ABDUL Hadi Awang is an infidel and a traitor to Muslims, said Dr Mahathir Mohamad in a stinging attack against the PAS president.

The former prime minister today continued to blame Hadi for supporting Prime Minister Najib Razak.

Dr Mahathir, who is now Pakatan Harapan chairman, said Hadi had called Umno a party of infidels but was now working with Umno, and this made Hadi an infidel, too.

“The person abusing Islam is Hadi. He said the government is an infidel government; he said that if you die fighting the government, you will gain.

““Najib is a kafir, according to PAS. But you see, he (Hadi) is going to help this kafir. (And) He (Hadi) has said that if you work with kafir, you become kafir,” Dr Mahathir said at his office in Putrajaya.

He said Hadi was leading his party to contest in the next general election despite knowing full well that it would lose, because Hadi wished to split votes for the opposition to “help Najib win”.

“Hadi knows very well that most of the seats will be lost, but he would be helping Najib win by splitting the opposition vote. That is his intention, and that is not very Islamic.”

“In Malay we call (such a person) ‘pengkhianat’ (traitor) because that is what he is. I mean, he is going to go in and contest when he knows very well he is going to lose; but he knows the effect of him contesting,” Dr Mahathir said.

He said although Hadi might stand to “win a few seats”, PAS had no chance of winning if it were to contest on its own in the general election.

“He (Hadi) may win a few seats, (but) you know that when PAS contested as PAS, without joining any coalition, they never won more than 11 seats. Once they won only one seat, on their own.

“They only won when they joined DAP, with DAP they won 21 and then 27 seats, so now they are going to go it alone, and alone they are going to lose. Of the 130 or one million seats they are going to contest, they will lose all, but they will be helping their good friend, formerly the kafir from Umno,” he said.

Hadi had in the past called on PAS members to oppose Umno, assuring them that they would become martyrs if they died fighting the party of infidels. – January 3, 2018.