{"id":1350,"date":"2007-08-23T18:46:39","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T10:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2009-04-24T09:45:57","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T01:45:57","slug":"1345-of-mccbchs-and-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1350","title":{"rendered":"[1345] Of MCCBCHS and free speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysian Consultative Council of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism and Sikhism (MCCBCHS) wanted what?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the front page on Tuesday, the daily printed a picture of Jesus Christ holding a cigarette in one hand and a canned drink (which looked like beer) in the other with the quote: &#8220;If a person repents his mistakes, heaven awaits him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Malaysian Consultative Council of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism and Sikhism has urged the authorities to take action against the paper for hurting the feelings of the Christian community in the country. [<a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2007\/8\/23\/nation\/18670506&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Tamil daily says sorry over Jesus pic<\/em><\/a>. The Star. August 23 2007]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If it wants to criticize the paper, go ahead but for MCCBCHS to urge the authority to take action against the paper is for it to forfeit its moral authority to advocate freedom. At the moment, it might be the case that MCCBCHS is only interested in freedom whenever it is in their convenience. That does not differ from the position of religious conservative Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>The picture however was published by mistake:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>S.M. Periasamy, general manager of the Tamil-language Makkal Osai, told The Associated Press that the daily published the controversial photo by mistake. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2007\/08\/23\/asia\/AS-REL-Malaysia-Jesus-Picture.php\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Malaysian paper apologizes for picture of Jesus holding cigarette<\/em><\/a>. International Herald Tribune. August 23 2007]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If it is a genuine mistake, it is up to the paper itself to punish the responsible staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysian Consultative Council of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism and Sikhism (MCCBCHS) wanted what? On the front page on Tuesday, the daily printed a picture of Jesus Christ holding a cigarette in one hand and a canned drink (which looked like beer) in the other with the quote: &#8220;If a person repents his mistakes, heaven awaits him.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[169,314],"class_list":["post-1350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-free-speech","tag-religious-conservatism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3769,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions\/3769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}