20/05/2010
Pakistan blocked social networking site Facebook temporarily after a court order over a page that allegedly asked users to submit images of the Prophet.
Pakistani students gather to demonstrate against a Facebook page amid anger over a page on the social networking site which encourages users to post images of Islam's Prophet Muhammad, in Karachi. Photo Courtesy: AP
Lahore: Pakistan's government ordered Internet service providers to block Facebook on Wednesday amid anger over a page that encourages users to post images of Islam's Prophet Muhammad.
The page on the social networking site has generated criticism in Pakistan and elsewhere because Islam prohibits any images of the Prophet. The government took action after a group of Islamic lawyers won a court order Wednesday requiring officials to block Facebook until May 31.
By Wednesday evening, access to the site was sporadic, apparently because Internet providers were implementing the order. The Facebook page at the center of the dispute -"Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!" - encourages users to post images of the Prophet on May 20 to protest threats made by a radical Muslim group against the creators of South Park for depicting the Prophet.
"We are not trying to slander the average Muslim," said the information section of the Facebook page, which was still accessible Wednesday morning.
"We simply want to show the extremists that threaten to harm people because of their Prophet depictions that we're not afraid of them. That they can't take away our right to freedom of speech by trying to scare us into silence."
Minister of religious affairs, Hamid Saeed Kazmi, said the ban was only a temporary solution and suggested the government organise a meet of Muslim countries to figure out how to stop publication of the Prophet's images.
Source: AP
K.Venugopal
#1
Thursday, 20 May 2010 12:58:36
Pictures of Mohammad were disallowed because Islam does not accept idol worship and it did not want Mohammad to be transformed into an idol. However, in practice, calligraphy is widely displayed in place of idols! Moreover, Islam, in saying that Allah is not linked with His creation, has inadvertently placed Allah outside us. If we are the subject, Allah becomes the object. In Hinduism, the subject and object (God) are eventually considered to be one. But in Islam, because they can never be considered as one, Islam is destined to be an idol worshiping religion because Allah as object is outside us just like an idol. Only Hinduism in its higher plane of Advaita transcends the need for idol worship.
http://news.in.msn.com/international/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3924166&page=0
Pakistan blocked social networking site Facebook temporarily after a court order over a page that allegedly asked users to submit images of the Prophet.
Pakistani students gather to demonstrate against a Facebook page amid anger over a page on the social networking site which encourages users to post images of Islam's Prophet Muhammad, in Karachi. Photo Courtesy: AP
Lahore: Pakistan's government ordered Internet service providers to block Facebook on Wednesday amid anger over a page that encourages users to post images of Islam's Prophet Muhammad.
The page on the social networking site has generated criticism in Pakistan and elsewhere because Islam prohibits any images of the Prophet. The government took action after a group of Islamic lawyers won a court order Wednesday requiring officials to block Facebook until May 31.
By Wednesday evening, access to the site was sporadic, apparently because Internet providers were implementing the order. The Facebook page at the center of the dispute -"Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!" - encourages users to post images of the Prophet on May 20 to protest threats made by a radical Muslim group against the creators of South Park for depicting the Prophet.
"We are not trying to slander the average Muslim," said the information section of the Facebook page, which was still accessible Wednesday morning.
"We simply want to show the extremists that threaten to harm people because of their Prophet depictions that we're not afraid of them. That they can't take away our right to freedom of speech by trying to scare us into silence."
Minister of religious affairs, Hamid Saeed Kazmi, said the ban was only a temporary solution and suggested the government organise a meet of Muslim countries to figure out how to stop publication of the Prophet's images.
Source: AP
K.Venugopal
#1
Thursday, 20 May 2010 12:58:36
Pictures of Mohammad were disallowed because Islam does not accept idol worship and it did not want Mohammad to be transformed into an idol. However, in practice, calligraphy is widely displayed in place of idols! Moreover, Islam, in saying that Allah is not linked with His creation, has inadvertently placed Allah outside us. If we are the subject, Allah becomes the object. In Hinduism, the subject and object (God) are eventually considered to be one. But in Islam, because they can never be considered as one, Islam is destined to be an idol worshiping religion because Allah as object is outside us just like an idol. Only Hinduism in its higher plane of Advaita transcends the need for idol worship.
http://news.in.msn.com/international/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3924166&page=0
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