The move came after mass protests
Pakistan Orders Facebook Shut Down Due to Muslim Anger
In the latest unusual mass Muslim protest, Pakistan has ordered Internet service providers in that country to block access to the popular social networking site Facebook yesterday. The move came after mass protests and vehement anger came from large groups of Muslims in the country after a page on Facebook started that encourages people to post drawings and other images of the Prophet Muhammad. For those living in a cave for the past month, South Park creators Matt Parker and Trey Stone were recently censored by the network that carries their show, Comedy Central, because the prophet was depicted in one of their shows and resulted in threats of violence.
The supposedly peaceful religion, which prohibits images or pictures of the prophet, has inspired hate-filled and violent followers who have seemingly lost touch with the ideals of their own prophet, leading to both the aforementioned threats and to the shutdown of Facebook. The page on Facebook that is at the center of the problem is “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!” The page is a direct response to the threats received by South Park’s creators, a sort of online thumbing of the nose at those that take such esoteric rules so seriously as to threaten peoples’ lives.
Noted the information section of the Facebook page, “We are not trying to slander the average Muslim. We simply want to show the extremists that threaten to harm people because of their Mohammed 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.” Well said, indeed.
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