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ENTERTAINMENT / Music
Malaysian group urges ban on Gwen Stefani concert
(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-07-31 19:06
KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia should pull the plug on the Kuala Lumpur leg of
U.S. singer Gwen Stefani's upcoming Asian tour because of her indecent
dressing and obscenity, a Muslim students' group said on Tuesday.
Singer Gwen Stefani performs in a 2007 photo. [Reuters]
The 10,000-strong National Union of Malaysian Muslim Students said
Stefani's August 21 concert, which is part of her 'Sweet Escape' tour,
would clash with local Asian and Islamic values.
"Her video clips promoting the event are too obscene," Mohamad Hilmi
Ramli, the group's president, told Reuters. "We want the organizers to
cancel the concert, failing which we will ask the authorities to
intervene."
Ethnic Malays, who are by definition Muslims, make up just over half of
Malaysia's 26 million people. Ethnic Chinese and Indians, who are mostly
Buddhists, Christians or Hindus, form sizeable minorities.
Hilmi also criticized Malaysian mobile phone firm Maxis Communications
for promoting the concert.
"Maxis has been staging a series of foreign acts ... to make a profit and
to expose our young generation to things such as moral decay," he said.
Maxis officials could not be immediately reached for comment.
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