A front page story featured a picture of piglets standing in the snow, but the printers of the Malaysian edition, KHL Printing Co, had blacked-out the faces of each animal.
A continuation of the story about rising demand for pigs reared in the open on page 19 of the paper was given the same treatment, with the faces of two adult pigs blacked-out. A representative from the printing company based in Shah Alam said that pictures of pigs are not allowed in a Muslim country like Malaysia.
“From last time also we do this. If there is picture of nudes or like this we will cover. This is a Muslim country,” the spokesman said when asked why the faces of the pigs had been censored. He added that the printing firm had not received express instructions from the authorities to censor the pictures.
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They should photoshop the pictures of uncovered women too. Malay men might be tempted to do sin.
This is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever seen. Why is it that the words "This is a Muslim country..." almost always suggest either something cruel and horrible or something unfathomably stupid?
If there are any embarrassed Malaysian people reading this, I promise you I will try my best to remember that not all of you are as looney as this story might suggest.
I am a westerner living in a Muslim country. They blank out the word bacon on Masterchef episodes!
That is just crazy. I can understand the blanking of the word bacon on a cooking programme, as its eating pork that is forbidden in Islam, but the 'censoring' of the photos..... utterly bizarre.
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