With the Umno Youth chief refusing to back down on his calls to boycott KK Mart over the socks with the word “Allah” imprinted on them, two East Malaysia-based NGOs urged the Sarawak and Sabah governments to include Dr Muhamad Akmal Saleh on their travel ban list.

In a joint statement, the NGOs also called upon Sarawak to ban several hate preachers from entering the territories...