Shocking interpretations of slapping offence and statutory rape
My article was earlier published in TheAntDaily.com on 29/3/2014 During the Chinese New Year celebration last January, Seputeh Member of Parliament (MP) Teresa Kok published a comedy video clip alleging blatant corruption, power abuse and mismanagement in the government. The reactions by Umno supporters and pro-Umno NGOs, combined under the so-called Coalition of Muslim NGOs, were fast, furious and even crude. They staged various demonstrations and slaughtered chickens in public to threaten Kok and accused her of insulting the Malays and Islam. At several protests held by these groups, they even offered a RM1,200 reward to whoever who could slap Kok and produce evidence to show it. Kok lodged a police report on the slap threat but Home Minister and Umno vice-president Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said the slap threat was not an offence, indirectly telling police to disregard the police report by the DAP leader. This means, to Umno, slapping or any attempt or thre...