Malaysiakini journalist Kow Gah Chie is being harassed on Facebook over an article she wrote regarding Environment Minister Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man defending logging in Kelantan.
The posting on Thursday seeks to imply that Malaysiakini’s article on the matter had been fabricated as it was not asked at Tuan Ibrahim’s press conference the day before, which had been streamed live.
The article was actually based on a doorstep, where reporters, including Malaysiakini, spoke to the minister after the press conference.
The posting, which contains personal attacks to Kow, also draws attention to the fact that she was previously with the Chinese news desk.
As of writing, the posting has been shared more than 2,900 times and has more than 2,200 comments.
Most of the comments are racist in nature, with many calling the Malaysiakini journalist “babi” (pig).
Some suggested that she should be physically harmed, or spat at.
The posting also accused Malaysiakini of dividing Muslims.
Once again, issues that are really to do with power and money – in this case the desire of the Kelantan government to chop down the remaining timber in their state at the expense of the rights of the customary rights of the indigenous people and the collapsing environment – are being dressed up in racial and religious terms.
These folk are of the view that if they state they have a ‘divine right’ to do something in the name of race or religion then anyone who disagrees with their political and materialistic ambitions are countering God or King and Country (usually all three).
They immediately attack even those who merely report on the matter, threatening them with racist slurs and aggression in the name of religion.
Such people bring shame on their own race and religion by such behaviour and usually seek to ice the cake by acting affronted on behalf of royalty as well. With such champions the institutions they claim to defend need no enemies and these aggressors should be told to behave (fat chance).