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Yahoo! Bans "Allah" in Screen Names

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the when-things-go-to-far dept.

szembek writes "According to The Register it seems that Yahoo! is banning the use of the string "Allah" in all screen names. The issue apparently became apparent when Linda Callahan attempted to use her surname in her screen name. The following link has an interesting list of terms that Yahoo does allow, and ones they don't."

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  1. Cue the Islamophobic comments and Allah-bashing by Ender_Wiggin · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Oh all the Muslim-bashers and Islamophobes are going to come out of the woodwork.

    Let's look at the article


    Nor will Yahoo! accept yahoo, osama or binladen. But it will accept god, messiah, jesus, jehova, buddah, satan and both priest and pedophile.


    I guess Yahoo is trying to avoid the trolls and hatemongers. You can't have a screenname "I<3Osama," but you can have a name with Jesus in it. I suppose that makes sense from a certain standpoint, Jesus is a popular hispanic name (but so is Osama and Usama as a male name in the Arabic world).

    I could have iHeartJesus, but not iLoveAllah?
  2. Re:Jesus Christ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting


    A theological perspective on the difference.