On Monday, Akon was banned from Sri Lanka because of a music video he had. They found it to be very offensive towards Buddhists. Protests broke out after the video was released, which eventually lead to him getting banned.
Akon was scheduled to appear in Sri Lanka on April 24th, but those plans have been canceled of course. His access was denied by the country’s Director General of Information. He was going to perform in the SSC Stadium ground in Colombo. The concert was canceled due to protests from Buddhists about his video. The whole ordeal began about the sexy woman dancing around in the video. Apparently, she was dancing around a sacred Buddha statue.
“The government has taken into consideration the sensibilities of the Buddhists who have been offended by one of his videos which showed scantily clad women dancing in front of a Buddha statue,” Pelpita told AFP.
There was a group of 200 people that came together outside of Maharaja Broadcasting and began to throw rocks at the building, breaking windows. Four cars were damaged and four workers were injured.
It seems as though Akon just can’t seem to keep himself out of trouble. Before, he had trouble with dancing with an underage girl that was in a club (who shouldn’t have been there), then he got put on blast about the multiple wives thing and now this.