Kuala Lampur, Oct. 24 -- The government should not ban comic books or any book for that matter as their content is open to interpretation, a local political cartoonist said today.

Zulkiflee Anwar Haque, better known as Zunar, said he has not completed reading the pro-China Belt and Road Initiative for Win-Winism authored by former DAP member Hew Kuan Yau, but disagreed with the Home Ministry's outright ban of the comic book yesterday.

"Cartoons and comics are a matter of interpretation. If you do not agree with the contents, no problem. But do not use your interpretation as a law to ban it. Don't like? Don't read!" he said in a statement.

However, the cartoonist said he is against the comic book's distribution in schools.

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