Well that escalated quickly.
Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar warned Malaysians who have been critical and voicing negative comments on Islam and Kelantan’s newly-passed hudud law that they could provoke a violent response from Islamic State, the Middle Eastern militant Islamist organisation.
He said that openly questioning such “sensitive issues” as religion and religious law could threaten national security.
“The public should immediately stop making negative public comments as these could invite a reaction from the IS. I do not want what happened in France to also happen in our country,” he told Bernama yesterday.
He was referring to Islamic State threats in February, when the terror organisation made open calls to French Muslims to overthrow their elected government, and vowed to carry out terror attacks in the secular European nation.
Khalid also warned that discussing and debating Islamic law would incur the wrath of other people, who he did not mention by name.
We guess Malaysians better start watching what they say about anything from now on, since any number of foreign threats could take umbrage and bombard us with violent reprisals. (Psst: don’t piss off the angry militant gays in San Fransisco. They could hit us with glitter bombs.)
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