MCA has blasted Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi's "lackadaisical" response to last weekend's cow's head attack in Penang, and called on him to act to restore confidence in BN's administration.

"It is unfortunate that Home Minister Zahid Hamidi has taken a lackadaisical approach... towards the incident.

"For a cabinet minister in charge of the nation’s security and stability, Malaysians expect him to uphold the law, even if the intended target is from an opponent political party.

"Such apathetic and arrogant remarks will only encourage further acts of violence and Malaysia descending into a state of lawlessness," MCA religious harmony bureau chairperson Ti Lian Ker said in a statement today.

Ti said Zahid's call for immediate action against those who threw a skinned cow's head at DAP Seri Delima state assemblyperson RSN Rayer's house last Saturday would redeem BN's image.

"By urging action against the culprits... public confidence in BN would be restored as BN would be known to uphold the law and protect all Malaysian citizens, irrespective of political ideology and ethnicity," he said.

'Show government fair to all'

Ti also called on the police force to hasten the search for the culprits before the incident stirred any political or racial tension among Malaysians.

“We shudder a situation of racial tension being stoked, or the perception of bias by the Home Ministry and the police, whereby law enforcers will not be bothered as the target of the attack is from the opposition or does not share the same faith as Zahid.”

Ti pointed out the people were already "seething in disbelief against the inspector-general of police wantonly snubbing " the court orders awarding custody to the non-Muslim mothers in the interfaith cases of M Indira Ghandi and S Deepa.

Here was Zahid's chance to prove the government's competence, he said.

“By upholding the law, that is, pursuing the cow head case or abiding with the civil court orders, Zahid will put a halt to the impression that the authorities, and he as the home minister, are ignoring or displacing the rights of minorities and approving the actions of lawbreakers.”

Last Saturday, Zahid said the act of vandalism against Rayer was the "price" Rayer had to pay for uttering "Celaka Umno" during the last Penang state assembly sitting.