RELIGION AND POLITICS - MUST REMAIN SEPARATE

Perak Mentri Besar is showing his PAS colours and it is good that the royal house of Perak has intervened and made it very clear that the Perak Religious Department is off limits.

ALL of us in this country -- ESPECIALLY ALL THE LIBERALS AND PROGRESSIVES OF EVERY RACE, COLOUR AND SEX -- must do everything within our powers to block religious zealots from holding positions of high office. There must be a separation of religion and politics. Failing to ensure the separation of state and religion will only lead to bloodshed as religion is a powerful tool that can both manipulate and move unthinking people into violence.