Seputeh MP Teresa Kok was "egged" by a stranger after speaking about her controversial Chinese New Year video clip during a ceramah in Permatang Pauh in Penang last night.

However, Kok denied that she had been slapped by the unidentified assailant, as reported by a Malay-language daily.

Utusan Malaysia sent an SMS alert around midnight, stating: “Seputeh MP Teresa Kok was slapped by an unknown man after a ceramah at Taman Cermai, Permatang Pauh at 11.30pm”.

However, the Umno-owned daily soon issued a correction, saying Kok had not been slapped but was instead “handed” a rotten egg by a man, which later broke when they shook hands.

When contacted, Kok said the incident occurred after she had explained her video "Onederful Malaysia CNY 2014" to a crowd of some 300 people, when a man in his 30s approached her as she was sitting down.

"He said he wanted to shake my hand. So I extended my hand and shook his. Only then I realised he held an egg in his palm. The egg broke, soiling my hands and a little spilled on my clothes," she told Malaysiakini.

Kok said the man tried to leave as soon as the egg broke, but he was surrounded.

The situation then turned slightly chaotic and Kok said she did not know what happened to the man.

Kok: I did not insult Malays, soldiers or Islam

During her ceramah, Kok told the crowd that she did not insult the Malays, their religion or the soldiers who fought during the Lahad Datu incursion in Sabah with her video.

She said the crowd remained calm during her presentation, even when she told them that they should judge the matter for themselves after viewing her 11-minute “creation”, where she acted as a host to three Feng Shui masters.

"I also told the crowd that Pakatan Rakyat leaders are being continously attacked, for example PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim with the sodomy charges and DAP national chief Karpal Singh with the sedition charge," she added.

Kok was heavily criticised for her video, resulting in a protest by a coalition of Malay NGOs that slaughtered chickens and smeared the blood over banners featuring the faces of several opposition leaders, including Kok's.

The group also offered bounty (below) to anyone who was willing to slap Kok, with the act recorded as evidence.

However, Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi later dismissed the slap cash offer, stating it does not constitute a threat.

Kok had been invited by Solidarity Anak Muda Malaysia (Samm) to show and explain the content of her video to the public.

Accompanying Kok during the ceramah was DAP's Bukit Mertajam MP Steven Sim and PAS' Changkat Jering assemblyperson Nizar Jamaluddin.

Emboldened by Najib gov't's inaction

Sim, when contacted by Malaysiakini, said he had initially not planned  to attend the ceramah but changed his mind after being informed that Kok would be present in his constituency.

"We had heard from sources that there would be trouble, so I came to see if I could help.

"After ‘attacking’ Kok, the man was prevented from leaving by several members of the crowd and was later taken away by the police present at the ceramah site," he said.

Sim (left) added that it was unfortunate the incident took place just three days before International Women's Day.

"This is not only gutter politics and politics of hatred and violence but also the bullying of a woman leader.

"We have never seen male leaders subjected to threats like that, from being target of the slap offer and now this," he added.

Sim said the attackers were definitely emboldened by the inaction on the part of Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's administration on the earlier slap threat and chicken slaughter on a public road.

He urged Najib to “stop the madness” and come out to condemn both the chicken blood protesters and tonight’s attacker, as well as take stern legal action against them.


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