Legal action against traders selling clothes with printed Quranic verses

The police, with cooperation from Domestic Trade, Cooperative and Consumerism Ministry, are investigating traders selling dresses and clothes with Quranic verses printed on them.

Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said legal action would be taken against such traders in accordance with the existing law.

"Police and the ministry are in the midst of identifying traders who are selling clothes with Quranic verses printed on them.

"Once identified, legal action will be taken against them," he told reporters after attending Wanita Umno-Uniformed Bodies Jalinan Ramadan programme launched by Wanita Umno chief Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil here Monday.

Also present were Armed Forces chief General Tan Sri Zulkifeli Mohd Zain and Civil Defence Department director-general Datuk Zaitun Ab Samad.

Khalid said this in response to the picture of a Korean woman who was seen attired in a dress with Quranic verses printed on it.

The picture, which went viral on social media, also showed a man, believed to be an Arab, seemingly scolding the woman at a supermarket in Taman Dagang, Ampang near here.