I did not post the raya greeting, says DAP man

Johor Bahru DAP division secretary Alan Tang today claimed that someone forged his identity on a new Facebook account and uploaded a Hari Raya greeting with an image of a roasted pork head.

PETALING JAYA: Johor Bahru DAP division secretary Alan Tang today vehemently denied posting a Hari Raya greeting that featured a roast pork dish on social network site Facebook, claiming that his identity had been forged.

The image showing a roasted pork head sandwiched between the Malay traditional snack lemang (glutinous rice) and ketupat (dumpling) surfaced on the first day of Hari Raya and quickly earned the ire of the Muslim community.

Tang, when contacted, told FMT that he could not “have been so dumb to produce such a greeting”.

“I’m the one always advising my friends and comrades against touching on issues pertaining to race, religion and royalty, and it is even more impossible for me to do it myself,” said the 28-year-old Tang.

A print screen of Tang’s facebook account with the greeting was circulated on several pro-BN websites, but a search on Tang’s account found no such posting.

Tang, who is also the assistant to Stulang assemblyman Andrew Chen, said his 5,000 friends on his Facebook account can prove that he has never posted such image.

“If you notice on my Facebook, I have never posted an image, I only use words. I suspect that someone forged my name and taken my profile photo to create a phantom account.

“They would use the account to upload the image, print screen it, and spread it,” he said.

Tang said as soon as he received the first call from a stranger chiding him on Thursday morning, he immediately did a search and tracked down the alleged phantom account.

He said he has attached the information in a police report he lodged that afternoon, and would leave it to the authorities to conduct their investigations.

“This is a malicious political attacks, I am not sure whether they are targeting me or the DAP,” he said.