The way KDN treated their own paper and the others

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The home affairs ministry (KDN) has slapped Utusan Malaysia with a warning letter for publishing an unsubstantiated front-page article alleging a Christian plot to usurp Islam as the religion of the federation, which sparked a furore among the country’s majority Muslims and minority Christians.

And while Utusan Malaysia was only given a warning letter stating that "pihak kami meminta agar tuan jangan mengulanginya lagi", the ministry's treatment on China Press previously was completely different.

Previously, when China Press was reported to had published an inaccurate news purportedly claiming that a (corrupted) inspector-general of police who was still holding office at that time would be replaced, the KDN took action by providing an ultimatum to the Chinese language newspaper to either suspend its editor-in-chief or to face a possible suspension onto its publication for several months.

Chinese Press at that time has no other choice but to issue a two-weeks suspension on its editor-in-chief in order to prevent the newspaper from being suspended for publications which would mean hundreds of its journalist would be out of job then.

And there you see how KDN treated the newspaper of their own, eventhough they had published so many seditious reports and articles that threatened the national security and public order of this country as well as inciting hatred and violence - with only a soft warning letter, while the other rather independent-minded press was threatened with a long-term suspension just because it reported the country's then corrupted police chief would be replaced.

Is this a just treatment? Do you think this federal government would treat all of us equally?

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