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Worshippers at two Kuala Lumpur mosques discovered severed pig heads in the buildings Wednesday further raising tensions in Malaysia’s capital.
The incidents at the mosques, located in an ethnic Malay-dominated suburb of the capital, Kuala Lumpur, raised fears that already strained relations between Malaysia’s majority Muslim population and its large minorities of Christians, Hindus and Buddhists would be further aggravated, the Malaysia Sun reports.
Police chief Musa Hassan said unknown culprits had thrown the severed heads into the mosques and urged people of all religions not to react to the incident.
Pigs are considered offensive animals to Muslims, who are forbidden to consume pork, and coming into contact with the animal renders a Muslim unclean.
‘We will meet with heads of all religious groups in the district to seek their assistance to cool things down,’ Musa was quoted as saying by the Star newspaper.
‘I have directed that extra patrols be conducted at places of worship throughout the country,’ he said.
Over the past few weeks, 11 churches, a Catholic school, a Sikh temple, two mosques and two Muslim prayer rooms have been hit by arson and vandalism attacks in an escalating row over the use of the word Allah by Christians.
Pig heads thrown into Malaysian mosques (Malaysia Sun)
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