Teresa Kok

Last week, I wrote an article for my usual Sunday column in Sin Chew. Unfortunately my article was spiked because I touched on “sensitive ground” because I briefly mentioned the controversy surrounding the publication of the caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad in the Danish paper, Jyllands– Posten.

Before I wrote, I considered the sensitivity of the topic and then wrote it in a very careful manner. I put “sensitivity” as the topic of my article, but yet, the editor still killed the column.

In the article, I pointed out three incidents that happened during Chinese New Year and drew a conclusion that the people involved in them were “insensitive”. (more…)