One of the world’s largest social-networking services, Facebook Inc. was banned in the country of Pakistan because of its plan in inviting users to post images of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. This raged the muslims leading to Pakistan’s government ordering every internet service providers to block Facebook.
Some countries had already banned Facebook last year like China due to political and economic issue and now, Pakistan is prohibiting its access in the country because of religion. We all know that some countries are sensitive when it comes to their religion and Facebook should understand this.
How did this started? The “Draw Mohammed Day” was set up by a Facebook user on the site, inviting other members to join and draw caricatures of the Muslim prophet. Many Pakistani saw this and were annoyed, thus they protested about this issue. About 2,000 female students rallied in the southern city of Karachi with several dozen of male students. The males were holding signs urging Islamic holy war against those who swear words against the prophet. The people in Pakistan had protested against many issues regarding Muhammad, like in the TV series “South Park” that depicted Muhammad in the bear suit during an episode earlier this year. Another issue was the Danish news paper in 2005 that published a series of cartoons of the prophet. This angered the Muslims around the world and even death threats were sent to the cartoonists. An alleged al-Qaida militant, Abdullah Azam Saleh al-Qahtani, who is in custody of Iraq said that he talked to his friends about attacking Danish and Dutch teams in the World Cup in south Africa next month.
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