Penang Pakatan Rakyat leaders have lodged a police report over another provocative Facebook page that accuses DAP parliamentarian Steven Sim of having thrown a piece of pork into the compound of a mosque in Bukit Mertajam.

The page, with the headline ‘Boycott DAP Chinese Goods’, a picture of Sim with the caption, ‘Chinese threw pork into the Bukit Mertajam mosque’.

"This is slanderous and provocative," Sim told reporters after lodging the report at the Bandar Perda police station today.

He was accompanied by the DAP’s Bukit Bendera MP Zairil Khir Johari and PKR’s Seberang Jaya assemblyperson Dr Afif Bahardin.

Sim claimed there is a conspiracy to undermine the Pakatan-led state government by creating racial tension in Penang.

He then listed a chronology of events to back his assertion. These are:

Jan 18: At a pro-BN rally in Seberang Jaya, protesters carried a banner saying, ‘Because of DAP leaders mouths, May 13 happened. Want some more?’

Jan 26: Banners with the words ‘Allah is Great, Jesus son of Allah’ were found outside five churches, including one in Butterworth.

 

Jan 27: Two Molotov cocktails were thrown into the compound of the Church of the Assumption in Farquhar Street.

 

Feb 16: A slab of meat, suspected to be pork, was thrown into the compound of a mosque in Cherok Tokun.

Feb 18: An Umno member tweeted information from an anonymous blog that falsely claimed the Penang government is mulling a ban on the Friday sermon in mosques.

'Evil conspiracy'

Sim said it was obvious that this was the work of those “envious of Penang's development under Pakatan since 2008, and how different ethnic groups here live in harmony with one another".

He said the state government has, for example, increased allocations for Islamic affairs.

"These enemies of the state are so desperate that they have come up with an evil conspiracy to create racial tension," Sim said .

He called on the police, including Inspector-General Khalid Abu Bakar, to pay special attention to these developments and the reports that have been lodged.

"The police can no longer view these cases lightly. They should step up their probe into the incidents and nab the culprits immediately," Sim added.