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Sock-gate triggers friendly fire
Vigilanteism over sock comments
Padu deadline looms
Sock-gate triggers friendly fire
Tensions over the "Allah" socks controversy have led to friendly fire within the Madani government.
Three ministers have rebuked Umno Youth chief Dr Muhamad Akmal Saleh for continuing to stoke sentiments despite KK Mart apologising for the debacle.
Akmal, however, remains defiant telling one of his critics - Housing and Local Government Minister Nga Kor Ming - to "bring it on".
Meanwhile, Penang PKR leader Fahmi Zainal also chastised Nga, telling the DAP leader to, essentially, put a sock in it, and refrain from commenting on the issue.
The matter has also caught royal attention, with the Yang di-Pertuan Agong remarking that KK Mart's explanation that the socks were an oversight, was not acceptable.
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Vigilanteism over sock comments
Some members of the public have taken it into their own hands to confront those who made light of the socks controversy.
In Kuala Lumpur, the identity card number, phone number, email, and home address of a man who poked fun at the issue was released by internet vigilantes.
The man had joked that the socks with the word Allah printed on them should be welcomed as it meant the person wearing it has Allah’s protection “from head to feet”.
A silat instructor and his friends then confronted the man, who made a public apology.
A similar incident happened in Kota Kinabalu where a man who made derogatory remarks about Islam apologised after an angry group tried to confront him in the lobby of his condominium.
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Padu deadline looms
The deadline for Malaysians to update their data in the Central Database Hub (Padu) is less than two weeks away.
Economy Minister Rafizi Ramli warned that residents in 4,752 localities are at risk of being excluded from government assistance by not updating their data.
The government is stepping up efforts to meet people in person to prompt them to update their data.
As of Monday night, less than six million people have updated their Padu data.
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