KUALA LUMPUR, March 20 -- Police have arrested a civil servant suspected of posting comments insulting Prophet Muhammad SAW on Facebook recently.

According to national news agency Bernama, Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Razarudin Husain said the arrest was made after a 35-year-old man lodged a report last Tuesday.

He said the suspect, along with two other individuals, allegedly posted derogatory comments about Prophet Muhammad on a news post regarding Malaysia's strong condemnation of the deadly airstrike in Gaza that killed eight humanitarian workers from the Malaysian Consultative Council for Islamic Organization (Mapim) last Saturday.

The suspect, a 29-year-old pharmacy officer, is currently under a two-day remand until tomorro...