{"id":1065,"date":"2010-07-01T13:29:37","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T03:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nurulrahman.com\/blog\/?p=1065"},"modified":"2010-07-01T13:37:52","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T03:37:52","slug":"banned-political-cartooning-in-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nurulrahman.com\/blog\/?p=1065","title":{"rendered":"Banned political cartooning in Malaysia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Banned political cartooning activities in Malaysia..so what else will be left behind for fellow Malaysian to stimulate the thinking process? <em>Rien!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;All three publications have been banned for their contents that can influence the people to revolt against the leaders and government policies,  &#8220;<\/em> said the Home Ministry Secretary General Mahmood Adam on the official news agency Bernama.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In Malaysia the government is like this. They won&#8217;t allow alternative views. You can do cartoons, you can do whatever art work you want, but it must be in line with the government (view),&#8221; said the 47-year-old, who has been a professional cartoonist for more than 20 years. <em>&#8220;Drawing cartoons it&#8217;s my social obligation&#8230; I will highlight the issues that Malaysian cartoonist have failed to highlight so far,&#8221;<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<p>How can we understood the term <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">social obligation<\/span> if we are not allow to put the thoughts in actions?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/news\/breaking-news\/malaysia-bans-political-cartoons-critical-of-government\/story-e6freuz9-1225884348548\">See Daily Telegraph&#8217;s site to read more <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banned political cartooning activities in Malaysia..so what else will be left behind for fellow Malaysian to stimulate the thinking process? Rien! &#8220;All three publications have been banned for their contents that can influence the people to revolt against the leaders and government policies, &#8220; said the Home Ministry Secretary General Mahmood Adam on the official &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nurulrahman.com\/blog\/?p=1065\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Banned political cartooning in Malaysia?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts-and-ideas-about-my-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nurulrahman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nurulrahman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nurulrahman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nurulrahman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nurulrahman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/nurulrahman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1074,"href":"https:\/\/nurulrahman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions\/1074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nurulrahman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nurulrahman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nurulrahman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}