Why he did this? He is the one to judge!
Police have arrested a man who slapped a woman for not wearing the hijab (headscarf) at a bus stop in Penang. A video was captured when the incident happened on 5 Jan.
In the video, the man walks close to a group of women at the bus stop and asked which religion they belonged to. One of them, who is an Indonesian, answers "Muslim" and the man becomes emotional and starts to talks loud.
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He askes why the woman not wearing a headscarf and keeps pointing at the woman with his finger. After a few minutes of argument, the man slaps the woman across her head.
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The 30-year-old man was taken into the district police custody at 10:30 pm last night. He admitted he had shoved the head of the Indonesian victim.
Police officer Nik Ros Azhan Abdul Hamid added that the man has "unsound mind" and he was undergoing the mental evaluation.
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The man is facing a prison sentence up to a year, or US$500 fine.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine troops killed the leader of a small Muslim rebel group and eleven of his men blamed for past bombings and extortion in a clash in the country’s south, military officials said Tuesday.
Seven soldiers were wounded in the hourlong gunbattle Monday against suspected members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters in a marshy hinterland in Datu Saudi Ampatuan town in Maguindanao del Sur province, Brig. Gen. Jose Vladimir Cagara said.
Cagara said a key commander of the rebel group, Mohiden Animbang, who used the nom de guerre Karialan, was killed, along with his brother, Saga Animbang and 10 other suspected militants. About a dozen of their firearms were recovered from the battle scene.
"This group has long been notorious for bombings, attacking army and police outposts and extortion of bus companies. We finally caught up with them,” Lt. Col. Dennis Almorato, a regional army spokesperson, told The Associated Press by telephone.
Army officials have tried to convince Animbang’s group to surrender but it chose to continue fighting the government, Almorato said.
The Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters is among a few armed groups still waging a separatist uprising in the southern Philippines, homeland of minority Muslims in the largely Catholic nation.
The largest armed separatist group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, signed a 2014 peace pact with the government that eased decades of sporadic fighting. A key commander, Ameril Umbra Kato, broke off from the rebel front when it pursued peace talks with the government and formed the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, some hardline members of which later aligned with the Islamic State group.
The military is separately fighting a decades-old communist insurgency, which has been weakened by battle setbacks, infighting and surrenders.
In this handout photo provided by the Philippine Army 6th Infantry Division, recovered firearms from suspected members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters are seen after a gunbattle with Philippine troops at Datu Saudi Ampatuan town in Maguindanao del Sur province, southern Philippines on Monday April 22, 2024. Philippine troops killed the leader of a small Muslim rebel group and eleven of his men blamed for past bombings and extortion in a clash in the country's south, military officials said Tuesday. (Philippine Army 6th Infantry Division via AP)
