Akmal demands open apology from individual who joked about priests
UMNO Youth chief Datuk Dr Akmal Saleh has demanded that the individual who made a joke about priests at the 2026 UMNO General Assembly apologise openly to all Malaysians. He said religion is not a subject for jokes and that the remark was the individual's personal view, not UMNO's stand. Tuaran MP Wilfred Madius Tangau also urged the speaker to apologise to Catholics and the wider Christian community.