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I was just on Facebook a while ago, and a former expatriate I knew from KSA posted something on her wall that I found almost bizarre. Evidently, Pakistan had banned Facebook. Not only that, but it had also censored Youtube. Wanting to know more, I had a look through Google and found this. Apparently, just because someone made a Facebook application inviting people to draw cartoons of the prophet Mohammad... an entire country has to have their right to participate in Facebook relinquished from them
http://http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8693842.stm
Personally, I find this ridiculous beyond belief. Of all the problems in Paki, the High Court chose to waste its valuable time on something so incredibly arbitrary, so immeasurably petty, as banning two social networking sites simply because a bunch of stuck-up prudes disagree with some of the content.
There is a lot of heretical material on the internet; not just for Islam, but for every religion. Christianity, Buddhism, Baha'i - of all the religions in the world, it's Islam that seems to be showing that it simply cannot take criticism, cannot accept the fact that some people disagree with them. When South Park portrayed God as a freaking Yowie in one of its episodes, I never heard a word from devout Christians. But as soon as the prophet Mohammad was portrayed as a man dressed in a teddy-bear suit, Trey Parker and Matt Stone recieved death threats.
This is more than ridiculous. It's just sad. Personally, I don't think it should matter that Facebook had an application inviting people to draw cartoons of the prophet Mohammad. And it's not just the government imposing this ban - there are people in Paki who actually support this restriction of their freedom. Myself, I think that if a Muslim is truly devout, they would not feel so insecure as to condemn a public networking site, simply because it posted material against their religion, just because they feel special, only because they can't handle criticism. If the government truly believed something, and a Muslim's faith was strong, then it shouldn't matter how much questionable content they saw, they would remain unaffected.
And if a Muslim doesn't like something, then they can always choose to ignore it... Why ruin something for every other person on this planet, the vast majority of which either are not Muslim, or have strong enough faith to take a freaking joke and get on with their lives? So as you can see, I have some fairly strong views on this. I'd like to hear the other side of the coin, just as I'd like to see if anyone agrees with me.
I apologise if this is in the wrong forum, I was unsure where else it should have gone.
http://http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8693842.stm
Personally, I find this ridiculous beyond belief. Of all the problems in Paki, the High Court chose to waste its valuable time on something so incredibly arbitrary, so immeasurably petty, as banning two social networking sites simply because a bunch of stuck-up prudes disagree with some of the content.
There is a lot of heretical material on the internet; not just for Islam, but for every religion. Christianity, Buddhism, Baha'i - of all the religions in the world, it's Islam that seems to be showing that it simply cannot take criticism, cannot accept the fact that some people disagree with them. When South Park portrayed God as a freaking Yowie in one of its episodes, I never heard a word from devout Christians. But as soon as the prophet Mohammad was portrayed as a man dressed in a teddy-bear suit, Trey Parker and Matt Stone recieved death threats.
This is more than ridiculous. It's just sad. Personally, I don't think it should matter that Facebook had an application inviting people to draw cartoons of the prophet Mohammad. And it's not just the government imposing this ban - there are people in Paki who actually support this restriction of their freedom. Myself, I think that if a Muslim is truly devout, they would not feel so insecure as to condemn a public networking site, simply because it posted material against their religion, just because they feel special, only because they can't handle criticism. If the government truly believed something, and a Muslim's faith was strong, then it shouldn't matter how much questionable content they saw, they would remain unaffected.
And if a Muslim doesn't like something, then they can always choose to ignore it... Why ruin something for every other person on this planet, the vast majority of which either are not Muslim, or have strong enough faith to take a freaking joke and get on with their lives? So as you can see, I have some fairly strong views on this. I'd like to hear the other side of the coin, just as I'd like to see if anyone agrees with me.
I apologise if this is in the wrong forum, I was unsure where else it should have gone.
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