{"id":63002,"date":"2024-04-02T18:30:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T09:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/02\/malaysian-shop-chain-that-sold-allah-socks-targeted-with-petrol-bombs"},"modified":"2024-04-02T18:30:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T09:30:23","slug":"malaysian-shop-chain-that-sold-allah-socks-targeted-with-petrol-bombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63002","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian shop chain that sold \u2018Allah socks\u2019 targeted with petrol bombs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three stores hit with molotov cocktails after pictures of socks deemed offensive by Muslims shared on social media<\/p>\n<p>Three stores belonging to a Malaysian minimart chain that sold socks carrying the word \u201cAllah\u201d have been targeted with molotov cocktails over the past week, in a rare case of such violence.<\/p>\n<p>One of KK Super Mart\u2019s stores in Kuching, the capital of Sarawak, in Malaysian Borneo, was hit by a molotov cocktail on Sunday, a day after a separate attack on a store in Pahang on the east coast of peninsular Malaysia. On 26 March, a store in Perak was also targeted with a petrol bomb, though it did not ignite, according to local media.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/02\/malaysian-shop-chain-that-sold-allah-socks-targeted-with-petrol-bombs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three stores hit with molotov cocktails after pictures of socks deemed offensive by Muslims shared on social mediaThree stores belonging to a Malaysian minimart chain that sold socks carrying the word \u201cAllah\u201d have been targeted with molotov cocktails o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[447,70,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","category-malaysia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63003,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63002\/revisions\/63003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}