Press Digest - Too Sexy for MPKB?

PETALING JAYA: Kota Baru Municipal Council's (MPKB) issuance of a summons to a watch retailer for displaying two "sexy" posters at its premises has not gone down well with many traders.
They urged the council to not impose Islamic policies/standards on non-Muslims.
According to a report in Nanyang Siang Pau today, some traders said the council's action to punish the shop owner for putting up two posters showing models who are not in bikinis and are far from sexy was disturbing.
These traders are worried that others shops would face similar treatment in the future.
Based on the summons issued to the shop owner, he had committed an offence under Article 107 (2) of the Local Government Act 1976 for displaying posters showing sexy women at its new outlet in Aeon Mall.
It is not the first time that the council had drawn flak for action over "sexy" posters.
In 2013, it kicked up a storm for ordering several non-Muslim hairdressing salons to remove posters of women without head covers.
Malaysia-China Chamber of Commerce Kelantan Branch's Women Entrepreneurs Section said the action of MPKB will turn away potential investors.
"To the general public, the ladies in the posters look elegant but the council's officers deem them sexy. We want to know the officers' definition of sexy," it said.
Meanwhile, Kelantan state executive committee member Anur Tan Abdullah said he did not agree with MPKB's move to take immediate action against the non-Muslim watch retailer.
"The council should give traders some leeway," he said on Tuesday.
Commenting on the incident the same day, Kelantan MCA secretary Datuk Lua Choon Hann said what was happening on the ground was proof that PAS was merely paying lip service when it said hudud would not affect non-Muslims.