KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 28 — Muslim group Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia (Isma) blasted the Kedah authorities today for installing billboard advertisements of “sexy” women muay thai fighters, claiming the pictures would invite the “wrath of Allah” on the state.

The group’s Kedah chapter said the billboards were considered sinful because they showed the fighters garbed in “indecent” wear.

“These are advertisements that would invite the wrath of Allah!” Kedah Isma chief Abdul Fisol Mohd Isa was quoted as saying in an interview with the group’s website ismaalorstar.net.

The billboards are promotional advertisements for the Z1 International 2014 Mentri Besar Muay Thai Tournament, which features pictures of both men and women fighters.

Men muay thai fighters are usually dressed only in shorts, while the women are dressed in shorts and a sports bra that fully covers the breasts.

The report said, however, that the advertisement is considered sinful because the women featured had not put on hijab (veil) or covered the “aurat”.

The report also appeared to suggest that the billboards would not have been installed if Kedah was still under the rule of Islamist party PAS.

“These things were never present under the previous administration,” it said, referring to the government of the late former Kedah PAS Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Azizan Abdul Razak.

Kedah fell to Barisan Nasional (BN) during last year’s 13th general election and is currently ruled by Umno’s Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir.

The Kedah government has yet to respond to Malay Mail Online’s request for comment at the time of publication.

A screenshot of the promotional advertisements for the Z1 International 2014 Mentri Besar Muay Thai Tournament, which features pictures of both men and women fighters.

Isma has in recent months emerged as one of the most outspoken right-wing Malay-Muslim groups in demanding what they assert to be Malay and Muslim rights, accusing other communities of usurping and undermining these.

It regularly accuses rights movements and those who do not subscribe to their views of being proxies and agents of an alleged agenda to mislead Malays and Muslims.

Isma previously claimed that “Western-style democracy” was a ruse by developed countries to colonise Muslim nations through soft power, and alleged the United Nations was an invention of the Jews.

In May, Isma president Abdullah Zaik Abd Rahman wrote that the ethnic Chinese were considered intruders into Malay land, and had been brought by British colonialists to oppress Malays.

He has since been charged with sedition for the remark.