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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."

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  1. Re:LOL.... by Culture20 · · Score: 5, Informative

    exactly HOW does this defile Mohammad?

    The actual problem is that an image of Mohammed might lead to Mohammed worship instead of worship of Allah. Of course, that's not the way it's treated any more.

  2. Speaking of Reason, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Reason is having its First Annual Everybody Draw Mohammad Day

  3. Re:Seems reasonable by HBoar · · Score: 4, Informative

    You do realise that the Rastafarian religion is based on black supremacy, right? Marcus Garvey was nothing like the laid back stoner that some would portray him as these days, he was a racist radical black nationalist who used violence and intimidation to try to get this way.

    I really don't see how racism has any place in a reasonable government.

  4. Re:Third Party Baptisms by Phrogman · · Score: 4, Informative

    I read somewhere that the LDS has branches devoted to this, and that they are so heavily into genealogy because they believe they can baptize dead people by proxy. Thats what some elements of the Church of LDS are actively engaged in, baptizing our dead ancestors into their church so that come Judgement day, they all get to go to heaven (or whatever they actually believe happens, I am not sure).
    Mind you its no odder than those BA Christians who are actively hoping that Israel will go to war with the Palestinians because if they do it might herald the Second Coming.

    Personally, I can't help think the world would be a far better, more peaceful and saner place if all those people who follow religions "of the book" were gone from the Earth.

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