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Avoid drawing offensive cartoons, says Lat on monkey cartoon fiasco

Cartoonist Mohammad Nor Khalid, better known as Lat, believes that there is a limit when it comes to drawing cartoons.

This, he said, is because the people and society at large can be slighted when a particular cartoon is offensive.

“We must avoid offensive materials or those that touch upon race relations,” he told Malaysiakini when met on the sidelines of the book launch of historian Khoo Kay Khim’s autobiography in Kuala Lumpur today.

He was responding to the Home Ministry issuing a show-cause letter to Chinese daily Nanyang Siang Pau over its cartoon depicting Dewan Rakyat Speaker Pandikar Amin Mulia and PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang as monkeys...

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