The video features controversial rapper Wee Meng Chee, known by his stage name Namewee, sitting on a chair in front of a domed building and mimicking barks of canines from around the world. They said four police reports had been lodged about the video, which has been viewed more than 950,000 times on YouTube. In another YouTube video posted several days ago, the rapper denied having insulted Islam and said that the domed building visible in the background was the prime minister's office, not a mosque. Lunar New Year is a major celebration in Malaysia, where a quarter of the population are from the Chinese diaspora. In 2016, he was detained for several days for allegedly insulting Islam over a video partly filmed inside a mosque.

Source: The Nation Bangkok February 23, 2018 07:52 UTC