Sunday January 25, 2009
PAS to protest against Rihanna concert
PETALING JAYA: The Government has given the green light for the Rihanna Live in Kuala Lumpur concert but the Federal Territory PAS Youth will still demonstrate against it.
Its chief Kamaruzaman Mohamad said the demonstration would mainly be to exert pressure on the Government to show that the movement disapproved of such concerts, which it described as unsuitable for the country.
“We are considering the best possible way to object to this concert, probably through a demonstration or by handing out pamphlets,” he told the mStar Online here yesterday.
The PAS wing had earlier handed a memorandum to the local sponsor of the concert Celcom (M) Berhad on grounds that it was not suitable for local culture and disrespectful of the Palestinians.
The Unity, Culture, Arts and Heritage Ministry has approved the concert and Rihanna, whose hits include Umbrella and Disturbia, is set to perform at Stadium Putra, Bukit Jalil in Kuala Lumpur on Feb 13 as part of her Good Girl Gone Bad Tour.
Kamaruzaman said he was upset with the government’s decision to reject their memorandum.
“Rihanna’s image including her dressing is not suitable for our culture,” he said.
“Even if she wore a headscarf here, we know it is not her real self because she performs differently in other places,” he said, adding that they had sent a memorandum to the Religious Affairs Department to have a standard guidelines for such concerts.
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