Pop music banned
NZPA-AFP Kuala Lumpur
Conservative Muslims have banned sales in a north-eastern Malaysian village of newspapers and magazines featuring reports on pop music and entertainment, newspaper reports said.
The ban was enforced in Rhu Sila village — home of the fiery Muslin preacher, Hadi Awang, a vice-president of the fundamentalist Parti-Islam
Sa-Malaysia (PAS) — in the Marang district of the state of Trfengganu, the reports said. The decision to stop the sales was taken by a special PAS committee which did not give reasons for its move. PAS leaders in Kuala Lumpur said they were not aware of any such ruling although Hadi, sometimes called the Imam (prophet), said last month that pop music
would be banned if his party won power. The party, which is committed to setting up an Islamic state, picked up 15 per cent of the popular vote in Malaysia’s General Election recently but won only one seat in the 177-member Federal Parliament. Hadi was one of two PAS candidates elected to the Trengganu state assembly.
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