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SHAH ALAM, MALAYSIA, September 18, 2009: Six Malaysian Muslims have been charged with sedition for parading the severed head of a cow–the holiest animal in Hinduism–to protest the planned construction of a Hindu temple. The men were charged Wednesday in a district court in Shah Alam, the capital of Selangor state, where they had marched with the cow head and stomped on it Aug. 28. They were protesting the state government’s plan to build a temple in their largely Muslim neighborhood. Their protest offended Hindus and stoked tensions among Malaysia’s main ethnic groups — the Malay Muslim majority and the Chinese and Indian minorities. Sedition is punishable by up to three years in jail and a fine. The six men were freed on bail pending trial.