A 33-year-old Malaysian Chinese rapper, filmmaker and movie star, Wee Meng Chee, widely known as Namewee was detained in Malaysia on blasphemy charges for allegedly insulting Islam in his new music titled 'oh my God' released in July.
The rapper was arrested in Kaula Lampur airport while returning from the overseas according to the Bernama agency
In the music, the word 'Allah' and the sound of the Isamic call to prayer was used and the video featured 3 other rappers in Mandarin in front of different places of worship, calling the name 'Allah'.
Islam activists, on see the video got angered and reported to the police that the video was rude and disrespectful to Islam but to defend himself, he claimed that the song was to promote religious unity.
He was granted with a jail term of up to 2 years or to pay a fine, or both.
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