{"id":9405,"date":"2010-08-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/08\/13\/twelve-fined-for-cow-head-protest-in-malaysia\/"},"modified":"2010-08-13T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T12:00:00","slug":"twelve-fined-for-cow-head-protest-in-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/08\/13\/twelve-fined-for-cow-head-protest-in-malaysia\/","title":{"rendered":"Twelve Fined for Cow Head Protest in Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/BreakingNews\/SEAsia\/Story\/STIStory_558723.html\">www.straitstimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, July 28, 2010: A Malaysian court on Tuesday fined 12 Muslims and sentenced one of them to a week in prison for illegally protesting the construction of a Hindu temple by parading a severed cow&#8217;s head.<\/p>\n<p>The 12 men were among scores of Muslims who marched with a bloodied cow&#8217;s head from a mosque to the central Selangor state chief minister&#8217;s office on Aug 28, 2009 to denounce the state government&#8217;s plan to build a Hindu temple in their largely Muslim neighborhood. Some of the protesters also stomped and spat on the head and made fiery speeches that deeply offended Hindus. <\/p>\n<p>All 12 pleaded guilty in a Selangor district court on Tuesday to a charge of illegal assembly and were fined 1,000 ringgit (US$310) each, said defense lawyer Afifuddin Hafifi. They faced up to a year in prison and a fine for the charge.<\/p>\n<p>Two of them who brought and stepped on the cow&#8217;s head also pleaded guilty to sedition. Both were fined an additional 3,000 ringgit (US$930), and one was sentenced to a week in prison, Mr Afifuddin said.<\/p>\n<p>The protest was among the most high-profile in a string of interfaith disputes in recent years that threatened religious peace among Malaysians. Early this year, a string of firebomb attacks and vandalism hit mostly non-Muslim places of worship following a court verdict that allowed Christians to use &#8220;Allah&#8221; in Malay-language publications. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.straitstimes.com KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, July 28, 2010: A Malaysian court on Tuesday fined 12 Muslims and sentenced one of,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}