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Indian Gov't Bans Bulk SMS, Investigating Social Media
saiful76 writes "Following mass exodus of people belonging to north-east states India from southern states of India, specially Bangalore, allegedly due to the threatening messages, the government has asked relevant agencies to scan all social media platforms to check for inflammatory and offensive content, following which, the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DIT) has issued an advisory to all intermediaries in terms of provisions of IT Act and Rules to take action for disabling all such content on priority. Cellphone operators have been told to block all bulk SMSs and videos — so nobody can send a message to more than five people at a time."
And you can't do the math. India was, in 2001, 13.4% Muslim according to Wikipedia, which also puts its population at 1.21 billion these days. Assuming that that percentage has not changed much, that's 162 million Muslims, all of whom are neighbors with an estimated 175 miillion Muslims (180 million people * 97%) in Pakistan and 134 million Muslims (152.5 million people * 89.7% ) in Bangladesh, with whom they shared certain experiences under the Raj. The only Muslim country that outranks these three in population is Indonesia, 204 million Muslims (237.6 million * 86.1% ).
If accusing Muslim terrorists who talk about taking down the West and everyone else in the name of Islam is bigoted and hateful in your mind, you should check your reference points. Just because most Muslims are normal people living normal lives who are as likely to hurt me as the rabbits in my back yard does not mean that Islamic terrorism is not an entity.