本地版《纽约时报》用黑格遮盖猪的照片

今天發行的「國際紐約時報」，裡面有豬的照片，報紙在馬來西亞印刷時，印刷廠把豬頭抹黑，以免觸犯馬來亞西回教徒。

印刷廠說，如果發現外國報紙內容，有觸犯回教徒之虞，他們就會把敏感畫面塗抹掉，例如裸露畫面、吸煙畫面等，他們都會作處理。

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 22 — Seemingly innocuous pictures of pigs in the front and middle pages of today’s International New York Times (NYT) have been blacked out in the Malaysian edition of the paper, raising both amusement and concern among readers.

A frontpage story in the international newspaper featured a picture of piglets standing in the snow but the printers of the Malaysian edition, KHL Printing Co, had blacked out the faces of each animal.

A continuation of the story about rising demand for pigs reared in the open on page 19 of the paper got the same treatment, with the faces of two adult pigs blacked out.

A representative from the printing company based in Shah Alam told the Malay Mail Online in a telephone conversation that pictures of pigs are not allowed in a Muslim country like Malaysia.

“From last time also we do this. If there is picture of nudes or like this we will cover. This is a Muslim country,” the spokesman said when asked why the faces of the pigs had been censored.

In standard English, his remark would translate as: “We’ve been doing this for some time. We block out pictures of nudes and things like these. This is a Muslim country.”

He added that the printing firm hadn’t received express instructions from the authorities to censor the pictures.

Although a secular and multi-religious country, about two-thirds of Malaysia’s 28 million population is Muslim.