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Pakistan Blocks YouTube

Multiple readers have written to tell us of news that Pakistan has ordered its ISPs to block access to YouTube "for containing blasphemous web content/movies." This follows increasing unrest in Pakistan over a Danish newspaper's reprinting of cartoons which depict Islam in a less-than-favorable light. The cartoons also sparked controversy when they were first published a few years ago.

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  1. Probably Hiding the Same place by SRA8 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Those peaceful Muslims are probably hiding in the same place where... ...where Jews are hiding while hundreds of thousands were massacred in Sabra, Shatilla, Gaza ...where Christians are hiding while over a million are killed in Iraq Generally the response to this is some variant of "Well,..those people in Sabra/Shatilla/Jenin/Iraq/Vietnam/etc deserved to die because they were evil..." Well...then, i'd say you arent worthy to speak of peace. Either speak out against all hate or shut your mouth. You can support Genocide of one people and oppose it when your friends are doing it.

    1. Re:Probably Hiding the Same place by SRA8 · · Score: 0, Troll

      Pick up a copy of the Wall St Journal and you'll find weekly editorial support of mass-murder policies, be it Abu Gharaib or collective punishment in Gaza. I have yet to see a single Christian or Jewish person speak up against the WSJ campaign. Could you please provide evidence?
      Then there is Michael Savage supporting genocide of Muslims http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4yVeEawi-A
      Finally, please show some evidence that 9-11 was actively celebrated in the Muslim world. Also show evidence that people were silent, as I saw plenty of letters condemning the incident, including one I wrote myself. Then there was one of the most famous scholars in the US Hamza Yusif, who denounced 9-11 quite openly. That you didnt hear this suggests you get your "news" from either Fox or some KKK website. So get real.

  2. Re:Lets bring these people up to speed by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 0, Troll

    So... why is [i]male[/i] genital mutilation still acceptable in the USA?
    Because the jews do it, and in case you didn't know, the jews are the "chosen people(TM)"; the whole Earth belong to thems, since god gave it to them, and only them.
  3. Re:Lets bring these people up to speed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Learn to spell, please. "Dying."

    Good points don't come from people too stupid to spell.

  4. They did a lot more than block it in Pakistan by ZWithaPGGB · · Score: 0, Troll

    They announced a route out of AS 17557 sending all traffic from ANYWHERE on the Internet to a black-hole in Pakistan. The effect was to make YouTube unreachable from ANYWHERE until the route was filtered by the backbone providers. They claimed it was an "oops".

    Am I the only one who is fed up with Islamic Medievalism? If they want to live in the stone age, let's send them there. It will also solve a good bit of the world's over-population problem.

  5. ISLAM IS THE CANCER!!! NUKES ARE THE ANSWER!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Muhammad's army of madmen rode out of the deserts of Arabia. They
    raped/conquered and enslaved the minds of all the people in the area and
    to
    this day more than 1.2 billion people have been infected with the mental
    disease we know as Islam.
    I urge my fellow Americans to boycott all Muslim businesses and write your
    congressmen to stop the billions of dollars in foreign aid to Muslim
    countries, stop all future Muslim immigration, and BAN ISLAM. Now before
    you
    start ignorantly screaming "freedom of religion", Islam is
    unconstitutional,
    and let me explain why. Islam is a supremacist political party disguised
    as
    a religion, which discriminates against non-Muslims, women and
    homosexuals.
    The main goal of this totalitarian system is worldwide domination under
    Islamic law; and Islamic law is a real fun time: Muslim countries are
    constantly hanging women for adultery or "honor" and executing homosexuals
    just for being gay, and murdering Jews just for being Jewish. Women can't
    vote or equally testify in court and millions of Middle-Eastern Muslim
    women
    get their clitoris cut off by the age of 14. Islam is clearly
    unconstitutional, and if we can't ban it, then we need to change our
    constitution. The constitution should not be a suicide pact. Don't buy
    that
    bullshit that liberals try to sell, saying that Islam is in any way
    peaceful. People who blow themselves up and mutilate their daughters
    vaginas
    are obviously suffering from a mental disease. Islam calls for the
    subjugation or death of non-believers. Not just Christians and Jews, but
    all
    non-Muslims are at danger due to this plague on humanity. Christian
    schoolgirls get bombed/decapitated in Indonesia, Christian nuns get
    stabbed
    and churches burned in Egypt, Buddhists get their heads cut off in
    southern
    Thailand, Hindus beaten to death in Kashmir, black Christians castrated
    and
    put into slavery in Sudan... the list goes on forever.
    Muhammad means The Praised One in Arabic. The Praised One was under the
    control of demons for 23 years of his life. Although nobody knows his real
    name, he is called the Rasool or Prophet. He is also referred to as
    al-insan
    al-kamil, meaning the perfect man. According to the muslims, their idea of
    a
    perfect man was one who raped little girls and decapitated Jews.
    According to the demon worshippers, "Allah" is the one true God. Now
    Allah is pretty much Satan, but Muslims have been convinced that he is
    God.
    The pedophile and mass murderer known as Muhammad (may pig shit cover him)
    was a completely delusional psychopath, and Allah was his alter-ego who
    revealed the Koran to him in a series of revelations. So when Muhammed
    heard
    voices in his head, it was the word of God. And the way they eventually
    wrote it down is said to be the literal words of God. Changing a comma
    would
    be blasphemy. Here are some examples of what Muslims consider the actual
    words of God:
    * Make war on them until idolatry shall cease and God's religion
    shall reign supreme." (8:39)
    * "God revealed His will to the angels, saying: 'I shall be with
    you. Give courage to the believers. I shall cast terror into the hearts of
    the infidels. Strike off their heads, strike off the very tips of their
    fingers!' " (8:12)
    * "When the sacred months are over slay the idolaters wherever you
    find them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for
    them.
    If they repent and take to prayer and render the alms levy, allow them to
    go
    their way. God is forgiving and merciful." (9:5)
    * "Prophet, make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites and
    deal
    rigorously with them. Hell shall be their home a