{"id":17502,"date":"2012-10-28T11:52:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T16:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=17502"},"modified":"2012-10-28T11:52:16","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T16:52:16","slug":"malaysian-group-calls-for-films-that-carry-confusing-messages-to-be-banned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/10\/28\/malaysian-group-calls-for-films-that-carry-confusing-messages-to-be-banned\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian group calls for &#8220;Films that carry confusing messages&#8221; to be banned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themalaysianinsider.com\/malaysia\/article\/shah-rukh-khan-film-consufing-muslims-promotes-pluralism\" target=\"_blank\">Bollywood film<\/a> is at the centre of controversy in Malaysia:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An influential Muslim youth group said today that Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan\u2019s \u201c<em>My Name Is Khan<\/em>\u201d movie confuses Muslims as it promotes liberal Islam and religious pluralism, and warned Malaysian broadcasters not to air the hit film.<\/p>\n<p>The Muslim youth group\u2019s statement comes after the Malay right-wing group Perkasa\u2019s call last week for Muslims nationwide to boycott award-winning singer Jaclyn Victor for singing the Malay-language Christian song \u201cHarapan Bangsa\u201d, which she has said is meant for Christians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAngkatan Belia Islam Malaysia (ABIM) strongly protests the screening of \u2018My Name Is Khan\u2019 on TV3 on the second Hari Raya Aidil Adha.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFilms that carry confusing messages clearly shouldn\u2019t (tidak wajar) be screened by a main Malaysian television station,\u201d the group\u2019s vice-president Ahmad Saparudin Yusup said in a statement today.<\/p>\n<p>He questioned the timing of the film screening, saying that it raises the question of where the \u201cmedia\u2019s care and responsibility in their broadcasting materials\u201d went.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"http:\/\/blazingcatfur.blogspot.ca\/2012\/10\/muslims-demand-film-preaching-religious.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Blazing Cat Fur<\/em><\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bollywood film is at the centre of controversy in Malaysia: An influential Muslim youth group said today that Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan\u2019s \u201cMy Name Is Khan\u201d movie confuses Muslims as it promotes liberal Islam and religious pluralism, and warned Malaysian broadcasters not to air the hit film. The Muslim youth group\u2019s statement comes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,28,11],"tags":[459,47,656,122,101],"class_list":["post-17502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-media","category-religion","tag-censorship","tag-islam","tag-malaysia","tag-movies","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4yi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17502"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17505,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17502\/revisions\/17505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}