A second store belonging to a Malaysian chain that had offered socks bearing the word “Allah” for sale has been attacked with a Molotov cocktail, police said on Monday.
The incident happened on Sunday, a day after a similar attack on another store in a different city.
“A glass bottle filled with kerosene was thrown” at a KK Supermart branch in Kuching, the capital of Sarawak, on Malaysia’s Borneo island, local police chief Ahsmon Bajah said in a statement.
Boxes containing mineral water bottles, which were stacked outside the shop, caught fire.
The two attacks came days after the mini-market chain’s executives were charged with hurting religious feelings over the sale of the socks at another of its stores.
No arrests have been made in either attack, police said.
Pictures of the socks spread on social media last month, sparking public outrage among some Muslims who regarded…
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