WHILE he was showered with praises for his bold idea by his fanbase, DAP adviser Lim Guan Eng has found himself lambasted by the rightist fraternity for disrespecting the nation’s official religion by mooting the so-called Butterworth mega pork sale last weekend (June 14).

Staged for the fourth straight year at the covered basketball court at the Taman Selat Tua Pek Kong Temple in mainland Penang with prior approval of the Seberang Perai City Council, the event in conjunction with the annual Dragon Boat Festival saw some 2,000 porcine consumers literally snatched up 60 swine in two hours.

“Other places don’t want, can’t or don’t even dare to hold pork sales but not Butterworth because we want to prove to everyone that Butterworth folks live with dignity, hence wish to usher in the Dragon Boat Festival with pride,” the four-term Bagan MP penned in a recent Mandarin-only Facebook post.

Although at the beginning there were some opposition voices saying that pork should not be sold in public places, I believe that buying and eating pork is part of the freedom and right of the people.
Therefore, I decided to continue to support such activity with an allocation of RM100,000.

According to Guan Eng, response was encouraging with buyers started queuing up as early as 4.40am.

“A total of 20 stalls participated in selling meat from 60 pigs. The meat was sold at the price of RM10 cheaper per kg than the market price,” enthused the four-term Air Putih state assemblyman.

“Purchase is only open to non-Muslim citizens who possess MyKad with a maximum limit of 4kg per person while pork belly is limited to 1kg per buyer.”

Belittling Islam

But when Malay language news portal MYNEWSHUB featured Guan Eng’s post on its FB page, brickbats of sorts were hurled at the seasoned DAP lawmaker with the post having attracted 6K likes, 4.2K comments and 1.4k shares at the time of writing.

One commenter described the mega pork sale as an activity “that seemingly challenges Muslims in Malaysia at a time when the pig farming issue (is Selangor) is being hotly debated”.

“Now they (DAP) organised a massive pork sale programme in Penang … that’s how DAP always harp on sensitive issues pertaining to Muslims in Malaysia,” berated the presumably PAS loyalist from Kota Bharu.

“We are the ones to decide if there should be another (DAP) Cabinet minister in the Putrajaya government after GE16 (16^th General Election).”

Another commenter provoked his brethren with his remark that “the kafir (infidels) will not be satisfied as long as Muslims do not follow their lead”.

One netizen claimed that DAP “has clearly broken the law”. “The open sale of pork is against the law. Action should be taken against the local authority which granted the license,” he hit out.

One commenter contended that “it is within the right of the Chinese to consume as much pork as they wish so long as they rear the hogs in the vicinity of Chinese settlements”.

“Muslims eat beef with cows being farmed close to where Muslims live. Mutton is a favourite of Indians, henceforth goats are reared in the confines of where Indians live,” he justified.

Yet it was lamented that “many Malay Muslims still proudly support DAP”.

The bottom line, as one opposition-slant commenter put is, the days of the Madani government are numbered. – June 17, 2026

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