Malaysian mosque bans tourists after video of two women doing a 'sexy dance' outside goes viral
- Video shows two women, allegedly tourists, dancing in shorts and crop-tops
- It was filmed outside a mosque in the city of Kota Kinabalu, Borneo Island
- The mosque has now banned tourist visitors after video went viral
A Malaysian mosque has banned tourists after a video of two female visitors in skimpy outfits dancing in front of the Muslim holy site went viral.
The video shows the women, dressed in shorts and crop-tops, dancing on a low wall outside the main mosque in the city of Kota Kinabalu, in Borneo Island's Sabah state.
Residents and local Muslim groups were incensed by the women's risque moves, and the mosque, which is renowned for its beautiful blue and gold dome and ornate minarets, has now banned all tourists.
The nationality of the women in the video, who are of East Asian appearance and believed to be foreigners, is not clear.
As the pair dance in the video, an outraged onlooker can be heard saying: 'Why don't they just fall off the wall?'
Mosque chairman Jamal Sakaran slammed 'the unacceptable behaviour by foreign tourists' and announced a temporary halt to any tourists visiting the mosque, in order to 'preserve the sanctity of Islam'.
State Tourism Minister Christina Liew told The Star newspaper that legal action would not be taken against the pair, as they were likely unaware of the severity of their actions.
Causing upset: The video shows two women in short shorts and crop-tops doing a barefoot dance on a wall outside the mosque in Kota Kinabalu, on Borneo Island
Ban: After the video went viral, the mosque chairman slammed 'the unacceptable behaviour by foreign tourists' and announced that all tourists would be banned from visiting
However, Ms Liew said authorities still wanted to track the women down, in order to explain 'that something they deemed as "fun" was actually disrespectful and not right in Sabah'.
Large numbers of tourists - both local and foreign - visit the mosque, often during a brief stop in Kota Kinabalu before heading into the jungles of Sabah to experience the state's abundance of wildlife.
Tourists can usually visit mosques in Muslim-majority Malaysia, where most practise a moderate form of Islam, but are advised to wear modest clothing.
It is not the first time that foreign visitors have landed in hot water for disrespecting local culture in Sabah.
In 2015 four Western tourists pleaded guilty to obscenity charges for taking nude photos on popular peak Mount Kinabalu, an act some in the country blamed for causing a deadly earthquake.
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