Pakistan Court Orders Facebook Ban Over Mohammed Images

jitendraharlalka writes with this excerpt from Al Jazeera English: "A Pakistani court has issued a ban on the social networking site Facebook after a user-generated contest page encouraged members to post caricatures of Prophet Mohammed. The Lahore High Court on Wednesday instructed the Pakistani Telecommunications Authority (PTA) to ban the site after the Islamic Lawyers Movement complained that a page called 'Draw Mohammed Day' is blasphemous. ... 'We have already blocked the URL link and issued instruction to Internet service providers,' Khurram Mehran, a spokesperson for the PTA, said."

Mohammed?

[Anonymous Coward]

You mean the pedophile?

My late entry

[Anonymous Coward]

{$$}8-)>~

... Please don't behead me.

Duh!

[Bobfrankly1]

Hello, it's called FACEbook! How long did you think it would be before Mohammed's face ended up on there?!

Re:Mohammed?

[Anonymous Coward]

You're supposed to say "You mean the pedophile (peace be upon him)?"

You insensitive clod!

Re:Seems reasonable

[gyrogeerloose]

That's unreasonable.

Okay, let me get it right.

[Anonymous Coward]

Now if I want to keep islamic scriptkiddies, hacktivists and religious freaks off my website, all I have to do is post some pictures of muhammed and the governments will help me to keep them out of my server? Sweet!

what's wrong with imaginary friends?

[Phantom of the Opera]

As long as you know your friends are imaginary, what is the harm? Even children know that their imaginary friends exist in a different reality than other people do. Just imagine a Christian with a reasonably constructed, imaginary Jesus. "Hey Jesus, what should I do? Oh? Not be an asshat? Great!"

Re:everyone draw a religious dude

[Nadaka]

2prophets1cup?

I am confused...

[Hurricane78]

No Facebook? ...
This is the first time I wish I were Pakistani, and all my friends too. ^^

Re:"religion" in the traditional sense of the word

[inamorty]

Natalie Portmanism

Re:how can you tell it's Mohammed?

[bhlowe]

Reminds me of the 4 year old Muslim who shows mommy and daddy a stick figure. The proud parents gush over it and ask who its of.. Of course its Mohammad and they promptly kill their child. The end.

Re:Blasphemy?

[PotatoFarmer]

Pretty much. One of my friends in the LDS once told me that it's fairly common practice for his church to secretly "baptize" non-Mormons whom they deem worthy of saving from the evils of whatever religion (or lack of religion) they currently practice. The targets of this event are apparently never told.

I don't think I've ever been secretly inducted into another church, but I'm always careful to be an asshole to everyone just in case. To whit, I asked said friend if the baptism involves sneaking into the target's house and replacing all their underwear. He didn't seem to find that very funny.

Re:Seems reasonable

[Terminal Saint]

There's no such thing as a reasonable absolutist.

Re:Seems reasonable

[interkin3tic]

You do realise that the Rastafarian religion is based on black supremacy, right?

...

I indeed did not and hereby take back my endorsement of a rastafarian government. At least, one that is true to what you say are rastafarian roots. One based off of pot smoking on the other hand...

Re:Blasphemy?

[Anonymous Coward]

The order is important; if you reverse it you won't be able to complete the experiment