Malaysian mosque bans tourists

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A Malaysian mosque has banned all tourist visits after a video of two female performed a “sexy dancing’” outside of the main holy mosque in the city of Kota Kinabalu, on Borneo Island.

In the video, the pair of females believed to be East Asian foreigners, and the accurate nationality of the pair involved was not clear yet.

Residents and local Muslim groups were angry about the two women’s risque dancing gesture, which smeared the reputation of the holy blue and gold beautiful domes and the magnificent minarets of the mosques.

A video shows that two female visitors doing a “sexy dancing’” within skimpy outfits outside of the main holy mosque. /Weibo Photo

During the video, even the video watchers can hear some lookers to ask “Why don’t they just fall off the wall?”

Jamal Sakaran, the mosque chairman, slammed “the unacceptable" behavior by foreign tourists and announced a temporary halt to any tourists visiting the mosque, in order to "preserve the sanctity of Islam,” according to mail online reported.

The state tourism minster Christina Liew indicates that they will not find out the pair since they were likely unware about their rude actions. However, they still want to trace the women and let them know “that something they deemed as ‘fun’ was actually disrespectful and not right in Sabah.” Ms Liew told the Star newspaper.

This news has become burning issues through social media, which sparked a hot controversy on Chinese twitter Weibo. According to the information from Weibo, the pair of female was taking Tik Tok (known as Douyin in Chinese) video, which was the world’s most download non-game app on Apple’s App Store. Many internet celebrities produced through this App.

One netizen named jesusxin on Weibo commend the video that “it’s not a shame people has no belief but it’s a shame to disregard other’s belief.”

Both local and foreign visitors can visit mosques in Muslim –majority Malaysia but as well as known the visitors required to wear modest clothing in order to respect the culture of Islam.