Call off concerts or we’ll take to the streets: PAS youth chief

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Retribution for condemning concerts: 10-year jail for ex-imam of Mecca Grand Mosque

THE Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (JAKIM) and other relevant religious authorities can now initiate legal action against PAS Youth – if they wish to – over the movement’s incessant threat of a nationwide protest if the Government does not cancel international concerts.

This is because a precedent has been set in Saudi Arabia – the country Malaysia endears itself most to when emulating religious-related policies and culture.

For condemning concerts and events that he said broke away from the country’s religious and cultural norms, prominent former imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca Sheikh Saleh al Talib has to pay the price by serving a 10-year jail term by a Saudi court in Riyadh, according to US-based rights group Democracy for the Arab World Now.

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