The man who disrupted National Mosque imam Mohd Zuhairee Mohd Yatim’s congregational Friday prayer sercvice this afternoon has been deemed mentally unstable, and was hearing voices in his head.
Dang Wangi OCPD ACP Zainol Samah told The Star Online‘s Farik Zolkepli that the assailant, a man from Kashmir in his early 30s, had appeared to be mentally ill and was heard talking to himself.
“He told us that he heard a voice telling him to be the Imam,” he said.
The assailant disrupted Friday prayers at the National Mosque at about 1.30pm when he shouldered past the congregation to push imam Zuhairee aside.
When Zuhairee continued with leading the prayer, the assailant struck the imam across the face, grabbed the microphone, and attempted to assume the role of imam himself.
He was apprehended by National Mosque security before being handed over to the police.
A video posted by Astro Awani on its official Facebook page showed the man being himself attacked and derided by other members of the congregation after the prayer service, as he was being escorted into a police patrol car. The video has since gone viral among Malaysian netizens.
