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Pakistan Court Orders Facebook Ban Over Mohammed Images

Posted by timothy on from the certainly-should-block-wikipedia-too-then dept.

jitendraharlalka writes with this excerpt from Al Jazeera English: "A Pakistani court has issued a ban on the social networking site Facebook after a user-generated contest page encouraged members to post caricatures of Prophet Mohammed. The Lahore High Court on Wednesday instructed the Pakistani Telecommunications Authority (PTA) to ban the site after the Islamic Lawyers Movement complained that a page called 'Draw Mohammed Day' is blasphemous. ... 'We have already blocked the URL link and issued instruction to Internet service providers,' Khurram Mehran, a spokesperson for the PTA, said."

3 of 949 comments (clear)

  1. Mohammed? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You mean the pedophile?

  2. Duh! by Bobfrankly1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hello, it's called FACEbook! How long did you think it would be before Mohammed's face ended up on there?!

  3. Re:everyone draw a religious dude by Nadaka · · Score: 4, Funny

    2prophets1cup?