In a video, over five minutes long, Zulkifli made statements that “grossly insults and ridicules Hindus and their religion,” said PKR vice-president N Surendran in a statement today.
“The words uttered by Zulkifli amount to one of the worst ever attacks upon a major religion in this country.”
Surendran (left)
urged the attorney-general and inspector-general of police to
investigate the independent Kulim-Bandar Baharu MP under Section 298A of
the Penal Code.The law provides for a jail term between two to five years for causing disharmony.
In the video, Zulkifli was shown to be recounting a conversation with a trader selling statues of Hindu deities, after his shop was hit by a flood.
He claimed that the trader said his shop was ruined as a result, including the statues.
“Even the (statues of) deities were damaged? How come? They are supposed to be gods. Why didn’t you line up the gods in front of your shop to stop the flood from entering your shop and divert it to the Indian Muslim shops?
“Why didn’t you do that since God is supposed to protect us? They cannot even stop the water? And the trader tells me, ‘Hey brother, how is that possible. It is just stone’,” he allegedly said, among others.
The video was uploaded yesterday on pro-Pakatan Rakyat YouTube and Facebook pages, both named 'Chandra Lawan Tetap Lawan'.
However, it is unclear where or when the edited video was taken, when did it first surface, and whether Zulkifli's speech had been taken out of context.
Zulkifli was previously a PKR member but was sacked following disagreements over the party’s stance on use of the word ‘Allah’ as a Malay translation for the word ‘God’, which included him lodging police reports and making public statements against his then follow Pakatan Rakyat MPs.
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