The slogan-toting demonstrators, numbering not more than 15, must have felt they had succeeded in their goal.

They stood at the side of the road leading to An Nadzafah surau in Taman Mewah, Kamunting, and shouted their distaste for the notion that Pakatan campaigner-in-chief Anwar Ibrahim was to deliver a tazkirah there after evening prayers.

Earlier in the day, it was said that 73 police reports had been lodged in police stations in the Taiping area by like-minded people opposed to the idea that the PKR leader be allowed to deliver the talk.

The slogans the demonstrators carried denounced him as immoral and unfit to deliver religious homilies...