Malaysian mosque bans tourists over sex dance video

Main mosque in Kota Kinabalu.

The video shows two young Asian women, apparently foreigners, dressed in revealing clothes, dancing next to the wall of Kota Kinabalu's main mosque, one of the city's tourist attractions.

Authorities have condemned the "unacceptable behavior of foreign tourists" and said the mosque was temporarily closed to foreigners in order to preserve the inviolability of the Muslim holy site.

Tourism Minister Christina Liew toldThe Starthat the girls would not be prosecuted, as they were likely unaware of the damage their actions were causing. However, the authorities wanted to identify them to explain to them that "what they considered to be a pleasure act actually demonstrated disrespect for local laws".