他因鸡奸而被定罪，五年内无法从政，而这正逢1958年马来西亚从大英帝国独立以来反对派对执政党马来民族统一组织（United Malays National Organization，UMNO）构成最严重的挑战之时。
His conviction on sodomy charges will effectively ban him from politics for five years, at a moment when the opposition is posing the most serious challenge to Malaysia’s ruling United Malays National Organization (UMNO) since the country gained its independence from the British Empire in 1958.