Classic JIMI HENDRIX Album Axis: Bold As Love Banned In Malaysia
June 5, 2014, 10 years ago
According to Themalaymailonline.com, Malaysia's Home Ministry said it will not allow Jimi Hendrix’s 1967 album Axis: Bold As Love that bears the cover art depicting the late American rock legend and his bandmates as various forms of Lord Vishnu.
A spokesman from the Home Ministry’s Publication Control and Quranic Text unit said compact discs (CDs) with the album cover art featuring the Hindu deity would be prohibited from entering the country and they would seize such CDs found in Malaysia.
“We don’t care if Jimi Hendrix albums without cover art featuring Lord Vishnu come in, but if it uses Lord Vishnu’s image, then of course we won’t allow it,” an official told The Malay Mail Online.
“We’ll definitely take action against anything that violates religious sensitivities, whether it’s Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism or Islam. We must respect each other,” added the official who did not wish to be named.
The government representative also said the Home Ministry had confiscated posters of the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s 1967 album cover featuring Lord Vishnu’s image from bookseller BookXcess Sdn Bhd last month.
Read more at Themalaymailonline.com.
