Kok won’t be cowed by dead chicken threat, Guan Eng says

GEORGE TOWN, Feb 19 — Lim Guan Eng said today that this morning’s discovery of a dead chicken and red paint at Teresa Kok’s office would not succeed in scaring the feisty lawmaker into backing down over her Chinese New Year video.

He expressed shock at the incident, however, and labelled it as an attempt to bully Kok into submission.

“I am shocked that they are trying to bully a lady like this but I am sure the lady will not back down because of this,” he told a press conference here.

Building manager Emily Sim Foo Lan told The Malay Mail Online that a staff member found the dead chicken and a photograph of Kok at the foot of the staircase at the latter’s office on Jalan Kuchai Lama at around 8am this morning.

The stairwell was also splattered with red paint.

She said this was the second time that items were thrown at Kok’s office since the parliamentarian’s Chinese New Year video went viral earlier this month.

A dead chicken and red paint was found thrown at the steps of Teresa Kok’s service centre on Jalan Kuchai Lama. — Picture courtesy of Emily Sim Foo Lan

“The first time... I think it was about the sixth day of Chinese New Year... a (funeral) wreath was found. We did not say anything at the time,” she said, adding that the wreath was addressed to Kok.

“But now, this is a serious matter because it has messed up our premises,” Sim said. She said will lodge a police report on the incident today.

Kok has come under fire in recent weeks over the 11-minute video that lampoons current affair issues in Malaysia.

She is being investigated by the police for the video, which Muslim groups have claimed is anti-Islam and anti-Malay.

Earlier this month, a group calling itself the “Council of Islamic NGOs” slaughtered live chickens in their protest against her video, after which they proceeded to smear the blood on a banner with images of DAP and PKR lawmakers.

The banner also warned of “nightmares” of May 13, 1969, in reference to the bloody racial riots of that year.

The group also reportedly incited physical violence against Kok, offering members of the public cash rewards to assault her.

The six Muslim groups alleged to have been involved in the protest are Pertubuhan Permuafakatan Majlis Ayahanda Malaysia (Permas), Pertubuhan Kebajikan Islam dan Dakwah (Pekida), Pertubuhan Kebajikan Insan Bakti Malaysia (Perkib), Persatuan Pengguna Islam Malaysia (PPIM) and Martabat Jalinan Muhibbah Malaysia (MJMM).