nak tok di heboh.. betul ludah keatas kenak muka dirikpun. bak kata dr M. melayu mudah lupa.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Malaysian police will take action against a group of Muslims who paraded through the streets with a bloodied cow head to protest the proposed construction of a Hindu temple in their neighborhood, the home minister said Thursday.
Opposition groups responded by accusing the government of playing politics and expressed disappointment that the culprits had yet to be charged.
Cows are a sacred animal in Hinduism, and last Friday's protest in central Selangor state _ in which the demonstrators vowed there would be bloodshed if the temple was built _ has raised religious tension in this Muslim-majority country where Hindus comprise about 7 percent of the 27 million people.
Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said residents in the neighborhood told him at a meeting Wednesday that they did not mean to incite racial hatred but wanted to express dissatisfaction with the opposition-led state government for ignoring their complaints.
Still, he said, the country's laws must be followed and action would be taken against those responsible.
"Police have identified those involved and will bring them to face justice," he said in a statement. He gave no further details.
Some opposition lawmakers have accused the United Malays National Organization, the main political party in the ruling coalition, of orchestrating the protest to create unrest in efforts to regain control of the state. UMNO politicians have denied it.
"UMNO is resorting to ... devious tactics of interlinking religion and politics to create fear among the masses as a means of getting Malay support back into the party fold," said Selangor opposition legislator Charles Santiago. He called for the protesters to be charged in court.
The Malaysian Hindu Sangam activist group said it was "very disappointed" action had yet been taken against the protesters.
Malaysia has carefully nurtured racial harmony among its three main ethnic groups, Malay Muslims, Chinese and Indians, since 1969 when the country suffered its worst racial riots. But tensions have risen in recent years amid complaints by the minorities that their rights are being eroded along with the rising influence of Islamic hard-liners.
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