KUALA LUMPUR: PKR president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has denounced a recent social media campaign calling for the boycott of non-Muslim products, describing this as unhealthy.
"But if you are trying to promote it by using contentious issue, this is not healthy," he said after delivering a keynote address at the Sixth International Conference on History and Culture here on Tuesday .
"One can propose and support any company with justification but if the approach is negative, then it is unhealthy altogether," he said. Last Friday, Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said that he did not agree with the boycott, pointing out that it was only carried out by people with shallow thinking.
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