[1] The incident quickly gained attention on social media and led to responses from political and religious figures, calls for boycotts,[2] and ultimately, legal action against the store's management and its distributor, Xin Jian Chang.

[7][8][9] Some political analysts suggested that certain Muslim politicians were leveraging the event to rally support from Malay nationalists and potentially exacerbate divisions in multicultural Malaysia.

On 28 March, at 5:35 am (just six days after similar attacks occurred at Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, Russia), a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a KK Super Mart branch in Bidor, Perak from a car.

This section pertains to religious reasons, specifically actions that create an atmosphere of disharmony, division, enmity, hatred, malice, or harm to unity.

[23] On March 25, Malaysian police announced that the directors of KK Super Mart and the Xin Jian Chang distribution company would be held liable in court.