A CALL to ban Elton John’s forthcoming Greatest Hits tour in Malaysia by the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) has been met with derision by various artistic bodies.
Datuk Freddie Fernandez, President of an association of artists called Karyawan, is quoted here as saying:
These people (protesting the concert) should all go and live in a cave.
Fernandez – who believes PAS’s anti-gay attitude takes Malaysia back to the dark ages when people used to be burnt at the stake – asked: Where’s the freedom and what does the future hold for Malaysians if this continues? No one should discriminate against gay or lesbian people. [The Freethinker] Read more
