
The Petai recently caught up with Kelantan Menteri Besar and PAS Spiritual Leader Tok Guru Nik Aziz for an interview in his office in Kota Baru, Kelantan on his remarks that all Malays are to be in one party. The following is the transcript of the interview with Nik Aziz.
The Petai (TP) : Tok Guru – can I call you TG? We would like to thank you for accepting our request for this interview. So TG, how have you been lately?
Tok Guru (TG) : Ok lah. Tak apa-apa. Only that when I get up in the morning, I have this terrible headache, I think I am tying my turban too tightly. Age is catching up, and we cannot expect everything to be as tight as it used to be (here TG winks at us and throws a glance at his very matured female clerk). You know what I mean, so it is time to loosen things up hehe…
TP: Oookaayy, so TG, what do you do to keep fit?
TG: I berlari 2 miles everyday, then berenang sedikit di Sungai Golok. After work, when I come home at about 3pm, again I go for a short jog, take my bath, do my prayers, have my meal – and do my husbandly duties with my wife later that night. That is probably one of the thing that is keeping me healthy, you should try it too but of course, not with my wife but with your own wife
TP: Again, oookaayy, so TG, what do you read to keep abreast with what is going on in Malaysia, the region and the world?
TG: (after about 10 seconds replies) I only read one thing, the Koran, everything that has happened, is happening, and going to happen is in the Koran, no newspaper, magazine or any other reading materials can beat the Koran…..and please do not use the word abreast again, it just threw me off, did you notice that I took some time to reply to your question. I want to keep my spiritual mind clean, use other words like “keep up” ohh, “keep up” also cannot, it will throw my mind off also – I will think of something later to replace such words… keep going! oouccchhh! I did it myself this time.
TP: Oookaayy, so TG, lets cut the chase and go straight for the jugular – in an interview today with Bernama, you mentioned that you want all Malays to be in one party, and that the party should be PAS. Would you like to comment on that?
TG: We do not want to confuse things too much for the Malay people –they are already a confused bunch. You have Umno, you have PBB (Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu), than you have PKR – so confusing, actually it’s very simple, no need so susah… (waves his hand in front of me like some Jedi) we alllllll shoulllldddd beeeeee under one bannnnnner, and thaaaatttt bannnnnnnner is PASssssssss…
TP: Ok TG, please stop waving your hand in-front of my face, I can still smell the belacan from your lunch on your fingers. So you are saying you want to keep it simple for the Malays?
TG: (now waving his fingers in-front of my face) Yyeeessssss…
TP: Than would it not be like in Indonesia during the Suharto era, where only 3 political parties were allowed to function and all the other parties had to choose among these 3 to function – would not there be more in-fighting?
TG : Betul! Now we are talking baby. Nowadays the young ones don’t know how to fight. Like Ibrahim Ali and Nazri Aziz. What “you dare me I dare you?” “Show me yours and I’ll show you mine?” Sound like small boys comparing their wee-wees in the toilet. How to take them seriously? We need to go back to simpler times. When we can close the door and settle with our fists. You put me in the ring with Dr. M, give me gloves and let’s see who is the last man standing. That Dr. M he’s a tough one. He knows “Look East” karate. But I have my Kelantanese silat-muay thai hybrid khas! I am going to whack Dr. M into a pulp. His stupid face is just begging me to whack and slap him until he cries for mercy. Did you ever notice that Dr. M does not have any emotions – when he gembira, he has that stupid look on his face, when he sedih, that same look is on his face, when he is reporting about something exciting, that same stupid sullen look is still on his face. At times I wonder if Dr. M is really alive, or he died and all his cronies have somehow kept his body alive and are pulling the strings from the back. Anyway, if we can get all the Malays into one party and if Dr. M is still alive, I would love to slug it out with Dr. M. The next person I want to slug it out with is Rais Yatim – that old fart needs to be sent to the mortuary and I will be doing all Malaysians a favour by sending him there.
TP : But TG, isn’t it better to have more parties, then there is diversification, and competition and more energies and ideas will flow because of this diversification.
TG: Who the hell cares about diversification and energies and idea and all these stupid crap.. I just want to slug it out with Dr. M and that old fart Rais. Or… oh-oh-oh we can have a threesome, Dr. M, the old fart Rais and me in the ring at the same time – it will be like killing two birds with one stone, more like two stupid birds. And one person who is stoned from the excitement of killing two birds. Ohhh, I am getting so raunchy thinking about it.
TP: So your idea is to get everybody under one banner – so you can fight?
TG: Yes yes yes, how else on earth can we kill all these corrupt, filthy, dirty, unspeakable Umno politicians – get them into one place and nuke them!!
TP: Do you think God will approve of this?
TG: Hai, we in PAS have rules that we play by. In PAS, we have the Ulama who decides if God approves or not – who are we to approve such things. We leave it to the Ulama to decide. But God is always forgiving. So inilah begitu, you know what I think.
TP: Going back to the Umno guys, how are you going to convince them, and the other Malay parties to join you.
TG: I have this elaborate plan, use money.
TP: What part of using money is elaborate?
TG: For Umno, money is enough elaboration, no need to explain anymore. They will come in droves to join PAS. And seeing that, all the other Malay parties will also join us HAHAHAHAHAHA (pauses for awhile with a strange faraway look on his face). Once Umno has joined us, we will kill all their stupid leaders, in Umno’s case, that means killing all the leaders – then together with the Umno ground guys – we will rule Malaysia as One Country Under Islam.
TP: But what if the Umno guys who join PAS kills off all the PAS leaders and take over the whole of Malaysia – I mean, that is a possible scenario you guys in PAS might want to ponder.
TG: Please lah, we are talking about Umno. When they join PAS, we will give them a door gift – which is actually a small bag of goodies like biscuits, sweets, kuih-muih inside – but at the same time, we will also place some arak inside the bag – and being Umno guys, they will definitely go for the arak, that is when we go and finish them off! HAHAHAHAHAHA (has a strange faraway look again).
TP : But TG, isn’t that evil?
TG: There is nothing evil about killing evil – it is okay (munches on his keropok).
TP: Do you think you will succeed?
TG: Of course I will succeed – my horoscope last week stated that I will succeed in whatever I do, so you see, I will succeed.
TP: Ok, lets say for argument’s sake you succeed – and you get all the Malays in one party and you kill off all your opponents, or in your words, the evil Malays – what then?
TG: Ahhhhhh, that will be Syurga – and then we will straight go to a goldsmith, recycle some of the gold dinars to make a crown, and I will wear a crown and rule Malaysia – that will solve my stupid morning headache problem J