Muslim Groups Attempt to Censor Wikipedia 1730
Nom du Keyboard writes "The New York Times is reporting that Muslim groups are attempting to censor Wikipedia because of images of Muhammad contained in the article about him. 'A Frequently Asked Questions page explains the site's polite but firm refusal to remove the images: "Since Wikipedia is an encyclopedia with the goal of representing all topics from a neutral point of view, Wikipedia is not censored for the benefit of any particular group." The notes left on [online petitions against the page] come from all over the world. "It's totally unacceptable to print the Prophet's picture," Saadia Bukhari from Pakistan wrote in a message. "It shows insensitivity towards Muslim feelings and should be removed immediately."'"
Better login into wikipedia host asap (Score:5, Funny)
BA announcement (Score:5, Funny)
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Riyadh (or wherever) please set your clocks back five hundred years.
Maybe they should just cut their access (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why Are They Only Targeting Wikipedia (Score:5, Funny)
What Would Muhammed Do? (Score:2, Funny)
Silly humans... they should know Cthulu, the one true God, after which the FSM was created, doesn't care if you speak its name!!!
Re:Why Are They Only Targeting Wikipedia (Score:5, Funny)
They should complete this survey [b3ta.com] so we know exactly how far we can go before offending them.
Re:This profit's image is also censored. (Score:3, Funny)
Given the laws of thermodynamics, wouldn't you look... Rather negative?
I guess most people wouldn't want to look at that bleak countenance.
Re:Good luck (Score:5, Funny)
Not for prophet (Score:5, Funny)
Sorry, was that obvious?
Anyone have.... (Score:4, Funny)
Help Help I'm Being Oppressed! (Score:3, Funny)
To all sensitive Muslims (Score:0, Funny)
Kindly go fuck yourself you medieval retards. And if you think I'm being unfair, you have NO idea of my wrath towards the hypocritical bible thumping Xian morons. So, kindly go take your stupid little dipshit religion, step away from the computer, and go home to your burkha clad women and the 11th century where you seem to be happiest And once you're there, please do us all a big favour and stay there and STFU. I'm tired of your whiney ass bullshit.
AC
Re:Go jump in a lake (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This profit's image is also censored. (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:BA announcement (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I am offended (Score:5, Funny)
I'd fly on that plane and feel perfectly safe.
"Welcome to Atheist Airlines."
Re:Why Are They Only Targeting Wikipedia (Score:5, Funny)
My idea to offend everyone. (Score:5, Funny)
When people ask what it means, I can explain that it's an iconic representation of the idea that there should be no graphical representations of Mohammed.
Some people will be offended because the button promotes censorship, and other people will be offended because the button uses a (poor) representation of Mohammed to do so! Everybody wins!
Somebody must do this... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Why Are They Only Targeting Wikipedia (Score:5, Funny)
I don't usually make posts like this, but the term "You-niverse" made me throw up in my mouth a little bit.
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Correction: Those are Cthulhu worshipers
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Re:Better login into wikipedia host asap (Score:3, Funny)
Now if I can get send one of those censoring muslims to whoever modded me offtopic...
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Attempts by the Amish going even worse (Score:5, Funny)
With the help of the entire community, the were able to build a server entirely of wood and mud, but attempts to connect it to the secular internet have so far been unsuccessful.
"Getting our horses to carry packets was quite easy, but teaching them to shake hands with each other has proven nearly impossible", the Elder continued.
"At this point, we're considering scrapping the whole horse protocol and using dogs instead, as shaking hands is something they do quite well. The problem is were not 100% if it's the Muslim's who hate dogs, or us, or both. We'd look it up on Wikipedia, but..."
In light of set-backs, another Amish community farther north has taken different approach. So far, they've managed to forge no less than 87 cast-iron "token rings", and are getting quite good at passing them around.
"Once we figure why exactly we we're doing this, we should be well ahead of our brothers to the South with their fancy-schmancy wooden server", lead researcher Brother John (no relation, yet) commented.
"But", he continued, "if Muslims can figure out who's publishing pictures of their prophet, when by definition they'd not have an original picture to compare it to - I'm sure we can figure out what we're doing too".
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MARTYRS OFFEND ME!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why Are They Only Targeting Wikipedia (Score:5, Funny)
And to quote our Prophet "You hurt my friends and you *tried* to hurt me."
Re:MARTYRS OFFEND ME!!! (Score:4, Funny)
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But isn't this a form of idolatry? (Score:4, Funny)
Money, video games, statuses of Zeus, movies about Moses, and songs about Jesus are all okay as long as you don't worship *them* instead of the only thing that has any permanence, i.e. God.
It's a teaching that's common to all inspired religions and a form of it even exists for secular humanists.
Ironically, by prohibiting any and all pictures of Muhammad, people are violating the idolatry, commandment by making the obsession with pictures of a prophet more important that God.
Re:Better login into wikipedia host asap (Score:5, Funny)
Voldemort???
Re:Images? What about fucking a 9 year old? (Score:1, Funny)
1. Martha was 26 when she married George.
2. In our society, pedophilia *is* considered to diminish a man's accomplishments.
Re:Why Are They Only Targeting Wikipedia (Score:4, Funny)
We'd take either Jesus, Mohammed, or anyone seriously if they could destroy the moon or planet by themselves without a death star!
Re:Better login into wikipedia host asap (Score:3, Funny)
Re:MARTYRS OFFEND ME!!! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Anyone have.... (Score:1, Funny)
Muhammad as a pirate (((P~{>
Muhammad on a bad turban day ))):~{>
Muhammad with sand in his eye (((;~{>
Muhammad wearing sunglasses (((B~{>
Mohammad with a lit bomb in his turban *-O)):~{>
The devil mo ]:~{>
Mohammed with a nuclear bomb in his turban. @=(((:~{>
Muhammad being shot by Starship Enterprise =-o * * * (((:~{>
Muhammad sees a Danish cartoonist !((((8~{o>
Re:Why Are They Only Targeting Wikipedia (Score:3, Funny)
I eat bacon.
Re:Better login into wikipedia host asap (Score:2, Funny)
Bacon for world peace. It's the marijuana of meats! mmmmMMM. BACON!
Re:Better login into wikipedia host asap (Score:4, Funny)
Several million articles on the intricacies of goatherding and wifebeating, plus a special bonus section on how to be a complete and utter arse when living in other peoples countries.
Just look at Oldham, Bury, Bradford and other northern towns for an example.