Dozens of Malaysian Muslims paraded Friday with the head of a cow, a sacred animal in Hinduism, in a dramatic protest against the proposed construction of a Hindu temple in their neighborhood.
The unusual protest by some 50 people in Shah Alam, the capital of Selangor state, raises new fears of racial tensions in this multiethnic Muslim-majority country where Hindus comprise about 7 percent of the 27 million population.
The demonstrators who marched from a nearby mosque after Friday prayers dumped the cow head outside the gates of the state government headquarters. Selangor adjoins Kuala Lumpur.
Protesters stomped on the head and spat on it before leaving the site, Xavier Jeyakumar, a state government official in charge of non-Muslim affairs, told The Associated Press.
WHAT.
Seriously, first the beer thing, now this? What the hell's in the water down there in Selangor? Kelantan - fucking Kelantan - never had this kind of problem. Three days before Merdeka Day, no less. At least Najib's smart enough to realise that this demo isn't exactly in support of the 1Malaysia thing he's been espousing since coming into office.
Except that... come on, how many of us actually expect any of these racist fucktards to actually get anything more than a slap on the wrist, if even that? Ahmad Ismail got off relatively unscathed, and the fact that the cops stood by and did nothing while dozens of crazy racists stepped on a cow's head during freakin' Ramadan doesn't help either. (If it's a bunch of Indians dragging a pig's head into a Malay kampung, on the other hand...)
It's coming to a point where I honestly don't know what to expect from these people anymore. I fancy myself jaded and cynical about Malaysian politics and racial attitudes, then I read about people jumping on a cow's head in the street. Holy shit.
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fantastic
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