Due To Controversial Songs, Kanye West Is Prohibited From Traveling To Australia

JAKARTA - The impact of Kanye West's controversy caused by his song titled 'Heil Hitler' is getting wider. After the rejection in Slovakia, the latest news says the 48-year-old rapper is prohibited from traveling to Australia.

Meanwhile, the song 'Heil Hitler', as titled, spoke of Nazi German leader Adolf Hitler. The song was released independently on the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in the Second World War, last May.

Australian Interior Minister Tony Burke, in an interview with the Afternoon Briefing ABC program, tweeted that the ban came after he was asked about the cancellation of the visa of an Israeli-American tech advocate who wrote "Islamophobia is rational".

"Most of the visas that have been canceled based on this section are when someone tries to deliver public speeches," Burke said, quoted by Guardian, Thursday, July 3.

"The only thing I can think about that is not done for public advocacy visas but we still cancel it, is Kanye West," he added.

Burke mengatakan, West dengan istrinya yang berasal dari Melbourne, Bianca Censori, telah datang ke Australia untuk waktu yang lama dan memiliki keluarga di sana.

However, with West's offensive comments based on the assessment of Australian officials who appeared after releasing the song 'Heil Hitler', the rapper no longer had valid visas in Australia.

Regarding the possibility of Kanye West's international concert in Australia, Burke replied, 'I think the unsustainable is importing hatred.'

Every visa application is reassessed by my officials at all times. I don't underestimate the way the law works but even for the lowest visa level, when my officials reviewed it, they canceled it after the announcement of the song.

Earlier, a petition emerged to reject Kanye West's presence as the main star of Slovakia's largest rap festival, Rubicon, which will be held at Bratislava on July 18-20.

The petition calls for the rapper to be removed from the list of artists who will appear at the festival. They think West has been "repeated many times and has openly embraced symbols and [a] ideology associated with the darkest period in modern global history".

It was also mentioned that the planned appearance was "an insult to historical memory, the breeding of wartime violence, and an insult to all victims of the Nazi regime".

The petition further states that Bratislava cannot accept West's presence because of his dangerous public attitude and is directly against European memory and historical responsibility.