Pakistan Court Orders Facebook Ban Over Mohammed Images

Posted by timothy on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @10:00AM 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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Re:LOL.... by Culture20 · 2010-05-19 10:09 · 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.
Speaking of Reason, by Anonymous Coward · 2010-05-19 10:54 · Score: 5, Informative

Reason is having its First Annual Everybody Draw Mohammad Day