Reflection

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Pass through for these 3 months of creating this serious weblog, I had gained a lot of knowledge and information in publishing and designing documents which I never learnt before. Besides, this new knowledge that I had gained, I believed, it would beneficial in my future.  After created this blog, its let me realized that to design a good document, it is not easy task. Every little single things such as background, size and type of fonts, colour, arrangement of information, layout, pictures and so on, those played an important role to deliver different message to audiences. 

 In addition, as a blogger, must have ethical responsibility to create blogs. This is because, audiences who are gaining the information and knowledge from our contents. Hence, giving fake or wrong information, it would mislead the audiences. Besides, as a blogger, must be sensitive on cultural knowledge when designing or posting text and pictures publicly to avoid any cultural clash.

  Lastly, I would like to thanks to Ms. Jenny, who is being patiently to guide and teach me to complete my course works for these past 3 months.

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Book publishing in Malaysia

             Malaysia count as a very ‘open-minded’ country, not like other islamic countries they are very conservative about their religion, politics, language and so on. Malaysia has many local publisher, author and books somehow many of the books are import from overseas. Some of the books are being banned in Malaysia, because it contain sensitive issues. Religion issue still a major problem for malaysian, the government can’t accept books that can insult the islamic .  

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The latest news that Malaysia government banned a book which write by Canadian Muslim writer Irshad Manji. Malaysia government banned her book because they belief that her book have the element that can deviate muslim from their faith. Banning book is nothing short of cowardly(Human Right Watch.org 2012). This is 21^st century, malaysian citizen has the right to know, they are capable discussing the issues of the day without government telling them what they can read and what they cannot read. 

               According to The Malaysian Insider (2012) which they report about Irshad news, banning the books would only draw much more attention. There is nothing humble about bannig ideas, but prohbit citizens from being expressed is a sure sign of insecurity. They have the right to free speech and expression. If they are strong enough for their faith of their religion. Why malaysian government afraid it will confuse the public? 

             The public, they are very clear what is happening now in the world.Not just the government ban the books, therefore they did not know about that. It even create their curiousity to know the content of the book, they can even online searching or buying from overseas publisher.Because of Malaysia is Islamic country, the religion issue is very sensitive to the government, protecting morality and banning the book is just old fashioned state repression.

Reference List

Human Right Watch.org, 2012, ‘Malaysia: Reverse Book Ban’ viewed 7 November 2012.

http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/05/31/malaysia-reverse-book-ban

The Malaysia Insider, 2012, ‘Irshad Manji says book ban ‘insult’ to Malaysians, publisher to appeal’ viewed 7 November 2012,

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/malaysia/article/irshad-manji-says-book-ban-insult-to-malaysians-publisher-to-appeal