Kota Damansara Muslims protest beer festival

Bede Hong Bede Hong Updated 6 years ago · Published on 6 Oct 2017 3:36PM · 4 Comments

The Kota Damansara mosque committee is calling on police to act against local councils that approve beer festivals. – The Malaysian Insight pic by najjua Zulkefli, October 6, 2017.

THE committee of Masjid Kota Damansara wants police to act against local councils that approve beer festivals and also the advertising of such events.

The mosque caretaker Ustaz Sanusi Abdul Manaf led a protest today outside the mosque after Friday prayers and called on Muslims to protest “immoral” beer festivals as well as massage parlours and gambling centres in the municipality, which is in Selangor.

“We wholly reject all forms of festivals involving alcohol that were planned or are being planned to be held in Kota Damansara,” said Sanusi.

“We suggest that the police take action against the local council that approves any form of promotion in relation to beer festivals, whether it be signage, billboards, advertising and so forth.”

These appeals were recorded in a memorandum that the crowd of 100 protesters handed to the Kota Damansara police this afternoon.

In his memorandum, Sanusi said the beer festival should also be opposed by non-Muslims.

“This is because such vile behaviour has become a thing of celebration. It is uncivilised and unbecoming of Malaysian society,” he said.

Sanusi also criticised opposition party DAP which he said did not respect Islam.

“Islam is the official religion of the Federation. If you want to drink, drink in your house. Keep your drinking to yourself,” he said in his speech and was greeted with shouts of “Hidup Islam, hancur DAP.”

A few protesters, when asked if they were PAS members, declined to comment. Invitations to today’s protest, however, had been sent out to the media through PAS’ WhatsApp channels.

The mosque’s chief security officer Shaari Karim said there was a rising number of massage parlours and gambling centres in the area.

“It’s the development. It’s out of control. We monitor such things but we can no longer keep track of its growth,” he said.

The Selangor government is led by the federal opposition, and menteri besar Mohamed Azmin Ali from PKR recently said he would allow beer festivals in the state as long as the organisers adhered to rules set by the local councils.

Furore over beer festivals came about recently after the Better Beer Festival scheduled to be held at Publika from tomorrow was banned by Kuala Lumpur City Hall due to unspecified “sensitivities”.

Later, police said the ban was based on intelligence about a possible militant strike. – October 6, 2017.

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  • These fellows should be send to Kelantan. If others drinking beer is affront to Muslims then public slaughtering of cows and blocking roads Friday can be considered the same to other. A self serving and narrow minded, bigotted view.

    Posted 6 years ago by Alphonz Jayaraman · Reply

  • Can you all please go home and help out with your house chores or better go and sleep. Let the nons live their lives without your inference in the guise of religion. You do not like please stay away and stop meddling in a multi racial country. If you cannot accept others in their way of life, it just show a misrepresentation of you guys in up holding the true religion of Islam. Go and climb coconut tree for it shall sap your hyper active energy. Or better still go away from where the kafirs are plentiful and that is in Middle East ( I am not sure now as the Palestinians, Jordanians and Lebanons have started celebrating the beer drinking too. Saudis are celebrating in their first class seats in the plane drinking until kingdom fall ). Maybe Rohingya refugees camp is a safe bet!!!!

    Posted 6 years ago by Lee Lee · Reply

  • Live and let live.....We live in a multiracial and multi religious society in Malaysia. If everyone wants their interests to take precedence over others, then there would be chaos and riots in this country. Let common sense rule.

    Posted 6 years ago by Jeffrey Yap · Reply

  • Mosque getting into politics, what is children behaving like in Nazi Germany. The big problem they know the politicians are using them and they are thrilled to be part of it. No clue why it's such a bad thing..

    Posted 6 years ago by Bigjoe Lam · Reply