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Facebook Postings Lead To Arrest for Heresy In the West Bank

Posted by timothy on from the not-better-or-worse-just-different dept.

forand writes "Using screen shots of a customer's Facebook profile, owners of a West Bank internet cafe helped Palestinian intelligence forces capture a man accused of heresy." According to sources quoted in the story, residents of both Gaza and the West Bank face ongoing scrutiny of their online activities; in Gaza, "Internet cafe owners are forced to monitor customers' online activity and alert intelligence officials if they see anything critical of the militant group or that violates Hamas' stern interpretation of Islam."

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  1. Re:Barbarians... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I agree, Mary. By the way, you doing anything for dinner tonight?

    Sincerely,
    God

  2. Re:Barbarians... by Ihmhi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow, I'd never thought I'd see a celestial drunk dial of an ex-girlfriend.

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  3. Re:Not like cowardly Westerners by cbiltcliffe · · Score: 3, Funny

    Meh. I'm sure this is Israel's fault, somehow. After all, everybody knows that all the human rights abuses in Gaza are the result of military action by Israel. They must have put hamas up to it, and forced them to monitor this Internet cafe, and then forced them to arrest the guy.
    They also forced his family to publicly say all those things about keeping him behind bars. :-/

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    "City hall" in German is "Rathaus" Kinda explains a few things......
  4. BURN EVERYONE!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you think they're just going change and be so nice to Jews, Christians and pagans you should take a really close look at the history of Islam.

    Well... if we are to follow THAT logic all catholic countries should be sterilized by nuclear weapons - just because of their religion's history of going to unprovoked "Crusades" i.e. raping/pillaging wars. No need to mention inquisition but I will. Inquisition.

    Then... USA should be sunk under the ocean.
    I know that it would be a hard thing to do, but its history of genocide over the local population, slavery, stealing land from Mexico, destroying the world economy on several occasions and being the only country in the world to ever perform a nuclear attack on anyone...
    Well, you can't really argue with all that history.

    Then, the former Soviet Union. Kill everyone. History demands it.
    Same with China. India too...

    Ah fuck it, let's just kill everyone everywhere and then just to be sure hurl the Earth into the Sun.