COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- R&B star Akon has deferred a programmed unison in Sri Lanka following indignant protests over a song video he is in where hardly clad women dance in front of a Buddha statue.
Akon, who voiced bewail and pronounced he was not formerly wakeful of the statue in the video, would have been the top form general thespian to come to this predominately Buddhist, Indian Ocean island given the finish of a heartless 25-year polite fight last year.
Sri Lanka pronounced Wednesday it would not issue Akon a visa for subsequent month"s concert, and his engagement organisation reliable the show had been deferred between flourishing snub at the thespian here.
A host on Monday hurled stones at a highwayman that was assisting unite the eventuality and a "We Hate Akon" page on Facebook had captivated some-more than 12,000 members by Wednesday evening.
In the video, "Sexy Chick," women in bikinis are shown dancing at a pool celebration with a Buddha statue spasmodic perceivable in the background.
The video "triggered a lot of beating between Buddhists all over the world," the supervision pronounced in a matter explaining because it would not give Akon a visa.
Akon pronounced he was "disheartened" to listen to of the media conflict and didn"t meant to provoke any religion.
"I was not wakeful that the statue was even on the set of the video until now. I would never set out to provoke or ill-treat anyone"s sacrament or eremite beliefs," he pronounced in a statement.
Akon"s general engagement firm, American Talent Agency, pronounced it hoped to reschedule the unison after ensuring the reserve of the thespian and his fans.
"Akon is seeking brazen to behaving for the people of Sri Lanka and we goal to have this incident resolved in the entrance weeks," the group pronounced in a statement.
Concert upholder Lasantha Samarasinghe pronounced Wednesday he will ask the supervision to recur the decision, adding that the unison would progress tourism and assistance the country"s economy.
Some 70 percent of Sri Lanka"s twenty million people are Buddhists, and the conviction has on trial inflection underneath the constitution.
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AP Music Writer Nekesa Moody in New York contributed to this report.
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