Yee Moh Chai lodges report over turban meme
Published on: Saturday, September 19, 2020
By: FMT
Yee (second from left) after filing the report at the Karamunsing police station today. (Photo: FMT)
Kota Kinabalu: PBS candidate for the Api-Api seat, Yee Moh Chai, today lodged a police report after a campaign poster was doctored to depict him wearing a turban, with an Islamic slogan, and then spread on social media.
He said the picture was manipulated by certain parties with the intention of harming his reputation.
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“I believe the culprit edited the picture to play on sensitive religious and racial sentiments, which can disrupt the peace and harmony here.
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“We worry that the picture manipulated by irresponsible parties will give the impression that I am intentionally mocking the beliefs of other faiths,” he said in a statement today.
Yee said he made the report as he believed the picture was seditious, adding that he hoped swift action would be taken by the authorities.