BFM presenter Aisyah has initiated a police complaint against the deluge of rape and death threats she received on social media

A screenshot of Aisyah Tajuddin in the ‘Hudud Isi Periuk Nasi? [Kupas]’ video posted on YouTube.KUALA LUMPUR, March 25 — Calling it criminal intimidation, BFM presenter Aisyah Tajuddin has initiated a police complaint against the deluge of rape and death threats she received on social media over a satirical video questioning hudud.

Malay Mail Online understands that the young radio journalist has lodged a police report at the Damansara Utama police station in Selangor today, against the various threats posted on Facebook pages like Kelantan Story & Jj Stall Story and Sukan Star TV.

“If you go to those FB pages, you will see a lot of comments,” a source told Malay Mail Online.

Aisyah and two other staff from the business radio station are under investigation by the police and the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) after an uproar over the BFM video titled “Hudud Isi Periuk Nasi? (Kupas)” (Does hudud fill our rice bowls?).

They are being probed under Section 298 of the Penal Code that outlaws causing disharmony or ill-will on the grounds of religion, as well as Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 that prohibits an “improper use of network facilities or network service”, an offence defined as making “obscene, indecent, false, menacing or offensive” comments.

BFM has since issued an apology and taken down the video that was posted on its website and YouTube channel last Thursday, followed by an apology from Aisyah.

In the video, Aisyah points out that even as Kelantan is attempting to implement the Islamic penal code, the east coast state is facing other problems like its homeless flood victims, as well as increasing drug and divorce cases.

Malay Mail Online reported last Friday that the BFM video had attracted vitriol from social media users with Malay names who accused Aisyah of insulting Islam, some of whom threatened to rape her, to burn her alive or to shoot her in the head.

Facebook user called Hairul Azzua had posted on the Kelantan Story & Jj Stall Story Facebook page saying, “Burn her alive”, while Facebook user Inche Oleh posted: “Wait till I rape you, woman”.

Aisyah said in a statement Monday that she found it “incredibly upsetting” to receive the death and rape threats.

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