PETALING JAYA: Perlis Mufti Datuk Dr Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin says his controversial poem on "cow worshippers" was actually referring to recent events in India, and not intended as an insult to local Hindus.
In a Facebook posting on Saturday, Dr Asri said the poem referred to an incident in western India earlier this month, where a Muslim man was killed by "cow protection vigilantes" after being suspected of eating beef.
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