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Malaysia gov't shuts another newspaper over prophet cartoons
Asian Political News, Feb 20, 2006
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 15 Kyodo
Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has ordered another newspaper to cease publication for reproducing the Danish cartoons that depict Islam's Prophet Muhammad, official news agency Bernama reported late Tuesday.
Abdullah, who is also internal security minister, said in a statement that the Chinese-language Guang Ming Daily's permit to publish their evening editions would be suspended for two weeks beginning Thursday, according to Bernama.
On Feb. 3, the newspaper's evening edition carried a photograph from a foreign news agency that showed someone reading a newspaper on which the caricatures of the prophet were clearly visible.
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The photo was accompanied by overseas articles entitled ''European media reproduce caricatures which inflamed controversy'' and ''Danish press insults Islamic religion, tenders apology.''
Last Thursday, Abdullah suspended the printing permit of the Sarawak Tribune, an English-language daily mainly distributed in the Sarawak State in Borneo indefinitely for publishing the caricatures in its Feb. 4 edition.
The series of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad first appeared in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in September and have since been published in other newspapers in Europe and in several other countries, including Muslim states like Jordan and Yemen.
Abdullah has barred the printing, importation, production, reproduction, publication, sale, circulation, distribution or possession of any publication concerning the issue of the caricatures, or any issue which may jeopardize public order or national security.
The cartoons have angered Muslims, whose religion forbids the portrayal of their prophet in any form to prevent idolatry, and sparked massive and sometimes violent protests by Muslims across the globe.
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