What’s a fascist to do? Malay-power nationalists were left disappointed this week upon hearing the news that a music festival celebrating their extremist ideology in April has been canceled after public outcry.
Rebellion Fest was due to be held in Ipoh, two and a half hours outside of Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur, on April 13. It had advertised a bill that included high-profile Malay-power bands that included Xenophobia, Spiderwar, and Total Distrust, whose neo-Nazu fans were set to descend upon the city’s Ladyboss Studio venue, to celebrate their mutual feelings that all of those who were not ethnically Malay should leave the country. Oh, and an end to immigration.
Activists were not just limited to appalled locals – Unite Asia, a Hong Kong-based punk and hardcore music website spoke out against the show, reporting that they had written into the venue to “explain the connection between their racist ideologies and the vile human being who attacked the mosques in New Zealand last week.”
“[The owner] said he never knew about any of this and if I didn’t tell him then he would never have found out. He agreed to cancel the show and return the deposit,” Unite Asia told South China Morning Post.
Two days ago, online posters began circulating that another neo-Nazi festival was to be held at Black Box, in the high-end Publika shopping center on April 6. The mall’s operators have since denied that they are hosting the event, that had been advertised as “Death to Antifa.”
“[The owner] said he never knew about any of this and if I didn’t tell him then he would never have found out. He agreed to cancel the show and return the deposit.”
On Wednesday, posters appeared online for another Malay power festival titled Death to Antifa, supposedly to be held at the Black Box venue in Kuala Lumpur on April 6.
“No authorization has been given for such an event to take place. [Mall developer] UEM Sunrise wishes to dismiss any association with Death to Antifa as well as all performers related to the said event, and will not hesitate to initiate legal action against individuals or groups who organize events using [our] brand without authorization,” the spokesman told SCMP.
To the uninitiated, the Malay-power ideology espoused by concert organizers is a mish-mash of individuals who probably listen to the neo-Nazi punk band Skrewdriver, without actually taking heed of the white-power concept behind their lyrics. Their followers want to rid the entirety of the Malaya archipelago of outsiders to keep the land “pure” with a Malay community, and are willing to promote the counter-intuitive, violent ethos of Nazi Stormtroopers to make that happen.
In other words – seriously warped, and probably illegal under our country’s racial harmony laws.
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