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4 unusual facts about cow head protests


Cow head protests

Rodziah Ismail, who is the Selangor State Assemblywoman for Batu Tiga, which includes Section 23 Shah Alam was directly criticised and insulted by the protesters for not stopping the relocation of the temple.

The protest was caught on video by the popular Malaysian online news portal Malaysiakini.

This can be seen from the video clip of the protest caught by the popular Malaysian news online portal Malaysiakini.

Embarrassingly for Hishamuddin, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), the government multimedia agency, sent a letter to Malaysiakini.com appealing for it to take down both videos of the cow head protests and the press conference by the minister.


Rodziah Ismail

Malaysia’s Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein defended the cow head protests, arguing that building a Hindu shrine is unsuitable because the neighborhood is Muslim, and that “the residents only wanted their voices to be heard and it was unfortunate that 'the publicity they received was negative because it was linked with racial and religious sentiments.


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