| A Tamil language newspaper has been ordered by the Malaysian government to suspend publication for a month because it published an image of Jesus that might be offensive to Christians.
Malaysian Newspaper Suspended for Offensive Jesus Image The Malaysian newspaper Makkal Osai has been placed under governmental suspension from publishing for a month, due to its publication on Tuesday, August 21st of an image of Jesus Christ holding a cigarette and a can of beer.
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This graphic image, claimed to be mistakenly
downloaded from a blog, has caused a
Malaysian newspaper to be placed under
government suspension. (Copyright and
license information unavailable - published
under fair use.) Although the Tamil language newspaper apologized on Thursday, saying that a graphic artist had erred in downloading the picture from the Internet, some in Malaysia's minority religions drew a comparison to the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy that erupted in 2005 over a Danish paper's publication of cartoons that many Muslims felt insulted Islam and the prophet Muhammad.
The altered picture has been traced to a blogger called "Gateway Pundit" in an April 2007 post on a blog called "Religion Makes Me Laugh." The name of the post where the altered image appears is "Top Ten Reasons Why Beer Is Better Than Jesus."
This apparently unwitting use of a satirical Internet graphic bears a similarity to a 2001 incident in which protesters supporting Osama bin Laden were found to have unknowingly used an altered image of bin Laden that included a picture of Bert, the Sesame Street muppet, by his side.
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