In a blog posting, Zainuddin called the views espoused by the group - comprising mostly of former top civil servants and ex-judges - as "ultra liberal" in nature, and does not take into account the sensitivities of Muslims and Malays in the country.
He was flaying the group for recently questioning the need to demolish a surau in Mersing, Johor because a group of Buddhists had conducted prayers there.
The comments were made by the group's spokesperson, Noor Farida Ariffin, published in the Sunday Star last week.
"If such thoughts had come from DAP or non-Malays, then it would have been considered as being seditious, but just because it came from a Malay and Muslim with a high stranding in society, this issue had been looked at silently by the Home Ministry," he said.
"This is an example of how the Eminent 25 are adding problems for Najib (left)
even though the PM has not recovered from the trauma of wanting to
repeal of Sedition Act, though he dropped that intention later,"
Zainuddin noted."They are worsening Najib's image because the group is believed to be supported by Najib," he said.
He also claimed that the "public talk" right now is that the group is backed by the Global Movement of Moderates (GMM), which has liberal Umno ex-deputy minister Saifuddin Abdullah as its CEO, with The Star CEO Wong Chun Wai in its board of directors.
As such, Zainuddin said that it comes as "no surprise" that The Star is promoting the Eminent 25 in order to cover their "hidden agenda” of promoting “non-Malay bigotry" by "pointing fingers at Malays and Muslims".
"In my next posting, I will show how the Eminent 25 have insulted Umno," he added.
The group rose to prominence after penning an open letter to Najib on Dec 7 condemning rising extremism in the country.
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