"Rihanna's image including her dressing is not suitable for our culture, " Kamaruzaman Mohamad of the PartiIslam Se-Malaysia (PAS) told Malaysia's Star newspaper.
At the time he was on a sensitive visit to Kelantan, the only Malaysian state not run by Dr Mahathir's party, and instead governed by the Islamic PartiIslam Se-Malaysia, which was behind the anti-Israeli demonstrations.