Vocal Malay-Muslim rights group Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia (ISMA) have called out the Kedah state government for releasing billboard advertisements depicting “sexy” women muay thai fighters in conjunction with an upcoming event in Alor Setar, saying the images would invite the “wrath of Allah” on the state.
ISMA’s Kedah chapter,through its ismaalorsetar.net official site , said the the billboards were sinful as the muay thai exponents it featured were dressed in “indecent” gear.
Commenting on the ad for the Chief Minister’s Cup Muay Thai Championship 2014, Kedah ISMA communications chief Ustazz Haji Abdul Fisol Mohd Isa said, “This is what will bring down the Allah’s wrath!”
The post on ISMA Kedah’s official site goes on to say that an incident of this nature would not have happened under the previous Kedah state government, which “tightened regulations to ensure that Muslim women in advertisements were required to be dressed in hijab“.
Kedah is currently under Barisan Nasional (BN) rule with Datuk Seri Mukhriz Mahathir of UMNO as its Menteri Besar; previously Kedah was administered by a PAS-led Pakatan Rakyat government.
ISMA has emerged in recent months as being a mouthpiece for right-wing Malay rights advocacy, accusing other communities and special interests of attempting to dilute Malay and Muslim special privileges in Malaysia.
ISMA president Abdullah Zaik Abdullah was charged with sedition after he stated in May that the migration of ethnic Chinese Malaysians to the country was a ploy by the British colonialists to undermine Malay sovereignty in Malaya, and are therefore intruders on Malay land even now.
