherwise we will consider filing a police report,” Mohd Razali said in a statement issued on Sunday.
State Gerakan Youth head Oh Tong Keong said the public bickering between Ooi and Mohd Razali has compounded the belief in Penang that the Pakatan Rakyat was only a “marriage of convenience”.
“The intra-party conflicts also revealed that Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng has no control over his lackeys and other members of his government,” he said in a statement yesterday.
He said the in-fighting among PKR, DAP and PAS over “personality clashes and petty issues” showed that the leaders paid more attention to their own parties and put self-interest above the needs of the people.
“They profess a CAT (Competency, Accountability and Transparency) concept government but what we see is a government which is constantly complaining about everything and accusing each other besides twisting the facts,’’ he added.
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